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A Waste of $106,641
Yesterday, the good folks at Think Progress were having a little fun with the White House payroll. Drawing on a list of White House salaries published in the National Journal, the TPers determined the four most overpaid White House staffers. Tucked away between ethics advisers and White House's Director of Fact Checking (no doubt a very lonely job in an administration that uses the phrase "reality based" to dismiss critics) was Stuart Baker, Director for Lessons Learned. Leaving aside for the m
July 12, 2006Memories (wiretapping edition)
There was something very familiar about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony before the Senate Judicary Committee yesterday. As Think Progress summarizes yesterday morning's highlight: Earlier this year, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which is charged with investigating attorney misconduct, announced that it could not pursue an investigation into the role of Justice lawyers in crafting the NSA warrantless wiretapping program because it was denied s
July 19, 2006Foxes, Henhouses, and the Fashion Police
Just like breaking a leg can take your mind off a toothache, the major traumas the Bush administration has inflicted on the body politic make it easy to forget the lesser damage it's doing. Or, as Ruth Marcus puts in her column in today's Washington Post, "The tornado of disastrous headlines -- a Pentagon that can't take proper care of its wounded, a Justice Department that can't be trusted to follow the law or tell the truth to Congress, a top White House aide who lied to a grand jury-- h
April 4, 2007The Edward James Olmos Pinata
Goddamn it, for the first time ever in this Tick-Talker's weak Weekly memory, a press release rolls in about Edward James Olmos--on the day that the Day Laborer of Print and Radio Journalism, Gustavo Arellano, is off to New Yawk for his much ballyhooed appearance on NBC's Today Show: Special Victims Unit. Fuck it to hell, 'cause ol' Stavo would be all over knocking Olmos like a cheap suit, which, come to think of it, is what ol' Stavo wore to 30 Rock. The California Teachers Union, the only fol
March 3, 2006Muzzling Troy
Troy High School in Fullerton has a lot going for it. The combined public and magnet school is known for its high SAT scores, Troy Tech and International Baccalaureate programs, its wins or high placements in the U.S. National Science Olympiad and Western Regional Science Bowl sponsored by NASA/JPL, and recognitions for being among the nation's top schools from President Clinton, the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence panel and the selection committee for California Distinguished Schools.
April 11, 2006Thursday's Headlines & Surprises
Speed Eating: Would you eat 42 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes for $1,500? Patrick “P-Rock” Beroletti, a twentysomething-year-old Chicago cook, won the Drum Corps International World Peanut Butter and Jelly Eating Championship this week at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. (Earlier this year, Beroletti devoured 47 donuts in five minutes.) Tim “Eater X” Janus dunked his treats in a milk-water mixture and nabbed second place with 37.5 sandwiches. Rich “The Locust” LeF
August 9, 2007Friday's Headlines & Surprises
No, really? You can finally relax. The Coastline Pilot decided it was time to voice its opposition to alcohol consumption by teenagers. “Drinks, teens shouldn't mix,” the Los Angeles Times-owned community paper serving Laguna Beach declared today. And just in case readers didn't comprehend the stance or--heaven forbid--disagreed with it, the paper explained soberly, “The fact is that young people and alcohol are a combustible mix.” Who isn't listening? “Adults must realize that the he
August 10, 2007Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Stale Marijuana?
Doesn't marijuana go stale? I dunno, but Jim Spray, 51, and Felix Cha (the person, not the tea), 22, want the government to return the pot police officers confiscated two years ago, according to Christine Hanley at the Times. Lawyers for both men told the Santa Ana-based Court of Appeal yesterday the narcotic was legally possessed for medicinal reasons. In separate cases, judges have previously tossed out their arrests but bureaucrats in the cities of Garden Grove and Huntington Beach refuse to
August 24, 2007XM Merges With Sirius
Earlier today, the Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed $4.59 billion (!) aquisition of satellite old-schooler XM Satellite Radio. This decision created one single US satellite radio provider. In response to questions fearing a monopoly, the Justice Dept. said " the combined company won't be able to raise prices profitably because of competition from such forms of audio entertainment as broadcast radio and MP3 players." Read the rest of the article here.
