Government and Politics

MoveOn.org Comes to the Rescue of Taxes Today

​Taxes must be suffering from battered women's syndrome about now. We're all like, "Aw come on, baby. You know I loves ya," Then--BAM!--corporations and rich people rap taxes upside the head, saying they ain't returning to Clinton-era levels. Then we get all lovey-dovey again and--WHAM!--House Rep ... More >>

Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Against Arizona's Controversial SB 1070 Immigration Law

If you don't like the ruling, turn your screen upside down.​A federal appeals court today upheld a lower court decision that blocked the most contested provisions of Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law from taking effect. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th ... More >>

Tom Tancredo: This Year's Abril Fool!

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Will he live up to the title of Know Nothing?

Fair Games Over the OC Fairgrounds

The huge swath of public land is in play. But is the whole thing rigged?

Census 2010: Orange County African-American Community Increases in Size, Still Embarrassingly Low

​The figures from the 2010 Census that are freaking the Know Nothings out is news that the gabacho population shrank in size in Orange County, while wabs increased (as always) and Asians increased even more as a percentage. But the only figure that truly interested me was the number of people iden ... More >>

Barney Frank Drops Octobomb (Again)

​Is Rep. Barney Frank becoming like your grandpa who keeps repeating the same story, over and over?The Massachusetts Democrat elicited some laughs and headlines last week for comparing the largest country on the planet to La Habra's world-famous mother of 14, Nadya Suleman.But, while getting the l ... More >>

Ronald Reagan Day in Larry Agran Land?

​It's unclear why this wasn't proposed a few weeks ago, but the Irvine City Council tonight will consider proclaiming Feb. 6 "Ronald Reagan Day," in honor of 40th president's birthday.The proclamation is not being foisted on the panel that leans Democratic because Reagan was once a member of the p ... More >>

Rep. John Campbell Skates in House Ethics Report

​This morning, an independent ethics office recommended the further investigation of Representative John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) and two other congressmen for possible wrongdoing because they raised funds from financial lobbyists around the time in December 2009 the House voted on a sweeping ov ... More >>

Scott Baugh: The Manchurian Party Chairman?

[Moxley Confidential] Are Republican insiders mad enough at Baugh to vote in an outsider to replace him?

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

WikiLeaks Expose Questionable Details From Dana Rohrabacher's Visit to Honduras

​R. Scott Moxley told you in October about Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) having inserted himself in the violent 2009 coup that toppled the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya. Was Dana Rohrabacher Playing Kingmaker in Central America?To refresh your memory, th ... More >>

Prop 8 Backers Want Their Rainbow Flags Back

It's mine!​When Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, an anti-gay/pro-straight marriage proponent with the San Diego-based Ruth Institute made her way into a recent Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing on Prop 8, she wore a rainbow-colored scarf around her neck.No, Morse was not switch-hitting. She wa ... More >>

Fantasy Voter Fraud

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Arizona's Prop. 200 dismissal

Mexican Macroeconomics

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

FAIR-y Tales In the Immigration Debate

Anti-immigrant think tanks are aiming their dubious statistics at the 14th Amendment

Meg Whitman, Chuck DeVore's Choice for Governor, is Now a "Self-Funded Dilettante"

​Chuck DeVore, who is leaving his Irvine-based state Assembly seat for private life after losing the U.S. Senate GOP primary to eventual general election loser Carly Fiorina, posted this on his Facebook page Oct. 4:"If we are to win and provide an opportunity to enact our ideas, we need to vote fo ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Election 2010: Coker is Spun, Polled, Teabagged

​1:28 p.m.: Orange County agreed with state voters on most ballot initiatives, although more of us did want to keep choking on polluted air until the unemployment rate drops and most like the state budget approval process to remain fucked-up, thank you very much (probably because many are philosop ... More >>

Election Monitor Named for People's Republic of Orange County

​An election monitor has been appointed for the People's Republic of Orange County. No, Jimmy Carter isn't coming Tuesday.  Assistant United States Attorney Dennis Mitchell, as he has done before, will serve as the District Election Officer for the Central District of California, which includ ... More >>

The Super Rich Aren't Like You and Me ... They're Whinier

​A letter to the Wall Street Journal by a Newport Beach real estate executive who believes it would be unfair if the Bush tax cuts were not extended for those who make over $250,000-a-year certainly set off McSweeney's writer Edward Murray. "The Poor Top 2 Percent" on the Huffington Post is Murray ... More >>

Oops: Feds Drop Charges Against Supposed OC Terrorist

​Remember Craig Monteilh? The convicted con artist and OC Weekly cover story subject who claims he helped the FBI foil an OC terrorist cell operating inside local mosques only to be abandoned by the agency after they stopped believing his stories? The guy who claimed he was a hero for helping the ... More >>

Ho-Hum, a City Official Busted in Surf City

​A corruption probe resulted in the arrest of a city official in Huntington Beach this morning. Hell, that's not news, that's just another day in Surf City, you're probably saying to yourself. (Ah, ex-mayors Garofalo and Houchen, how we miss you so!) However, this time the busted city official ... More >>

Santa Ana Councilmembers Sal Tinajero and Michelle Martinez Admit to Thinking They Broke the Law, Use Same PR People?

