Subject: U.S. Armed Forces

• 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

• Good News from Iraq (Fake news edition)

  Somehow it's fitting that the only good news to come out of Iraq recently is the fake news. The New York Times reports on a satirical news show that debuted on the Iraqi sattelite station Al Sharqiya at the beginning of Ramadan. This being Iraq, the show's title is somewhat darker than "The Daily Show"-- it's called "Hurry Up, He's Dead". Nearly every night here for the past month, Iraqis weary of the tumult around them have been turning on the television to watch a wacky-looking man with a gi

  October 25, 2006

• War Games

  Meant to blog this yesterday, based on something we saw on ABC's Nightline, but it's also reported on by InfoWorld. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on May 4. Among the speakers was a specialist whose company we taxpayers are paying more than $7 million a year. Their job: to scour the Internet for instances where al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are recruiting new members online. So this specialist tells the committee that his group had recently discovered t

  June 23, 2006

• LAFF 2007: Chasing Ghosts and Iranians

  I think I may finally be getting the hang of this festival schedule. Four shows today, and I never felt close to collapsing from tiredness. Perhaps it was the concession food that kept me going. Speaking of which, doesn’t it seem totally wrong that a hot dog is cheaper than a small popcorn? I’m no economic whiz, but meat product, bread, and multiple condiments seems a better option than corn-flavored air dipped in grease. But maybe that’s just because the latter often comes free at press s

  June 25, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: My New Slogan For The Deputies!

  Back the Badge, Support the Star, Empty your Wallet: Peggy Lowe at the Register watched “dozens of black-shirted deputies march through Civic Center Tuesday as the union went on a public offensive to rally support for their fight to preserve” an incredibly generous pay, perk and pension package. The message on the T-shirts worn by the deputies said, “Back the Badge, Support the Star.” Supervisor John Moorlach has put the boys in green into a tizzy because he thinks a 2001 pay deal the c

  October 3, 2007

• Letters

  June 17, 1999

• After Saddam

  November 28, 2002

• It's a Quick Read 3

  Orange County Register: A tip-of-the-knit cap back at the Reggie, for acknowledging Weekly news breaker R. Scott Moxley's 2001 cover story on a nurse's allegations that famed Dr. Steven Kooshian dispensed watered-down AIDS meds. At the time, Kooshian, other media and Orange County's gay community tried to discredit Moxley's investigastion. When will they ever learn? As the Reg reports today, Kooshian pleaded guilty to multiple counts of health-care fraud and lying to investigators. Los Alam

  February 27, 2009

• Talking to a Beauty Queen (No, Not That One) About Gay Marriage

  June 4, 2009

• American Heroes and Zeroes

  Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine at sundance '08

  January 31, 2008

• Haute Couture

  Fighting Meets Uber Fashion at the First NAMMAE Convention

  December 6, 2007

• Space Case

  February 7, 2002

• A Raw Nerve

  Elaborately choreographed pantomime reveals a nation torn asunder

  July 26, 2007

• New Reviews

  We recommend: Brand Upon the Brain!, DOA: Dead or Alive, The Golden Door, Nancy Drew

  June 14, 2007

• Money for Nothing

  October 5, 2006

• Cocaine Airways

  September 14, 2006

• Transitive Verbs and Gay Marriage

  August 24, 2006

• To Hell and Back

  June 22, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 8, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  March 23, 2006

• Why Film Critics Fight

  January 26, 2006

• Fema Food

  October 6, 2005

• June 30-July 7

  June 30, 2005

• Memorial Day 2005

  May 26, 2005

• Attack of the Puppet People

  November 11, 2004

• Burning Bush

  May 20, 2004

• An Informed Citizenry

  June 19, 2003

• Not Embalmed Yet

  May 1, 2003

• Everybodys All-American Mexican

  April 17, 2003

• Hail the Preemptive Heroes

  April 10, 2003

• After Saddam

  April 3, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• War, Peace and Hank

  Onscreen dissent is on campus

  March 6, 2003

• Deadly Plants

  February 27, 2003

• Kiss My Axis!

  January 30, 2003

• A Geezer for Weezer!

  October 3, 2002

• Dog of War

  June 20, 2002

• War! Huh?

  May 30, 2002

• Seizures in the Middle East

  April 11, 2002

• More Bang, Less Muck

  January 31, 2002

• The Bob Dornan Hall of Fame

  November 1, 2001

• Burning Sensation

  September 28, 2000

• Spooks

  September 14, 2000

• Got Gas?

  May 6, 1999

• Good God, Y'all!

  December 31, 1998

• To Do Tonight - 5/12

  Queen Mary Salutes U.S. Military Personnel, all month!Long Beach's favorite tourist trap/financial drain, the Queen Mary, is offering a special $5.00 General Admission to all U.S. Military personnel, both active and retired, for the entire month of May. But wait, there's more! Anyone, military or not, accompanying a military person (with ID to prove it) will receive a $5.00 discount off the regular General Admission price! It's like Christmas in May!Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Hwy., Long Beach, CA;

  May 12, 2009

• Conference Aims to Help Returning War Vets With Mental Issues

  The National Alliance on Mental Illness/Orange County's second Veterans Front Line Conference--which sheds light on the "gathering storm" of thousands of U.S. military service personnel returning to the States with depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)--runs from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Kaiser Permanente hospital on Sand Canyon just north of the 405 freeway in Irvine.Suicide rates are rising among returning troops, and military leaders are warning civilian psychiatric care

  April 22, 2009

• Top 5 Hate Crime Reports in June--and a [Non-]Bogus Bonus [THE RE-WRITE]

  Kevin O'Grady, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's Orange County/Long Beach office, was kind enough to email over five hate-crime reports his office received this past June, in reverse chronological order. While that format may be helpful to give readers a sense of how bigotry, anti-Semitism, white supremacy, neo-Nazism and Holocaust denial progressed as the month wore on, it still begs the question: Where's the fun in that? Here, then, are those same five hate

  July 2, 2009

• War is Hell, But It Needn't Be Smelly

  ​Have you ever wanted to smell like a Marine?

  September 16, 2009

• New York Times Accused of "Journalistic Sleight-of-Hand" in Citing Local Fallen Navy Hero

  U.S. NavyThe late Petty Officer Second Class (SEAL) Michael Mansoor of Long Beach.​Conservatives accuse a New York Times reporter of employing "a journalistic sleight-of-hand" when it came to including a dead Catholic Navy hero who grew up in Garden Grove in a piece about complications facing Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces in light of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan's alleged shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, last week.

  November 11, 2009