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  • Blogs

    March 18, 2006

    A Third Anniversary Gift for Iraq

    Who knew that our political and military leaders were such a bunch of ol' sentimental softies? As a gift for the Iraqi people to mark the third invasion of their country, our leaders got them a miniature version of the invasion, Operation Swarmer. The mini-invasion has all feature that made that ful ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2006

    Staying the Course

    At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 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. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2007

    The Great Photo

    The Guinness Book of World records has announced a gigantic photo taken from an airport hangar turned camera obscura at Irvine's Great Park, the former Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro, is the largest in the world! According to a release from the Great Park's marketing people, “The Great Pict ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    Wake Up and Suck the Orange 1.29.08

    I hope you're sitting down. For one thing, checking a blog while standing up is just ... weird. BYE-BYE RENT CONTROL? LA Times - A June 3rd ballot proposal could end the practice of rent control in California. Lawyers and landlords are both circling. If you prick a landlord, does it not bleed? PE ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2008

    Colonel of Wisdom

    This toll road debate is starting to feel like Clue—who's going to kill the project? Was it Colonel Magness, in the media, with cold, hard facts? Col. Thomas Magness wrote a little letter the Transportation Corridor Agencies didn't like. The letter disclosed that the TCA's preferred, certified a ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 15, 1999

    The Few, the Proud, the Spies

    Spying on civilians was part of El Toros mission

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    The Death Ray

    Welcome to South Orange County, home of uranium 238, illegal immigrants, rare trout, and the most powerful military laser in the world

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    He Who Forgets History is a Damned Fool

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 136

  • Columns

    October 26, 2000

    Letters

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 136

  • News

    November 28, 2002

    After Saddam

    Well win the war, but how about the peace?

  • Features

    July 10, 2003

    Burying the Dead

    Famous war correspondent Gordon Dillow struggles with his truth

  • News

    November 6, 2008
  • Features

    November 22, 2007

    Just a Random Female

    Robbin Brandley’s confessed killer sits on death row. So why don’t her parents consider the case closed?

  • Film

    May 17, 2001

    History Vs. Memory

    Little Saigons beginnings

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    Our Man in San Salvador

    Notorious generals U.S. ties ran through an ex-OC cop

  • Features

    June 7, 2007

    Trestles Tussle

    The TCA’s expansion plans spark renewed activism

  • Columns

    October 7, 1999

    Sleeping Disorder in the Court

    The TCA’s expansion plans spark renewed activism

  • News

    January 15, 2004

    Operation Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of history

    Death squads didnt work in Vietnam, but the CIA is betting theyll be great in Iraq

  • Columns

    September 2, 1999

    Go with the Flow

    Death squads didnt work in Vietnam, but the CIA is betting theyll be great in Iraq

  • Film

    October 5, 2006

    Money for Nothing

    Iraq for Sale loads more anti-war cannon fodder

  • News

    September 14, 2006

    Cocaine Airways

    A former CIA pilot says secret flights to El Toro could explain a Marine officers suicide

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    We Respond to Register Letters!

    Was the Haditha massacre too little, too late?

  • News

    May 25, 2006

    2 Few, 2 Proud

    How not to become a Marine

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Memorial Day 2005

    We remember everything

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Weekly Index

    We remember everything

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    Scorecard

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    Everybodys All-American Mexican

    The presidents conservative critics

  • Features

    April 3, 2003

    After Saddam

    Well win the war, but how about the peace?

  • Features

    March 13, 2003

    The Education of Corporal Gunderson

    I joined the Marines to get a good education, and all I got was a crummy Gulf War

  • Features

    March 6, 2003

    War College

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Ollie North: Not All Muslims Evil

    But only Christians will go to heaven

  • Features

    September 20, 2001

    Bleccccccccccch!

    A peoples environmental impact report on El Toro International Airport

  • Features

    May 3, 2001

    The Wreckfinder

    No plane crash is too small or too old for Gary Patric Macha

  • Features

    September 14, 2000

    Spooks

    No plane crash is too small or too old for Gary Patric Macha

  • Columns

    September 21, 2000

    Letters

    No plane crash is too small or too old for Gary Patric Macha

  • Columns

    June 15, 2000

    Letters

    No plane crash is too small or too old for Gary Patric Macha

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Who Killed Col. James Sabow?

    Was Marine Corps Col. James Sabow the victim of a military cover-up?

  • Columns

    August 26, 1999

    Letters

    Was Marine Corps Col. James Sabow the victim of a military cover-up?

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Never Mind War, El Toro Is Hell

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 109

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Bargain Base Mint

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 108

  • Features

    June 3, 1999

    Summer Beach & Beer Guide

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 108

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    No Fly Zone

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 103

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Crossing Guard

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 95

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Ron Packard, Military Whore

    Beneath the South County Congressman's Mr. Vanilla exterior beats the heart of an old-fashioned, log-rolling, back-scratching, pork barreling special-interest pol

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Consumer Group Lashes Out at "Fringe" PETA's Camp Pendleton Protest

    ​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is a "fringe group" that is hypocritical about euthanizing animals, charges a Washington, D.C.-based consumer group that also denounced today's PETA protest against Camp Pendleton's use of live pigs in medical training for troops.The Center for Consumer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    [UPDATED WITH CONVICTION] Pendleton Marine Faces Murder Charge for Alleged Drunken Driving Death

    ​What happens when just before being released from duty at Camp Pendleton for the weekend, you allegedly: participate in a mandatory safety briefing that covers the dangers of drunken driving, including the tidbit that should you get behind the wheel while drunk, you'll likely kill someone; go on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Quang Pham's Memoir Is Coming Out In Paperback

    Pham: come along way after a sergeant called him "Fang, Fong, Fam!"​In time for the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon at the end of the month, Random House is publishing a $15 paperback version of "A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America" by Mission Viejo resident Quang Pham.Pham ... More >>

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