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Do Mexicans Cause the Closures of Hospitals?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And how many cases of leprosy come from Mexico per year?

Bordering On Revolution

[Crossing the Line] A hostile Supreme Court. A feckless Obama administration. America's war on Mexicans has gone too far

'Anonymous' Hack Emails of American Third Position Party, Show Proof of Meetings and Calls Between Neo-Nazi Group and Ron Paul

​The Orange County-based white supremacist American Third Position Party finds itself in the headlines again as Anonymous defaced its website yesterday, with the flag of the Soviet Union serving as backdrop with superimposed images of the seal of the amorphous hackers and a rainbow-maned pony! The ... More >>

Lou Sheldon Holds Anti-Gay News Conference and Only 3 Gay Rights Activists Show Up

​What if a vehement, Bible-thumping, anti-gay crusader--so vehemently anti-gay that many question his own sexual orientation--held a press conference to denounce what he considers the LGBT intrusion into public education and only three people showed up?And what if the trio hailed not from TV, radi ... More >>

When is the Orange County Register Going to Start Labeling the California Coalition for Immigration Reform as a Hate Group?

​Every time the Orange County Register does a story about the Reconquista and refers to local Know Nothings as "anti-illegal immigration activists", I laugh. Loudly. Nelson Muntz style. As we've documented in this paper since forever, it's never been about the legal part in our immigration wars--w ... More >>

[UPDATE: OC Democrats Blast Pauly] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function

​UPDATE, MARCH 25, 4:40 P.M.: The Democratic Party of Orange County has weighed in on Villa Park City Councilwoman's Deborah Pauly's harsh remarks at an anti-Muslim rally in Yorba Linda last month. (Welcome to the party, folks!)As you might expect from a party philosophically opposite of a teabagg ... More >>

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Bookworms

White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy

FAIR-y Tales In the Immigration Debate

Anti-immigrant think tanks are aiming their dubious statistics at the 14th Amendment

Bill Hunt, Running for OC Sheriff While Tied to Militia Kooks, Alarms Civil Rights Group

Photo by Christopher VictorioCan a Sheriff Bill Hunt enforce the U.S. Constitution better than anyone else in Orange County?​Orange County ain't big enough for sheriff candidate Bill Hunt and an internationally known nonprofit civil rights group.Hunt, who is running against appointed Sheriff Sandr ... More >>

Cal State Long Beach Trangender Student Gives More Detailed Account of "IT" Assault

CSULB Police Dept.Official sketch of the attacker.​Cal State Long Beach's Daily 49er published an article Friday with the most detailed account to date of the fallout from the April 15 attack on Colle Carpeter. You might remember Carpenter as the student who was assaulted in a campus restroom by s ... More >>

Jew-Bashing, Gay-Trashing La Voz de Aztlan Harasses Long Beach State Chicanas

May this image sear the homophobic minds of La Voz de Pendejos anew...​Ever since KPFK-FM 90.7 (where I host a radio show every Thursday at 3 p.m.) booted off an anti-Semitic radio show that had close ties to the notorious La Voz de Aztlán, Southern California's premier spewers of bile have had a ... More >>

The 10 Greatest Journalism Stories EVER

​Reporter Conor Friedersdorf got quite a bit of media play last month for his roundup of the best journalism stories he heard, watched or read in 2009. Really interesting list, but what none of write-ups mentioned is that Friedersdorf is an OC native, raised in Newport Beach (if I remember correct ... More >>

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Long Beach State Professor Kevin MacDonald Helps Mainstream a New White Supremacist Political Party

Notorious Jew-Bashing Long Beach State Professor Joins Notorious Racist Lawyer to Create White-Power Political Party

MacDonald: Wonder how he'll treat non-white students now...​First in a three-part series this week about the grand circle jerk that is the Orange County white-power movement...Over the years, Long Beach State psychology professor Kevin MacDonald has danced a delicate tango regarding his profession ... More >>

OC's Leading Holocaust Denier Says Forget the Denying: Let's Just Concentrate on Jew-Bashing

Weber: Now with more heeb-hating!​The Southern Poverty Law Center has a great recap in the latest issue of their award-winning magazine, Intelligence Report, regarding a story we've known about for months: that the head of the Newport Beach-based Institute for Historical Review, the most influenti ... More >>

[BEST OF OC] El Activista (the Activist): Brian Levin

The OC Register Needs to Stop Respecting CCIR

​The Orange County Register did another immigration story over the weekend, this one interviewing Know Nothings and saints on opposite sides of the issue. I understand that reporter Cindy Carmaco has to adhere to trying to antagonize the Know Nothings as little as possible lest she receive dozens ... More >>

Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the Inland Empire Nazi Party!

