Subject: Tom DeLay

• OC: We're Number ... nevermind

  According to Money Magazine, Orange County is one of the best places in the country to live, if you happen to be, say, sheetrock or a nice kitchen countertop. Because if you are, then you could be part of some of the most expensive homes in the country. But if you're not building material, then Money can't really recommend that you settle down in OC. Money's just published its annual list of the Best Places to Live, and no corner of OC made the top 25. Or the top 50. Or, well... anywhere on the

  July 17, 2006

• It Pays To Be a Rohrabacher

  There's nothing illegal about paying your spouse to work on your congressional campaign. Richard Pombo did it. So did Tom DeLay. Even local boy Dana Rohrabacher does it. The Sunlight Foundation is busily compiling information on all sorts of representatives, but for the moment they're focusing on members of Congress and their families. Using something called a distributive research and reporting model, it took them less than two days to compile a list of every single member of the House of Repre

  October 8, 2006

• You Better Not Pout

  Local blogger El Serracho (or The Serrach) finds himself in the Netherlands at the moment, where he reports that it's Christmas season. El is a Global Internet Manager of Production (or GIMP), a job that has sent him to the Netherlands at least 15 times. Those wacky Dutch are so high they give out gifts at the Feast of Saint Nicholas on December 6, see. Right now it's high Yuletide over there--Christmas Day is more of a quiet family holiday sans gift-giving. Our man in Amsterdam (or near it any

  November 14, 2006

• FOO Fighter

  We're re-posting this Oct. 10, 2005, post because: a) A reader wondered why the Weekly had never connected slime-ball GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff to our smurfin' Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). As the post shows, Clockwork had (and Moxley will mention it in Thursday's edition). 2) For reasons only the gremlins of cyberspace know, the item, "FOO Fighter," never got transferred over from our old database to our--cough, cough, cough--new improved database. thirdly) You'll need w

  January 10, 2006

• Aw, FOO-ey!

  Hats off to the LA "By God" Times' politico reporter Jean Pasco. Finally, a daily newspaper that circulates in Orange County has drawn a connection between criminally tainted GOP superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and wack-packin' Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). Way to go, Jean-o! Of course, in typical Times/Pasco fashion, honed from her years doing the same at the Orange County Register, the piece was totally Rohrabacher-sided (she couldn't find one critic?), the most-troubling Ab

  January 10, 2006

• Activists Emerge From Their Foxholes

  An Aaron Haley just emailed us the following: Hello, I am hoping someone from the OC Weekly would cover our local 9/11 truth event in Huntington Beach. It will be an outdoor screening of 9/11 films including discussion. This is a very local event, the first of it's kind in Huntington Beach. It will be the first of many to come, where OC residents can gather and discuss the many anamolies of the 9/11. I believe it would make a very interesting story in the next OC Weekly edition as there are seve

  June 19, 2006

• More Mud Flung at Local Reps

  Five days after we pointed you to a Washington Post story on two ethically challenged local congressman, both got a curtain call for being among the 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress. For their eyebrow-raising, borderline illegal land dealings, Reps. Ken Calvert (R-Riverside, but his district includes parts of South Orange County) and Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar, whose district also takes in a chunk of North County) are ranked alongside such scoundrels as Katherine Harris (R-Florida), Rick Sant

  September 22, 2006

• Its a Wonderful Life

  August 18, 2005

• Stop the War

  September 1, 2005

• Special Screenings

  June 22, 2006

• A-Rod Manages Steroid Crisis With Aid of Newport Beach PR Firm

  Outside Eyes, a Newport Beach-based crisis PR firm, is among the agencies that have been brought in to help Alex Rodriguez deal with the firestorm of controversy that has been generated by the New York Yankees slugger's admission to using performance-enhancing steroids. The firm knows crisis PR. Founder and CEO Reed Dickens was an assistant press secretary in the George W. Bush White House. Dickens' partner and senior strategist, Ben Porritt, was the press secretary for embat

  February 20, 2009

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

  December 11, 2008

• Commie Girl

  October 12, 2006

• Money for Nothing

  October 5, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 5, 2006

• Commie Girl

  August 24, 2006

• Brave New Filmmaker

  June 8, 2006

• Special Screenings

  June 1, 2006

• Commie Girl

  April 13, 2006

• Immigration? We've Got Bigger Problems

  April 13, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 6, 2006

• Art Finds a Fiend

  January 12, 2006

• Lou Sheldon's Movin' On Up

  January 12, 2006

• Commie Girl

  December 15, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 20, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 13, 2005

• Our Vagetarian in Washington

  October 6, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  October 6, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 18, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 18, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• Supreme Food Court

  July 7, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 12, 2005

• Youre Welcome

  May 5, 2005

• DeLay Lady Lay

  April 21, 2005

• Days of Whines and Runny Noses

  April 14, 2005

• Youre Going to Die

  March 31, 2005

• Letters

  November 11, 2004

• Earth Daddy

  April 22, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 19, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 22, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• Fool's Gold

  January 16, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 5, 2002

• Point and Laugh!

  November 21, 2002

• The Mormon In All of Us

  January 24, 2002

• Cox Proposes $6,000 IRS Loophole!

  February 1, 2001

• What Are Birthers Doing Hanging With Top Repubs In Newport?

  ​Matt Coker already did a nice job previewing the Western Conservative Political Action Conference taking place today and tomorrow at the Radisson in Newport Beach. But the Washington Independent's David Weigel -- who loves Orly Taitz as much as we do -- points out that  this conference isn't just for the best and brightest stars of mainstream GOP like Chuck DeVore, Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner, Tim Pawlenty and Andrew Breitbart.There'll also be birthers!

  October 16, 2009