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May 17, 2012
LA Times Gets $1 Million Grant to Bolster Border/Prison/Immigrant/Brazil Coverage
The Ford Foundation has bestowed a $1 million, no-strings-attached grant to the Los Angeles Times, which reports the money will be used to bolster coverage of immigrant communities, California prisons, Brazil and, presumably, Brazilian immigrants in California prisons."These are vital coverage areas ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
What We Learned, Feb. 4-10
It's a week worth of bite-size Orange County news and what it all taught us.FEB. 4: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange reveals on its website that it is accepting from parishoners new names for Crystal Cathedral through Feb. 20. Bishop Tod Brown's only requirement is that the new moniker be "C ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
What We Learned, Jan. 21-Jan. 27
A random collection of this week's randomness randomly tagged with random observations of what we learned from it.JAN. 21: Orange County's Democratic establishment is thrown into a tizzy as Julio Perez, formerly of the Orange County Labor Federation, handily gets more votes than his 69th Assembly ... More >>
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October 29, 2011
2011 Bob Dornan Scary OC Hall of Fame Inductee: Barbara Coe!
No one except Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Friend of the Taliban) in Orange County history has consistently proven to be scarier over a longer period of time than California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe--and even Dana has had flashes of sanity in his Bedlam brain. Shit, ev ... More >>
Columns
September 29, 2011
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
No one except Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Friend of the Taliban) in Orange County history has consistently proven to be scarier over a longer period of time than California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe--and even Dana has had flashes of sanity in his Bedlam brain. Shit, ev ... More >>
Columns
August 18, 2011
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
No one except Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Friend of the Taliban) in Orange County history has consistently proven to be scarier over a longer period of time than California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe--and even Dana has had flashes of sanity in his Bedlam brain. Shit, ev ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Gustavo's Debate with Tom Tancredo: Gustavo's Side, Complete with the Video!
Okay, coverage of my debate last night with arch-Know Nothing Tom Tancredo has officially reached overload--hey, Weeklings: aren't there skinheads that you can go after instead of writing about me?--but you might as well hear my side.I met Tancredo and Westword editor Patty Calhoun across the str ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Lalo Alcaraz and Jim Gilchrist on the Arellano-Tancredo Debate
Courtesy Lalo AlcarazMuch as it pains Gustavo that we keep blogging about this, we've got one more round of embarrassment for him about his debate yesterday evening in Denver with former Congressman Tom Tancredo. (Follow that link for the video.) We asked some local luminaries to tune into the de ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
Prop 19 Passage May Negatively Affect Mexican Drug Traffickers in Unforeseen Ways
Mexico's drug traffickers would lose some customers but not much money if California voters approve the marijuana-legalizing Prop 19 on Nov. 2, concludes a study by the nonpartisan RAND Drug Policy Research Center. That's because Californians mostly grow their own already.
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April 21, 2010
Barbara Coe Now Against Bill O'Reilly Because He's Not a Birther
O'Reilly: Now on Coe's shit list, which makes him somewhat more tolerable...In the twisted, irrational world of the Know Nothings, egos and out-and-out weirdness will create foolish, unwarranted rivalries that inevitably lead to the group's downfall. Here in Orange County, of course, you have Min ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
[UPDATED:] Day Laborers Sue Costa Mesa
Photo by Beth StirnamanAn earlier protest for day laborers.As I was snapping photos of protesters outside Costa Mesa City Hall this morning, a white guy in his 40s was suddenly in my face asking, "What's all this about?"Informed that day laborers were suing the city, he remarked, "Just round up t ... More >>
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October 1, 2009
Battle of the Bad Mexican Fast-Food Chains: Taco Bell vs. Taco John's
BROOKINGS, S.D.--I'm speaking tonight at South Dakota State University, a day after having spent the week eating my way through Tex-Mex heaven in San Antonio. Quite a difference from the land of Flaco Jimenez to that of Laura Ingalls Wilder--and then there's the Mexican food.In San Antonio, I ate ... More >>
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May 11, 2009
San Diego Minuteman Head Urges Violence Against O.C. Activist
Naui Huitzilopochtli has been a long-time fixture in Orange County progressive activism, first as a mere protester but increasingly as perhaps Orange County's most prolific political YouTuber. His incessant hectoring of Know Nothings has made Naui Dirty Mexican #1 amongst local anti-illegals activis ... More >>
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April 21, 2009
What the Hell Happened to the Anti-War Movement?
