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U.S. Senate

  • Columns

    February 17, 2012

    Where Can I Find the Mexico of Donkey Shows?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And will Mexicans support Marco Rubio?

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    California Dream Act Repeal: EPIC FAIL!

    ​Supporters of a state initiative to repeal the California Dream Act Governor Jerry Brown signed into law last year announced today they failed to obtain the 500,000 signatures required to get a proposition on the ballot. See what happens when you have your Mexican gardener's wife distribute petit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    8 Reasons October Was 2011's Worst Month

    ​There was a lot to hate about 2011 as a whole.And, there are still nine days left for December to make a case for changing my mind about which was the worst month in Orange County this year.But, from my perch on this ivory tower I call "couch," I'm ready to proclaim October 2011 as the nastiest m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Backyard Skeptics' "Treaty of Tripoli" Billboard Advocates Separation of Church and State

    ​Having screwed the pooch on a billboard with an atheist-friendly misquote from Thomas Jefferson has not stopped Fountain Valley-based Backyard Skeptics from going to the inkwell again. This time, above a Costa Mesa mattress store, it's a 48x14-foot "Treaty of Tripoli" billboard that boldly states ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Court Okays George Jaramillo's $529,000 Pay Day; Cites Peace Officer's Bill of Rights

    George and Mike: Before the storm​A California Court of Appeal has affirmed a lower court's decision to award George Jaramillo nearly $529,000 in backpay and lawyer fees because the former Orange County assistant sheriff's 2004 firing blatantly violated the state's peace officer's bill of rights ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Fruit Flies Back in OC to Bedevil Jerry Brown

    ​The bane of Jerry Brown's first go-round as governor is back.It's a teeny-weeny, eensy-weensy fruit fly. Actually, it's two of them, found in Westminster earlier this month. They join two more trapped in the Anaheim-Yorba Linda area near the end of June and start of July.How can four fruit flies ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    [UPDATED with Alcohol Cited:] Ex-OC Supervisor, Assemblyman and Booze Hound Bruce Nestande's Daughter Accused of Fatal Hit-and-Run

    UPDATE, JUNE 8, 12:30 P.M.: ​The first post on this story began by tying in a drunken driving crash caused by former Orange County Supervisor and state Assemblyman Bruce Nestande in Newport Beach a few years ago with a hit-and-run death blamed on his 23-year-old daughter, Gabrielle Jane Nestande, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Gabrielle Jane Nestande, Ex-OC Assemblyman and Supervisor Bruce's Daughter, Held in Fatal Hit-and-Run

    ​The apple really doesn't fall far from the tree: former Orange County Supervisor and state Assemblyman Bruce Nestande served six months of house arrest and three years probation after pleading guilty in 2007 to driving drunk the wrong way on a one-way street and hitting a parked car. Now his 23-y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Loretta Sanchez Pushes Anti-Stalking Law With Anti-Gay Dingbat

    Virginia Foxx, dingbat​In a bipartisan effort with a notorious North Carolina Republican, Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is proposing a new federal anti-stalking law that is designed to aid law enforcement in capturing offenders.The pair has dubbed their House Resolution 196 the Simpl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    "Everyday Affluent" Can Be Pampered in Newport Coast Vacation Home

    ​Do you consider yourself a member of the "everyday affluent" who has endured poor vacation experiences or, at least, been forced to congregate near common, working-class folks?Well, Brent Handler has an idea you might like:Never lower your standards from the luxury you deserve--especially after B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    House Votes to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell; Loretta Sanchez Says Gay Soldiers Can Bolster National Security

    If boys can be soldiers, why not gays?​The endless screaming you hear is from a rural Virginia estate, the home of former Orange County Congressman Robert K. Dornan, who must be quite aroused by today's events. Loretta Sanchez, the woman who ended his notable political career in 1996, today d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Carly Fiorina Goes From a Hospital Bed to a Retirement Village

    ​Fresh from a hospital bed, where she was being treated for an infection tied to her reconstructive breast surgery after cancer, Carly Fiorina brings her U.S. Senate campaign to Laguna Woods this afternoon.The Republican nominee for the seat held by Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is scheduled to ap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    New York Times Data: OC Elections Aren't Really Contests

    Ed Royce: Shoo-in elections are fun.​Do we have real congressional election contests in the Orange County/Long Beach area or, despite all the hullabaloo, is the whole affair preordained?Data from The New York Times, based on FiveThirtyEight Forecasts, shows the answer isn't necessarily uplifting. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Elvira Casts Spell Over 2010 Election

    Photo by Kevin Scanlon​Elvira, out recent cover ghoul, has thrown her two . . . erm . . . cents into the 2010 mid-term election.Elvira's World: Casandra Peterson is pushing 60 and still Mistress of the DarkThe midnight Movie Macabre maven, who for years was the face and . . . uh . . . form of Knot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Vota Tus Valores Bus Preaches Family Values, But a Passenger Aboard is Accused of Assault

    ​One thing you should know about our post earlier today on the long, strange trip of a bus filled with conservative Hispanics and marriage inequality proponents reaching out to Latino voters: according to the first (and, at this writing, only) comment left with the post, the vehicle marked "Vota T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2010

    Sunday News Notes

    ​News highlights include:Meg Whitman's cash is buying her second placeCathleen Decker of the LA Times reports that new polling shows Jerry Brown gaining a "slight edge" over Meg Whitman and that Barbara Boxer has "opened a wider margin over GOP nominee Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate. ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2010

