Subject: The Army National Guard

• Protecting California from Grannies

  State Senator Joe Dunn's (D-Garden Grove) investigation into the California National Guard's spying on political activists was featured on the KGO evening news yesterday. Whether the story on San Francisco's ABC affiliate will help raise the profile of the investigation remains to be seen, but this does answer the question of how long it takes news from Orange County to reach the world of San Francisco television– seven months– because Nick Schou wrote about this investigation in the

  March 1, 2006

• Bordering on Nonsense

  For those of you sensible enough to avoid watching President Bush's twenty minute attempt to distract the public from his other problems and shore up his sinking poll numbers address on immigration last night, the relentlessly evenhanded Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly (by way of Irvine) has neatly summed things up: Beef up the borders with troops and high tech wizardry but insist that it's not "militarization"; start up a guest worker program that's not called a guest worker program; intro

  May 16, 2006

• Chuck DeVore on Hemp

  Last week there was a rumor goin' round that Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard and a Republican, was co-author of a bill to legalize industrial hemp. Not only that, but he was doing so with none other than Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), the openly gay Democrat who authored a bill to legalize gay marriages. Polar opposites. The matter and anti-matter of the California Assembly. So what gives? What exactly are they trying to do and why? Here'

  July 3, 2006

• Think for Yourselves, Young Folks, so Long as You Think Like Me

  You know what's funny? We ask our young adults to throw themselves into the youth versions of established adult institutions—your governmental bodies, your newspapers, etc.—but when the kids dare express dissent or themselves in a way that rubs the ruling class the wrong way, the adult overlords crack down on the kids. Case in point: the Orange Coast College student government. For whatever reason, the student body officers decided they would no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance be

  December 4, 2006

• Orange County's Original Minutemen

  I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up more material even when I don't mean to. Didja know, for instance, that SanTana had its own Minuteman Project decades before Jim Gilchrist ever attended a CCIR meeting? The truth is found in The Story

  October 14, 2008

• This Inauguration Doesnt Auger Well

  January 20, 2005

• Stop the War

  September 1, 2005

• The Tragedy of It All

  September 15, 2005

• Janet Napolitano's Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

  WEB EXCLUSIVE!

  November 27, 2008

• Santa Ana, Police Feted for Getting Their War On

  Parked on Civic Center?If you're scooting past Santa Ana police headquarters Thursday afternoon and notice a large contingency of uniformed members of the Armed Services, worry not. That portion of Downtown Santa Ana has not been declared a war zone. Yet.Nor is it a green zone signifying safety from threats real or imagined. Nope, it's just part of the Department of Defense's honoring of the City of Santa Ana and its police department Thursday for helping to make it easier to wage war or protect

  April 14, 2009

• [Scariest People 2008] Haunted Alamo

  October 30, 2008

• That 70s Week

  August 26, 1999

• Not Too Late for a War Crimes Tribunal

  February 7, 2002

• Our Man in San Salvador

  August 29, 2002

• Pregnant Pause

  May 9, 2002

• 'Jesus, Remeber Me?'

  April 11, 2002

• O Say Can You . . . What?

  Home of the Brave is not what Francis Scott Key had in mind

  January 4, 2007

• New Reviews

  Come Early Morning; The Ground Truth; Harsh Times; Night of the Living Dead 3D; The Return; Vivah
  

  November 9, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  June 1, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 18, 2006

• Commie Girl

  May 11, 2006

• Don't Gloat Yet

  December 29, 2005

• OC's 31 Scariest People

  Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  October 27, 2005

• The Historical Record

  September 22, 2005

• Thank God for That Tax Cut!

  September 8, 2005

• Who Dunn It?

  July 21, 2005

• Call Me Irresponsible

  December 30, 2004

• Party Like Its 1992!

  November 4, 2004

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• A Walk on the Not So Wild Side

  September 30, 2004

• Bring Us Your Torturers Yearning to Breathe Free

  March 25, 2004

• Empire Falls

  March 18, 2004

• Green No More

  February 19, 2004

• Backing Up The Troops

  November 20, 2003

• Good News!

  November 20, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• The Party's Over

  November 21, 2002

• The Martian Plan

  August 1, 2002

• Seizures in the Middle East

  April 11, 2002

• Honored Heroes, Forgotten Dead

  February 21, 2002

• Hurry!

  December 6, 2001

• Radiation Vibe

  October 18, 2001

• Flee

  August 2, 2001

• A Charge Card to Keep

  January 25, 2001

• Burning Bush

  July 22, 1999

• Lightning Rod

  February 4, 1999

• Chuck DeVore's Quixotic Attempt to Twitter and Parody-Video His Way Into the U.S. Senate

  May 21, 2009

• Get Your War On Today at Los Alamitos or This Weekend at Seal Beach

  Maj. Gen. John S. Harrel​If you can make it there in less than half as hour, you can still catch the 11 a.m. Commanding General Change of Command ceremony at the Joint Forces Training Base, 11200 Lexington Ave., Los Alamitos.Major General John S. Harrel, commanding general of the California Army National Guard's 40th Infantry Division since August 2007, is transferring command to Brigadier General Scott W. Johnson during what is billed as a "rare and impressive event." Troops, family, veterans

  July 31, 2009

• Santa Ana Police to be Honored by a Biden

  TheWhiteHouse.govDr. Jill Biden is scheduled to honor the Santa Ana Police Department and 14 other employers.​Santa Ana Police Department honorees will be praised in Washington, D.C., by a Biden.But it won't be Joe Biden.It'll be the vice president's wife, Dr. Jill Biden, who will do the honors, the Department of Defense has announced.Mrs. Biden will be the keynote speaker at the annual Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award Ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building and International

  August 12, 2009

• The Highlight of Gubernatorial Debate in Irvine: TV Screens

  ​Okay Repubs, here's what you need to know about the differences between your two non-Meg-Whitman candidates for governor:Tom Campbell, if elected, would cut spending and then cut taxes.Steve Poizner, if elected, would cut taxes and then cut spending.See the difference?

  October 29, 2009