Subject: Guantanamo Bay

• Protecting your toner from terror

  Big terrorism news yesterday– and this time it involves a real terrorist, not one of that motley assembly of the largely misidentified down at Guantanamo Bay. And as is usual when we're talking about real terrorism in America, the terrorist is a disgruntled white guy. Yesterday, a jury in Jackson, Tennessee convicted white supremacist Demetrius Van Crocker on five counts of attempting to acquire chemical weapons and explosives to destroy government buildings. Van Crocker, a 40 year old fa

  April 14, 2006

• Dem Bones

  First there was yesterday's Election Day lunch--the GOP-heavy shindig where Weekly editor Will Swaim only got halfway through the hilarious speech I wrote for him because he was shuffling back and forth between pages and so lost my text and thus never got to the payoff, "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen! Don't forget to tip your waitstaff and then have them all deported!" Then there were last night's Dem fiestas in Santa Ana. I LOVE ELECTION DAY! I do! I stopped into Proof first; the OC Dem Found

  June 7, 2006

• A Bad Day for Bush, and maybe waterboarding

  The Supreme Court today ruled the Bush administration must do one of those things it is always extremely reluctant to do: obey the law. By a vote of 5-3, the Supremes said the administration can't proceed with its plans to try prisoners at Guantanamo Bay before military tribunals. Writing for the majority, John Paul Stevens (appointed by President Ford) declared the planned tribunals were illegal under both US law and the Geneva Conventions. Over at SCOTUSblog (SCOTUS may sould like a skin dise

  June 29, 2006

• Terrorists Attack US Power Plant

  Israeli terrorists have caused significant damage to a power plant in Palestine, insured by the U.S. government for up to $48 million dollars. READ THE STORY ON ALJAZEERA.COM Tony Snow, White House Chief of Verbal Diarrhea, previously described Israel's current assault on the Palestinians as legitimate self-defence, precipitated by "the hostage-taking and attacks by Hamas last weekend." Funny, I don't think he would consider the Iraqi insurgency a legitimate self-defence, precipitated by pris

  July 2, 2006

• Rohrabacher on Torture: "Just hazing"

  The House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight held a hearing on detainee treatment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba yesterday. The meeting focused on a recent FBI report documenting abusive interrogation tactics toward prisoners at the facility. Present at the hearing was our treasured local representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), who seemed to note nothing wrong with the documented abuse. During the questioning of FBI Inspector General Glenn Fine at the hearing, th

  June 5, 2008

• Mondo Washington

  March 7, 2002

• The Kids Are Not All Right

  May 8, 2003

• Making Dana Parsons the Times Orange County Columnist

  October 19, 2006

• 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay' Is a Forced Act Two

  April 24, 2008

• Diane Harkey Protects Us From Accidental Terrorism

  Assemblywoman Diane Harkey put forth a resolution back in February to keep ex-Guantanamo detainees out of Camp Pendleton. With Barack Obama set to close the notorious, quasi-constitutional prison some time next year, Harkey wants to make sure the administration doesn't even think about putting any of the maybe-terrorists in her district's military base.Last week, she explained her reasoning to the Sacramento Statehouse Examiner:"It is very, very important that they are in maximum security and no

  April 2, 2009

• Atrocity Becomes Art at OCCCA's 'Just How Does a Patriot Act' Show

  October 16, 2008

• Taking Lives

  August 17, 2006

• 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 Guantánamo. The Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law's presence at Chapman certainly has sparked debate, and not just the one he's participating in Tuesday morning.The National Lawyer

  April 15, 2009

• Justice Takes a Beating

  August 11, 2005

• A Mighty Spotlight

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearls movie

  June 21, 2007

• Pearl Harbor

  Michael Winterbottom gives Mariane and Daniels story A Mighty Heart

  June 21, 2007

• We Aren't the World

  How the Americans fared at Cannes

  May 31, 2007

• Never Mind the Shit, Here's Coachella

  Is this annual desert festival an ordeal or orgasmic experience? Yes

  May 10, 2007

• New Reviews

  We recommend: Americanizing Shelley, Civic Duty,

  May 3, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 13, 2002

• A Boot Stamping on Your Face

  The Actor's Gang Presents 1984
  

  March 15, 2007

• Letters

  August 24, 2006

• 'I've Never Been to America. America Came to Me'

  September 21, 2006

• Commie Girl

  September 14, 2006

• We Forget

  September 7, 2006

• To Hell and Back

  June 22, 2006

• The French Really Like Us

  March 23, 2006

• Porn for the Paranoid

  November 17, 2005

• Tour of Booty

  June 30, 2005

• A Few Words on Why Tom Umberg Doesnt Want Campaign-Finance Reform

  April 28, 2005

• Call Me Irresponsible

  December 30, 2004

• So Now What?

