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March 24, 2006
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 Gilc ... More >>
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March 30, 2006
Paranoia 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 ... More >>
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May 3, 2006
Keeping 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. Gilchri ... More >>
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July 25, 2006
Yet 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 ... More >>
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October 2, 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 ... More >>
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October 5, 2006
Minuteman'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 ... More >>
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October 6, 2006
Bait 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 ... More >>
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February 27, 2007
Going, 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 Rep ... More >>
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May 23, 2007
Unfortunate 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 Imm ... More >>
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August 8, 2006
Neo-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 s ... More >>
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November 13, 2007
Gilchrist 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 Lobst ... More >>
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February 11, 2008
La 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 the ... More >>
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April 19, 2008
Quien 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 accusation ... More >>
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June 24, 2008
Minutemen-Mexican Fundraiser!
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 accusation ... More >>
News
August 24, 2006
Goodbye, Jim
Jim Gilchrists new book highlights the failed promises of the Minuteman Project
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November 19, 2008
Jim 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, c ... More >>
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December 4, 2008
Jim 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 ... More >>
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December 9, 2008
The 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 (thei ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
It'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 ... More >>
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March 17, 2009
Barbara 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 similariti ... More >>
News
October 30, 2008
[Scariest People 2008] Haunted Alamo
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 similariti ... More >>
Columns
January 24, 2008
Letters
'Sometimes, when I am stressed, I go and stand on the shoulder of a toll road and smell the fumes—I mean, fresh air'
Features
October 25, 2007
OC'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)
Columns
April 21, 2005
Letters
In the first place, I am a pimply-faced septuagenarian male, aging ungracefully, with an unquenchable thirst for comic books about hell on earth.
Columns
May 11, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
May 3 - May 9
Columns
April 6, 2006
Letters
'Do any of you have children? Teenagers?'
News
March 30, 2006
The Gilchristification of OC
Mondays student walkout shows the past aint dead. It isnt even passed
Columns
December 29, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
The year in Mexican-bashing
Columns
December 29, 2005
The Year in Diary of a Mad County
Worst. Year. Ever!
Columns
December 8, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
Worst. Year. Ever!
Columns
December 1, 2005
Letters
Toots is older than Mick but smokes twice as much herb as Keith Richards.
News
November 24, 2005
Campbell’s Dupe
Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist
Columns
September 15, 2005
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist
Columns
September 1, 2005
A CLOCKWORK NARANJA
Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist
Columns
August 25, 2005
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist
Columns
August 18, 2005
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist
Columns
June 23, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
Congressional candidate’s supporters wage war against Minuteman founder Gilchrist
News
June 2, 2005
THE RIGHT IS RIGHT
Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist has it all figured outexcept for one little thing
Film
April 7, 2005
TOO TOUGH TO DIE
On the borderline with the Minutemen, the media and MS-13
News
March 31, 2005
The Disorder at the Border
Rating the sides in the April 1 Arizona-Mexico border free-for-all
Columns
March 31, 2005
Letters
I fell sorry for you!! How do you live with yourself?
Blogs
July 8, 2009
Barbara 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; aft ... More >>
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July 14, 2009
Know 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 abo ... More >>
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July 11, 2009
Another 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 ... More >>
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December 11, 2009
As the Know Nothings Turn: Jim Gilchrist versus His Former Allies
Gheen: Once called a Gilchrist supporter a "butt boy"It's hard to keep up these days with who hates who in the various anti-immigrant movements. Most folks hate Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist even though everyone else would be nothing without him. Gilchrist doesn't like California Coalit ... More >>
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March 16, 2010
Jim Gilchrist Saves Journalism
God bless Jim Gilchrist!So, on C-SPAN: THE DEUCE the other day, John Nichols of The Nation and co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism was telling an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that 140 newspapers closed down in the past year, 1,000 newspaper employees ... More >>
Columns
April 1, 2010
¿Ask a Minuteman?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] In honor of April Fools' Day, Jim Gilchrist puts on the sombrero and bandoliers this week
Calendar
May 20, 2010
Battle of the Mariachis
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Blogs
July 30, 2010
13 Reasons Gilchrist's Push for an Arizona SB1070 Law in Rhode Island Makes Sense
Jim Gilchrist, the Aliso Viejo founder of the Minuteman Project, sent a letter to supporters announcing the group's push to bring an "Arizona-type law" to Rhode Island."The Minuteman Project," he writes, "is going to do everything they can to proclaim Rhode Island and New England as the new fro ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Jim Gilchrist Seeks to Return to Columbia University, Where His Last Appearance Sparked a Riot
It's been a while since we've heard from our pal Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project and sworn enemy of Barbara Coe. He does pop up on our comments from time to time, where he smacks down true Know Nothings (as opposed to his misguided immigration philosophy). But yesterday, Jimbo sen ... More >>
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