Ronald Reagan

Let Fury Have the Hour Revists the Dark Days of Reagan-Thatcher to Paint a Bright Future

Moving crap from one corner of my garage to another a couple weekends ago, I set my eyes for the first time in years on an OC Weekly cover tied to a story I'd written. It was an illustration of Ronald Reagan with the headline "The President Who Created Punk Rock" (or something like that; I'm too laz ... More >>

A Conversation with Piper Laurie

Bowers Museum

Ronald Reagan Returns to Full, Upright Position

​Ronald Reagan is back at Bonita Canyon Sports Park in Newport Beach--and this time he wants blood.Actually, it's a statue of the Gipper that has risen from the ashes--and to its full and upright position--after the city paid $6,500 to repair the bronze figure that was bent by would-be Dutchnapper ... More >>

Sunday OC News Notes: Was DA Tony Rackauckas "Pathetic" in Pursuit of an Accused Serial Killer?

Recent highlights in Orange County news from various media outlets or blogs:​TheLiberalOC discusses the long reach of its bombshell story on state Assembly candidate Michele Martinez's controversial train conversation related to a California Indian tribe and campaign support.OCPoliticsBlog calls D ... More >>

[UPDATED with Reward Proposed:] Ronald Reagan Statue Vandalized in Newport Beach Park

​UPDATE, NOV. 9, 11:17 A.M.: Newport Beach City Councilman Keith Curry, who first proposed the Ronald Reagan statue that was unveiled at Bonita Canyon Sports Park last month, threw out to his council colleagues Tuesday night the idea of offering a $5,000 reward for whoever tried to take the life-s ... More >>

Anonymous Tinkers With Orange County Sign in the Name of Occupy OC

Anonymous​We thought we'd share this pic, which we spotted on the Occupy OC Twitter feed today--this is the Occupy OC associated with the upcoming Santa Ana march happening at noon on the west side of the Ronald Reagan Federal Building this Saturday. The photo shows a group of three mischief-maker ... More >>

Ronald Reagan Statue is Not Enough: 5 More Ways Park Can Honor the Gipper

​A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan was dedicated at Bonita Canyon Sports Park in Newport Beach Sunday. (Bonita Canyon Sports Park, where have I heard that name before? Oh yes, HERE, in a post about Newps dumping its former city attorney for allegedly getting in a DUI wreck near the park.)Dana Rohra ... More >>

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Regency South Coast Village

Ronald Reagan and George P. Shultz Heads Missing from Chapman U

​Bring me the heads of Ronald Reagan and George P. Shultz!Shouted in Central America during the 1980s--when Dutch was president and Shultzy was secretary of state--the plea rings out again today in Orange, where Chapman University officials bemoan the loss of busts depicting the GOP warhorses.

Naming the Orange County Great Park After Ronald Reagan Gets Scholarly Stamps of Approval

​A 25-year-old law has presented a snag in getting a statue of Ronald Reagan erected in a Newport Beach park. But who needs a statue when you can have an entire park named in your honor? And not just any park, but the Orange County Great Park, which has been billed as the first great municipal par ... More >>

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 >>

Welcome to the Ronald Reagan Great Park

EXCLUSIVE! Super-secret plans are afoot to name Orange County's largest public-works project after the Great Communicator

Ronald Reagan Day in Larry Agran Land?

​It's unclear why this wasn't proposed a few weeks ago, but the Irvine City Council tonight will consider proclaiming Feb. 6 "Ronald Reagan Day," in honor of 40th president's birthday.The proclamation is not being foisted on the panel that leans Democratic because Reagan was once a member of the p ... More >>

Ronald Reagan: An American Journey: Let the Fawning Begin

​Give operators of Regency Lido Theatre this: They know their audience.To help those in the conservative bastion of nouveau riche celebrate what would have been Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, the historic theater that was built when "Dutch" was 27 (1938) presents the world "theatrical" premiere o ... More >>

6 Steps to Make Ronald Reagan Park a Reality

​Twice motions were made Tuesday night to name a local park after Ronald Reagan, and twice the Newport Beach City Council voted that idea down. "We'll bring this back in some form or fashion, somehow," vowed Mayor Keith Curry, the politico pushing for a park named after the Gipper.Six easy steps w ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Mammoth Mountain is a Northern Outpost of Southern California

Flickr user jcookfisherLast week's storms brought the mountains to life for snowboarders all over Southern California. With well over 14 inches at local spots like Baldy, Mountain High and Bear, people grabbed their boards and headed for higher altitudes. Mammoth Mountain, the southern part of ... More >>

Mike Duvall Nickname Time!

