Harvard Law School

William Ruehle, Ex-Broadcom CFO, Shares His Amazing Government Persecution Story at UCI

"Something happened," William J. Ruehle matter-of-factly tells UC Irvine law students, who spent Wednesday's lunch hour being mesmerized by the former Broadcom chief financial officer's dissection of his virtual lynching by overzealous federal prosecutors. That something was a 2006 report by a Unive ... More >>

President Obama's Election and Pursuit of a Post Racial America

UCI School of Law

Valerie Plame Comes Out of the Cold to UCI Law

​Valerie Plame, whose career as an undercover for the CIA ended when the Bush White House blew her cover in 2003, comes to the UC Irvine School of Law Feb. 17 to give a free talk about her experiences.Now going by Valerie Elise Plame Wilson, to reflect her marriage to former Ambassador Joseph C. W ... More >>

Erwin Chemerinsky, UCI Law School Dean, Writes of Conservative War Against Constitution

​The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (Simon & Schuster, $27) argues that beginning with Richard Nixon and continuing through to George W. Bush, conservative presidents and their supporters have tried to change basic constitutional principles through their policies and appointments ... More >>

Was Obama An Extra In The Video For "Whoomp (There It Is?)"

​[via Gawker]The biggest thing on the Interwebz this weekend was a story going around that President Obama was in Tag Team's 1993 hit song "Whoomp (There It Is)." According to Gawker, the whole conspiracy theory has appeared everywhere, from the hip hop message board Tha Corner, the message board ... More >>

Legally Blonde the Musical

Orange County Performing Arts Center

Go for Broke

Greg Giraldo

Management Theory

If you notice that the California section of the Los Angeles Times seems a little brighter, a little more giddy (or giddy up?), there's a reason for that. Times managing editor Doug Franz has been reaching out to the drones of that section, and spreading happiness all around. As he announced in an ... More >>

Editing a Paper in Your Hometown

Sock It . . . To Me!?!

Niels Muellers The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Court Jousters

Reg Squawks as Box Blocks Cox!

Case study of a flip-flop-flip at The Orange County Register

Covert Campaigner

Cox quietly funnels $900,000 to 2000 Senate run