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U.S. Army

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Mysteries of Costa Mesa: Armalite and the Creator of the M16, a Walking Tour

    ​For reasons not entirely clear, Orange County isn't out loud and proud when it comes to its connection to one of the most famous battle implements of all time. In my efforts to discover the one-time Costa Mesa location of ArmaLite, developer of the M16, I was met with blank stares and should ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    The Searchers of G.I. Joe Search and Rescue

    The OC group goes into the California wilderness to find the missing—and to honor a brother who was swept away

  • Film

    June 9, 2011

    'Super 8' Flirts With Disaster

    J.J. Abrams deploys humor and destruction in his super-fun, super-loud catastrophe flick

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Sebastian Junger: Documentarian and Author Shares His Realities of War in Newport Beach

    Junger doesn't dress like this for speaking engagements.​Sebastian Junger, the good looking guy with the manly-man jaw and intense gaze, spent five months in the crossfire in Afghanistan, but he never shot a gun. He did shoot tons of footage for his documentary and took plenty of notes for hi ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Daniel Wozniak's Jailhouse Closeup

    [Moxley Confidential] The actor and double-murder defendant's appearance on MSNBC's 'Lockup' has one victim's dad crying foul

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Naming the Orange County Great Park After Ronald Reagan Gets Scholarly Stamps of Approval

    ​A 25-year-old law has presented a snag in getting a statue of Ronald Reagan erected in a Newport Beach park. But who needs a statue when you can have an entire park named in your honor? And not just any park, but the Orange County Great Park, which has been billed as the first great municipal par ... More >>

  • News

    January 27, 2011

    Sal Duenas Is a Handball Wizard

    The Santa Ana native is king of Orange County's handball courts—but can he go further and bring the sport some much-needed respect?

  • News

    September 30, 2010

    The Cannabis Candidate

    Dispensary owner and Costa Mesa City Council aspirant Sue Lester is ready to 'raise my hand and do what I can for what I think is right'

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Tom Tait, Whitest Man in Orange County, Gets Black Chamber of Commerce Award Tonight

    ​The whitest man in Orange County is scooping up an award this evening from the Orange County Black Chamber of Commerce.Tom Tait, the former Anaheim City Council member who is running in November to re-join the panel, will receive the Michael R. Jones Business Impact Award, which recognizes in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Woman Barred From Flying Out of Long Beach Among Those Suing For Being on "No-Fly List"

    ACLUHalime Sat​A woman who was barred from flying out of the Long Beach Airport is among 10 U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents the American Civil Liberties Union is representing in its constitutional challenge of the government's "no-fly list."Halime Sat joins a disabled veteran of the U ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2010

    Bill Hunt's Gangsta Rap

    [Moxley Confidential] Sheriff's candidate says he's the victim of a pre-election plot

  • News

    June 3, 2010

    Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

    Tougher border enforcement in California and Texas has spelled disaster for southern Arizona

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    LA Times Hints DeVore Misdirected Over Military & Reagan Background

    John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyChuck DeVore: Fill in the blank.​Perhaps inspired by the New York Times' recent detrailment of a Connecticut senatorial candidate's campaign by pointing out that he had repeatedly "misspoken" about fighting in the Vietnam War, a Los Angeles Times article today takes a clo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Tweets From the Park!

    Welcome to Tweets From the Park, our weekly roundup of some of the best--and the worst--tweets from the park that's only sometimes the happiest place on earth. Follow us on Twitter @OCWeekly!Flickr user idogcow​tacce: me: it's okay dad, at disneyland they want our fat people money too. dad: DSA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Julie Palasco, OC Homicide No. 5: Found in Ransacked Home

    UPDATE: Orange County District Attorney levels charges; suspect's telling MySpace page . . . MySpace.comPasqual Loera's user photo.​The Orange County District Attorney today charged the man arrested in Las Vegas in the shooting and killing Sunday of a Westminster woman and critical injuring of her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Classics Revisited: Elvis Presley, 'Elvis '75-Good Rockin' Tonight'

