Subject: Rudolph Giuliani

• Dornan in '08

  I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but judging by this report from Drew Cline, editorial page editor of New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader, the race for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination could prove to be very, very entertaining. Cline writes on the Union Leader blog: I just got off the phone with former congressman and talk show Bob Dornan, who is considering. . . a run for President. "I can't stand the thought of my party having as its three front-runners three open adulterers, N

  November 16, 2006

• Pricey Morning in America

  Mitt Romney may like him some outdoor barbecue and bouncy houses, but it seems that Rudy Giuliani prefers breakfast as his OC fund-raising venue. However, those eggs and bacon will cost you -- got $2,300 or more? Want to blow it all on a photo op with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Frontrunner? Then get your butt over to the Anaheim Hilton at 777 Convention Way tomorrow morning by 8. And to think, Star Trek fans get mocked for dropping $50 on pics with Shatner.

  August 21, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Santa Ana Gag Ballers

  Math Skills Looted: Dr. Donny George, director of the Iraqi National Museum during the American invasion, spoke yesterday at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and caused “scattered gasps” by showing photographs of destroyed artifacts, writes Sean Emery at the Register. Emery notes that looters stole “15,000 artworks and artifacts” and a few paragraphs later calculated that “about half of what was taken” or “approximately 3,700” pieces were recovered. Let’s see: subtract the six,

  October 1, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Pipe Bomb Rocks Long Beach

  Bud Light No More, You Pick Again: My-Thuan Tran reports this morning that the “Starbucks generation” of Vietnamese Americans “couldn’t stand dingy” Little Saigon restaurants and is building “stylish and spotless . . . swank” restaurants in response. Bao Tran, 34, quit a job in insurance several years ago and opened two places I recommend to non-Vietnamese: Quan Hy and Quan Hop. Ton told the Times reporter, “We wanted a place that was clean and nice, not a place where they throw

  October 21, 2007

• The only endorsement that matters

  Are you a fan of Hillary but not sure she can win? A Romney follower who has questions about his Mormonism? Like Giuliani, but hate his abortion stance? Dig Obama, but worry about his pals who hate gays? It's tough to pick a presidential candidate who's just right, especially with all the pundits arguing back and forth over just who is electable and why. Chances are you're still undecided. But that need be the case no longer. Forget the TV talking heads. Forget conventional wisdom. All you ne

  November 6, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona Giuliani?

  What do Mike Carona and Rudy Giuliani have in common? Ties to former cocaine smuggler Florida billionaire Hank Asher, reports ABC News: Asher, aka H.A. in the indictment, allegedly gave Carona's wife (and former Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo's wife) a $15,000 diamond-studded gold Cartier watch. "Asher is not charged with any crime in the indictment. But his expensive gifts are clearly part of the corruption investigation," writes ABC's Richard Esposito. Giuliani and Asher have been partner

  December 5, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Rudy's Piggy Bank

  Piggy Bank time! Rudy Giuliani will be in San Juan Capistrano this afternoon for private fund raiser (which his people tell us will be closed to the press). The Washington Post reports that Giuliani's OC trips have been happy ones thus far. He's picked up $98,250 from Newport Coast, $273,388 from Newport Beach, $109,277 from Irvine, $62,450 from Laguna Beach, $41,350 from Orange and then some. Sick Fuck: Both the Times and Register have the worst story of the day: Woman in her 20s crawls out of

  December 11, 2007

• Rock the Poor(man) Vote

  So who's our favorite bikini babehound, the Poorman, voting for? “I'm not positive yet. Originally I wanted Giuliani, but as time went on I found him non-dynamic. McCain scares me, but I bet his wife was hot when she was younger. Now I think Obama—I like the idea of change.” Informed that, as a registered Republican, he couldn't vote for Obama today, the Poorman seemed surprised. “Really? Okay, then Ron Paul. He's refreshing, but he's also scary. Maybe you should say I'm gonna write i

  February 5, 2008

• When Your Candidate is Decimated, What's One to Do?

  Spin, of course! And that's exactly what Hugh Hewitt is doing. Despite his book boy Mitt Romney getting slammed tonight from the moderate wing by John McCain and by the right via the suddenly resurgent Mike Huckabee, Baby Hewie continues to insist there's hope for Mitt. All he can muster is that Rush Limbaugh and James "I Speak for Myself and Not Focus on the Family, Which is the Only Reason Why Anyone Pays Attention to Me" Dobson are against McCain, which he somehow translates as meaning Mitt

  February 5, 2008

• West Coast Wrap

  April 22, 1999

• Life in the Sewers

  November 2, 2000

• Moneyopoly

  Who are the OC players who contributed to the 2008 presidential candidates?

  January 24, 2008

• Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars

  Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes, hired uniformed security goons to stand outside Latino-heavy polling places in Santa Ana and demand identification from the mostly Democratic voters while carrying signs in English and Spanish that

  March 3, 2009

• A Bluer Shade of Orange

  The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday

  February 7, 2008

• Moolah Formullahs

  All aboard the '80s wayback machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

  December 20, 2007

• Iron Mike

  August 8, 2002

• Dr. Feelgood

  Sickos pill goes down easy, but its diagnosis of U.S. health care still devastates

  June 28, 2007

• Rehearsing the Apocalypse

  August 10, 2006

• Commie Girl

  September 7, 2006

• Sleepers Awake!

  Bigg Jus and Nikola Tesla and the Lunar Hip-Hop Robot Camera

  August 24, 2006

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• Call Me Irresponsible

  December 30, 2004

• Sex with Parrots and Other Jokes

  November 25, 2004

• Burning Bush: The Issue

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

  October 7, 2004

• Burning Bush

  August 26, 2004

• Can Chris Cox rescue the CIA?

  July 22, 2004

• The Modern Dance

  Koos in Trouble 2: Electric Boogaloo

  January 29, 2004

• Thats Our Bush!

  September 11, 2003

• None of the Above

  November 7, 2002

• Primary Madness

  March 14, 2002

• The Visible Invisible Man

  November 15, 2001

• Crime Times

  December 23, 1999

• Pretty Girls

  November 11, 1999

• Up in Smoke

  May 6, 1999

• Cypress College Recognized for Muzzling Free Speech

  Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Free Speech.Officials at the northern Orange County community college campus land at No. 6 "for calling police to arrest members of the pro-life group 'Survivor' claiming that they were creating a distu

  April 10, 2009

• 2009 Postseason Throwndown: Who Are Bigger Assholes, New Yorkers or Philadelphians?

  A-Rod or A-Hole?​Since it's now obvious there will be no freeway series (hey, Angels and Dodgers, here's an idea: bring your bats next time), the time has come to move beyond the brutal losses suffered by our soon-to-be-exiting home teams and concentrate on the really important stuff. ​Like, which city is filled with more assholes, Philadelphia or New York? Hey, it's an important consideration to remember while you avoid the pain that will come from watching the Phillies and Yan

  October 21, 2009