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May 1, 2012
[UPDATED with new location] Ron Paul to Speak at Cal State Fullerton (Hecklers Not Yet Confirmed)
UPDATE, 2:56 P.M., May 1, 2012: Cal State Fullerton just confirmed that the rally will take place at Titan Stadium.Ron Paul, friend of tokers, foe of pro-choicers and the bane of every neocon's existence, is scheduled to speak Wednesday at Cal State Fullerton. We'll be there to watch the hilari ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2012
Did Rep. John Campbell Get Schooled by Irvine Republican Activist Allan Bartlett?
In the aftermath of Monday night's news that John Campbell failed to win the endorsement of the local GOP Central Committee, allies of the veteran Orange County Republican congressman immediately launched efforts to find a positive public spin on the disaster. For example, Scott Baugh, boss of th ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
President Barack Obama Set to Land in Bitter Enemy Terrority--Orange County
Under intense security, Air Force One and Barack Obama landed late this afternoon at Los Angeles International Airport for the president's ninth trip to Southern California and, during a series of fund-raising events, touted his administration's accomplishments, including a repeal of "Don't Ask; ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Fred Karger Makes Home State's GOP Ballot
Many California gays (and non-gays) celebrated this week's federal appellate court ruling upholding a district court decision that found Prop. 8 violates the U.S. Constitution.Those waving rainbow-colored flags have another reason to celebrate: a gay man made the presidential ballot in California ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
OC's Happiest Pro-Tax Increase Cheerleaders Are Democrats, Right?
Those of you who don't believe that Orange County is loaded with ironies aren't paying attention.We've got vociferously anti-gay public figures who are secretly gay or bisexual. We've got Democrats who are more Republican than, well, Republicans. And, perhaps most amazingly, we've got self-descri ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2011
John Boehner to Make Orange County Oranger
Speaker of the House John Boehner is coming to Newport Coast to raise money for Republicans by participating in the Orange County GOP's Reagan Cup golf tournament Oct. 17 at Pelican Hill Resort.Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) and Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) are also scheduled to swing by, ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
Pundits Already Saying New Redistricting Will Hurt Loretta Sanchez--HA!
Sanchez: Always ready for battleMan, it's always a hoot reading the premature obituaries written about Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Took Two Dead Girls to Make Her Sponsor the DREAM Act) over the past 15 years, and the latest batch is already starting today with the release of draft maps show ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
Five Songs for Schwarzenegger Fans to Console Themselves With
20 years ago this summer, Pee Wee Herman got busted for indecent exposure in Florida and almost immediately and brilliantly bounced back with a surprise cameo appearance opening the MTV Music Awards a couple of weeks later with the only possible response:Based on everything that's turned up in the n ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2011
Why Are People Surprised Orange County has Anti-Muslim Loons?
Pauly: PendejaColor me jaded, cynical, or wayyyyy too in to be able to see from the outside, but I'm shocked that the anti-Muslim* rally that happened last week in Yorba Linda has made the national news. Write-ups in Salon, Good, and other national publications? Really? Sure, part of it is that t ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Steven Greenhut Left The Orange County Register for Sacramento, But His Poison Pen Still Stings Jim Silva
The Orange County Register's longtime columnist and senior editor Steven Greenhut left the Santa Ana daily in 2009 to open a Sacramento news bureau for the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market, individual liberty think tank based in San Francisco. But it's obvious he misses Orange County, o ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Where to Watch Obama's State of the Union Speech
An offshoot of the Democratic National Committee holds a State of the Union "Watch Party" tonight at a pizza parlor in the People's Republic of Irvine.Meanwhile, local Republicans are viewing President Barack Hussein Obama's speech before both houses of Congress at their neighborhood country club ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2011
[UPDATED] Remember Dana Rohrabacher's Vehement Defense of His Pal Tom DeLay?
Update, Jan. 10, 3:07 p.m.: Former House majority leader Tom DeLay was sentenced today to three years in prison for illegally plotting to funnel corporate contributions to Texas Legislative candidates in 2002, the Washington Post reports. Throughout his political and legal ordeal, DeLay was vehem ... More >>
News
December 30, 2010
A Year of Navel Gazing: The Virtual Orange County
Looking back at 2010 on our news blog, one Top 10 List at a time
Blogs
December 17, 2010
Will Michael Steele Still Be RNC Chairman When He Keynotes Financial Forum in Irvine?
