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The Minuteman Pussy Out!
Next Saturday, April 1 will be the one-year anniversary of the Minuteman Project, the organization started by Aliso Viejo resident and capitalism-hater Jim Gilchrist. Don't know what Gilchrist plans for festivities--maybe some taquitos?--but he'll probably be at a protest somewhere. But neither Gilchrist nor any of his tribe attended a scheduled March 11 protest outside the Mexican Consulate in SanTana. Why? According to the Minuteman blog, the protest was fake. "What a great sight!" Gilchrist w
March 24, 2006Democracy in Action (plus the Minutemen and Kotex)
This being Sunday, which most Americans regard as "The Lord's Day" (hence the great number of prayers being uttered over a couple of simple college basketball games), let us extend our best imitation of Christian pity towards the wretched, no matter how repulsive they may be. And the wretched I have in mind are pretty repulsive indeed. First, there's the Minutemen, the brainchild of Aliso Viejo's Jim Gilchrist (though brain may not be the best choice of words in this context). The Minutemen had
March 26, 2006Paranoia Roundup: Immigration edition
This will come as no surprise, but Aliso Viejo's Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen (not the immortal patriotic heroes of Lexington and Concord– Jim's are the flabby guys who have figured out how to combine xenophobia and birdwatching by scanning the horizon for Mexicans instead of great blue herons) is engaged in wishful thinking again. I'm not referring to his plans for a "multistate civilian border patrols" reported in this morning's Register. No, I'm referring to something else h
March 30, 2006Keeping the White in White House
I've never doubted that Aliso Viejo's Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, was deluded, but until now I've never suspected he's delusional as well. Gilchrist tells the rightwing news service WorldNetDaily that he's seriously considering running for President of the United States. Gilchrist told WND the only candidate he would support as the Republican Party presidential nominee in 2008 was Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. "If John McCain enters the race for president," Gilchrist said. "I
May 3, 2006Yet Another Reason KFI Sucks
Back in January 2004, I wrote this article about KFI-AM 640 bumping my favorite night-time radio show, Coast to Coast AM, from its regular 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. slot and replacing it with right-wing wacko John Ziegler. Coast to Coast AM was the only KFI show that wasn't hosted by a right wing wacko and even though I wasn't as big a fan of silky-tongued George Noory as the show's original host, Art Bell, I complained that, instead of hearing about alien abductions while nodding off, I'd have to liste
July 25, 2006(Don't) Protest Jim Gilchrist Tonight at Chapman!
Sept. 15-Oct. 15 is Latino Heritage Month in the United States, so what better way to celebrate their heritage to America than invite Mr. Minuteman himself to speak during college festivities? Thus goes Chapman University's logic (full disclosure: I'm an alumn and got kicked off the campus), and so Jim Gilchrist will speak tonight at Beckhman Hall 404 at 7pm. Some Chicano activists plan to protest the event, but our advice: let the man speak and bury himself with whispers of Aztlán and th
October 2, 2006Minuteman's Time Up
Certain students at Columbia University are none too fond of Jim Gilchrist. Yesterday the former accountant and OC native's speech was interrupted by protesters storming the stage, where some sort of fracas broke out. Though many news accounts suggest that Gilchrist himself was attacked, he appears to have been escorted offstage with the quickness; perhaps they mean he was attacked in the ideological sense? FOLLOW THIS LINK to see eyewitness video of the protest, courtesy of the Columbia Univers
October 5, 2006Bait and Switch (Great Wall edition)
It looks like it's not a not a good week to be a Minuteman or Minuteman sympathizer (Minnie-symp?). Not because those kids at Columbia were mean to Aliso Viejo's own Minute-Grand Wizard Jim Gilchrist– when you're working the xenophobia racket, you really don't expect to get much love from Ivy League ephebes– but because their champions in Congress are playing them for chumps. The Washington Monthly's Political Animal (and Irvine's own) Kevin Drum explains: I see that the Republican
October 6, 2006Going, Going, Gone to Court
The question of which Nguyen won is about to be answered. Or maybe not. The Los Angeles Times reports that OC Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley has finished the recount of the February 6 special election, and determined that Janet Nguyen is the winner. Republican Nguyen's margin of victory over Republican Trung Nguyen is said to be seven votes, which brings the proceedings to a neatly symmetrical end, since the losing Nguyen (T.) was seven votes ahead of the winning Nguyen (J.) at the beginning
February 27, 2007Unfortunate Acronym of the Day
Earlier today, representatives from the Arizona Interfaith Network, Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, Kansas City's El Centro and the United Farm Workers set up a teleconference call to argue why comprehensive immigration reform is necessary. They met under the name Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, or CCIR for short. Of course, the famous CCIR 'round these parts is the Mexican-hating California Coalition for Immigration Reform. Given that CCIR head witch Barbara Coe was recently
