Political Families

Secret Service Agent Once Assigned to Reagan's California Detail Is Punished for Bank Fraud

A federal judge in Orange County this week punished a Vietnam War refugee--who eventually became an accomplished U.S. Secret Service (USSS) special agent assigned to protect former First Lady Nancy Reagan--for operating a bank-fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter sentenced Richa ... More >>

The White House (Yes, The White House) Has Its Own Brewery

Looks like Mr. President likes to throw back a good beer just like the rest of us. How very American.  The Des Moines Register reported that Barack Obama has his own secret White House brewery. The news was revealed during the president's bus tour across Iowa, when a man at a coffee shop starti ... More >>

President Obama's Election and Pursuit of a Post Racial America

UCI School of Law

Common Catches Heat From Conservatives Over White House Invitation

facebook.com/thinkcommon​Rapper Common suddenly finds himself in the midst of controversy after accepting an invitation to be part of the White House's "Poetry Night" this week. The Chi-town MC, who will join Jill Scott, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander and others as guests of President Barack O ... More >>

Kobe Bryant and Marilyn Davenport Apologies Miss Their Direct Targets

​It's been a busy couple weeks when it comes to high-profile apologies from Orange Countians. Newport Coast's Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers first half-heartedly and then full-heartedly apologized for saying "fucking faggot." Next came Fullerton's Marilyn Davenport of the Orange County Repu ... More >>

Exene Recasts the Oscars; Josh Freese Named Dream Presenter

Ali Smith​City of Orange resident and music scenester Exene Cervenka (of X, Knitters, Original Sinners) had a cameo in LA Times' awards blog The Envelope yesterday, and in it, she talked about what she'd do if she ran the Oscars. In the interview, we discover her love of Bill Murray. She also talk ... More >>

Long Beach Says Goodbye to Annual Celebrity-Studded Women's Conference

​The annual, superstar-studded women's conference that brought speakers like Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Diane Sawyer, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sarah McLachlan and Suze Orman to Long Beach, along with major tourism dollars, will not be back to the city this year.    It is uncerta ... More >>

Bristol Palin to UC Irvine: I Want to Come There and Talk Abstinence. OC Gays to Bristol Palin: Keep Out

​Hot hater spawn, unwed teen mom and Dancing With the Stars runner-up Bristol Palin wants to talk abstinence on university campuses, including Orange County's UC Irvine.That desire has prompted some OC gays to send a letter to the University of California urging a rejection of such an appearance.

Shriver Women's Conference Gets Brit Attention

​The big news for us in the States from Maria Shriver's annual Women's Conference in Long Beach has been the meeting of California's gubernatorial candidates, former first lady Laura Bush poking fun at her husband and temporary first lady Michelle Obama talking about raising school-age girls in th ... More >>

Michelle Obama Spoke Near "Disaster" Site

​The Secret Service protecting Michelle Obama had reason to be suspicious of an ominous sight very close to where the first lady appeared as part of Maria Shriver's Women's Conference 2010 in Long Beach Tuesday. Cars were overturned at the intersection of First Street and Elm Avenue, but all was n ... More >>

First Ladies Michelle Obama and Laura Bush Coming to Maria Shriver's Women's Conference

​The current and former first lady are doing California's first lady a solid, as Michelle Obama and Laura Bush have agreed to speak during Maria Shriver's annual Women's Conference in Long Beach Oct. 24-26.Obama last appeared at what Shriver has dubbed "the Super Bowl for Women" in 2007, when she ... More >>

Ethel Merman's Broadway

Laguna Playhouse

Anti-Michelle Obama Rhetoric Used to Sell Greasy Food at OC Fair

​While far too many people are giving unwarranted attention to the Heart Attack Cafe at the Orange County Fair for offering deep-fried butter, no one seems to care that they're bashing First Lady Michelle Obama's much-lauded efforts to de-fatten America.Want some Tea Party bullshit with your order ... More >>

Laura Bush Book Signing

Barnes and Noble

Laura Bush Brings Her Shocking Memoir to Costa Mesa

​The revelations contained in former first lady Laura Bush's new memoir are coming fast and furious.She and Dubya may have been poisoned at a G8 summit! She once lost her faith! She spied Prince Charles taking a nip from a hip flask! She still feels guilty about killing a dude at 17! She may suppo ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Madewell's Tastefully Hip Offerings Fit the Younger Crew

OC Republicans' Choice for First Lady Comes Out... Against Prop. 8

NOH8 CampaignTale of the tape​In the November 2008 election, 579,064 Orange County voters wanted John McCain to be president of the United States right now (versus 549,558 for Barack Obama). By extension, Cindy McCain was 50.2 percent of the electorate's choice for first lady (versus 47.6 percent ... More >>

Dishney: PETA Recommends Animal Sanctuaries Over Disneyland

In yet another effort to make both meat eaters and vegetarians further dislike them, Ingrid Newkirk, president and co-founder of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has issued an open letter to President Obama via the Huffington Post, pleading for him to send the traditional Than ... More >>

OC Children's Book Festival

Orange Coast College

Wiley Drake Gets the Keith Olbermann Stamp of Disapproval

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Pastor Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park has been previously recognized for interfaith gestures, helping the less fortunate and sheltering the homeless on church property despite threats from lawsuits, ... More >>

Zodiac Daughter Debunked!

Hats off to Steve Huff of the True Crime Report for apparently being the first journalist to do anything other than simply regurgitate the bizarre, better-late-than-never claims by Deborah Perez that her adoptive, deceased dad, Guy Ward Hendrickson was actually the infamous Zodiac killer. As Huff re ... More >>

South Coast Farms Finds Fame In Documentary

Spring may have sprung, and Michelle Obama may be receiving bountiful media coverage for her new White House kitchen garden, but Orange County has its very healthy-food hero in the form of local movie producer and director Carrie Gallison.Gallison recently completed Orange County Treasures: The Peop ... More >>

I Love You Porgy

Ella

Rohrabacher went in drag to solve already solved RFK assassination?

While the nation struggles with two wars, financial disasters, devastating hurricanes, regular political sex and ethics scandals, ridiculously priced gas and global warming, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) has been busy attempting to singlehandedly solve the already solved 196 ... More >>

Because You're Ugly: Presidential Nominee Style

Politics and pantsuits aside—the Obamas are even making their mark in the world of fashion. It's Milan Fashion Week and Donatella Versace has decided to dedicate her Spring/Summer 2009 collection to the U.S. Democratic nominee, citing that Obama was the "man of the moment." Versace, who took ov ... More >>

Embracing Our Contradictions

Jenna Bush, Author

Staying the Course, a Bush Family Value

As you've no doubt heard, Operation Iraqi Chaos (or whatever the official name is for the U.S. invasion and occupation) has now lasted longer than America's involvement in World War II. And judging by President Bush's statement this morning, American troops won't be leaving anytime soon. "There's o ... More >>

State Secret: Arnold's Big Night Out

How desperate is Governor Schwarzenegger to avoid reminding people that he belongs to same political party as George W. Bush, let alone remind them that he was one of the featured speakers supporting Bush at the 2004 Republican Convention? Desperate enough to sneak across the country and into the Wh ... More >>

Scoring the Quiz

I Am a Gay!

All the world loves a Kerry-lover

The Big Chill

The Reagans takes a right hook

Lets Call It a Davis!

How the Reagans kept their love surreal

Damn the Torpedoes!

A feminist defense of the Barbies of the Nixon Library