Subject: U.S. Army Activities

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Ho Story

  February 25, 1999

• Reveille for Ridiculous

  April 22, 1999

• My Friend Chris

  September 19, 2002

• Uncle Sam's Crude Solution

  October 31, 2002

• Victory Through Tote Bags

  October 31, 2002

• After Saddam

  November 28, 2002

• Read and Learn, Pardner

  January 23, 2003

• Breath of Fire's 'W.A.C. Iraq' Taps Into Some Fascinating, Seldom-Told Stories

  September 18, 2008

• 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

• Defense Contractor Airtech, a Big Rohrabacher Contributor, Is Under Investigation for Fraud

  October 23, 2008

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

  May 29, 2008

• Jingo Fever

  YAFfers try to strangle Surf City council member with yellow ribbons

  May 15, 2003

• Space Case

  February 7, 2002

• Our Man in San Salvador

  August 29, 2002

• Mission: Implausible

  The CIA has disavowed any knowledge of the alleged plot against Laos by Vang Pao and others. At least one defense attorney doesnt buy it

  July 19, 2007

• Hero or Heroin?

  Alleged coup-plotter Vang Paos shady past eludes mainstream media

  June 14, 2007

• Operation Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of history

  January 15, 2004

• Money for Nothing

  October 5, 2006

• Cocaine Airways

  September 14, 2006

• We Respond to Register Letters!

  June 15, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 8, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  March 23, 2006

• Sister in Combat

  Unlike Bush, starlet Mamie Van Doren went to Vietnam

  March 16, 2006

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 21, 2005

• Memorial Day 2005

  May 26, 2005

• Burning Bush

  May 20, 2004

• Hard Lines and Second Thoughts

  January 8, 2004

• Exit Strategy

  January 8, 2004

• Good News!

  November 20, 2003

• Peace in Iraq

  July 3, 2003

• Everybodys All-American Mexican

  April 17, 2003

• After Saddam

  April 3, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• Deadly Plants

  February 27, 2003

• Terror Threads

  October 10, 2002

• Seizures in the Middle East

  April 11, 2002

• Smoke, Bullets, Mayhem

  July 19, 2001

• Spooks

  September 14, 2000

• The Phantom Menace

  July 15, 1999

• Got Gas?

  May 6, 1999

• 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

• Flickr Photo of the Week: Dropping in on Angel Stadium

  Flickr user OW3N​ "A member of the US Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, drop in on the rally held at the Big A to celebrate the Angels' third consecutive Division title. (10.01.09)"Got something to share with your community? Join the OC Weekly Flickr Pool!

  October 16, 2009