Despite Republicans gaining 63 House seats and six Senate seats in the November elections, its National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the USA Today says, had a worse year than President Barack Obama, MSNBC and the National Review agree Steele is a baffoon and all indications are he ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
[BREAKING:] Sorry, Lt. Dan Choi: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal Fails
Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that would have allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military just failed in a 57-40 procedural vote in the U.S. Senate. Despite two-thirds of Americans and most in the mlitary supporting the repeal, the setback seemingly doom ... More >>
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November 1, 2010
Memphis at the Santora and 6ix Park Grill Are the Places to Be Election Night for Dems, Reeps, Respectively
You can find me reporting from this bar starting 'round 6 p.m, after I partake of Burger Night...For most Election Night parties, the local Democrats and Republicans tend to rent hotel ballrooms to watch the night unfold--the Donkeys, usually at the Disneyland Hotel or in one of the hotels 'round ... More >>
Columns
October 28, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
You can find me reporting from this bar starting 'round 6 p.m, after I partake of Burger Night...For most Election Night parties, the local Democrats and Republicans tend to rent hotel ballrooms to watch the night unfold--the Donkeys, usually at the Disneyland Hotel or in one of the hotels 'round ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2010
Sarah Palin Excites Orange County Republicans For Van Tran
Palin visited OC on SaturdayOrange County has an endless supply of ironies.Friday, ex-President Bill Clinton held a pep rally for Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in Santa Ana.Yesterday, Sarah Palin--a Fox News contributor and likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate--participated in ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2010
Five Things the National Media Should Note About Loretta Sanchez in their Parachute Profiles of the Sanchez-Tran Congressional Race
The national media is starting to send its reporters to our sordid little burb, specifically the 47th Congressional District, where incumbent Loretta Sanchez is facing her first true challenger ever in State Assemblymember Van Tran. Politico did an okay job; the Los Angeles Times published a retr ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
Five Things the National Media Should Note About Van Tran in their Parachute Profiles of the Sanchez-Tran Congressional Race
The national media is starting to send its reporters to our sordid little burb, specifically the 47th Congressional District, where incumbent Loretta Sanchez is facing her first true challenger ever in State Assemblymember Van Tran. Politico did an okay job; the Los Angeles Times published a r ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2010
Duane Roberts, Green Party Nominee for U.S. Senate, Says Democrats are "Anti-Immigrant"
Duane Roberts sounds downright Republican."Beware of the Democrats" warns the Anaheim Green Party member running in November for the U.S. Senate seat held by a Democrat, Barbara Boxer.However, when Roberts explains his proclamation, he does not sound very Republican at all. He accuses Dems of bei ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Dana Rohrabacher's Hyprocrisy Extends to His Shameless Press Flack
Blah, blah, blahAs always, overly confident political mouthpiece Tara Setmayer likes to talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and defend the indefensible . . . and, of course, gets an unquestioning forum on Fox News.That's good for her because she is the Washington, D.C. press secretary f ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2010
[UPDATED:] Today's Important Unimportant Election, From My TV Screen to Your Computer/Phone Screen
11:15 p.m.: Don't be surprised if KOCE is accused of turning over its election coverage to that rare Orange County bird known as the "Democrat." The "live, election night edition of Real Orange" came from the Artists Village in Santa Ana, OC's version of Havana. Their election expert was the Voic ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2010
OC Republicans Think Tom Campbell Is Running For Governor!
R. Scott MoxleyNote the lower left corner of the OCGOP websiteEarth to Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Scott Baugh.
Blogs
February 4, 2010
Carly, Tommy, Chuckie and the Demon Sheep
The Interwebs are all a-Twitter over the new campaign ad by California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina featuring--DUNT-DUNT DUNNNNN!!!--demon sheep.Actually, for the rest of this post to make any sense at all, you should first check out the spot, which cannot be embedded here only ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2009
Next 72nd District Assemblyman Norby Gets Fit for Cakewalk Shoes
Your next 72nd District assemblyman (after an unnecessary run-off election), Chris Norby!Like standing for the national anthem before the game starts, nodding at the uniformed officer before zooming through the border checkpoint or throwing toast at a movie screen flashing a sweet transvestite fr ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2009
What Are Birthers Doing Hanging With Top Repubs In Newport?
Matt Coker already did a nice job previewing the Western Conservative Political Action Conference taking place today and tomorrow at the Radisson in Newport Beach. But the Washington Independent's David Weigel -- who loves Orly Taitz as much as we do -- points out that this conference isn't ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
Mike Duvall Nickname Time!
Already, some in the local blogosphere have taken to call disgraced ex-Assemblymember Mike Duvall "Spanky," because the perv likes to get his spank on. I vigorously disagree--I prefer "The Dripper," not just because of the grossest part of his shared sexual exploits ("And  so, we had made love Wed ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2009
Greenhut Praises Moxley, Blasts Carona's Disappeared Defenders
While wondering where all the defenders of convicted and soon-to-be imprisoned ex-sheriff Mike Carona are now, Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut drops a couple shout outs to the coverage by the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley, the lone reporter uncovering the former top Orange County lawman's misde ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2009
See Dick Wakesurf
Being cold below ground in Yorba Linda does not stop our favorite disgraced son Richard Nixon from finding himself in the news. The hits just keep coming, don't they? But far more fascinating than Dick being blamed for the Cambodian genocide, joined in the hereafter by Watergate- ... More >>
Blogs
November 14, 2008
This Week in the OC Weekly
In "The Reformer" Matt Coker educates us about longtime OC GOP legislator Ross Johnson finding a new life as a campaign-finance watchdog in Sacramento. R. Scott Moxley explains the reason behind Mike Carona's smile in "The Crooked Sheriff Chuckled". And Matt Coker dictates departing OC Register c ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2008
OC GOP Goes Back to Its Mexican-Bashing Roots in Fullerton City Council Race
In my latest book, I devote a chapter to the many sins of the Orange County Republican Party but also hinted that they were finally evolving from the slimeball campaigns of the past when it came to scoring easy points off of demonizing Mexicans. Specifically, I pointed to the 2006 Tan Nguyen affair ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2008
Dick's Out
That's right, folks. Dick Cheney is in town today to attend a high-dollar fundraiser for fellow Republican Ken Calvert. You may remember Ken from his 1993 arrest for soliciting a prostitute in Corona. Or maybe it's from his 2006 designation by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics as one of th ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2007
Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Target Practice on the 55?