    ​Unless you're the type who attends candlelight vigils at Graceland, this is all the Elvis you'll ever need: Good Rockin' Tonight, four CDs, 100 songs that range from his first self-financed demo "My Happiness" from 1953 to Presley's final live and home recordings shortly before his death on a toi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Former Surf City Mayor, State Insurance Commissioner Candidate Wes Bannister Dies

    Wes Bannister​Wes Bannister, who'd been a Huntington Beach city councilman and mayor and ran unsuccessfully three times for state Insurance Commissioner, died last night after a lengthy illness. He was 73.Clockwork recalls Bannister as one of those Republicans not generally found in Orange County. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    It's a Wiley World After All

    Welcome to Wiley World.​Lilly Fowler of Salon.com recently parachuted into "Wiley World."That would be the nickame for the domain of pastor Wiley Drake of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park. As Clockwork and other Weeklings have blogged since President Barack Obama's election, Drake h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 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 ... More >>

  • News

    September 17, 2009

    An Investigation Into a SF Cop Killing Leads to a Chicago Professor Who Helped Launch Obama's Career

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    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 ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 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 in ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Local Vets of Earlier Wars Say They Know What the New Iraq and Afghanistan PTSD Sufferers Are In For

    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 in ... 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 >>

  • Film

    November 15, 2007

    Eyes Wide Open

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

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    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

  • Music

    June 21, 2007

    Southern Discomfort

    Blues legend Bobby Bland brings you down just to lift you up

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Hero or Heroin?

    Alleged coup-plotter Vang Paos shady past eludes mainstream media

  • Film

    February 15, 2007

    Special Screenings

    Movie of the Week: The Execution of Private Slovik

  • 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 >>

  • Features

    September 8, 2005

    A Terrorist Tool?

    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 >>

  • Web

    August 4, 2005

    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    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 >>

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Dr. Death Revisited

    In French TV documentary, ex-CIA official admits ties to CIA-cocaine scandal character

  • Culture

    September 9, 2004

    Checkmate

    A book about killing the president proves a snooze

  • Culture

    May 13, 2004

    XXX Files

    How Abu Ghraib echoes Robert Mapplethorpe

  • Columns

    September 25, 2003

    Smug As a Bug in a Rug

    Republicans, reporters preen, groom selves at congratulatory LA bash

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    I Aint From Nowhere

    Anaheims gang unit saved Eddie Quinonesthe hard way

  • Features

    March 6, 2003

    War College

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Features

    November 21, 2002

    The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Against Mike Davis

    UC Irvine history prof Mike Davis cant write a damn thing without the nuts going nuts. This time, the controversys over an obscure reference to Winston Churchill.

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    The Ride of Their Lives

    Residents say, No way to city officials who want to bulldoze their neighborhood to build roller coasters

  • News

    March 14, 2002

    We Know Evil

    Residents say, No way to city officials who want to bulldoze their neighborhood to build roller coasters

  • Features

    February 28, 2002

    Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

    Residents say, No way to city officials who want to bulldoze their neighborhood to build roller coasters

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Under Suspicion

    For Tawfiq Deek, it runs in the family

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    How Not to Smash Global Capitalism

    Why the Kalifornia Anarchists had their butts handed to them on May Day

  • Film

    May 17, 2001

    History Vs. Memory

    Little Saigons beginnings

  • News

    November 30, 2000

    Waste Waterworld

    Will poop-to-tap plan raise a stink?

  • 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

    July 15, 1999

    The Phantom Menace

    Are American POWs still being held in Southeast Asia?

  • News

    April 22, 1999

    Reveille for Ridiculous

    Dornan, from coward to 'military expert'

  • Music

    April 8, 1999

    Straight Outta Stanton

    Can the Pocket Clowns Save the World?

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