John Taylor

John Taylor, San Juan Capistrano Mayor, Attacked by Two Strangers on the Street

San Juan Capistrano Mayor John Taylor was assaulted as he was walking to his home in the historic Los Rios area after a Christmas party Saturday night, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Deparment.Two strangers only stopped kicking and punching Taylor when his wife, who'd been walking alongsid ... More >>

Brandi Carlile Explains Why She Had to Record Her Latest Album in the Middle of the Woods

See Also:*Duran Duran Speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the '80s*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Hank III Doesn't Aim to e Legendary, Just Original It's been a good year for Brandi Carlile. She's got a new record, and sh ... More >>

How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score

See Also:*Duran Duran speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the 80s*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Young the Giant are OC's Next Great BandPlaying at the Soundland Festival in Nashville last fall should have been the high wa ... More >>

Iris DeMent: Ass-Kicking, Outlaw Country Singer Talks Growing Up in OC

See Also:*Duran Duran Speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the '80s.*Jesca Hoop on Her New Album and Returning to California*Hopscotch: Downtown Fullerton's New Beer and Whiskey Joint Also Serves Hillbilly TunesMaybe it'd be a little crass to start this out by talking ... More >>

Wade Michael Page, Sikh Temple Mass Murderer, Was a Loner Who Used Racist Music Scene as a Means to Travel

See Also:* [W/ CRAPPY SONG] Wade Michael Page, Sikh Temple Mass Murderer, Got His Racist Start in Orange County's White Power Music Scene*Duran Duran Speaks: John Taylor Says TwitterHelped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the '80s*House of Campaign--Five Rap Songs Looking For Your VoteAs the story of&nbs ... More >>

Duran Duran Speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the '80s

By: Liz OhanesianSee Also:*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Duran Duran: Still Hungry*Young the Giant are OC's Next Great BandDuran Duran had only been in Rome for an hour when we hopped on a phone call with bassist extraordinaire John Taylor. The night be ... More >>

Secret Service Whoring Around Dates Back (at least) to Richard Nixon in San Clemente

Google "Barack Obama Nixonian" or just click this link. You'll see several e-pundits love making the Chosen One out to be Orange County favorite disgraced son Richard M. Nixon. Actually, former Nixon Library director John Taylor made that case--in a positive way--days before Obama was inaugurated. T ... More >>

Tricky Dick Nixon Gay Talk in New Book Swatted Down by Loyalist John H. Taylor

Dick and Bebe​Dick & Bebe sittin' in a tree . . . A new book's assertion that Richard M. Nixon may have shared his Tricky Dickie with longtime pal Charles "Bebe" Rebozo lights up the blogosphere and media world. It also ticks off one of the 37th president's greatest local boosters. "Not true, ... More >>

Timothy Naftali, Nixon Library Chief, is Leaving

"One lie I corrected was this big."​Timothy Naftali, the George H.W. Bush biographer and respected historian the National Archives chose to run the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda after the disgraced 37th president's loyalists from a private foundation first built and operated the ... More >>

[UPDATED with Ban Maintained:] Councilman Wants to Allow Guns in San Juan Capistrano Parks

​UPDATE, JULY 20, HIGH NOON: A San Juan Capistrano city councilman's proposal to legalize the carrying of unloaded guns in city parks was . . . wait for it . . . shot down by his colleagues Tuesday night.The City Council voted 3-1 to continue outlawing the firearms, with the lone dissent coming fr ... More >>

Duran Duran: Still Hungry

For too long, John Taylor and the boys have been a pop group without a hit. They mean to change that

[UPDATED] John Taylor Skilling, Son of Former Enron CEO, Found Dead in His OC Apartment

​UPDATE, FEB. 9, 1:10 P.M.: Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling was denied the chance to attend his son's funeral on Monday, according to the LA Times. His son, John Taylor (J.T.) Skilling, was found dead last week in his Santa Ana apartment.The elder Skilling's attorney had been in discussion with the ... More >>

Socialist President Feels Spendy (Again)

​Can you believe the socialist president?

WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive f ... More >>

Taylor: Start the Feud With Jonathan Alter Without Me

AlterIn his new collection of his Newsweek columns since the 1990s, Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture, Jonathan Alter revisits the Bushes, the Clintons, Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra and Rush Limbaugh. John Taylor, who left as executive director of the Richard Ni ... More >>

Nixon, John Taylor and the Bohemian Grove

Early 1990s Cave Man campers. Taylor is in red polo at far right, Nixon sits at left and Meese is behind him.In his August 2006 story "Bohemian Grove Exposes Itself!" the Weekly's Nick Schou interviewed an unnamed Orange County resident and former employee of the private, all-male, 2,700-acre forest ... More >>

John Taylor Describes His Last Day on the Job at Nixon Library

John H. Taylor, who left his longtime gig as the executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation to lead St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church and School as the Rancho Santa Margarita church's vicar, describes the events of his last day on the job in Yorba Linda here.It wa ... More >>

Executive Director John Taylor Leaving Nixon Foundation for Clergy

The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced today that John H. Taylor, the foundation's executive director since it opened in 1990 and before that Nixon's chief of staff, is leaving Sunday to become the full-time vicar (or priest in charge) at St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church ... More >>

Setting the Record Straight at the Nixon Library

Hopefully, this item on the looming depature of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation's longtime executive director, John H. Taylor, makes it clear that he fronted a separate entity from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. I say hopefully because that distinction was n ... More >>

The Nixon Makeover Worked!

Visions of champagne flowing at the Richard Nixon Library and New Image Birthplace in Yorba Linda fill my brain with news of a Gallup poll that finds Americans believe history will judge George W. Bush more harshly than Orange County's Favorite Disgraced Son.WOO-HOO! The long, a ... More >>

Following the Dick Nixon Paper Trail

Yesterday, the best investigative reporter in Orange County, R. Scott Moxley, shared something he saw on L.A. Observed that suggested Richard Nixon may have fibbed about his birthplace being the little white framed house that's now a Yorba Linda tourist attraction. That's because Dick's mom to ... More >>

[Scariest People 2008] The Ghost of Nixonstein

Ladies and gentlemen, your Orange County 49ers!

A story from my past came flooding back as I read Cyd Zeigler's Jock Talk Blog post riffing on a Forbes report that raised the possibility of the 49ers leaving San Francisco for the OC. Bernie Mullin, who runs the Atlanta-based Aspire Group, an industry consultant, tells Forbes Frisco, Buffalo an ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Register Slams Sheriff

A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More t ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Tricky Dicks

Academics ask Congress to deny Nixon Library presidential documents after conference cancellation

E-GATE

Archiving Nixon

Diary of a Mad County

Son of Scary

Evil spawn of OCs Scariest People

Diary of a Mad County

The Evil Among Us

Diary of a mad county

Orange County, California: 2001

The Visible Invisible Man

Their Masters Image

Nixon Librarys Tribute to the Heroic Rescue Workers

Nixons Rap Sheet

Anthony Summers on Americas Most Dangerous President

Ketchup Time

Excerpts: Part 2

Bigger Than the Beatles

UC Irvine professor Jon Wieners fight for John Lennons FBI file reveals something ugly about democracy in America

All the President Meant

We help Nixon apologists explain away the president's apparent narrow-mindedness

Orange Countys 31 Scariest People

Even Then, a Son of a Bitch

New bio fails to remake Nixons early years

Taylor Remade

Nixon's historian works his magic on incriminating tapes

Stand by Your, er, Dick

Nixon apologist Taylor tries to exploit Clinton-impeachment frenzy

Taylorization

Dick Nixon's true believer