Subject: U.S. Congress

• Less than an hour until the polls close...

  ... and I'm soooooo confused. I was out of town last Thursday through Sunday, and when I returned there were 17 messages on my phone from the likes of Pete Wilson, Dick Ackerman, Hillary Clinton, someone yammering about Jessica's Law, the Nguyen running for an OC school board seat and his partner in crime David Boyd, Wendy Leece (Costa Mesa City Council), Ben Stein, Alan Mansoor (Costa Mesa CC), sheriff's lieutenant Ron Cunningham (from which sheriff's agency, Lordy knows), "Don't Call Me" Shirl

  November 7, 2006

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Ass Slapping Fun!

  Worm Attack in Dana Point? TMZ reports that Orange County police are investigating former Los Angeles Laker/Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman for allegedly committing a “crime” inside the Hennessy's Tavern near PCH in Dana Point. The celebrity website says Rodman was accused of slapping a female customer's ass so hard it left a “major mark.” No word on what part of his anatomy did the slapping. Jim Amormino, sheriff's spokesman, said dicks in his department's “sex crimes unit” are on

  September 24, 2007

• Shot in the Arm

  April 1, 1999

• The Importance of Being Tim

  March 23, 2000

• A God so Little

  August 24, 2000

• Orange County's Obama-Deniers Keep On Keeping On

  The Mission Viejo Dispatch has an item today about local dentist Dr. Orly Taitz. You might remember her as an associate of Alan Keyes and Weekly interviewee Wiley Drake in their lawsuit trying to prove that Barack Hussein Obama isn't technically qualified to be president. Now, Taitz, claiming to represent more than 100 members of the armed forces, has filed a petition with members of congress to issue some subpoenas to some pretty big names: Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and those pesky academic

  March 5, 2009

• Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened

  December 11, 2008

• Surf City Mayor Debbie Cook Takes on Dana Rohrabacher, OC's Weirdest Republican Congressman

  September 18, 2008

• Not Too Late for a War Crimes Tribunal

  February 7, 2002

• The General's Last Stand

  Vang Pao devoted his life to fighting communism in Laos—until his onetime ally, the U.S. government, arrested him

  July 5, 2007

• Hero or Heroin?

  Alleged coup-plotter Vang Paos shady past eludes mainstream media

  June 14, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 26, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 17, 2006

• Commie Girl

  April 13, 2006

• Democratic Realpolitik

  October 6, 2005

• Go Time

  January 13, 2005

• Now Giving You Less!

  January 6, 2005

• Selfish, Liberal, Single!

  December 23, 2004

• This Buds for You

  July 1, 2004

• As the World Burns

  April 10, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 27, 2002

• To Protect and Slur

  April 18, 2002

• Letters

  April 18, 2002

• Chicken Soup for the Prez

  February 7, 2002

• Letters

  December 13, 2001

• OC Mans Ties to Terrorism Only Skin Deep

  November 8, 2001

• Sitting Shiva for Us All

  September 27, 2001

• Crack Cop

  July 19, 2001

• Cut and Paste

  May 17, 2001

• Bush League

  November 30, 2000

• Fat Cat Nation!

  November 16, 2000

• Bankruptcy? What Bankruptcy?!

  December 9, 1999

• Rat Boy Slim

  April 1, 1999

• Constitutional Cuisinart

  February 25, 1999

• Silent Coup

  December 25, 1997

• Schroeder Plays the Times Like a Piano

  December 18, 1997

• Cypress College Recognized for Muzzling Free Speech

  Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Free Speech.Officials at the northern Orange County community college campus land at No. 6 "for calling police to arrest members of the pro-life group 'Survivor' claiming that they were creating a distu

  April 10, 2009

• Royce, Sanchez Blast North Korea's Harsh Sentencing of Journos

  Two Orange County representatives in the U.S. Congress came out strongly today against North Korea's harsh sentencing of 12 years hard labor for two U.S. journalists charged with "hostile acts." The other four Members of Congress were silent.Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) emailed the Weekly the following statement:"I am deeply concerned by reports that two U.S. citizens and California reporters have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor on charges of illegally crossing into North Korea

  June 8, 2009

• Royce, Sanchez Blast North Korea's Harsh Sentencing of Journos

  Two Orange County representatives in the U.S. Congress came out strongly today against North Korea's harsh sentencing of 12 years hard labor for two U.S. journalists charged with "hostile acts." The other four Members of Congress were silent.Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) emailed the Weekly the following statement:"I am deeply concerned by reports that two U.S. citizens and California reporters have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor on charges of illegally crossing into North Korea

  June 8, 2009

• As Rep. Calvert Beams Over Gipper Statue, Many Fume

  Courtesy U.S. Capitol"Ladies and gentlemen, the statue of Ronald Reagan," the announcer inside the Capitol Rotunda said last Wednesday before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped 87-year-old Nancy Reagan to her feet so she could tug back the blue drape cloaking Chas Fagan's 7-foot bronze statue of the Gipper.The audience rose to politely applaud. Among them were a bipartisan collection of the type of folks you'd normally see shouting each other down on the Sunday chat shows. From the right came for

  June 9, 2009

• Sen. Tom Coburn Tries to Have His Obama-Birther Nutcake and Spit It Out, Too

  The birthers apparently won't leave CNN's Rick Sanchez alone. (Welcome to the club, bub). A day after exploiting their nutty cause to his noontime audience--again, welcome to the club, bub--he had U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn on his CNN Newsroom program today to explain how the Oklahoma Republican could support legislation born out of birther rants yet still claim he believes Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii, is a legal citizen and is constitutionally qualified to be president of t

  July 22, 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 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

• The New Economy Will Run On ChuckBucks

  ​If Chuck DeVore, the State Assemblyman from Irvine, wins the seat he seeks in the U.S. Senate, can he fix the financial woes of California and the country?All signs point to yes, given his campaign's latest innovation: ChuckBucks.The dollar is kind of done, don't you agree? DeVore might be on to something by inventing his own currency. Sure, right now, the value of ChuckBucks are supposedly pegged to the dollar. Buy ten ChuckBucks, and DeVore gets ten dollars -- enough to print some campaign

  October 29, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Helps Inject Some Mexican-Hater Money Into Bill Hunt's Campaign for Sheriff

  November 12, 2009