March 24, 2008OC Homewreckers Hung Out to Dry
According to a Department of Justice press release and reported by the Register, Charles Head, a 33-year-old from La Habra and several accomplices have been charged with illegal activities purportedly using the latest mortgage scam to come through the pipeline. One can only expect more scams to surface soon in the wake of the "mortgage crisis," (otherwise known, at least by me, as the most shining contemporary example of both the greed and stupidity of the American people and the relentless
March 25, 2008OC Family Charging OK City Bombing Cover-Up Wins Lawsuit Against Uncle Sam!
The family of an Orange County man who died under mysterious circumstances in an Oklahoma federal prison more than a decade ago has just won its lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department. On March 31, the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma ruled that the family of Kenneth Trentadue had suffered severe emotional distress as a result of his bizarre death, which prison officials claim was a suicide-by-hanging. A big part of their stress: seeing the bruises, footprints and oth
April 2, 2008Times and Register Anti-Trust or Bust Lust in the Dust
As merger mania sweeps through the ownership suites of the L.A. Times and Orange County Register, some may find it odd that the fierce competitors: 1) are even considering joining forces, and B) would even be allowed to merge After all, it was not that long ago that those U.S. Department of Justice anti-trust meanies slapped the wrists of the former New Times and previous Village Voice Media for doing much the same thing, albeit on a much less impactful, Southern California alternative news
October 27, 2008[Pucker Up] Ladies Love Gay Male Porn
May 15, 2008Janet Napolitano's Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary
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November 27, 2008[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Is It Racist to Call a Mexican Working at a Coffee Shop a 'Beaner'?
April 17, 2008[Moxley Confidential] Why Did Wayne Gross Recuse Himself From the Mike Carona Investigation?
February 21, 2008Litigating It Old-School
Former Chapman instructors invoke a Civil War-era law in their multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university
August 2, 2007Letters
CNN couldnt do it; the LA Times couldnt do it; no other journalist or major media outlet could do it. Are we to accept that some moonbat reporter from a local free weekly actually sat down and researched the subjec
November 30, 2006Osama's Gun
How to not build bin Ladens AK-47 without even trying
November 9, 2006Commie Girl
Where Everybody Knows My Name: Take that, Gustavo!
October 26, 2006Porn-secution
November 24, 2005Grass or Ass
November 17, 2005OC's 31 Scariest People
Now 25 percent more terrifying!
October 27, 2005The Great Work Continues
November 11, 200459 Reasons Why Bush Sucks
Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy
October 7, 2004Letters
June 24, 2004I Digress
January 8, 2004This Slaphappy Summer
August 21, 2003An Informed Citizenry
June 19, 2003Suspicious Minds
April 10, 2003Shopping for Armageddon
December 19, 2002Ashcroft to Mueller to Anybody Else
June 13, 2002While You Were Freaking
June 6, 2002The Most Serious Election Crisis Ever!
