Subject: U.S. Senate

• The Ol Switcheroo

  November 11, 1999

• Got HIV/AIDS? Kick Hillary Clinton

  Perhaps preoccupied by the GOP man-boy love case in the lower house, the U.S. Senate over the weekend failed to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act and with it about $6 million annually that helps Orange County deal with a growing HIV population and increasing number of AIDS cases, alerts the AIDS Services Foundation of Orange County. The foundation notes that federal funding patterns typically show Orange County getting less dollars as more is diverted to regions with higher HIV/AIDS rates. Ext

  October 3, 2006

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Rhinotillexomania

  August 27, 2007

• Rate Rape

  February 15, 2001

• 2002: Diary of a Mad Year

  January 2, 2003

• Pol Dancing

  August 24, 2000

• Sheriff Mike Carona Corruption Trial Quote of the Day!

  "I like his values system."--Defense witness Thomas Banks, a volunteer pilot in the Orange County Sheriff's Aero Squadron, on why he'd contributed to Sheriff Mike Carona's campaign and offered him a paid board position at his company, Aperture Health of Mission Viejo. Last year, FBI agents arrested OC's top cop--a foul-mouthed, voracious adulterer who surrounded himself with three convicted felons, reneged on all 10 of his original campaign promises, aided a murderer/businessman in a product sch

  December 12, 2008

• John Taylor Describes His Last Day on the Job at Nixon Library

  John H. Taylor, who left his longtime gig as the executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation to lead St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church and School as the Rancho Santa Margarita church's vicar, describes the events of his last day on the job in Yorba Linda here.It was highlighted by a visit from Edward Nixon, Dick's younger brother and the sole survivor among Hannah and Frank Nixon's five boys, who recounted childhood tales, hawked his new book The Nixons: A Fami

  February 18, 2009

• DeVore Scoffs at Budget Data Suggesting Orange County Uses More, Spends Less for State Services

  Assembly Budget Committee chairwoman Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) released data from the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) that suggests cuts under the state budget plan approved Thursday morning could hit Republican areas hardest because they use more government services, while the tax burden falls more heavily on Democratic leaning counties. Evans' analysis rubs Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) the wrong way, Malcolm Maclachlan reports in Sacramento's Capitol Weekly

  February 20, 2009

• Is Re-election Loretta Sanchez's Most Difficult Option?

  Near the end of this Reid Wilson story on TheHill.com, Republicans indicate they will go hard at the congressional seat currently held by Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) in 2010. "We are looking to some unconventional districts where we believe we can draft a top-flight candidate to create additional opportunities," says Ken Spain, the National Republican Congressional Committee's communications chief. Days earlier, Sanchez was coy with Politico.com on whether she

  April 3, 2009

• Not Taking It Anymore

  OC Young Democrats Women’s Forum

  September 6, 2007

• The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

  May 29, 2003

• Crash-Test Dummy

  December 5, 2002

• Epistolary Democracy

  The 22nd Annual Great American Write-In

  March 22, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 3, 2006

• A Very Special Introduction

  December 15, 2005

• a Clockwork Orange

  September 22, 2005

• The Regulatory Disaster That Isnt

  September 15, 2005

• July 7 - July 14

  July 7, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 24, 2005

• Diary of A Mad County

  January 27, 2005

• Learning to Live With it

  December 9, 2004

• Scoring the Quiz

  November 25, 2004

• O, America . . .

  Reflections on Election Day, 2004

  November 4, 2004

• Pussies Galore!

  July 29, 2004

• Just Another Wedding Expo

  Gay and lesbian event trudges on, politics be damned

  July 22, 2004

• Letters

  March 11, 2004

• Secret War Hero

  March 4, 2004

• Hail the Preemptive Heroes

  April 10, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• A Clockwork Orange

  July 11, 2002

• Slim Pickins

  March 7, 2002

• Art, Gays and the American Way

  February 28, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• Not So Liberal

  July 19, 2001

• Just Build More Roads

  March 15, 2001

• Must-See MTV

  February 15, 2001

• John G. Schmitz, In His Own Words

  January 25, 2001

• Waterworld

  November 9, 2000

• 'Hello...Is This Thing On?'

  September 28, 2000

• Letter to Shredder

  August 31, 2000

• Shut Em Down!

  April 20, 2000

• Mark of the Beast

  March 2, 2000

• Only the End of the World, Again

  December 2, 1999

• It Takes a Village Idiot

  August 19, 1999

• October-December

  January 7, 1999

• You Gotta Keep 'em Separated

  December 24, 1998

• Cox and Bull

  November 19, 1998

• The Heat is Back on John Yoo

  Photo by Christopher VictorioYoo before his Chapman debate.The April 21 morning "terror memo" lawyer John Yoo appeared at the Chapman University debate, President Barack Obama said it would be up to his attorney general whether to prosecute former Bush administration advisors like Yoo. Since that day in Memorial Hall, the heat has turned up on AG Eric Holder to push the case forward, the U.S. Senate is leaning toward its own probe and, as many believed would happen, Spain's top investigative jud

  May 1, 2009

• Follow the Bouncing High-Speed Trains

  Rendering of new Anaheim transportation hub, awaiting whatever comes its way.Harry Reid (D-Nevada), who had earlier seemed to be the biggest supporter in the U.S. Senate for a magnetic-levitation (Maglev) train from Las Vegas to Anaheim, is now pooh-poohing such a system, favoring instead a high-speed, diesel-electric line from Sin City to Victorville.Besides the "yuck" factor--I mean, come on: have you been to Victorville?--what's most interesting about Reid choosing the proposed $5 million bil

  June 11, 2009