Dick Cheney

Capitol Steps

Carpenter Center

Pat Oliphant Exhibit at the Fullerton Museum Through This Sunday!

By Dave BartonThat instantly recognizable signature. The O an open mouth yawping in protest. The dot of the I like a projectile being thrown. The remaining letters leaning forward to attack. You don't even have to know his work to recognize political cartoonist Pat Oliphant is a confrontational indi ... More >>

Rep. Loretta Sanchez, A Future Secretary of Defense?

What do Robert McNamara, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta have in common with Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez?Almost nothing, but just wait.It's highly unlikely that President Barack Obama would ever name Sanchez to be a Secretary of Defense in his administrati ... More >>

The Week in Forgetfulness: Books by Crooks, the Cold War and a Writer to Remember

My kind editor, The Mexican, offered to reimburse me for purchase of the ex-governor of California's memoirs. I considered reading and reviewing the provocatively titled Total Recall:  My Unbelievably True Life Storybut I felt so uncomfortable at even the thought of walking into a bookstor ... More >>

Rothick Art Haus' Revolution?

The latest exhibit, featuring Danny Schutt, can't decide if it's pro-uprising or just likes AK-47s

Donald Rumsfeld: Pay Top Dollar To Eat With Him Tonight, Then Buy His Book And Follow Him On Twitter

"You should buy my book and follow me on Twitter!"​Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is bringing his comedy tour to the Richard Nixon Library tonight. Or maybe he's being honored for something. Or maybe it's part of his book tour. Whatever it may be that is bringing him to O.C., we' ... More >>

Anaheim Protesters and Others Opposed to Koran Burnings Should Look to Ronald Reagan

​It remains unclear whether Terry Jones will go through with burning copies of the Koran on Saturday, as the nutty Florida pastor says in one breath his stunt has been canceled and then in another impose a deadline for New York Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to indicate he will move a proposed mosque near ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Jesse Ventura on Boards and Water

Agent Opie/Cory BarnesIn case anyone hasn't heard, former pro wrestler, navy SEAL and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has fallen in love with surfing. He answered Larry King's kooky questions on the issue in May, explaining that surfing, for him, goes way beyond just a new hobby. For Mr. Ventura, I ... More >>

Spain, Chapman University Debaters Are Out to Get John Yoo

So the big question when John Yoo speaks at Chapman University next week about presidential power is: Will he be shackled? Probably not, seeing as how this is not Spain, but were Orange within the Iberian Peninsula nation and NATO ally, he'd be under criminal indictment for sanctioning torture at Gu ... More >>

NBFF: Snow Jobs and Sausages

Sometimes I wonder about the power of coincidence. Both times I've covered the Newport Beach Film Festival, I have been unable to attend every day because some or other duty at the office ends up taking a lot more of my time than expected. So I was called home on Tuesday, thereby missing both THE RE ... More >>

Monday - 12/3

Open Mic Night at the Gypsy Den, Huntington Beach Impeachment Action meeting

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Hiii Chemerinsky!

The Government has gone Plasma TV crazy: Even though they have an entire cable television channel to carry their lame communications, Santa Ana city officials are spending at least $242,000 more to install 10, 42-inch flat screen TVs at 10 public locations. These TVs will have no sound, and will br ... More >>

Comic-Con 2007: Breakfast, Hold the Bacon

Bed at 2 a.m. last night. Up at 7 this morning for a breakfast in honor of the upcoming movie Death Sentence, based on a novel by the author of Death Wish, and directed by James Wan (the original Saw). Unsurprisingly, the movie looks exactly like what you'd expect from the director of Saw doing a D ... More >>

Saturday's Headlines & Surprises

Bootylicious

Its the end of the world as they know it, and the pirates feel fine

Assassination Tango

Controversial docudrama Death of a President imagines a post-Bush scenario

Drop Beats, Not Bombs

Islamic Relief's Evening of Inspiration

What Do Barry Bonds and Saddleback Ballplayers Have in Common?

The answer -- alleged steroid abuse -- is apparently in the May 11 issue of the Lariat, the student newspaper of the goosesteppin' South Orange County Community College District's Saddleback College in Mission Viejo and Irvine Valley College (IVC) in Irvine. This free Backward S.I. Sportswatch crude ... More >>

Hugh's on First?

Your favorite TV Time Tracker figured one of those knuckleheads at The Blotter would have already, uh, blottered this, but in case you missed it: Orange County's very own right-wing whackmaster Hugh Hewitt was on The Colbert Report the other night--and he wasn't even being punked like some other rec ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

March 1 - March 7

Hit Me With Your Chastening Stick, It's Nice to Be a Lunatic...

The year's not over yet, but the funniest thread EVER can be found right now at Democratic Underground. But first we gotta back up--AND BEND OVER, MAGGOT! It seems there is this Internet company run out of a couple's garage in that enlightened burg of Bakersfield, known previously as the place where ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

A Clockwork Orange

Just in Time

South Coast Repertorys revival of Brechts Chalk Circle makes sense now

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Shoot a Republican: The Sequel

Weekly extends offer to pump partisan lead

Heartland Attack

Thomas Franks much-too-late campaign advice for John Kerry

Letters

So Now What?

No one said freedom was easy

Burning Bush: The Issue

A year in Dubya-dumping by his conservative critics . . . and Howard Stern

Weekly Index

We Shoot Republicans!

I Am a Gay!

All the world loves a Kerry-lover

Burning Bush

The presidents conservative critics

Its a Wonderful Week

All doped-up and nowhere to go

Notes From the Underground

So much butt-eating, so little lime

All Crust, No Pie

Why Shock and Awe should stick in our craw

Spicy Protest Jambalaya

Armed only with paintings, Mark Chamberlain takes on Bush

Kiss My Axis!

W

American Girl

Screw Cheneyland! Homes where bold types dwell

Alias Smith and Jones

Up and down the tubes with MIIBs J and K

No Escape

America Needs Weird

Westminster

Phuo Loc Tho

The Super Bowl Edition

This Weeks Super Bowl Matchup: Baltimore Ravens vs. New York Giants

Hate Sells

Tim Millers tale of gay love

Holy War

Letters

Hog Heaven

Exploding GOP heads, nipples with pasties and people who were mean to me