May 23, 2007Neo-Nazis for Gilchrist
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report has a piece on Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the border-sealing Minutemen Project, tolerating neo-Nazis campaigning for him when he ran unsuccessfully for an Orange County congressional seat last year. We think someone misunderstood when it was suggested the Minutemen need to be more tolerant. The story claims that neo-Nazis were spotted at Gilchrist rallies in Sacramento, Lake Forest and Laguna Beach, and that when Orange County dance instr
August 8, 2006Gilchrist basks in the sound of one hand clapping
Does anyone know the whereabouts of Jim Gilchrist's marbles? The venerated co-founder of the Neo-Minutemen wore Pampers over his clothes at a planned immigration debate today at California State University, Long Beach. Wait, we're getting word that Gilchrist had just been pulled away from Red Lobster's endless shrimp buffet before taking the stage. Seriously, not completely sure whether this prop – apparently a flak jacket obviously meant to be worn underneath the clothes – was supposed to
November 13, 2007La Raza: Know Your Know Nothings
We appreciate WeCanStoptheHate.org, a website run by perennial conservative cucuy the National Council of La Raza that documents the going-ons of various anti-immigrant pendejos. We don't agree with their efforts to boot said pendejos off the airwaves, and do they really want to eliminate one of their top reasons for existence? And while we're excited they cover some of our local Know Nothings, the NCLR should at least get their facts right--especially when it comes to the Weekly. For instance,
February 11, 2008Quien es Más Minuteman?
You'll be hard-pressed to ever find two sides in a lawsuit less sympathetic than the parties who are scheduled to show up in Orange County Superior Court on May 27. On one side will stand Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, who was fired last year from the organization he founded for accusations of fraud, embezzlement and other such financial shenanigans; supporting him will be Tim "I Want to Kill Muslims When I Grow Up" Bueler. Suing him on the above charges are current Minuteman Project b
April 19, 2008Minutemen-Mexican Fundraiser!
June 24, 2008Goodbye, Jim
August 24, 2006Jim Gilchrist to Speak at Long Beach State Today--Students, Please Go
The Southern California progressive community is abuzz with word that Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist and his anti-illegals pal, Ted Hayes, will "lecture" at Long Beach State today. "The topic is to inform students and the general public on the Racist Agenda of the La Raza at the national, college, and high school level," says the press release put out by the Conservative Student Union, which doesn't even have a location for what will surely be an afternoon of laughs. This time last yea
November 19, 2008Jim and Ted's Excellent (Immigrant-Bashing) Adventure
If you thought you missed your chance to pelt the father of the once headline-gobbling Minuteman Project and his Cricket playing, immigrant-hating homeless sidekick with your burning questions (Why do you wear a straight-jacket-vest-thing over your clothes? Are you gay?), you'll get your chance this Monday. Jim Gilchrist, who caused a ruckus last year at Cal State Long Beach during a scheduled debate, is back for another rant session. This time he'll be teaming with sidekick Ted Hayes, the dread
December 4, 2008The Agitator That Was
The entrance to the student union auditorium at Cal State Long Beach was eerily silent yesterday afternoon during the time when bullet-proof-wearing Minuteman agitator Jim Gilchrist, and his sidekick Ted Hayes were scheduled to be raising hoots and hollers for the second time in the last month (their first appearance was canceled because the Conservative Student Union, which sponsored the event, didn't come up with the cash for additional security). A pale yellow sheet hung sadly in front of the
December 9, 2008It's a Quick Read 7
Orange County Register: Danger on Mexican streets will force captains and crews in the annual Newport Beach to Ensenada yacht race to remain on their ships. But who'll get ripped off by the Hussong's mariachis? . . . I went to a Laguna Woods Village board meeting and a UFC Smackdown broke out. . . . Sounds like a certain granny needs to put down the water bottle and grab a certain medicinal herb. While you can draw sanctions for traveling 20 mph the wrong direction
March 5, 2009Barbara Coe Compares Obama To Hitler (Again)
We wished California Coalition for Immigration reform head Barbara Coe wrote more often, but most of the dozens of weekly emails she send to members are usually forwarded articles with no insight offered by Babs. But not last week, when Coe sent along this ridiculous screed trying to note similarities between President Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler, something Coe has previously done. "After reading this, is there any doubt that "HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF?" Babs blabbed.Um, no.Pictured: Minuteman Pr
March 17, 2009[Scariest People 2008] Haunted Alamo
October 30, 2008Do the Differing Fates of Two Minutemen Freeway Signs Show a Double Standard at Caltrans?
