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Republican National Convention

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Ron Paul Won't Fight for California Votes

    It's clearer now why Ron Paul went heavy on the Libertarian cheerleading and lighter on the presidential campaigning when he rocked a youth rally earlier this month at Cal State Fullerton. The Texas congressman and Republican primary candidate has announced that he won't compete in states that have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Fred Karger Gets More Votes Than Ron Paul in Puerto Rico GOP Primary

    ​Mitt Romney easily won Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary Sunday, but the bigger news, especially locally, came near the bottom of the ballot."LOOKS [sic] WE BEAT RON PAUL IN TODAY'S PUERTO RICO PRIMARY" reads the Twitter feed from the presidential campaign of Laguna Beach's Fred Karge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Chicano Activist Carlos Montes Makes His Case in Anaheim Ahead of Next Court Date

    Montes​At the invitation of the Orange County Peace Coalition, longtime Chicano activist Carlos Montes spoke about the serious legal charges he now faces to an audience gathered at the Unitarian Univeralist Church in Anaheim. "I was really happy to be invited to share my issue and support their wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Will Rappers Cost Obama the Election?

    Please, Plies, come out in support of Sarah Palin Young Jeezy's brief flirtation with John McCain on the set of Saturday Night Live aside, it's clear rappers favor Barack Obama by a wide margin in this election. (Check out this survey, for starters.) Though emcee after emcee has supported Obama wit ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    [Moxley Confidential] The Strange Case of the Deputy-Confiscated Videotape

    Please, Plies, come out in support of Sarah Palin Young Jeezy's brief flirtation with John McCain on the set of Saturday Night Live aside, it's clear rappers favor Barack Obama by a wide margin in this election. (Check out this survey, for starters.) Though emcee after emcee has supported Obama wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    What's Red and Blue and Drops Balloons All Over?

    Sniff. Sniff. Ecch. You smell something? What the... OK, who let all those elephants and donkeys in here? Yes, a fun temporary feature tracking the movements of America's favorite symbolic political herbivores now lurks in the lower-right-hand area of our home page: Two blogs from our Village Voice ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2008

    Why Won't the Times Print Obscene Jokes About Blacks?

    The Los Angeles Times ran an obituary today on Earl Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture under Yorba Linda boy Richard Nixon. Per the obit, "He was forced to resign his Cabinet post in October 1976 after telling an obscene joke that was derogatory to blacks." The Times, in its ever-genteel ways, didn' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2007

    CA GOP Sure Knows How to Pick OCers

    The Republican Party of Orange County's Weekly Squeeze e-letter (guys: drop the cutesy orange metaphor, por favor) tells me today that longtime local GOP activist Kathy Tavoularis is now Executive Director of the California Delegation to the 2008 Republican National Convention. "A well organized del ... More >>

  • Film

    April 12, 2007

    John Wayne Is Orange County

    Expanded for the Web! Newport Beach Film Fest honors the icon. Its about time

  • Culture

    January 4, 2007

    Ecce Homo

    Tim Miller: Behold the fag!

  • Film

    September 28, 2006

    Magical History Tour

    Lennon rock doc is both poignant and topical

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2006

    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 >>

  • Columns

    September 15, 2005

    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    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 >>

  • Features

    September 8, 2005

    Staff Infection

    Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

  • Columns

    August 18, 2005

    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

  • Features

    June 2, 2005

    Capitol Punishment

    How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    Shoot a Republican: The Sequel

    Weekly extends offer to pump partisan lead

  • Culture

    February 17, 2005

    Welcome to Coolsville, Population You

    Finking out the next super-top-secret OOTS party, with art!

  • Features

    October 7, 2004

    Burning Bush: The Issue

    A year in Dubya-dumping by his conservative critics . . . and Howard Stern

  • Culture

    October 7, 2004

    Pretty Vacant

    MTV goes from polluting to numbing minds with Laguna Beach

  • Columns

    September 9, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    MTV goes from polluting to numbing minds with Laguna Beach

  • Columns

    September 9, 2004

    Letters

    MTV goes from polluting to numbing minds with Laguna Beach

  • Food

    September 2, 2004

    This Week in Frenching

    MTV goes from polluting to numbing minds with Laguna Beach

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The Presidents Conservative Critics

  • Columns

    August 26, 2004

    No, You Shut Up

    Artists are Americans, too, You Jackasses

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Were No. 2!

    Nixon Library delights in Bushs lameness

  • Film

    May 20, 2004

    Agit-Docs

    Moviehouses reflect the summer of our discontent

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    In one corner, Jimmy Breslin!

    In another, the foremost clerical authority on degenerate sex!

  • Columns

    April 15, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    In another, the foremost clerical authority on degenerate sex!

  • Columns

    October 10, 2002

    Jet Set!

    Hangin with homos in OKC and RepCon 2002, dawg

  • Columns

    September 6, 2001

    Killtastic!

    This Weeks Featured Game: Philadelphia Eagles (0-0) vs. Dallas Cowboys (0-0)

  • News

    January 4, 2001

    The Year in Rebuke

    This Weeks Featured Game: Philadelphia Eagles (0-0) vs. Dallas Cowboys (0-0)

  • Columns

    August 17, 2000

    Letters

    This Weeks Featured Game: Philadelphia Eagles (0-0) vs. Dallas Cowboys (0-0)

  • Columns

    August 17, 2000

    For This I Tomahawked the Enemy?

    How would the founding fathersor a bald eagle that could talkview contemporary politics?

  • Unknown

    August 17, 2000

    Daily Affirmation

    How would the founding fathersor a bald eagle that could talkview contemporary politics?

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    Party Pooper

    Doris Allen: 1936-1999

  • Columns

    September 16, 1999

    This weeks featured game: Arizona (9-7 last season) at Philadelphia (3-13)

    Doris Allen: 1936-1999

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    An Incomplete History of Gay & Lesbian OC

    Doris Allen: 1936-1999

  • Columns

    April 1, 1999

    Rat Boy Slim

    How I helped resuscitate Elia Kazan

  • Columns

    December 3, 1998

    Letters

    How I helped resuscitate Elia Kazan

  • Columns

    November 19, 1998

    The Weekly's Week in Review

    How I helped resuscitate Elia Kazan

  • Columns

    October 8, 1998

    The Straight Guy at the Gay Pool Party

    And other tales from the political season

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