Already, some in the local blogosphere have taken to call disgraced ex-Assemblymember Mike Duvall "Spanky," because the perv likes to get his spank on. I vigorously disagree--I prefer "The Dripper," not just because of the grossest part of his shared sexual exploits ("And
 so, we had made love Wed ... More >>

Remember Reagan's School Speech? The One Loaded With Indoctrinating Comments?

No one seemed to bat an eye and or raise even the slightest controversial eyebrow twenty-one years ago when then President Ronald Reagan huddled a bunch of school-aged rugrats into the oval office and delivered a nationally televised "education" speech that was cluttered with blatant plugs for his a ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Dana Rohrabacher Backs Tax Dollars for Ronald Reagan Birthday-Party Commission

As Rep. Calvert Beams Over Gipper Statue, Many Fume

Courtesy U.S. Capitol"Ladies and gentlemen, the statue of Ronald Reagan," the announcer inside the Capitol Rotunda said last Wednesday before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped 87-year-old Nancy Reagan to her feet so she could tug back the blue drape cloaking Chas Fagan's 7-foot bronze statue of the ... More >>

When Did Ronald Reagan First Utter His Infamous OC Quote?

I've long assumed that President Ronald Reagan's famous quote about Orange County--where the good Republicans go to die--was first uttered at the El Toro base, just before he launched his 1984 reelection campaign at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley. Color me shocked, then, when I recently bought ... More >>

My Legs!

King's Row

Romney:Reagan = Hewitt:Smart

Our beloved local conservative loudmouth Hugh Hewitt has spent the last half-year ranting about how Republican presidential candidate (and subject of his most-recent book) Mitt Romney is the next coming of Ronald Reagan to the point of nausea and idiocy. "Romney has reassembled the Reagan coalitio ... More >>

Gil, Drop the Bill

State Senator Dick Ackerman is as conservative as they come, and must no doubt be thrilled that ICE raids in OC are now as common as sunny days. But his thinking on a proposal by Los Angeles-area State Senator Gil Cedillo to require that California schools teach kiddies about the illegal roundups of ... 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

You've Been Punk'd

American Hardcore: overdue homage or underdone whitewash?

Strange Days Indeed

The Gipper, Tricky Dick, American Hardcore, The U.S. vs. John Lennon and deja vu all over again

Foothill-South: "The Wrong Direction To Take"

Don't worry about the Transportation Corridor Agencies getting their lawsuits moved to federal court. Federal regulations may be less stringent than any state restrictions, but it's not all bad news. Today the State Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 met to discuss, among other matters, a staff reso ... More >>

Orange County hates Ronald Reagan

What else is this battered old Spiro Agnew watch to conclude after the news that Murrieta Valley Unified School District is poised to open California's very first Ronald Reagan High School in 2009. Well, "poised to open" is actually conflating things a bit (just like a certain deceased president's ... More >>

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Morning in Orange County

Monument Clothings gripping graphics spark surfwear sales

Party Like Its 1992!

And suck it, Hugh Hewitt!

Burning Bush: The Issue

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

Burning Bush

The presidents conservative critics

Letters

Letters

Death of a Salesman

Ronald Reagan, 19112004

Bawitdaba Da Bang A Dang Diggy Diggy!

The Reagan legacy at a bar

Diary of a Mad County

Letters

Diary of a Mad County

Letters

Not Too Late for a War Crimes Tribunal

He turns 91 this week, so its possible Ronald Reagan cant remember. But Jim Washburn cant forget

OC Hillbillies

Four More Years!

Evil government makes for good art

The Insider

Brave Dinesh DSouza comes to country club, worries about diversity

Duck and Cover-up

"Atomic City" Doesn't quite reveal the whole truth of our curious relationship with Nukes

FORGETTING

Re-created Rain Forests

RE-CREATED RONALD REAGAN!

Star Wars, the Sequel

OC firm still chasing Reagan's (costly) dream