Subject: The Taliban

• The Anti-Immigrant All-Stars--Live!

  If you're not doing anything today, drive down to San Diego, where Fullerton Republican Congressman Ed Royce will chair hearings on the illegal-alien menace. Scheduled to appear, according to the Orange County Register, will be our Anti-Immigrant All-Stars, the folks (of all ethnicities, as they love to point out--hey, just proves hate knows no color lines) who year after year after year rile up the country about Mexicans and the occasional Guatemalan. If you can't drive down, catch it live on C

  July 5, 2006

• 3 out of 4

  Over at Rising Hegemon, Attaturk notices a slight variation in the covers on this week's Newsweek. See if you can spot the difference. Yep. That's right. The editors of the international editions of Newsweek simply don't understand the tremendous importance of Annie Leibovitz reminiscing about her life and work. Those editors prefer instead to focus the reader's attention on the resurgence of the Taliban and the current carnage outside Kabul with some downbeat story, "Losing Afghanistan". F

  September 25, 2006

• Welcome Back Taliban!

  You'd better sit down. Today Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist suggested that the best way to deal with the increasing Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan ... is to reintegrate the group into the Afghani government. From the AP via the International Herald-Tribune: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government. The Tennessee Republican said he

  October 2, 2006

• Rohrabacher Cuts and Runs

  Congressman Dana Rohrabacher had his ass handed to him yesterday in not one but two debates with opponent Jim Brandt. At least, I think he did. It's kinda hard to find out. Why is that? It's because the only mention of Rohrabacher in the past day's press is as Tan Nguyen's former opponent. Damn it. I told you Tan was nothing but a dangerous distraction. Oh well; you Nguyen some, you lose some. It doesn't matter what Brandt wins, whether it's arguments, debates, or friggin' triathlons--his race

  October 24, 2006

• Big Brother is Watching OC Weekly

  In case you were wondering, air travel still sucks. Flights are more crowded and dirtier than ever (I could swear that stain on my courtesy pillow was blood), and even though transatlantic flights now have video on demand, the equipment for it takes up precious milimeters of legroom, already a scarce resource, one that even the joy of watching “300” over and over again can't quite distract a passenger from. Still, I got to see the ending of Shrek 3 without paying for it. It wasn't terrible.

  September 4, 2007

• Letters

  November 1, 2001

• New War, Old Protest

  December 20, 2001

• OC's Taliban-Loving Congressman to Address OC's Taliban This Wednesday

  Ya wanna know why the California Coalition for Immigration Reform are evil, decrepit hypocrites? Because they're hosting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban) this Wednesday at their monthly Klavern at the Garden Grove Woman's Club on the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove Blvd (starts at 7:30 pm; admission $5 for non-CCIR members). From the keyboard of CCIR head Barbara Coe: The courageous patriot Representative who always stands strong for the rights of loyal, law-abiding Americans of ever

  October 20, 2008

• Letters

  October 31, 2002

• Prach Ly

  June 5, 2003

• Daddy Rohrabacher Says He Knows Best In Afghanistan, Again

  Dana Rohrabacher, our Twitter-loving, immigrant-bashing, surfer-dude congressman published an op-ed yesterday in the Washington Times. It's about, of course, his favorite subject: Afghanistan -- specifically, the extent to which he knows more about Afghanistan than anyone else. To be sure, Rohrabacher is an expert on the topic. He's got a track record in the country, and he's quick to bring it up:In the 1990s, House International Relations Committee Chairman Ben Gilman, and I along with other ve

  March 4, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 14: Weekend and Monday B.S.

  Orange County Register: Octo-Mom took spawn from her oldest litters to Knott's Berry Farm on Saturday and Disneyland the day before, and all she got were crummy t-shirts reading: "More kids have passed through my log fume than Knott's" and "Your Kaiser co-pays helped pay for the 8-pack I just dropped, so what am I doing now? I'm going to Disneyland!" TMZ's got pics of the getaway, which allowed volunteer contractors to finish getting her La Habra home

  March 16, 2009

• OCBJ is Up on Henry Nicholas, Down on Angels, Cary Bren

  Orange County Business Journal has some enlightening items in this week's issue, although you have to hunt for most of them. That, of course, is not the case with "OC Insider," the weekly column by executive editor Rick Reiff, a seasoned pro who knows to start off with his most newsworthy stuff: The ankle monitor is off, he's finalizing his divorce and his first trial isn't scheduled until February. You don't expect hyperactive Henry Nicholas to sit still, do you?I'd link you to the rest if I

