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Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly and the editorial crew over at The Orange County Registeroften delight their conservative audiences with savage attacks on Democrats while rationalizing or ignoring Republican Party shenanigans. Take, for example, California's recent power crisis. O'Reilly and the Register angrily blamed Democrats and environmentalists for the state's pathetic electric-regulatory system. Never mind …
Illustration by Bob AulThese are weighty days for Orange County apartment landlord George Argyros. Hoping his ambassador to Spain nomination sails to confirmation in the U.S. Senate, he is being investigated by the California attorney general for fraud and faces potentially ruinous civil lawsuits. You might think Argyros would be on his best behavior. Think …
The Reverend Lou Sheldon of the Anaheim-based Traditional Values Coalition has battled what he calls the Satan-inspired “homosexual threat” to America for more than 26 years. Invoking his trademark high-pitched, revival-preacher’s choppy cadence, Sheldon paints a frightening, conspiratorial picture. Gay bureaucrats and politicians have “permeated” government with plans to convert unsuspecting heterosexuals. Elementary schools harbor …
If the environmental effects of an 11-mile private toll road built down the middle of the Santa Ana River aren't immediately obvious, perhaps the likely economic and political consequences are. To understand those, let's go back seven years, to a humid July afternoon in 1993. Governor Pete Wilson and his Sacramento entourage whisk into Anaheim …
Photo by Keith MaySid Garcia—a reporter for Channel 7, the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles—stood with the Huntington Beach shoreline as his backdrop for the evening news the day before the Labor Day holiday began. Thanks to massive amounts of hazardous bacteria floating in the waters for at least eight weeks, the beach was nearly …