Hillary Clinton

Dana Rohrabacher: President Obama Allowed U.S. Ambassador To Be Killed To Ensure Re-Election

The Kookville Express and its happy, wild-eyed conductor, Dana Rohrabacher, has shifted routes in yet another attempt for a cheap two-fer ticket: to derail President Barack Obama's second term and sabotage Hillary Clinton's potential future White House run.Rohrabacher, Orange County's seni ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Says He Will "Interrogate" Hillary Clinton Today On Benghazi

Having recently declared his appreciative awe of Hillary Clinton and her "20 years of [making] good calls," Dana Rohrabacher used Twitter last night to assure his rightwing fan base that he is readying himself to engage in rhetorical combat with the secretary of state during congressional testimony ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Loses Battle With Hillary Clinton During Benghazi Hearing

Remember the alleged threat of Y2K wreckingcomputers and disrupting the world at the outset of 2000?Remember all the talk of a cataclysmic disaster we'd face when the planet aligned itself with the sun and the center of the Milky Way galaxy on Dec. 21, 2012?Well, in fitting with those types of utter ... More >>

Hillary Clinton Wins First Inadvertent Republican Endorsement For 2016

Dana Rohrabacher has been known to shock.I remember years ago when our tequila-guzzling Orange County congressman attended a Costa Mesa public forum wearing a food-product soiled, tattered, plaid sports coat and mismatched lime green shirt that accumulated in a visual wreck that may have caused eyeb ... More >>

Did Julian Castro's DNC Convention Speech Signal The Decline of OC's Loretta Sanchez?

Just four years ago, Loretta Sanchez--the veteran, Democrat congresswoman from Anaheim--repeatedly won significant national network TV attention on the arm of Hilary Clinton in the Democratic Party presidential primaries. Part of that focus happened when Sanchez continued to stridently advocate for ... More >>

Happy National Lollipop Day! Five Songs Named 'Lollipop'

​July 20th marks the observance of National Lollipop Day, and what would any holiday be without an aptly assembled play list to aid in the festivities? Here are a handful of tracks that celebrate the sweet side of oral fixation so you can get your suck on righteously.

Gwar

The Glass House

Ed Royce Slams Hillary Clinton For Coddling Vietnam

Royce doesn't like Ho Chi Minh's legacy​Republican Congressman Ed Royce must be getting tired of U.S. officials ignoring what he sees as Vietnam's "ugly human rights record."The latest offender to Royce's sensibilities on the subject is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.According to the veteran F ... More >>

Ed Royce: Hillary Clinton Failed in Vietnam

Clinton​News services are reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressured Vietnam's leaders to improve its human rights practices during her trip to the Southeast Asian nation, but two Orange County members of Congress view her actions with opposing conclusions.Loretta Sanchez (D-Anahe ... More >>

Ed Royce Worries Hillary Clinton is Soft on Vietnam Human Rights Abuses

Royce to Clinton: Don't be a wimp in Hanoi​Demonstrating his concern over ongoing human rights abuses by Vietnam's rulers, Congressman Ed Royce has sent a letter to Hillary Clinton asking the secretary of state to pressure the communist nation on the topic during an upcoming trip to Hanoi. "W ... More >>

Has Loretta Sanchez Created a "Big Bugaboo" in Vietnam?

Protected worker?​A highly successful American businessman who lives in Hanoi says that Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin have "overblown" the need for worker rights in Communist-run Vietnam, according to a July 13 Voice of American (VOA) article."From my ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Earns Spot on Worst Predictions List

Dana's broken ball​Dana Rohrabacher's unhappily guaranteed that Hilary Clinton would be president now. The Orange County Republican congressman has said that the American press corps would be embarrassed for portraying the Osama bin Laden-aiding Taliban in Afghanistan as evil. He's claimed that th ... More >>

Hugh Hewitt Blames Obama for Detroit Near-Disaster, but Whither Dubya?

Hewitt: Is he truly stupid, or just acts like it to make cash? Shockingly, it's the latter, according to sources...​Unsurprisingly, the Right is blaming President Barack Obama for the Christmas Day terrorist attack of an airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. Our local yakmouth Hugh Hewitt was ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez is Nice But Not Serious?

​"Then there was Loretta Sanchez, the colorful Orange County congresswoman. A nice person but not an especially serious idea." --Huffington Post's William Bradley yesterday in his column, "How Jerry Brown Cleared The Democratic Field for Governor of California." For several years, the Garden Gr ... More >>

Capo Unified's Fleming Delays His Day in Court, Again

Anna, James, Maya: All reminders of a simpler time.​Remember 2007? M.I.A. released a really good album, the surge in Iraq was all the talk, Anna Nicole Smith laid to rest her gentle head and everyone assumed Hillary Clinton was going to be the next President.It was also the year in which James Fle ... More >>

"Press Conference" Against Iran Government Produces No News, Much Political Support in Irvine

Rep. Laura Richardson (inset), Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Rep. Ed Royce, together at last.If the goal of a press conference is to produce a "big announcement" that makes news and warrants coverage--the usual reason one calls a press conference in the first place--then the Iran Sup ... More >>

Beers for Whatever Ales You

Courtesy of Slate.com Now you see Washingtonpost.com's Dana Milbank, now you don't. A couple Washingtonpost.com comedi-hacks caught heck for their video that suggested the proper beverage to serve Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the recent White House beer summit would ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] OC Media Asked to Ignore Still-Emerging Dirt on Mike Carona's PSR Mess

