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Overseas observers say we were sunk before we started: longtime political snipers at Moscow's eXile predict Republicans going two for two not so much because of fraud but because America gets the government it deserves, or deserves the government it gets, or both. Says editor Mark Ames: What makes us so confident? Dr. Johnson once …
Despite accusing the MSM ad nauseum of bias local yakker Hugh Hewitt makes no qualms about his politics: Republican (with a large -R). Yet the lead-in music for Hewitt's radio show today featured a clip of the quintessential Democrat, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Hewitt spliced it with a Dubya speech, insinuating that Bush is as much …
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Does Joe Carchio's candidacy for the Huntington Beach City Council represent the second coming of disgraced former mayor Dave Garofalo? It kinda looks that way, and not only because the two share the same East Coast roots, passion-for-pasta physique and inimitably fractured writing style. Garofalo is a familiar face at Carchio's downtown Huntington Beach restaurant, …
American Blackout. Documentary look at the voting irregularities of 2000 and 2004, irregularities the Republicans insist had no significant bearing on the final results and certainly won't be a problem in this election. And if you don't believe them, you're a terrorist. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 117 N. Sycamore Ave., Santa Ana, (714) …
Like the unstoppable killer in a horror movie, an unfeeling entity who once menaced OC and was believed to be long gone, is now poised to return. Just in time for Halloween, no less. If nothing else, you have to admire the timing. A county finance committee voted yesterday to add Merrill Lynch to the …
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher had his ass handed to him yesterday in not one but two debates with opponent Jim Brandt. At least, I think he did. It's kinda hard to find out. Why is that? It's because the only mention of Rohrabacher in the past day's press is as Tan Nguyen's former opponent. Damn it. …
This is OC Weekly's 10th consecutive Best of OC issue and it comes 296 years after the very first Best of issue was ever published—that was Gottfried Leibniz, who called his Best of the Essais de Thodice, and it included everything in the entire world because things were that much better in 1710. And when people …
Talk all you want about the other shit—politics this, culture that; I'm bored with you and your CCCP buddies. What's best about Orange County is elitist and uncomfortable and dirtier than 4 a.m. phone sex TV ads. It's more elemental than all that righteous goodness, all the things that better OC residents work and fight and …
Assemblywoman Mimi Walters (R-73, 241, 133) is a class act. And like any act, she can be yours if you can afford the hiring fee. Just ask Big Tobacco. Hell, just ask Rancho Mission Viejo; she's really going the extra mile for them. Sixteen miles actually—the length of the proposed Foothill-South toll road extension. Let's …
At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A team of …
There's nothing illegal about paying your spouse to work on your congressional campaign. Richard Pombo did it. So did Tom DeLay. Even local boy Dana Rohrabacher does it. The Sunlight Foundation is busily compiling information on all sorts of representatives, but for the moment they're focusing on members of Congress and their families. Using something …
We'd just hit the send button on that last post when we received this concerning the county's “reluctancy to let sunshine in” on their Aliso Creek clean-up project. It's an email exchange between local do-gooder group Iris Project and county Supervisor Tom Wilson, whose district includes Aliso Creek: From: Iris Adam [mailto:ir**@*ci.edu” title=”This contact has …