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The 10 Geekiest Metal Bands of All Time

By: Adam Steininger Geeks love metal more than the computers on which they listen to it. They yearn for heavy metal that was forged by Orcs in the mountains of Mordor, smuggled halfway across the universe on Serenity and then discovered by Silver Surfer while scouting for delicious planets. These b ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Pushes For U.S. Military To Hold Sexually Criminal Soldiers Accountable

During a House Armed Services Committee meeting this afternoon on 2014 Defense Department programs, Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez fought for tougher rules against members of the military who commit sexual harassment or sex crimes. Sanchez, who over the years has risen swiftly in congre ... More >>

Christopher Jordan Dorner Manifesto Includes Likes (Like Larry David) and Dislikes (NRA)

Christopher Jordan Dorner's infamous manifesto identifies around 40 Southern California law enforcement officers he believes have wronged him. Indeed, those passages burn most of the rambling post's 6,000 words. But Dorner also cites films, TV shows, celebrities, athletes and newsmen he likes, inclu ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Quietly Erased His High Twitter Praise of Hillary Clinton

For more than two decades, Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has attempted to rewrite history to mask his numerous political and ethical blunders.But Rohrabacher's latest venture into audacious spin involves erasing history.On Jan. 20, the Weekly reported that the Costa Mesa Republican know ... More >>

Rep. Loretta Sanchez, A Future Secretary of Defense?

What do Robert McNamara, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta have in common with Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez?Almost nothing, but just wait.It's highly unlikely that President Barack Obama would ever name Sanchez to be a Secretary of Defense in his administrati ... More >>

House of Campaign - Five Rap Songs Looking For Your Vote

See Also: *Going for the Gold: Five 2012 Rap Songs To Inspire Our Olympic Team *Get It Together: 6 West Coast Posse Cuts For Your 4th of July Cookout *Did MTV Really Snub Waka Flocka Flame's Rapping Rooster? With the new Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis movie The Campaign opening tomorrow (oh ... More >>

VIDEO: Mamadou Ndiaye, 7-foot-5 High School Basketball Player, is Unstoppable

​Okay, I'm no sports expert, but something doesn't seem quite fair here. Mamadou Ndiaye is a junior at Huntington Beach Brethren Christian School and plays on the varsity basketball team. He is 7-foot-5. That's two inches taller than the tallest player in the NBA. He is untouchable. All the o ... More >>

Gov. Jerry Brown Funded By OC Unions For 2014; Loretta Sanchez Nabs Dentist Support

Pay to play​Gov. Jerry Brown's trip to Orange County last month for a speech to Democrats nabbed $30,000 mostly from local organized labor unions, according to a report this week in the Sacramento Bee.Among those contributing were the Orange County Employees Association, which organized "a small, ... More >>

'The Ides of March' Offers No Game Change

Intrigue drowns out argument in George Clooney's political thriller

Locals Push Bill Spreading Religious Freedom

​A Santa Ana-based group pushing for religious freedom worldwide has launched a new advocacy campaign aimed at beefing up the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 and, with it, U.S. foreign policy. Turmoil in Nigeria, the Middle East, Northern Africa and Pakistan--including the burning of ... More >>

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The Crucifixion of Juarez

On the front line of the U.S. war on drugs, a Mexican city bleeds to death

Tariq Ramadan's Looming OC Speech Draws Warning From Muslim Group

Wikipedia CommonsTariq Ramadan​What the American Islamic Forum for Democracy derides as the "Tariq Ramadan American Islamist Victory Tour 2010" includes a May stop near Disneyland, where American Muslims are being warned by the self-described liberty lovers to "be on guard" as the Swiss academic ... More >>

Bill Clinton Hospitalized After Chest Pains

​Bill Clinton was admitted to a New York City hospital after suffering from chest pain and received two stents in one of his coronary arteries, the Washington Post reports. ILongtime Clinton aide Douglas Bend said the 63-year-old former president "was admitted to the Columbia Campus of New York P ... More >>

Maybe John Wayne's Old Yacht Will Produce Wild Goosebumps Now

Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc.Boo! It's the Wild Goose.​John Wayne's onetime yacht the Wild Goose is being trotted out to drum up interest in the 31st annual Lido Yacht Expo in Newport Beach Sept. 24-27.Don't blame organizers for pulling out all the stops. Are there really shoppers for yachts these days ... More >>

Obama Squares Off Against Gays and Birthers in Carter Country

Photo by Pete SouzaThe Chosen One​U.S. District Judge David O. Carter is working his magic in his Santa Ana courtroom in two cases involving President Barack Obama.One pits The Chosen One against his gay supporters, the other against his nuttiest foes.Carter on Monday dismissed the first of severa ... More >>

Wiley Drake Gets the Keith Olbermann Stamp of Disapproval

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Pastor Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park has been previously recognized for interfaith gestures, helping the less fortunate and sheltering the homeless on church property despite threats from lawsuits, ... More >>

Royce, Sanchez Blast North Korea's Harsh Sentencing of Journos

Two Orange County representatives in the U.S. Congress came out strongly today against North Korea's harsh sentencing of 12 years hard labor for two U.S. journalists charged with "hostile acts." The other four Members of Congress were silent.Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) emailed the Weekly t ... More >>

Orange County's Obama-Deniers Keep On Keeping On

The Mission Viejo Dispatch has an item today about local dentist Dr. Orly Taitz. You might remember her as an associate of Alan Keyes and Weekly interviewee Wiley Drake in their lawsuit trying to prove that Barack Hussein Obama isn't technically qualified to be president. Now, Taitz, claiming to rep ... More >>

What the Hell is Loretta Sanchez Talking About?

