Subject: Osama bin Laden

• Wanted (sort of)

  Remember President Bush's steely determination to get Osama bin Laden Dead or Alive? Turns out he meant we'll get him, if we happen to bump into him. The New York Times reports this morning that "The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants". The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said. The decisio

  July 4, 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

• The Long and the Short of It

  Most teachers love a good visual aid to drive home the point of a lesson, and Gary Weddle, a science teacher at Ephrata Middle School in Ephrata, Washington, has a hell of a visual aid: his beard. The lesson, though, has nothing to do with science. Weddle was so caught up by the news in the days after 9/11 five years, he forgot to shave. And when his thoughts finally did turn again to shaving, he decided to use his stubble to make a statement and vowed to let his beard grow until Osama bin

  September 13, 2006

• All your porn are belong to U.S.

  That's not "us" in the post title, that's U.S.   As in the U.S. federal government.  Because according to a Cnet News story (found via TPMmuckracker.com), while your boss may never find out what you're really doing with your computer when you should be working, the feds just might. The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed. Instead of recording only what a partic

  January 31, 2007

• HAPPY 9/11! Now Go See the Film About the Film About 9/11 That You Didn't See ... er, Check That ...

  Perhaps you remember the flap all over right-wing radio two years back about Disney/ABC's handling of the two-part miniseries, The Path to 9/11, which partly blamed the Clinton Administration for not taking out Osama bin Laden, allowing the terrorist leader to fester and then KABLOOEY! goes the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Well, the Lincoln Club and Republican Party of Orange County screen a documentary tonight that “exposes the systematic way in which the Clintons, Cong

  September 11, 2008

• The CD Case

  January 18, 2001

• The Super Bowl Edition

  February 1, 2001

• Nuts drive nuts nuts!

  September 20, 2001

• Under Suspicion

  September 27, 2001

• Winged Monkeys!

  October 18, 2001

• Letters

  November 1, 2001

• God Loves Losers

  December 13, 2001

• More Fun With the Queen Mary of Orange Coun...uh...Long Beach

  First off, an "Ahoy, matey!" with a cherry on top to "Nice try," who justifiably mocks my bleary-eyed muffing of the photo selection for Speaking of Abandoned Ships, Save the Queen [Mary] Can't Save Itself. I'm next to positive the correct barnacle collector is shown here. And I disagree with Nice try's advice to "Stick to OC, guys." Two things:1) Speaking of abandoned cities, OC Weekly adopted Long Beach when we were still in the cradle, as longtime readers know, whether Long Beach likes it or

  January 30, 2009

• American Heroes and Zeroes

  Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine at sundance '08

  January 31, 2008

• Rogue Statesman

  September 12, 2002

• Die for Famous Country Singers Oil

  August 11, 2005

• So I Married a Terrorist . . .

  Saraah Olsons strange trip through the U.S. war on terror

  April 19, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 26, 2006

• Commie Girl

  August 24, 2006

• Fakes On a Plane

  August 17, 2006

• Letters

  April 6, 2006

• Bin There

  February 23, 2006

• Halloween 2015

  October 27, 2005

• Letters

  November 11, 2004

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 1, 2004

• The NASCAR Nazi

  May 27, 2004

• Mr. Taliban

  December 25, 2003

• Letters

  November 13, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• Pocket Rocket

  December 19, 2002

• M

  October 24, 2002

• How OC remembered Sept. 11

  September 26, 2002

• I Hear America Sinking

  September 19, 2002

• Couched in Ignorance

  April 25, 2002

• Thats Evil Goin On

  March 14, 2002

• The Mormon In All of Us

  January 24, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 17, 2002

• Hate-Filled Letters

  January 3, 2002

• Terror Town, USA

  December 27, 2001

• OC Mans Ties to Terrorism Only Skin Deep

  November 8, 2001

• One Degree of Separation

  October 11, 2001

• Dr. Frankenbacher

  October 4, 2001

• Bad Hair Day

  October 4, 2001

• Letters

  September 27, 2001

• It Slices, It Dices, It Hijacks

  September 27, 2001

• We Love to See You Wretch!

  July 19, 2001

• Freedom! We Think

  June 7, 2001

• The Terrorist Next Door

  July 20, 2000

• This Weeks Featured Super Bowl Game: Tennessee Titans vs. St. Louis Rams

  February 3, 2000