Young Americans for Freedom

[UPDATED with Kreep Wins!] Did Dirty Trickster James Lacy Help Minuteman-Birther Gary Kreep Win Judge Race?

See update at the end of this post clarifying that Gary Kreep won the judge's race outright.Batshit birthers Gary Kreep and Orly Taitz famously split like Dick and Liz while trying to prove Barack Obama was born outside the U.S. While South County's birfer queen went on to lose her recent bid for a ... More >>

The Evil of Banality: YAF's 2013 Reagan Calendar, Tom Fuentes' Passing, and It's a Smelly World After All

It's not necessary to have an opinion about everything, but it sure is fun to try. And by "opinion" I mean analysis, critique, an arguable and defensible position and not that thing everybody's got one of and, boy, do they all smell bad. And, while I am at it, no, it's not a small world after all, f ... More >>

OC Bookly at the LA Times Festival of Books

I've attended nearly all of the previous 16 years of the annual Los Angeles Times books festivals, this one again on the campus of USC. There was that one year I missed, when the bibliochild was born and some friends, fellow writers and Santa Monica Review volunteers staffed the SMR booth, ... More >>

Bookworms

White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy

Make Sure Dana Rohrabacher Never Accepts Social Security

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Wacko Heights) hasn't spoken to the Weekly since--take your pick--Moxley exposed him as a Taliban sympathizer or we published a photo of him in mujahideen garb (or was it the one where he wore an Uncle Sam hat and glassy, besotted eyes?). So can someone out there ask ... More >>

FOO Fighter

We're re-posting this Oct. 10, 2005, post because: a) A reader wondered why the Weekly had never connected slime-ball GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff to our smurfin' Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). As the post shows, Clockwork had (and Moxley will mention it in Thursday's edition). 2) ... More >>

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Aborting Their Own

OC conservatives say a San Diego publisher has hijacked the anti-abortion movement

Dem Hopes

The profound enjoyment of punching ourselves in the face

Where Have All the Blowhards Gone?

An Iraq invasion retrospective!

Smug As a Bug in a Rug

Republicans, reporters preen, groom selves at congratulatory LA bash

Letters

Jingo Fever

YAFfers try to strangle Surf City council member with yellow ribbons

Letters

Irk Day

SUV the Earth!

Slate Nailer

Conservative James Lacy plays turncoat to sway elections

Jet Set!

Hangin with homos in OKC and RepCon 2002, dawg

Diary of a mad county

Orange County, California: 2001

It Slices, It Dices, It Hijacks

Feminazis vs. Regular Old Nazis

Summer-Rama!

39 of the best things about the next 104 days

The Girl Who Peed Herself

And other tales of hilarity from election night

You Are Surrounded by Idjits, Mostly

Our cruel but insightful wrap-up of OC Elections

Gay-Baiting Brown

Did a smear campaign force Republican ''caveman'' out of key Assembly race?

Letters

Shag It, Baby

Yet another column about gay people, plus a really vicious fight

Be Nice!

There are enough bitchy drag queens in the world!

Letters

Rat Boy Slim

How I helped resuscitate Elia Kazan

Hot for Teacher

Defending the enemy du jour-so you don't have to!

The Straight Guy at the Gay Pool Party

And other tales from the political season

Give It the Old College Guide*

The finer (and lesser) points of local institutions

The Abortionist Who Funds Pro-Life Republicans