Subject: Military and Defense Policy

• Massively Penetrating in Vegas

  Looking for something new to do in Vegas? Something that involves breathing in massive amounts of particulate matter blown in from the desert? Something that involves watching yet another bit of idiotic Bush administration defense planning go up in smoke (literally)? Something a little mushroom cloudy? Well, you're in luck. Agence France-Presse reports that during the first week of June your tax dollars will be hard at work setting off a 700 ton explosion at the Nuclear Test Site just north of

  March 30, 2006

• Spreading Democracy... or something

  Regardless of whether or not the Bush administration will succeed in its plan to introduce democracy into Iraq through an armed invasion and years of chaotic violence, it now appears that the administration has succeeded in bringing to Iraq something the country has had very little of since the British were kicked out many long decades ago: white supremacists. As the New York Times reports this morning: "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the [Southern Poverty Law Center] quoted a D

  July 7, 2006

• Dancing around a great problem at The Great Park

  The El Toro Shuffle? The Great Park Gavotte? The Irvine Ranch Water District Toxic Waltz? We should come up a name for the little dance. It's a simple four step dance, and very familiar one. Scientists point out a looming environmental threat and call for government action. The Bush administration, refusing to act and attempting to dismiss the scientists as panic-mongers and tree-huggers, calls for even more scientific study before it will even consider acting. The further study is completed, a

  July 28, 2006

• Numbers (Five Years Later)

  From a list compiled by the UK newspaper, The Independent: 2,973 Total number of people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks 72,000 Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide since September 11, 2001 as a result of the war on terror 2 Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts 2,932 Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001 0 Hours of intelligence training

  September 11, 2006

• Fun with Computers (Friggatriskaidekaphobia edition)

  If your plan for getting your taxes done before the looming deadline involves using Turbo Tax's online service, you may want to reconsider. According to NBC 4 in Washington D.C., a customer wanting to check her tax info Turbo-ly, discovered something big and bad by accident. ""I knew immediately how big this was," she said. "This is very, very bad."" A Turbo Tax customer herself, the woman attempted to access some past filings and the route she took online opened returns for several others w

  April 13, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises

  Democrats flip-flop on SoCal bribery case report: Greg Miller at the Los Angeles Times says an internal investigations report by the House Intelligence Committee continues to remain off-limits to the public. The politicians don't want the masses to see even a declassified summary report on the embarrassing activities of disgraced Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham. When the Republicans ran the House, the Dems screamed bloody murder that the report should be released. They changed their

  July 16, 2007

• Do you know Dick? Nixon that is.

  In honor of our 37th president's would-be birthday today we here at the Weekly have decided to create a quiz to test our readers' knowledge of their only locally born president, Richard Nixon. He's from Yorba Linda, donchaknow. 1. What is Dick's middle name? A. Homer B. Bart C. Smithers D. Milhous 2. What was Dick's nickname? A. Tricky Dick B. Lil' Wiener C. Dickface D. Rich Kane 3. What caused Dick to resign from the presidency? A. The theft of numerous large black dildos B. An array of

  January 9, 2008

• Pentagon Flyover Hysteria Rocks the Internets

  Ever since my cover story last Thursday hit the online conspiracy websites, my inbox has been bombarded with emails from folks obsessed with the events of Sept. 11, 2001 as they pertain to the U.S. Pentagon and an American Airlines jet that either did or didn't hit the building, depending on what theory you happen to believe. My story dealt with a pair of local 9/11 researchers--or "truthers," as they often call themselves--who have produced a DVD called "The PentaCon" alleging that a) the Amer

  August 19, 2008

• The Death Ray

  October 7, 1999

• Up In Smoke

  November 18, 1999

• Holy War

  December 28, 2000

• Lasers

  August 15, 2002

• Dollars and No Sense

  March 27, 2003

• The Kids Are Not All Right

  May 8, 2003

• Burying the Dead

  July 10, 2003

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 28, 2008

• Do You Believe a Passenger Jet Hit the Pentagon on 9/11? These Men Say You've Been 'PentaConned!'

  August 14, 2008

• Space Case

  February 7, 2002

• Bushies Order Takeout

  February 6, 2003

• A Death in the Family

  August 10, 2006

• Don't Gloat Yet

  December 29, 2005

• Mr. Rooney Goes to UCI

  December 29, 2005

• the Rise of Carbon

  November 24, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 20, 2005

• a Clockwork Orange

  September 22, 2005

• Memorial Day 2005

  May 26, 2005

• His Brothers Keeper

  March 31, 2005

• About Face! Forward, Censor!

  July 22, 2004

• Empire Falls

  March 18, 2004

• Eat the Press 1

  February 26, 2004

• Hard Lines and Second Thoughts

  January 8, 2004

• Cold Case at the Marine base

  September 11, 2003

• Force Of July

  June 26, 2003

• Colonial Capitalism

  May 1, 2003

• Get Your Iraqs Off

  April 24, 2003

• Slick Talk

  March 13, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• Wheres the Porn?

  And who gets to say what Richard Pettena means?

  September 26, 2002

• Court Jousters

  June 27, 2002

• The Great Surplus

  May 23, 2002

• I Cannot Take This Again

  September 27, 2001

• The Skunk and the Worm

  May 24, 2001

• Slim Shady and the Second Lady

  February 1, 2001

• Ho-ing for Boeing

  July 29, 1999

• The Phantom Menace

  July 15, 1999

• Star Wars, the Sequel

  February 11, 1999

• Ron Packard, Military Whore

  October 8, 1998

• Release the Punks

  May 28, 2009

• Santa Ana Police to be Honored by a Biden

  TheWhiteHouse.govDr. Jill Biden is scheduled to honor the Santa Ana Police Department and 14 other employers.​Santa Ana Police Department honorees will be praised in Washington, D.C., by a Biden.But it won't be Joe Biden.It'll be the vice president's wife, Dr. Jill Biden, who will do the honors, the Department of Defense has announced.Mrs. Biden will be the keynote speaker at the annual Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award Ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International

  August 12, 2009

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises

  Top U.S. Secrets to Crooks, Idiots and Dopers: The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., reports this morning that the Pentagon, the guys running the Iraq War, now want Congress to allow national security clearances for government employees who are “ex-convicts, drug addicts and mentally incompetent.” Congress currently bans the practice. But Pentagon brass say the restriction “unduly” handicaps the Department of Defense and note that people should be forgiven for their sins—unless, of

  July 10, 2007