National Rifle Association

OC Bookly at the LA Times Festival of Books

I've attended nearly all of the previous 16 years of the annual Los Angeles Times books festivals, this one again on the campus of USC. There was that one year I missed, when the bibliochild was born and some friends, fellow writers and Santa Monica Review volunteers staffed the SMR booth, ... More >>

Tom Zoellner, Chapman University Professor, On the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting

"What is government if words have no meaning?"

[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 >>

Rep. John Campbell, "Gun-Owning Animal Lover," Finds Himself in NRA Crosshairs

​Rep. John Campbell (R-Irvine) scored A- grades from the National Rifle Association heading into his successful 2008 and 2010 elections. (By comparison, Orange County's lone Democrat in Congress, Loretta Sanchez, received a D). But Campbell recently found himself in an unfamiliar spot: in the midd ... More >>

Supervisor Shawn Nelson Wants A Concealed Weapons Permit

Supervisor Nelson​Folks who transport lots of cash or who are judges, prosecutors and others who have valid concerns about their safety get concealed weapon permits in Orange County.For example, current CCW permit holders include Newport Beach socialites Dick and Priscilla Marconi, GOP bigwig Mich ... More >>

The Ten Commandments

Regency South Coast Village

5 More Attraction Ideas for Ronald Reagan Great Park

​Between the time the reporting was done on this week's cover story and that issue hit the streets, more ideas for attractions at the future Ronald Reagan Great Park have been floated like a large orange balloon.Indeed, the brilliant stroke of naming Irvine's massive public-works project after "Th ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Teen Fatally Stabbed at Anaheim PartyComment by SOUNDOFF2: Cant' we all just stab along?Comment by LIVINREALITY: Hey SOUNDOFF2,! I love it it !!!! That's actually really funny. To answer the question. No they can't. not enough intelligence between them to get the timing right . another ... More >>

Lou Correa Blasts OC Fair Deal at NRA Dinner

​We told you here that Assemblyman Jose Solorio (D-Santa Ana) had revealed the Legislature's Latino caucus will not block the state's sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds to Costa Mesa over displeasure with the City Council's "Rule of Law" proclamation and other moves intended to make those with ... More >>

Be Vewy Vewy Quiet, Mission Viejo is Hunting Wabbits

​Elmer Fudd has nothing on the Mission Viejo City Council, which has approved a Palmia Homeowners Association request to allow residents to shoot rabbits with pellet guns. Bunnies are chewing grass and raiding gardens and must die, claims the association representing a small adult community in th ... More >>

Tea Party On!

The county's GOP central committee is in hot water with the tea party movement

The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights

The county's GOP central committee is in hot water with the tea party movement

Chatting With Bill Maher About Rick Warren And Orly Taitz

From Religulous: Bill Maher on the left, Jesus on the right.​Comedian, talk show host and atheist evangelical Bill Maher will perform at the Grove of Anaheim on Sunday, Sept. 13. We got a chance to chat with him on the phone last week, mainly to ask him for his thoughts on all things Orange County ... More >>

Behold John Bolton and His Moustache at Balboa Bay Club

John Robert Bolton, the neocon's neocon, laps up the hosannas of fellow knuckle-draggers May 28 when he is the special guest of the World Affairs Council of Orange County. The nonprofit, 500-member council--which since its 1967 founding has hosted Prince Andrew, Vicente Fox, Hans Blix and several ot ... More >>

Meet OC Sheriff Sandra Hutchens

Newport Beach Yacht Club

Less Than a Year Since She Was Appointed Sheriff, Sandra Hutchens Has Made Some Powerful Enemies

Newport Beach Yacht Club

Reg Takes Multiple Hits on Multiple-Murder Coverage

Well, the good news is the Register finally took down those "Our marriage is great because of M.E.!" click-thru marriage education ads, which have recently tortured anyone attempting to access the paper online. Guess someone found them tasteless, considering. The bad news? In case you hadn't hear ... More >>

Letters

CNN couldnt do it; the LA Times couldnt do it; no other journalist or major media outlet could do it. Are we to accept that some moonbat reporter from a local free weekly actually sat down and researched the subjec

Osama's Gun

How to not build bin Ladens AK-47 without even trying

More Drudgery

Alex, of course, is right (see his post here) about the drudges at The Drudge Report– among the many kinds of bastards they are, warmongering bastards ranks pretty high since Bush the Younger took office. But I do think he missed the importance of another, much older Encourager of war and slau ... More >>

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 >>

Commie Girl

This Ain't No Picnic

Crabby, grabby at the Southern California Music Awards

Historians Misbehaving Wonderfully

UCI prof Jon Wiener examines his own kind

The Don King of Cockfights

He whipped Bob Dornan. Now Latino activist Nativo Lopez turns his attention to cocks of a different sort

The Envelopes, Please

For your drooling pleasure, OCs sexiest people!

Shuttle Diplomacy

For your drooling pleasure, OCs sexiest people!

Theyre Here, Theyre Queer, Theyre Armed

Orange Countys Pink Pistols are all for peace, love and understanding among straights and gays. Meantime, theyre taking target practice.

Aiming to please

Michael Moore's populist Bowling for Columbine

Hughcifers Boycott

Michael Moore's populist Bowling for Columbine

Letters

Michael Moore's populist Bowling for Columbine

While You Were Freaking

Michael Moore's populist Bowling for Columbine

Chicken Finger

Michael Moore's populist Bowling for Columbine

Diary of a mad county

Michael Moore's populist Bowling for Columbine

Diary of a Mad County

Michael Moore's populist Bowling for Columbine

Letters

Michael Moore's populist Bowling for Columbine

Success Through Snacking

A Weekly program of glop, gunk and raising Iqs in county schools

When Pigs Fly

A Weekly program of glop, gunk and raising Iqs in county schools

Magics Team!

This weeks featured NFL game: Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions

Shoot!

This weeks featured NFL game: Denver Broncos vs. Oakland Raiders

Harald Martins Army

The anti-immigration activist has a new plan to send Mexicans packing

Revenge of the Nerds

The anti-immigration activist has a new plan to send Mexicans packing

Mission: Possible

The anti-immigration activist has a new plan to send Mexicans packing

No-Show Perot

The anti-immigration activist has a new plan to send Mexicans packing

American Psycho

The far-Right side of Ted Nugents mind

A Higher Fire Power

Carona puts his faith in more guns after ambush of deputy

Everybody Must Get Hestoned

Charlton Heston on the Web

Blame Game

Another teen tragedy, another excuse to bash gamers

'School's out Forever'

Can music make kids kill?

Sex and the Single Gun

Firearms don't kill kids, sex does!

Ron Packard, Military Whore

Beneath the South County Congressman's Mr. Vanilla exterior beats the heart of an old-fashioned, log-rolling, back-scratching, pork barreling special-interest pol