Photo by Christopher VictorioA small piece of the Orange County peace movement at Palm and Glassell.It was unusually warm around 11 a.m. today in Orange and the spectacle was unusually jarring at Palm and Glassell: a dozen or fewer anti-war protesters, ranging from college age to their grandpar ... More >>
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February 23, 2009
The Godfather of Mexican-Haters to Visit CCIR Tomorrow!
What an exciting couple of days it's been for members of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform! They held a rally this past Saturday at their little slice of Nuremburg, the Garden Grove Women's Club, in which a Who's Who of Know Nothings was scheduled to rally geriatrics against amnesty fo ... More >>
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February 19, 2009
A Different, Insider Perspective on the Recent Fullerton Gang Attack on a Church
There has been much recent media coverage about a recent attack by Fullerton's longstanding Tokers Town gang against the Rev. Willie Holmes and his storefront Majesty Christian Fellowship church in their hood. Marches, arrests, and much other hullaballoo. Having a much different perspective on the a ... More >>
Columns
November 6, 2008
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
There has been much recent media coverage about a recent attack by Fullerton's longstanding Tokers Town gang against the Rev. Willie Holmes and his storefront Majesty Christian Fellowship church in their hood. Marches, arrests, and much other hullaballoo. Having a much different perspective on the a ... More >>
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October 14, 2008
Orange County's Original Minutemen
I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up mo ... More >>
News
September 11, 2008
This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'
I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up mo ... More >>
News
July 24, 2008
Do the Differing Fates of Two Minutemen Freeway Signs Show a Double Standard at Caltrans?
I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up mo ... More >>
News
May 8, 2008
Humberto Caspa's New Book Chronicles the Fear and Loathing of Mexicans in Costa Mesa
I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up mo ... More >>
Features
March 6, 2008
How the Minutemen Drove Mobile Mexican Consulates Out of the Capistrano Unified School District
I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up mo ... More >>
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November 13, 2007
Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: More Street dirt
More Street dirt: In his pre-treasurer-tax collector days, Chriss Street allegedly billed (and double-billed!) a bankrupt trust "for thousands of dollars in expenses, including a $3,584 laptop computer and $1,200 in office supplies," reports Ronald Campbell at the Register. The records collected by ... More >>
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)
News
October 11, 2007
Smiley Coyotl
When is a prosecutor not a prosecutor? The answer spared a Santa Ana activist/punk rocker from criminal charges
Blogs
July 11, 2007
Yet Another Reason Why KFI Sucks, Part Two: The Final Insult
Last July, I blogged about Coast to Coast AM disc jockey Art Bell's sudden departure from the airwaves when he disappeared to the Phillipines and emerged, just a few weeks later, as the proud husband of a girl just barely out of her teens. After a brief hiatus, Bell returned to host the show on week ... 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 >>
Blogs
August 10, 2006
Man-Sore Losers
It's bad enough that Costa Mesa and its divisive Mayor Alan Mansoor are getting beat up by their own hometown Daily Pilot columnists (here and here, not to mention that paper's own readers here and, oh, by one of its more distinguished residents here). But now they are getting national unwanted expo ... More >>
News
May 4, 2006
The Anti-Immigrant All-Stars
Hangin with the haters at Santa Anas Day Without an Immigrant
Blogs
March 26, 2006
Democracy 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 ... More >>
News
January 19, 2006
Razin' La Raza
Whether posing as protesters or cutting off speeches, OC police clamp down on immigrant-rights activists
Columns
January 12, 2006
Letters
"To Answer Your Question About What to Do With the Dog Shit: EAT IT!"
Columns
December 29, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
The year in Mexican-bashing
Columns
December 15, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
Record of the year?
News
November 10, 2005
Wiley Coyote
The Rev. Wiley Drake has a history of helping illegals, as long as they dont criticize Bush
Features
October 27, 2005
OC's 31 Scariest People
Now 25 percent more terrifying!
Columns
October 20, 2005
A Clockwork Orange
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August 18, 2005
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