ANNOUNCER: It's the hot new game show sweeping the country, What the Hell is Loretta Sanchez Talking About? Here's your host, Rock Pudding.PUDDING: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another thrilling chance to win four bucks, a bottle of Armor All and a job. Contestants, please look at the ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Kicking Aztlán

Last Night: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at HOB

Last Night: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at House of Blues, Anaheim on 6/4 It may have been Wednesday night, but as fans, freaks and funkateers piled into the House of Blues for last night’s Parliament Funkadelic show, the phrase “hump day” took on a whole new meaning. At the Hous ... More >>

In 'Shine a Light,' It's Seniors Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones, Together Again

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Darrell Hammond

A Bluer Shade of Orange

The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday

Romney:Reagan = Hewitt:Smart

Our beloved local conservative loudmouth Hugh Hewitt has spent the last half-year ranting about how Republican presidential candidate (and subject of his most-recent book) Mitt Romney is the next coming of Ronald Reagan to the point of nausea and idiocy. "Romney has reassembled the Reagan coalitio ... More >>

Five Latinos Who Voted For a Black Man

Last week, the John half of KFI-AM 640's JohnKen Show railed about how Latinos (specifically Mexicans) would never vote for a black man like Barack Obama because of their inherent racism. He berated the MSM for not emphasizing this supposed truism, assuring listeners that Mexicans despise blacks an ... More >>

Obama OC Headquarters Wrapping Up With Hope, Uncertainty

If you need any more proof that the Barack Obama campaign desperately sought the Latino vote, one needs no more proof than the Orange County headquarters of Barack Obama, situated on Broadway across the street from the Santora Arts Complex in SanTana. Plastered on the window are various Obama articl ... More >>

Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Debbie Carona wants out

Debbie Carona wants out: On Halloween day, the Weekly sat in a crowded Santa Ana courtroom and watched the odd trio of sheriff, wife and mistress twitching as they sat cuffed and in uncomfortably close quarters. Debbie Carona sat a lawyer away from her hubby and did not so much as look at him the e ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Carona Camp Says FBI Case "Trash"

Hookers take cash too, Mikey: Dana Parsons writes today that “the good news for [indicted OC Sheriff Mike] Carona is that the government doesn’t always win.” But Parsons says the “bad news” for Calamity Mike is that the feds take their “sweet time putting public corruption cases togethe ... More >>

Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: That Sneaky Chuck DeVore

Doctor No: The public hospital crisis has placed nearly two dozen private hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties “in dire financial straits and in danger of bankruptcy or closure,” according to a depressing report in today’s Times. Reporters Daniel Costello and Susannah Rosenblatt found ... More >>

Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: No Sex in Uniform

Democratic Money Man Sued in OC: Norman Hsu's legal woes continued to mount with a new civil lawsuit filed by Orange County investors who claim the Hillary Clinton fund raiser operated a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme with political overtones. A story in the Times by Robin Fields, Dan Morain and ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Hiii Chemerinsky!

The Government has gone Plasma TV crazy: Even though they have an entire cable television channel to carry their lame communications, Santa Ana city officials are spending at least $242,000 more to install 10, 42-inch flat screen TVs at 10 public locations. These TVs will have no sound, and will br ... More >>

Obama Gets Extra Golden's Song of Approval

Extra Golden chime in for Dem prez candidate Barack Obama. The Kenyan-American quartet Extra Golden have cut a song big upping presidential hopeful Barack Obama. You can check out “Obama” (which will appear on Extra Golden's Hera Ma Nono Oct. 9) here. Now that the Illinois Senator has this s ... More >>

Less than an hour until the polls close...

... and I'm soooooo confused. I was out of town last Thursday through Sunday, and when I returned there were 17 messages on my phone from the likes of Pete Wilson, Dick Ackerman, Hillary Clinton, someone yammering about Jessica's Law, the Nguyen running for an OC school board seat and his partner in ... More >>

Beast of Burden

Remake brings back memories of growing up to The Omen

The French Really Like Us

American Vertigo expands upon Tocquevilles territory

Bat Boy Lives!

Sensational stories of the bizarrefor Christmas

La Habra

Scoring the Quiz

How to Get Unfavorable Press Coverage

DAs Wife Missing!

May just be home

There Really is a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy!

Reporter David Brock says Republican activists commissioned him to ruin Larry Agran

Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

The South Has Rose Again!

This weeks featured NFL game: Dallas Cowboys vs. Tennessee Titans

'Hello...Is This Thing On?'

Nader and Benjamin try to get heard

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