  Orange County has its fair share of haters, racists and hater/racist skinheads thanks to the Hitler lovers of Anaheim, the Mexican bashers of Costa Mesa, the assorted white supremacists of Black Star Canyon, the Republican Central Committee of Orange County and haters and ... More >>

Another Know Nothing Turns Against Barbara Coe

Notice the Iron Cross on Coe's T-shirt...The Beer Hall Putsch of America's modern-day Know Nothing movement keeps turning more hilarious by the day. Earlier this week, we reported on how California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe tried to put  murders at the hands of Minuteman ... More >>

Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a UCI Muslim Student Union Fave, an Anti-Semitic, Homophobic Coward

Ali, with a UCI goon trying to intimidate Levin by snapping a shot of himEvery year for the past couple of years, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union has invited a hilarious hater named Abdel Malik Ali, one so noxious that the Southern Poverty Law Center profiled the pendejo. I'm not sure why the MSU k ... More >>

San Diego Minuteman Head Urges Violence Against O.C. Activist

Naui Huitzilopochtli has been a long-time fixture in Orange County progressive activism, first as a mere protester but increasingly as perhaps Orange County's most prolific political YouTuber. His incessant hectoring of Know Nothings has made Naui Dirty Mexican #1 amongst local anti-illegals activis ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Wetbacks on the Brain

Gay-Bashing, Jew-Trashing La Voz de Aztlan Rushes to Defend Anti-Semitic KPFK Show

Mere moments after the Jewish Journal published an éxposé of the anti-Semitic KPFK-FM 90.7 show "La Causa," the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate website La Voz de Aztlán rushed to the defense of the only publicly broadcast radio show in the United States that has ever considered it any ... More >>

The Godfather of Mexican-Haters to Visit CCIR Tomorrow!

What an exciting couple of days it's been for members of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform! They held a rally this past Saturday at their little slice of Nuremburg, the Garden Grove Women's Club, in which a Who's Who of Know Nothings was scheduled to rally geriatrics against amnesty fo ... More >>

Local Armenian Genocide Deniers Trying to Influence Congressional Race

*Moved up, because the conversation is fun. Non-Armenians and non-Turks encouraged to comment! The Los Angeles Times had a fascinating story yesterday about how Turkish businessmen held a fundraiser last month in Orange County for the opponent of Glendale-area Congressman Adam Schiff. They don't li ... More >>

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Southern Poverty Law Center Proclaims UC Irvine Guest Speakers Anti-Semitic

For years, conservative students at the University of California, Irvine, have labored mightily to get the country to consider their campus a haven for Jew-bashing. Most of their criticism has been lobbied at the Muslim Student Union, which has done everything from host seminars called "Holocaust in ... More >>

Hugh Hewitt Gets Tracked by Southern Poverty Law Center

It's one thing for Orange County blabbermouth Hugh "Baby Hewie/Hughcifer" Hewitt to get monitored by myself and Clockwork Coker, but it's quite the feat that Baby Hewie made it into the pages of the Southern Poverty Law Center's fall issue of its award-winning Intelligence Report. In its round-up of ... More >>

Barbara Coe, Sonny Bono, And the Illuminati

It must be nigh-impossible for the nicotine-stained brain of California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe to keep up with all the conspiracies (Reconquista, evil Muslims, the Cult of the Two Blue Shoes) she subscribes to. Nevertheless, we always dismissed her efforts and rambles ... More >>

Idiots Already Misconstruing Ask a Mexican on YouTube!

La Raza: Know Your Know Nothings

We appreciate WeCanStoptheHate.org, a website run by perennial conservative cucuy the National Council of La Raza that documents the going-ons of various anti-immigrant pendejos. We don't agree with their efforts to boot said pendejos off the airwaves, and do they really want to eliminate one of the ... More >>

Exodus International Even Worse than Reported

Our friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center just released their latest issue of the muckraking Intelligence Report, which features a doozy of a feature on the Orange County-created Exodus International Ministry, the folks who say they can take the homo out of any homo sapiens. The story follows u ... More >>

The Truth About Glenn Spencer

*Updated, with grammatical erros bolded The last time I saw Glenn Spencer (founder of the frothingly anti-immigrant American Patrol), the portly man was sporting a huge smile as a race riot erupted around him. The occasion was a Dec. 8, 2001 rally in front of Anaheim City Hall, where Spencer and ... More >>

Who is David Duke's Favorite Orange Countian?

*Updated below . . . Why, none other than our favorite non-racist white supremacist, of course! Martin Millard has made a name for himself in extremist circles thanks to rants against the "Tan Everyman," drawn local ire due to his influence over Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor, and even garnered at ... More >>

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Man-Sore Losers

It's bad enough that Costa Mesa and its divisive Mayor Alan Mansoor are getting beat up by their own hometown Daily Pilot columnists (here and here, not to mention that paper's own readers here and, oh, by one of its more distinguished residents here). But now they are getting national unwanted expo ... More >>

Neo-Nazis for Gilchrist

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report has a piece on Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the border-sealing Minutemen Project, tolerating neo-Nazis campaigning for him when he ran unsuccessfully for an Orange County congressional seat last year. We think someone misunderstood when it was s ... More >>

Spreading Democracy... or something

Regardless of whether or not the Bush administration will succeed in its plan to introduce democracy into Iraq through an armed invasion and years of chaotic violence, it now appears that the administration has succeeded in bringing to Iraq something the country has had very little of since the Brit ... More >>

Commie Girl

They Keep Coming . . . And coming, and coming

Live Free Now

Ask me how: Talking taxes and trilaterals in Irvine

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Mayhem in Santa Ana

Alleged anti-Christian hate crime may have Norwegian roots

Now Fear This

Letters to the Editor 1/22/99

Let's Get Mikey

Local H.

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