  November 11, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 28, 2004

• Genetically Modified Desire

  August 12, 2004

• Arrest Houchen Now, Ask Questions Later

  July 15, 2004

• Not Embalmed Yet

  May 1, 2003

• Scenes in Gray and Black and Blood

  April 10, 2003

• What Are We Doing There?

  April 3, 2003

• No Blood for Water!

  March 27, 2003

• Of Ants and Men

  January 16, 2003

• Honored Heroes, Forgotten Dead

  February 21, 2002

• The Heat is Back on John Yoo

  Photo by Christopher VictorioYoo before his Chapman debate.The April 21 morning "terror memo" lawyer John Yoo appeared at the Chapman University debate, President Barack Obama said it would be up to his attorney general whether to prosecute former Bush administration advisors like Yoo. Since that day in Memorial Hall, the heat has turned up on AG Eric Holder to push the case forward, the U.S. Senate is leaning toward its own probe and, as many believed would happen, Spain's top investigative jud

  May 1, 2009

• Congressman Campbell, The Excellent Blogger

  John CampbellIf you're able to stomach the bitchy bitching about Obama, Congressman John Cambpell's "laptop reports" to constituents are actually pretty good reads. Why? He has figured out what makes great bloggers great: gimmicks!This latest bend-over-backwards-to-be-clever narrative structure:Three Liners: OK, so 'one-liner' is the term we all know and are accustomed to hearing, well I can't tell you much in one line, but here's a group of three-liners on various subjects which may give you so

  May 18, 2009

• Release the Punks

  May 28, 2009

• Rohrabacher Goes Against Own Party on Behalf of Uyghurs

  Photo by Jack GouldDo the best hopes for imprisoned Uyghurs rest with this man?Unless it involves legalizing medical marijuana, banning U.S. weapons sales to dictators or erecting a memorial statue for Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) usually does not find much common ground with Democrats. But the Surfin' Congressman has proven during his--what's it been now, 90-year?--House tenure that he can also be a lone ranger when it comes to his ow

  June 10, 2009

• Rohrabacher Raises Serious Allegations About Mistreatment of Uighurs

  Photo by Jack GouldRohrabacher: Against at least some torture.The White House is relieved a home was finally found for 17 Muslim Uighurs from China who were held without justification at Guantanamo Bay, but their leading champion in Congress, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), is still raising serious allegations about their mistreatment in the U.S. military prison in Cuba.Members of an ethnic group from central Asia and the Xinjiang province in western China, 22 Uighurs were picked up

  June 16, 2009

• Dana Rohrabacher is Going to Be Pissed

  Dana Rohrabacher believes missiles should be pointed at China that way.A day after Rep. Dana Rohrabacher sent a blistering letter urging President Barack Obama "to unambiguously condemn the Communist Chinese government's violent crackdown on peaceful Uyghur protests in the Xinjiang province of China," Radio Free Asia reports that an outspoken Uyghur economist has gone silent and his whereabouts are unknown after police summoned him from his Beijing home. "Police have been watching my home for

  July 9, 2009

• [BEST OF OC] El Profesor (the Professor): Erwin Chemerinsky

  October 8, 2009

• To Rohrabacher's Delight, Supreme Court Considers Freedom for Uighurs

  Photo by D. Robinson/Voice of AmericaCongressmen William Delahunt and Dana Rohrabacher with Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer.​Much to the chagrin of the Obama administration and applause of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), the U.S. Supreme Court said today it will consider whether judges have the right to release into the U.S. detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who have been determined not to be a terrorist threat.It's not that the Surfin' Congressman wants former terror suspects flock

  October 20, 2009

• Top Chef: Just Desserts...ANOTHER Top Chef Spin-Off

  ​ Hot off the announcement that Top Chef Masters is going to be getting a second season, Bravo is developing ANOTHER spin-off. What is it? Take the original Top Chef recipe, add a pinch of Ace of Cakes, maybe a few telegenic hotties that look like Jennifer Aniston and BAM! (with apologies to Emeril), you get Top Chef: Just Desserts, which is a delicious pun, I admit. The new show, of course, will feature pastry chefs, and is now holding auditions. Desserts, as you know, has never been th

  October 28, 2009