    Protesters Greet Barney Frank in Orange County

    Frank speaking​Late this afternoon more than 40 protesters greeted the arrival of Congressman Barney Frank in Orange County, but the sentiments weren't welcoming in the place once hailed as "Reagan Country." "No more [Sen. Barbara] Boxer!" the protesters shouted repeatedly in unison as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Chuck DeVore Reverts to the Geek We Knew He Was

    John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyChuck DeVore waits while downloading the lightsaber app.​When Irvine state assemblyman Chuck DeVore started running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate more than a year ago, our first impression was that he was an affable nerd running something of a jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    U.S. Senate Candidate Suggests Orange Be Declared a "Ruled By Clowns" City

    ​Anaheim community activist Duane Roberts--the Green Party nominee for the U.S. Senate seat that only Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina, Edward C. Noonan (American Independent), Gail K. Lightfoot (Libertarian), Marsha Feinland (Peace and Freedom) or a write-in candidate can prevent him taking in the No ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    OC Democrat Asks Republicans To Drop 'No New Tax' Pledge

    Photo by Christopher VictorioDemocratic Assembly candidate Melissa Fox has a taxing idea.​According to Melissa Fox, a Democratic Party candidate for Orange County's 70th Assembly District, the problem with California government isn't high taxes, a bloated bureaucracy or the massive $20 billion bud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    From the Irvine Tea Party: It's Not Okay to F*ck Obama

    Spencer Kornhaber / OC WeeklyA Wheel of Fortune joke? Really?​That sign seems mean, right? Well, some people at today's tea party at the Irvine Auto Center agreed. They knew that scummy media types (ahem) would take pictures of it. So they made it go away.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Erik Brown, GOP Fall Guy?

    ​Is Erik Brown--a pillar of his church and the Orange County Young Republicans political director--the hypocrite who spent nearly $2,000 in Republican National Committee funds at the bondage-themed club Voyeur in West Hollywood?

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Political Rashomon: How U.S. Senate Campaigns View (or Spin) Same Poll

    Boxer: going down​It's interesting to see how the campaigns of the leading contenders for the U.S. Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer are reacting to a new Field Poll.For the sake of argument (and parochialism), we're including Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) among the leading contenders.The po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Hot Air, Mad Men and Hog Slopping at the California GOP Convention

    Carly Fiorina--the former Silicon Valley CEO and current U.S. Senate candidate who ruffled the feathers of Irvine assemblyman and fellow Republican nomination seeker Chuck DeVore with her campaign's "demon sheep" ad--apparently scored a big hit at this past weekend's GOP state convention in Santa Cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    No Nukes is Good Nukes ... For Now

    ​The Orange County Register's Teri Sforza has a fascinating post today that answers the question "Will California be frozen out of Obama's nuclear future?" this way: definitely yes in the short term, possibly no in the long term.

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    John Campbell: Too Whimsical to be Tom Campbell

    What do you think, ladies? Is John (left) "better looking" than Tom?​ We've written before about how Congressman John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) is an excellent blogger and all-around avuncular guy, what with his a strange tendency towards faux-folksy exuberance when raving about great President ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Orly Taitz to Run for Office?

    California Secretary of State Debra Bowen to be replaced by Orly Taitz?​ Anti-Obama crusader Orly Taitz may be finished with her lawsuit in the Orange County federal courthouse, but that doesn't mean we're done seeing her around here.In fact, Californians may get to know her even better in 2010- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Weekly Papermates Are All Over Haiti Earthquake

    Matthew Marek/American Red CrossA Haitian boy injured in the earthquake is helped by a Red Cross worker.​One good thing about having a Mothership lording over this and other alternative-media outlets around the country is the ability to instantly access coverage to major news events in the backyar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 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-spe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    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 da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2007

    Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Rhinotillexomania

    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 ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 22, 2005

    a Clockwork Orange

    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 ... More >>

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    The Regulatory Disaster That Isnt

    Cox and the media spin a tale of government red tape that should be killing American companiesbut isnt

  • Columns

    January 27, 2005

    Diary of A Mad County

    Cox and the media spin a tale of government red tape that should be killing American companiesbut isnt

  • Features

    November 25, 2004

    Scoring the Quiz

    Cox and the media spin a tale of government red tape that should be killing American companiesbut isnt

  • Features

    November 4, 2004

    O, America . . .

    Reflections on Election Day, 2004

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Pussies Galore!

    What local candidates dont want voters to know

  • Columns

    March 11, 2004

    Letters

    What local candidates dont want voters to know

  • Features

    January 2, 2003

    2002: Diary of a Mad Year

    What local candidates dont want voters to know

  • Columns

    July 11, 2002

    A Clockwork Orange

    Diary of a Mad County

  • News

    February 28, 2002

    Art, Gays and the American Way

    Diary of a Mad County

  • News

    March 15, 2001

    Just Build More Roads

    Is the Auto Club working for you or for the auto industry?

  • Unknown

    November 9, 2000

    Waterworld

    Is the Auto Club working for you or for the auto industry?

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    'Hello...Is This Thing On?'

    Nader and Benjamin try to get heard

  • News

    March 2, 2000

    Mark of the Beast

    Dornans kid: An old voice for a new generation

  • Columns

    November 11, 1999

    The Ol Switcheroo

    Dornans kid: An old voice for a new generation

  • Columns

    August 19, 1999

    It Takes a Village Idiot

    Dornans kid: An old voice for a new generation

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    Cox and Bull

    Dornans kid: An old voice for a new generation

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