Subject: Franklin D. Roosevelt

• From Orange County to Poston, Arizona: An Ugly Chapter in American History

  Today is the 64th anniversary of a dark day in American history. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, giving the Secretary of War the authority to declare any area of the United States a military area "from which any or all persons may be excluded"and authorizing the internment of what were called in sterile bureaucratic language, people of "Foreign Enemy Ancestry". In practice, this new power, combined with the racist tinged war fervor stirred up b

  February 19, 2006

• Bombs Away!

  June 7, 2001

• The Tragedy of It All

  September 15, 2005

• The Naranjero Blues

  January 31, 2008

• Bush's New Year Devolution

  January 23, 2003

• Trendzilla

  December 22, 2005

• 'Nuts, Its Almost Three in the Morning'

  October 13, 2005

• Tax Man Tran

  July 14, 2005

• Facts and Feces

  May 26, 2005

• A Mob of One

  March 17, 2005

• F. Yoo!

  February 10, 2005

• Letters

  July 25, 2002

• Active Eats

  August 9, 2001

• Shrubs Man In Madrid

  July 12, 2001

• Uncle Sham

  July 6, 2000

• Letters

  November 19, 1998

• Knock 'Em Down

  October 1, 1998

• Move Over, OC, Placer County's Now Bastion of Conservatism

  Thomas Shaller of FiveThirtyEight--a website that takes its name from the 535 electoral college votes as it crunches polling data and other numbers--makes a compelling case that Placer County in Northern California is the new Orange County when it comes to bastions of conservatism.While Orange County is credited with giving root to Barry Goldwater's turning-point presidential campaign of 1964 and proceeding to deliver strong Republican majorities for four decades, "[n]o such political treatments

  June 19, 2009