  March 31, 2009

• Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened

  December 11, 2008

• Surf City Mayor Debbie Cook Takes on Dana Rohrabacher, OC's Weirdest Republican Congressman

  September 18, 2008

• The Vagina/Marijuana -Logues at the Hunger Artists Theatre

  February 28, 2008

• Rogue Statesman

  September 12, 2002

• New Reviews

  We recommend: Bug, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

  May 24, 2007

• That Other Quagmire

  May 17, 2007

• Letters

  October 17, 2002

• !Ask a Mexican!

  Three-question edition

  March 29, 2007

• New Reviews

  Black Christmas; Kabul Express; Night at the Museum; We Are Marshall

  December 21, 2006

• A Graphic Adaptation

  October 26, 2006

• 'I've Never Been to America. America Came to Me'

  September 21, 2006

• I Was a Liberal

  November 10, 2005

• Kochee Kabob House

  August 25, 2005

• The Real Afghani

  June 16, 2005

• Mr. Taliban

  December 25, 2003

• Danas Follies

  February 27, 2003

• Letters

  October 3, 2002

• Letters

  September 26, 2002

• I Hear America Sinking

  September 19, 2002

• Learn or Burn

  September 12, 2002

• No Escape

  July 11, 2002

• The Partially Informed Alarmist

  July 4, 2002

• Rock Your Way to Homeland Security!

  June 27, 2002

• More Fuelish War Talk

  March 28, 2002

• World Wars III, IV and V

  March 14, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 14, 2002

• The Mormon In All of Us

  January 24, 2002

• Ollie North: Not All Muslims Evil

  November 22, 2001

• Sucker Punched

  November 22, 2001

• Letters

  October 11, 2001

• Dr. Frankenbacher

  October 4, 2001

• This Space Reserved for Disabled Thugs

  August 3, 2000

• April-June

  January 7, 1999

• Pat Boone Talibanizes ACLU Over LAPD Special Order 40

  Pat Boone. American.The ACLU says the California Court of Appeals decision today to uphold the Los Angeles Police Department's use of Special Order 40--a decades old policy prohibiting officers from using immigration status to initiate investigations--"strikes a balance between immigrants' rights to equal protection and officers' duty to protect communities."That makes former bubble-gum singer-turned-evangelical Christian commentator and former owner of Orange County's KDOC-TV Channel 56 Pat Boo

  June 17, 2009

• Thursday A.M. Shocker!!! Not All Register Readers Are Nutbars!!!

  You would, of course, expect an Orange County Register story on local Muslim reaction to President Obama's Cairo speech to elicit online comments like these . . . NewportBob: President Obama is way over his head getting involved in this big picture "let's get along folks now" presentation. Super IQ: Obama should be living in Disney's Fantasyland not the White House. He's making a complete ass out of himself kissing those Muslim tushes right now. Wait till the Muslim terorists strike on his watc

  June 4, 2009

• The Incredible Bravery of Hugh Hewitt

  How brave is our boy Hugh Hewitt, the talk radio blatherer/lawyer/pundit/Nixon fetishist/blogger/moralizer/George W. Bush worshiper/professional Vermont boycotter? Brave enough to take the GWOT (Global War on Terrorism-- though the Bush administration may have changed the brand name by now) to the terrorists? Hell, yeah! Has he parachuted into Iraq, to administer some Rambo-style justice to the evil doers? Nope. Is he charging up a mountain in Afghanistan, to mow down the Taliban? Wrong again. I

  March 29, 2006

• Malalai Joya to Speak at UC Irvine This Thursday

  God, what a nightmare Afghanistan is--gracias for nothing, Dubya! And Obama doesn't get any free pass, either--if he had any sense, he'd do whatever possible to promote people like Malalai Joya instead of corrupt cabrones like the Karzai brothers. Joya, a former legislator in the Afghan parliament booted because she toes no line, Taliban or Karzai, will speak at UC Irvine mañana, 7 p.m., at the Crystal Cove Auditorium. Progressive calendar for this Thursday: protest Maricopa County Sheriff Joe

  November 4, 2009