Subject: U.S. Army

• 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 full-sized original so special. Lots of hardware directed against a virtually nonexistant but relentless overhyped threat? Yes. True motive hidden behind a threadbare pretext? Check. A spoon-fed media wi

  March 18, 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 team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.The est

  October 11, 2006

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises

  July 14, 2007

• Army Tackles Toll Road

  When supporters of the 241 (Foothill-South) toll road and its builder, the Transportation Corridor Agencies, hear opponents claim they'll stop the project, the reply is usually along the lines of, "You and what army?" The United States Army, assholes. That's right, the Army is finally providing the necessary firepower to blow the TCA's lies clean out of the sky. Colonel Thomas H. Magness is District Commander of the Los Angeles District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE). You may rememb

  April 9, 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 alignment for their Foothill-South (241) toll road extension was not in fact the Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative (LEDPA). In layman's terms, LEDPA means "that which is least idio

  April 23, 2008

• More Details on Post-War Crime

  Various news agencies have identified the 25-year-old suspect in the beating death of his 19-year-old girlfriend and aspiring model as a distinguished U.S. Army Iraq war veteran who earned a Purple Heart, an Army Commendation Medal and a Combat Infantry Badge. Now, the retired infantryman sits in Orange County Men’s Jail. According to the District Attorney's office: John Wylie Needham, 25, San Clemente, is charged with one felony count of murder and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to li

  September 2, 2008

• OC Deputy Zapped In Excessive Force Indictment

  An already-bad PR week for Sheriff Sandra Hutchens got worse this morning when Superior Court Judge Richard King unsealed a grand-jury indictment against a veteran Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputy who is accused of using excessive force on a handcuffed suspect. Deputy Christopher Hibbs (pictured left), a resident of Corona, faces two felony charges and up to three years in state prison if convicted of abusing his authority during a Sept. 13, 2007, early-morning incident near the bord

  September 19, 2008

• Reveille for Ridiculous

  April 22, 1999

• Behind Behind the Music

  December 20, 2001

• We Know Evil

  March 14, 2002

• My Friend Chris

  September 19, 2002

• Victory Through Tote Bags

  October 31, 2002

• Read and Learn, Pardner

  January 23, 2003

• To Do Tonight 11/12

  Kelly Boyz country dance lessons and Kelly Rae Live, 7:30 p.m. A shit-kickin' good time. $5 OC Tavern 2369 S. El Camino Real San Clemente, CA 949-542-8877 Disney Animation Exhibition, until December 18 Ah, the magic of Disney. It all started with a little mouse on a steamboat, and over the years, Walt helped create one of the largest, most successful corporations in the world. Come see how the talent and imagination of Disney illustrators and designers bring classic fairy tale characters to lif

  November 11, 2008

• Is Latest UCI Virtual World Study Grant 'Waste' or Boon for Business?

  Here we go again. The 49-page report "2008: Worst Waste of the Year," which U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) compiled to expose examples of "outrageous federal spending," included the National Science Foundation (NSF) having given UC Irvine a $100,000 grant to study the differences in how gamers from the U.S. and China play the popular online video game World of Warcraft. Well, UCI just announced it has received a new $3 million grant from

  February 17, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Blazing Saddles,' 'Command Decision'

  May 29, 2008

• The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

  May 15, 2008

• [Game On] There's More of the Same in 'Mario Kart Wii,' and That Just Might be Plenty

  May 8, 2008

• Eyes Wide Open

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! De Palma’s Redacted never flinches from the casualties of war. Will you?

  November 15, 2007

• My Sweet Satan

  100 artists, 16 bands, 1 Dark Lord

  July 1, 2004

• History Vs. Memory

  May 17, 2001

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Dirty Dozen

  May 3, 2007

• Threat-level: Killer Tadpole

  Korean box-office monster emerges from the Han River to slime us stateside in The Host
  

  March 8, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Execution of Private Slovik

  February 15, 2007

• Cocaine Airways

  September 14, 2006

• Commie Girl

  September 7, 2006

• We Respond to Register Letters!

  June 15, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 27, 2006

• Commie Girl

  March 2, 2006

• Rancho Santa Margarita

  October 20, 2005

• Bring Em On

  We go a-visiting with the president

  August 18, 2005

• Pass the Sheep!

  December 25, 2003

• Spy the Friendly Skies

  October 9, 2003

• Smug As a Bug in a Rug

  September 25, 2003

• Triumph of Mediocrity

  August 28, 2003

• I Aint From Nowhere

  July 3, 2003

• An Informed Citizenry

  June 19, 2003

• 'We Will Not Resolve This With Cannons

  April 3, 2003

• The Future Is Loud

  January 30, 2003

• Terror Threads

  October 10, 2002

• The Ride of Their Lives

  June 20, 2002

• Beating on the Gooks Not All Bad

  July 19, 2001

• How Not to Smash Global Capitalism

  May 24, 2001

• Waste Waterworld

  November 30, 2000

• Spooks

  September 14, 2000

• Earth & Mirth

  May 4, 2000

• Earth & Mirth

  April 20, 2000

• Top 5 Wacky Things to Come Out of Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin's Pie-Hole

  BoykinHonors for hosting the most controversial book signing of the week go to Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, which Friday night hosts retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, who famously said George W. Bush was not elected by a majority of Americans but "appointed by God," and that America is hated around the world because it is "a Christian nation." As detailed in Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom, the new book he co-authored with Lynn Vincent,

  August 20, 2009

• Serial Pedophile Who Bought 5-Year-Old Vietnamese Sex Slave is Up For Parole

  England wants freedom but hasn't admitted his sick sex crimes​A convicted California serial pedophile who despises Jews, cops and African Americans and who forced a kindergarten-age girl he purchased in Vietnam to become a sex slave to not only himself but also his German shepherd and basset hound, both males, becomes eligible for parole in December. George Joseph England--a self-proclaimed Christian who remains unrepentant, according to law enforcement sources--is scheduled to make his pitch

  September 18, 2009

• Big Week For Birthers and Their Crusade to Unseat Obama the Usurper!

  The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia, reports today that Orly Taitz, the Orange County attorney who reigns as queen bee to the Obama "birther" movement, is representing a "conscientious objector" who refuses to deploy to Iraq*, not because he's a pacifist or because George Bush authorized the invasion of the country on bogus claims, but because President Obama isn't a U.S. citizen.That's right: As everyone knows, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Indonesia or somewhere, but definitely not Hon

  July 14, 2009