Today is the 64th anniversary of a dark day in American history. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, giving the Secretary of War the authority to declare any area of the United States a military area "from which any or all persons may be excluded"and authorizing the internment of what were called in sterile bureaucratic language, people of "Foreign Enemy Ancestry". In practice, this new power, combined with the racist tinged war fervor stirred up b
From the Dec. 23, 1993, issue of Roll Call magazine in Washington, D.C.:
Folks seem to have trouble getting Sen. Larry Craig's (R-Idaho) name right. Things started to go bad for Craig back in June, when he not-so-inadvertently referred to President Clinton in a floor speech as President Carter. The next week, Craig received a letter from the Drug Enforcement Administration addressed to "Sen. Mary Kraig."
But perhaps it wasn't just the federal bureaucracy that was wise to Craig's double life
When I moved from a growing inland daily newspaper that was printing 70,000 copies to the shrinking Daily Pilot of Newport Beach/Costa Mesa that was printing 25,000 copies or whatever it was in 1989, the press on the other side of the wall from the newsroom quickly got up to top speed my first day and then just as quickly slowed to a stop. "Pre-run is over," I said out loud, having been my previous paper's bulldog editor who checks test copies an
The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo above by the late shooter Eddie Adams helped further turn public sentiment in America against the Vietnam War. For that, some would applaud him. But Adams later said he regretted what the picture wrought, and he wished he was better known for photos that eventually helped lead to the creation of Orange County's Little Saigon.This will all make more sense to those who attend Regency South Coast Village Theatre's 7:30 p.m. Thursday screening of the documentary An U
Last Night: Friendly Fires at The Glass House with The Phenomenal Handclap Band.Better Than: An aerobics lesson with Richard Simmons.Download: "Jump in the Pool" (Thin White Duke Remix) by Friendly Fires. Nearing the end of an hour-long set drenched in sweat, synths and hip-tastic dance moves, Friendly Fires front man Ed Macfarlane pointed his boyishly perplexed stare at room full of fans at The Glass House. Besides the fact that he and his band had just squeezed the last drop of sound
Christine Shively, an "Angel" and an "All-Star Among Us."Major League Baseball has announced that Newport Beach resident Christine Shively and four other "All-Stars Among Us" will be saluted by all five living U.S. presidents before Tuesday's All-Star Game in St. Louis.(It's a good thing the MLB stressed "living" U.S. presidents. It coulda got creepy.) President Barack Obama is scheduled to throw out the ceremonial
first pitch of the 80th Midsummer Classic. But just before that, he will pa