Subject: U.S. Secret Service

• Cheeseburgers and Patsies in the White House

  If it wasn't for the cheeseburgers, I might have found this morning's resignation of White House Chief of Staff Andy Card touching. Certainly the reporters– and I use that word loosely– on the various cable news stations did, but then they were just following the White House's lead and ignoring the cheeseburgers. The mood the White House was going for was Hallmark-card maudlin, as the Associated Press' description of event makes clear: Gripping the podium, Card said in his farewell:

  March 28, 2006

• Secret Link Between Loretta Sanchez & Bob Dornan: An Appreciation of Male Thighs

  In the late 90s, Orange County Congressman Robert K. Dornan couldn't stop himself from noting his fascination with then-President Bill Clinton. After watching a news clip of Clinton jog in shorts with a Secret Service detail in tow, Dornan quickly transformed into a political Steven Cojocaru, the effeminate red carpet fashion critic who served a wild stint on NBC's Today Show. The Republican congressman known as the most homophobic member of congress at the time critiqued Clinton's allegedly "

  April 19, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines

  Rove's Tricked-Out Ride: Some folks at the White House apparently have a sense of humor. Karl Rove made the mistake of leaving his Jaguar on the private driveway next to the West Wing when he took off for Texas with le President. Now his car's covered in plastic wrap, post-it notes, stuffed animals and an "I love Obama" sticker. The area's heavily patrolled by the Secret Service, reports CBS, so the joke looks like an inside job. Ex-quarterback in trouble: Former USC quarterback Todd Marinovic

  August 29, 2007

• Cinderella Stories

  April 12, 2001

• Say it with Puppets

  August 28, 2003

• Dear Mr. Fuentes

  August 17, 2000

• La Voz de Aztlán Not Just Anti-Semitic, but Also Anti-Facts

  Our second-favorite piece of Internet effluvia (after Barbara Coe's e-mails, that is), is La Voz de Aztlán, the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing website run by Hector Carreon, a former Buena Park city employee who operates his one-man digital dung heap out of Whittier. What's funniest about Carreon is that he tries to portray himself as anti-Zionist, not anti-Jew, but fails miserably again and again. "La Voz de Aztlan stands against Anti-Semitism and any form of hate, xenophobia, racism and bigotry,"

  February 25, 2009

• Obama's Chin and a Little Bit of His Forehead

  by Daffodil Altan and Vickie Chang He came. We saw (kind of). He left. For one hour and 15 minutes, Building 12 of the OC Fairgrounds, which normally houses things like Sugar Plum craft festivals and ShamWow demo booths, turned into the Church of Obama--those lucky enough to get tickets were fanning themselves with fliers, napkins and whatever else they could find in purses and on floors. Shouts of "mmmm-hmm" and "that's right!" punctuated the crowded town-hall style meeting; loud che

  March 18, 2009

• Director Marc Forster Has a License to Confuse and Bore in the New Bond Flick 'Quantum of Solace'

  November 13, 2008

• The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

  May 15, 2008

• Multiperspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

  February 21, 2008

• Just a Random Female

  Robbin Brandley’s confessed killer sits on death row. So why don’t her parents consider the case closed?

  November 22, 2007

• Embracing Our Contradictions

  October 25, 2007

• Dying Another Day

  ‘Spy-Fi’

  August 16, 2007

• Protesters Don't Rattle Vietnam's President

  In OC, an affable Nguyen Minh Triet seeks to heal ‘old wounds’

  June 28, 2007

• Camera dCheatin

  The movies cant get enough of marrieds getting it on outside marriage

  February 8, 2007

• Letters

  'Moxleys use of "wheelchair-bound" and one "confined" to a wheelchair has been recognized as journalistically incorrect in the Associated Press stylebook for over a decade now. Why go out of the way to be politically inco

  November 9, 2006

• Men in Suits

  Weekly story brings past to life for ex-CIA pilot

  October 5, 2006

• Sleepers Awake!

  Bigg Jus and Nikola Tesla and the Lunar Hip-Hop Robot Camera

  August 24, 2006

• New Reviews

  The Sentinel, Silent Hill, Standing Still

  April 20, 2006

• The Year in Diary of a Mad County

  Worst. Year. Ever!
  

  December 29, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  Dec. 14-20

  December 22, 2005

• Bring Em On

  We go a-visiting with the president

  August 18, 2005

• Apples and Oranges

  Pringle to convention protesters: Bring it on

  September 23, 2004

• Burn, Bubba, Burn

  June 24, 2004

• Thats Our Bush!

  September 11, 2003

• Did Matt Lamont Try to Blow Up Hitlers Birthday Party?

  May 1, 2003

• Leviathan Overlord

  January 30, 2003

• Conservative American Tragedy

  May 16, 2002

• The Snake of the Union Address

  January 31, 2002

• Hurry!

  December 6, 2001

• Anthrax? Yawn

  November 22, 2001

• Not a Movie

  September 27, 2001

• Jurassic Hype

  July 26, 2001

• The First 100 Days

  February 1, 2001

• Monique Ponte

  September 14, 2000

• Yeah, We Want 'Bush'

  September 28, 2000

• Hippie Dick

  August 3, 2000

• Notes From E3

  May 25, 2000

• American Psycho

  March 23, 2000

• Letters

  January 13, 2000

• ANTI-RED BUTTONS

  January 6, 2000

• Mugged

  September 30, 1999

• Sex and the Single Gun

  April 22, 1999

• Letters to the Editor - 9/11/98

  September 17, 1998

• Rev. Wiley Drake Prays for Obama's Death

  Somehow, we here at Weekly HQ missed that the Rev. Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park not only declared last week that the murder of Kansas abortion Dr. George Tiller had been the answer to his "imprecatory" prayers, but that the so-called Man of God later announced he'd made a similar prayer of death for President Barack Obama. Listen for yourself above.Is that even legal?

  June 9, 2009

• Crime Time: Boozy Mom, Asshole Cop, Thieving Aliens, Fast-Acting Pharmacist and Lotsa Stabbers

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more boozy moms, asshole cops, fast-acting pharmacists, apartments full of thieving aliens and loads of stabbings!Courtesy of Costa Mesa Police DepartmentCraig Anthony McVay, 48, of Garden Grove, was in the midst of three years probation on a 2007 drug conviction when Costa Mesa Police was notified that he was selling one of the department's old SWAT uniforms on Craigslist.com. McVay then sweetened the offer to undercover officers

  September 9, 2009

• Crime Time: Rapers! Robbers! Wife Killer! Bad Cops! And a Real Bozo!

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--a day late and many dollars short of paying off the creditors who won't stop calling! Top photos courtesy of Huntington Beach Police Department A BOZO NO-NO: Here's the original suspect description Crime Time received for the Oct. 5 robbery of the US Bank inside the Ralphs supermarket at Adams and Brookhurst streets in Huntington Beach: white, in his 30s, weighing 200 pounds with a stocky build and wearing a blue shirt and jea

  October 21, 2009