Gramps is just gonna rest his eyes some...
Orange County Democrats are justifiably happy today as their presidential candidate will be sworn in on Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2009. And they can take some pride in the Barack Obama-Joe Biden Democratic ticket's 401,605 votes being only 28,755 votes shy of the John McCain-Sarah Palin Republican ticket's 430,360 votes in decidedly red Orange County.
Democrats secured a higher percentage of the Orange County vote in 2008 than in any national electio
Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Free Speech.Officials at the northern Orange County community college campus
land at No. 6 "for calling police to arrest members of the pro-life
group 'Survivor' claiming that they were creating a distu
My May post about Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez's wishy-washy support of undocumented college students considering her Aztlanista tendencies unleashed quite a Democratic flurry against me, but it also sparked outrage among college administrators, professors, and counselors who work with DREAM Act students. From those ranks comes a Loretta flub of Rohrbacher-esque proportions.October 1999--I accompanied my oldest daughter and a group of about 15 [high school] students as a chaperone on a Model Un
Christine Shively, an "Angel" and an "All-Star Among Us."Major League Baseball has announced that Newport Beach resident Christine Shively and four other "All-Stars Among Us" will be saluted by all five living U.S. presidents before Tuesday's All-Star Game in St. Louis.(It's a good thing the MLB stressed "living" U.S. presidents. It coulda got creepy.) President Barack Obama is scheduled to throw out the ceremonial
first pitch of the 80th Midsummer Classic. But just before that, he will pa