Dana’s Idea of Sacrifice: Ex-Dana Rohrabacher aide Erik Prince and other Blackwater USA corporate officials have been dodging congressional questions about their private army’s alleged corruption, including killing innocent, unarmed Iraqi citizens. Mainstream news accounts thoroughly detail the ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2007
Muslim Bashers of Orange County Unite!
Want to start a jihad against jihadis? You'll get your chance this October, when the David Horowitz Freedom Center plans to organize "the biggest conservative campus protest ever" with something called Islamo-Facism Awareness Week in college campuses across America. It didn't surprise us that UC Irv ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2007
Rohrabacher v. Gonzales
You know a political scandal has sailed past the point of no return when even Dana Rohrabacher (R-Surfin') sounds like a voice of reason. From CBS News: Pressure mounted on the White House Thursday to fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for the abrupt dismissal of U.S. attorneys. More Republican ... More >>
Columns
November 16, 2006
Commie Girl
Madam Chairwoman: Rock on!
Blogs
November 8, 2006
Hughcifer Unhinged
When it came to this election, Hugh Hewitt, our favorite unintentional radio comedian, fought a long, hard battle against reality. One expects no less from him. He took extraordinary measures to blind and deafen himself, even engaged in a little body-snatching from the Democratic political graveya ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2006
Who Stole the Election from the Stealers?
As Gustavo's recent post on Hugh Hewitt suggests, even Republican diehards are beginning to surrender. That raises an important question: how will conspiracy theorists explain the stolen election that wasn't? Many on the left had warned that the GOP had everything wired--from electronic voting machi ... More >>
News
November 2, 2006
Not a 'Stiff,' Nor a 'Loser'
WEB EXCLUSIVE! The OC Weeklys Statewide picks
Blogs
August 24, 2006
The Short Shelf Life of Rev. Lou's Man
What's a frothing-at-the-mouth preacher, who's been named one of the Top 10 Power Broker of the Religious Right and can squeeze more than $6 million a year out of the faithful (and/or gullible), got to do to get a public display of affection from the California Republican Party? If you know, you sh ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2006
Two Shades of Green
Perhaps it's only logical that in a state which has a man still trading on his movie role as a killer cyborg from the future as governor, politics would grow closer to comic books. Or perhaps it isn't. Either way, it's California. At last weekend's state GOP convention, the San Francisco Chronicl ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2006
How 'Bout a Hummer?
Oh, why or why can they not bring back the open primary? If allowed today, we would have strolled into our (provisional) polling place with our GOP registration, crossed party lines to pick one of dem battling Dems, and sung just loud enough for the old lady in the next booth to hear: Goin' down wit ... More >>
Columns
April 27, 2006
Commie Girl
Sex, Sex, Sex! No, really: sex
Blogs
March 12, 2006
How Do You Spell Ethics? G-O-P
Got the latest newsletter from my surfin' Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). We only recall receiving these in the years ol' Dana's running for reelection (again and again and again -- and he's for term limits!). But this one is titled the Spring Newsletter, so maybe we've just toss ... More >>
Columns
November 11, 2004
Letters
Got the latest newsletter from my surfin' Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). We only recall receiving these in the years ol' Dana's running for reelection (again and again and again -- and he's for term limits!). But this one is titled the Spring Newsletter, so maybe we've just toss ... More >>
News
January 23, 2003
Bush's New Year Devolution
Got the latest newsletter from my surfin' Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). We only recall receiving these in the years ol' Dana's running for reelection (again and again and again -- and he's for term limits!). But this one is titled the Spring Newsletter, so maybe we've just toss ... More >>
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August 10, 2000
Generation Next
Got the latest newsletter from my surfin' Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). We only recall receiving these in the years ol' Dana's running for reelection (again and again and again -- and he's for term limits!). But this one is titled the Spring Newsletter, so maybe we've just toss ... More >>
Columns
February 25, 1999
Letters
Got the latest newsletter from my surfin' Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). We only recall receiving these in the years ol' Dana's running for reelection (again and again and again -- and he's for term limits!). But this one is titled the Spring Newsletter, so maybe we've just toss ... More >>
Columns
August 27, 1998
El Vez has left the building
And GOP boys will be boys
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