Mile High Sanchezism

"It's really an important issue to acknowledge that women are important." --Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana) tells the New York Times today what she wants from Barack Obama before she'll switch from backing Hillary Clinton's already defeated campaign. — R. Scott Moxley / OC Week ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Election Edición

OC Vote: Final count

Well, the votes from all 2076 precincts have been tallied. No huge surprises, but here are the final numbers in the presidential race: Democrats:Hillary ClintonBarack ObamaVote Count: 141,668Vote Count: 96,967 55.47.9% Republicans:John McCainMitt Romney Vote Count: 117,333Vote Count: 109,877 39.77. ... More >>

Daedelus & Co. Drop the “Obama”

Los Angeles producer Daedelus' newest side project is FMB (Fire Magic Blood), featuring Shafiq Husayn (Sa-Ra) and Taz Arnold. They've just posted a brief NSFW track ("Obama," for clarity's sake) that bluntly urges you to vote for Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton beat him in yesterday's California Dem ... More >>

Clinton, McCain lead in OC

From OCVote.com as of 8:10 p.m. Democrats:Hillary ClintonBarack ObamaVote Count: 52,602Vote Count: 25,443 58.5(.3% Republicans:John McCainMitt Romney Vote Count: 56,586 Vote Count: 38,611 42.1(.7%Note: Both Clinton and McCain are leading statewide.

OC Vote update: 9 PM

Top dogs are still the same as of 9 p.m. and only 106 of 2076 precincts are accounted for. It's gonna be a loooong night! Democrats:Hillary ClintonBarack ObamaVote Count: 52,854Vote Count: 25,543 58.5(.3% Republicans:John McCainMitt Romney Vote Count: 56,800Vote Count: 38778 42.1(.7%More here.

OC Vote update: 10 PM

Slowly moving. But CNN's already called California for Clinton. Democrats:Hillary ClintonBarack ObamaVote Count: 53,881Vote Count: 26,297 58.5(.5% Republicans:John McCainMitt Romney Vote Count: 57,378Vote Count: 39,481 42.0(.9%

FOX NEWS: Why New Mexico is so close

Some googly-eyed, drooly-mouthed Fox News talking head just said that the reason why New Mexico is so tight between Obama and Clinton (as of 10:50 p.m.) is because parts of the state were hit with a snowstorm today, and that many of Hillary's Latino supporters couldn't claw their way out of the snow ... More >>

OC Vote update: 11 PM

Democrats:Hillary ClintonBarack ObamaVote Count: 81,233Vote Count: 46,911 57.33.1% Republicans:John McCainMitt Romney Vote Count: 75,393Vote Count: 60,108 41.02.7%

Moneyopoly

Who are the OC players who contributed to the 2008 presidential candidates?

The only endorsement that matters

Are you a fan of Hillary but not sure she can win? A Romney follower who has questions about his Mormonism? Like Giuliani, but hate his abortion stance? Dig Obama, but worry about his pals who hate gays? It's tough to pick a presidential candidate who's just right, especially with all the pundits a ... More >>

Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Pipe Bomb Rocks Long Beach

Bud Light No More, You Pick Again: My-Thuan Tran reports this morning that the “Starbucks generation” of Vietnamese Americans “couldn’t stand dingy” Little Saigon restaurants and is building “stylish and spotless . . . swank” restaurants in response. Bao Tran, 34, quit a job in insura ... More >>

Santa Ana Potholes More Popular Than Bush

The new Reuters/Zogby poll shows that 76 percent of the country would probably have George W. Bush managing a date shake shop on PCH than serving as president. Only Richard M. Nixon attracted worse approval ratings and he ordered burglaries from the White House. Pollster John Zogby, a Republican, sa ... More >>

Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Target Practice on the 55?

Dana’s Idea of Sacrifice: Ex-Dana Rohrabacher aide Erik Prince and other Blackwater USA corporate officials have been dodging congressional questions about their private army’s alleged corruption, including killing innocent, unarmed Iraqi citizens. Mainstream news accounts thoroughly detail the ... More >>

Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward

What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according t ... More >>

Monday's Headlines

Culture clash? An article in Sunday's Times delves into the increased intermingling of the Vietnamese and Latino communities in Orange County. Clinton in town: Former Prez Bill Clinton will be in Newport Beach today, but the press isn't invited — unless they want to donate between $300 and $4,600 ... More >>

Gil, Drop the Bill

State Senator Dick Ackerman is as conservative as they come, and must no doubt be thrilled that ICE raids in OC are now as common as sunny days. But his thinking on a proposal by Los Angeles-area State Senator Gil Cedillo to require that California schools teach kiddies about the illegal roundups of ... More >>

On the Borderline

Its all anti-illegal talk at the Tom Tancredo rally at the Nixon library

I Hate People

Poor, pitiful pearl goes to OCMA

True Lies

The rise of the bunkumentary

Assassination Tango

Controversial docudrama Death of a President imagines a post-Bush scenario

We Forget

Five years after 9/11, Cornel Bonca finds your memory wandering around Vegas

Ending War 101

UCI profs book could be the real roadmap to peace

Dem Bones

Web Exclusive! Let's Help the Democrats Find Their Spines

I Wonder When Youll Miss Me

Defending Bill Clintons My Life

Free and Freerer

Notes on the dumb-buddy film

I Could Fill Your Ear

Quotations from the files of the Reverend Lou Sheldon

Letters

Chill With Hill

It Takes a Village Idiot

Plating Sylvia Plath

Finding the true meaning of baseball in the Cosmic Baseball Association

They Live!

Nixon symps seize on Clinton sex romp as evidence that Dick was a good guy!