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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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 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 >>
Blogs
September 28, 2007
Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Who the Hell Does Benito Acosta Think He Is?
Heil, err, Mansoor! Let’s see . . . Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor let people with the Minutemen Project stand during a 2006 city council meeting to show their support for his police-immigration plan. Later, at the same public meeting, other people lead by Benito Acosta attempted to stand in the ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2007
Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: It worked for the Chinese?
The Final Solution: Alicia Robinson at the Daily Pilot takes over court duty in the Benito Acosta trial and finds ACLU lawyers continuing to press their point that Acosta’s arrest for speaking at a Costa Mesa city council meeting was “political.” At a 2006 public meeting, Mayor Allan Mansoor ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2007
Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Hanging with Henry Segerstom
Pair of Jacks: To build the impressive Great Park that it has promised, Larry Agran’s Irvine political machine is desperate for new sources of revenue. Congressman John Campbell (R-Nothing Down; Drive Off The Lot) wants to block Agran, a Democrat, from partnering with the Juaneno Mission Indians, ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
July 18, 2008
Orange County: A Personal History Gets Starred PW Review!
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 >>
Blogs
July 25, 2008
San Diego Minutemen Get Back Their San Clemente Adopt-a-Highway Sign
Mere hours after the Weekly's story regarding the tale of two Minuteman Project Adopt-a-Highway signs hit the streets, a federal judge ordered Caltrans to restore the one on Interstate 5 near the San Onofre immigration checkpoint sponsored by the San Diego Minutemen. In a misleading email sent out l ... More >>
Features
September 8, 2005
Silence Is Golden
Mere hours after the Weekly's story regarding the tale of two Minuteman Project Adopt-a-Highway signs hit the streets, a federal judge ordered Caltrans to restore the one on Interstate 5 near the San Onofre immigration checkpoint sponsored by the San Diego Minutemen. In a misleading email sent out l ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2008
El Chinaco's Pupusas Still Número One--Even Catered!
It cracked me up when commentator hungrymomma left this gentle scold regarding my taco review--hey, I'm a wab, chula! But I also laughed because I was planning to do a re-review of El Chinaco, the iconic Salvadoran eatery whose owner, Mirna Burciaga, famously took on the Minuteman Project a couple y ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
December 10, 2008
The Curious Case of the Crapping Minuteman
A couple of weeks ago, I received a fascinating envelope with the claim that a Minuteman Project member sent a racist letter to Wahoo's Fish Tacos founder Wing Lam AND took a shit in a Wahoo's trash can. The envelope carried a letter purportedly written by Minuteman Project member Brian Gilmore, and ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Columns
March 12, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Arpayaso Claims the Know Nothing Crown
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
November 27, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!] 'Is There a Turnstile at the Border Tallying Up Illegals?'
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
November 6, 2008
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
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
September 11, 2008
This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'
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 >>
Food
August 7, 2008
[Food Issue 2008] For Our Recessionary Times, 54 Orange County Meal Deals Between 99 Cents and $15
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
July 24, 2008
Do the Differing Fates of Two Minutemen Freeway Signs Show a Double Standard at Caltrans?
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
May 8, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Stay Home and Watch 'COPS' With Your Traditional Mexican Woman
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 >>
Culture
March 6, 2008
Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble's 14
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 >>
Features
March 6, 2008
How the Minutemen Drove Mobile Mexican Consulates Out of the Capistrano Unified School District
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
February 22, 2007
!Ask a Mexican!
Three-Question Especial
Columns
May 18, 2006
!Ask a Mexican!
'Mexicans arent HispanicMexicans are Mexican'
News
May 4, 2006
Unflinching Sincerity
Unitarian Human Rights Forum
Columns
December 29, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
The year in Mexican-bashing
Columns
December 1, 2005
Letters
Toots is older than Mick but smokes twice as much herb as Keith Richards.
News
June 2, 2005
THE RIGHT IS RIGHT
Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist has it all figured outexcept for one little thing
Unknown
May 12, 2005
The Plot Against the Mexicans
And the Jews run the Weekly!
News
April 21, 2005
FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPING TRAIL
Ex-Minuteman Bryan Barton puts the party in partisan agenda
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
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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
June 14, 2010
Barbara Coe, Orly Taitz Claim Electoral Fraud in OC Sheriff Race Against Bill Hunt, Blame Sheriff "Hutchinson"
Coe, with Hunt; the blob at the left is America's Most Corrupt® Sheriff, Joe ArpayasoIn addition to spawning Proposition 187, the Minuteman Project, and gads more evil shit into this world, let the record show that the California Coalition for Immigration Reform also birthed Orly Taitz, queen of ... More >>
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 >>
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Where are the Loncheras at the Luxe-Lonchera Fests?
Photo by the Elmo MonsterReal damn street food: the taco acorazado at Alebrije'sI wasn't able to attend this past weekend's OC Foodie Fest (congrats to the organizers, btw, on the turnout) because I attended another one: the Eat Real Festival, held around Jack London Square in Oakland. You though ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2011
[UPDATED with Veteran Prosecutor Joining Defense:] "Irvine 11" Again Go Before the Judge
LiroffUPDATE, MAY 31, 1:18 P.M.: The lead prosecutor in the "Irvine 11" misdemeanor criminal conspiracy case is Dan Wagner, who earlier this year was named head of the Orange County District Attorney's Homicide Unit. He'll now match legal wits with another veteran homicide prosecutor as Lane Liro ... More >>
Columns
August 18, 2011
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
LiroffUPDATE, MAY 31, 1:18 P.M.: The lead prosecutor in the "Irvine 11" misdemeanor criminal conspiracy case is Dan Wagner, who earlier this year was named head of the Orange County District Attorney's Homicide Unit. He'll now match legal wits with another veteran homicide prosecutor as Lane Liro ... More >>
Columns
September 29, 2011
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
LiroffUPDATE, MAY 31, 1:18 P.M.: The lead prosecutor in the "Irvine 11" misdemeanor criminal conspiracy case is Dan Wagner, who earlier this year was named head of the Orange County District Attorney's Homicide Unit. He'll now match legal wits with another veteran homicide prosecutor as Lane Liro ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
What We Learned, Jan. 21-Jan. 27
PerezA 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 Ass ... More >>
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