Martinez: Once an outsider, now proudly a vendida​Two bizarre press releases sent late Friday to every reporter in Orange County that covers SanTana (except Moxley--interesting...) told the same story: that councilmembers Sal Tinajero and Michelle Martinez were taking action to retake a City Counc ... More >>

South County Cities Go to Pot

​Pot filled two South County city council chambers Tuesday night.That is, separate issues from modern life in the cannabis age were taken up by the city leaders in Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo.

Seized

Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

[UPDATED:] Irvine Does Shuffleboard Shuffle in Response to Grand Jury Report Blasting Great Park Funding

​UPDATE: As expected, the Irvine City Council approved its fuck-off response to an Orange County Grand Jury report critical of Great Park financing (see end of post) . . .The Orange County Register's Sean Emery gets great quote from Irvine City Councilwoman Christina Shea, who was reacting to the ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Prop 8 Overturned

​UPDATE: More details on tonight's celebratory rally (see end of post) . . .In a landmark case, Proposition 8, the 2008 California voter initiative that outlawed gay marriage, was overturned. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco ruled that the voter initiative is unconstitution ... More >>

Barbara Coe Applauds Harassment, Intimidation of Census Workers

​California Coalition for Immigration reform head Barbara Coe frequently whines about Mexicans harassing her disgusting minions, so much to the point that her group used to offer self-defense classes a couple of years ago. You'd expect such a supposed, vulnerable victim to not wish their pain on a ... More >>

Grand Jury Report Blasts Great Park Financing, Accuses Irvine City Council of Lying, Conflicts

Hot air keeps it afloat.​A new grand jury report: questions whether the Irvine Redevelopment Agency created to usher in development of the Orange County Great Park can fully repay its initial $134 million loan from the city; faults the city of ignoring the poor business climate while churning ... More >>

Know Nothings Earn Their Title

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Why U.S. immigration laws are still better than Mexico's

Special Arizona Buycott Edition

[¡Ask a Mexican!] ¡A la chingada with Arizona's SB 1070!

The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights

Tea Bagging With a Marine. This Could Get Ugly

Facebook/ArmedForcesTeaParty​Gary Stein, a 24-year-old active duty Marine Corps sergeant based at Camp Pendeton, created his own Tea Party group, then announced its arrival on the national Tea Party scene in a press release.Two days later, some of his "brothers" are calling for a court martial.

The Census in Spanish Rhymes With Denso

[¡Ask a Mexican!] The Mexican swells with Chingón pride

Obama's Oil Drilling Pipe Dream Harshes Surfrider's Mellow

oceanswavesbeaches.blogspot.com​The Surfrider Foundation released a statement today, expressing their disapproval of Obama's proposal to open areas of the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic coastline and Arctic coastline to oil drilling and exploration. They are not stoked.

Ed Royce Brings House GOP Leader Boehner to OC But Not His District

johnboehner.house.govHouse minority leader (and future speaker?) John Boehner.​It costs $200 to join Rep. Ed Royce's Congressional Club, but membership has its privileges. Among them, an invitation to the Fullerton Republican's April 6 "private briefing" on the 2010 elections with House minority l ... More >>

Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido Voted To Aid a Vending-truck Business In Which His Father Was Involved

Today, Medical Marijuana. Tomorrow, Legalize It!

Tustin Councilwoman Deborah Gavello and Her Colleagues are Driving One Another Barking Mad

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

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Sucio Harry

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] 'What Is an Anchor Baby?'

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Cherry-Picking César Chávez

He Ain't Marching Anymore

Robert Acosta leaves the Iraq anti-war movement to heal himself

Cocaine Airways

A former CIA pilot says secret flights to El Toro could explain a Marine officers suicide

!Ask a Mexican!

'Whats with ALL the drama?'

!Ask a Mexican!

'The love that dare not speak its name except through the barrel of a gun'

!Ask a Mexican!

The year in Mexican-bashing

The Abortionist Who Funds Pro-Life Republicans