November 23, 2000Screaming Bedlam
September 21, 2000Letter to Shredder
August 31, 2000Crime Times
December 23, 1999A Gray Area
June 3, 1999Apple Bonging
March 25, 1999Making Dornans Enemies List
May 28, 1998Justice Dept. Inquiry: Chapman U's John Yoo Is a Shitty Lawyer
Chapman University's favorite torture enabler and "Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law," the infamous John Yoo, should face discipline according to his previous employer, the U.S. Justice Department. A New York Times story this morning reports that an internal Justice Dept. inquiry found that Yoo's legal arguments authorizing the use of waterboarding and other forms of hash interrogation practices--commonly known in the English language as "torture"--were so woefully lacking i
May 6, 2009Behold John Bolton and His Moustache at Balboa Bay Club
John Robert Bolton, the neocon's neocon, laps up the hosannas of fellow knuckle-draggers May 28 when he is the special guest of the World Affairs Council of Orange County. The nonprofit, 500-member council--which since its 1967 founding has hosted Prince Andrew, Vicente Fox, Hans Blix and several other international newsmakers--expects 250 to turn out for Bolton and his moustache tormenting the wait staff at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.Bolton has been employed by several Republican pres
May 15, 2009Prosecutors Recommend Nine Years in Prison For Mike Carona
Home Sweet Home?Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona should serve 108 months or nine years in prison for attempting to sabotage a grand jury investigation into abuse of power and bribery at the Orange County Sheriff's Department, according to a brief filed today by the U.S. Department of Justice.The recommendation, which comes from prosecutors Brett Sagel and Ken Julian, is 30 months more than what a federal probation officer recently recommended based on sentencing guidelines. Some will see this as ironical
April 10, 2009John Yoo Stars in a Most Civilized Debate on Torture
Photo by Christopher VictorioAs John Yoo makes his case, John C. Eastman is hard at think.Two days after Barack Obama's chief of staff said the administration was not inclined to back prosecutions against Bush lawyers who signed off on torture, the president backed off that statement today, saying he would leave that up to his attorney general. If this reversal bunched John Yoo's BVDs, he sure wasn't showing it inside Chapman University's Memorial Hall, where the controversial UC Berkeley law pr
April 21, 2009Cypress Mosque Hate Crime Gets Twittered
Here are some random comments on Twitter regarding the anti-Muslim graffiti at the Cypress mosque Nick Schou previously blogged about: ...Obama gave a powerful speech in Cairo on the US-Middle East relations & an Islamic center in OC was immedtly defaced in a hate crime... Our military will kill you all painted above door of Mosque=calls for DOJ to investigate hate crime, GIs gunned down=silence My hometown. Never this way growing up. Racist thugs; probably watch F
June 5, 2009Sheriff Mike Carona Prosecutor Leaves Department of Justice
Photo by Christopher VictorioKen Julian Leaving DOJTomorrow is the last day as a federal prosecutor for Ken Julian, co-counsel in the successful prosecution of ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona. Julian is joining the powerhouse private firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, he recently announced to fellow Department of Justice colleagues inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana. For the last four years Julian worked as deputy chief of the DOJ's branch here."Ken has served me wel
June 9, 2009[¡Ask a Mexican!] Are You Still Beating Your Señora?
June 11, 2009Federal Panel Gives Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona Leniency
Break out the vodka, boys!As Orange County's Republican sheriff, Mike Carona liked to talk tough about granting no mercy to convicted felons, but ever since the ex-top cop turned convicted felon himself earlier this year he's been begging for leniency.This afternoon, the Ninth Circuit--the nation's most liberal federal appeals court--granted Carona his wish. Unlike most felons, he'll be allowed to remain free from serving his 66-month federal prison sentence until the appellate court reviews
July 27, 2009Outdoor Marijuana Eradication Called "Costly," "Futile"
A sheriff's helicopter was chugging over Cleveland National Forest, about 15 miles off Ortega Highway, three years and one month ago when the pilot spotted a vast marijuana field. Deputies on the ground later confirmed--and cut down--about 1,000 young plants that had been thriving thanks to an elaborate irrigation system. You'd imagine the men and women in uniform hoisted a few of their favorite legal consumables that night to celebrate a job well done.But with cannabis legalization eff
July 28, 2009Justice Department Probing OC Jail Brutality
Ex-Sheriff Carona to Feds: Please Clean up the Jails before I start serving time!Front page stories in both the LA Times and Register today report that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating Orange County's jail system in the wake of recent brutality allegations. "Officials from the department's Civil Rights Division are seeking to determine whether incidents of violence by jail personnel amount to a pattern of violating inmates' rights, the Sheriff's Department confirmed," writes the T
August 14, 2009
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