July 24, 2008Letters
'Sometimes, when I am stressed, I go and stand on the shoulder of a toll road and smell the fumes—I mean, fresh air'
January 24, 2008OC's Scariest People
Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)
October 25, 2007Letters
In the first place, I am a pimply-faced septuagenarian male, aging ungracefully, with an unquenchable thirst for comic books about hell on earth.
April 21, 2005Gustavo Arellano's 34 Favorite Desserts
August 17, 2006Diary of a Mad County
May 11, 2006Letters
April 6, 2006The Gilchristification of OC
March 30, 2006Latinos We Like
January 26, 2006Letters
January 12, 2006!Ask a Mexican!
December 29, 2005The Year in Diary of a Mad County
Worst. Year. Ever!
December 29, 2005Diary of a Mad County
December 8, 2005Letters
Toots is older than Mick but smokes twice as much herb as Keith Richards.
December 1, 2005Campbell’s Dupe
November 24, 2005OC's 31 Scariest People
Now 25 percent more terrifying!
October 27, 2005A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
September 15, 2005A CLOCKWORK NARANJA
September 1, 2005A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
August 25, 2005A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
August 18, 2005Diary of a Mad County
June 23, 2005THE RIGHT IS RIGHT
Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist has it all figured outexcept for one little thing
June 2, 2005TOO TOUGH TO DIE
April 7, 2005The Disorder at the Border
March 31, 2005Letters
March 31, 2005Barbara Coe Going Batshit Loca Over Jim Gilchrist
The legal and verbal back-and-forth between Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist and California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe has gone on for so long one doesn't even know where to begin. The only conclusion I can make is that Coe is the true evildoer of the former allies; after all, it was a CCIR meeting that inspired Gilchrist to start his effort, and while Gilchrist says wacky things from time to time, Coe's words are pure, hideous venom.Coe has especially gone bonkers
July 8, 2009Know Nothing Leaders Jeff Schwilk and William Gheen Add Homophobic Slurs to their Rolodex of Racism
We're all accustomed to hear anti-immigrant loons rail: illegal alien SAVAGES, PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH, TWO FOR SPANISH, and other priceless couplets. But, until this new wave of Know Nothings, there was at least a bit of class. Sure, Barbara Coe and her minions would spew all sorts of vitriol about Mexicans and other immigrants, but never in a decade of covering her have I heard Barb cuss or use bona fide slurs. The same, sadly, can't be said for William Gheen and Jeff Schwilk.Gheen is the he
July 14, 2009Another Know Nothing Turns Against Barbara Coe
Notice the Iron Cross on Coe's T-shirt...The Beer Hall Putsch of America's modern-day Know Nothing movement keeps turning more hilarious by the day. Earlier this week, we reported on how California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe tried to put murders at the hands of Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist. Now emerges a scathing July 9 email in which Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) head William Gheen calls Babs a "two-faced backstabber"--and that's one of the
July 11, 2009
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