edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Looks like there’s something to our contention that the supposedly non-partisan Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is really just a gay auxiliary for the Democratic National Committee.
Checking out “HRC PAC records at OpenSecrets.org for the 2010 election cycle,” principled left-wing blogger Michael Petrelis finds that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) [...]
Today, Iran sent troops into Iraqi territory and seized one of Iraq's oil wells.
This is nothing new; it evidently happens several times every year:
The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said,' [...]
California, other deficit-plagued states look to 'Stimulus II' - Sac Bee
"They're not stimulating the economy," McClintock said. "They're stimulating government at the expense of the economy. And nobody has noticed that the federal government is running a larger debt proportionately than even states like California."
Republicans [...]
There is a simple solution to my objections to the health care bill as it stands. My objection is that the government is ordering everyone to buy expensive insurance from giant corporations. The solution is to just drop that mandate that orders everyone to buy insurance, and keep everything else [...]
Habit Burger Grill’s first Orange County location officially opened today, at the CityPlace Shopping Center in Santa Ana.
For the uninitiated, Habit Burger is said to be the West Coast’s best burger.
The first Habit Burger Grill stand opened more [...]
Updated at 3:55 p.m.
Three-time congressional candidate Delecia Holt wrote bad checks for everything from buying a Mercedes to a month-long hotel stay to expenses for suspicious fundraiser, according to witnesses in the fraud trial begun today.
While the nine felony counts could land her in prison for nearly 12 years, more [...]
Reader Don Easterbrook submits this via e-mail on the “warmest decade” which also happens to have declining temperatures. (emphasis ours)
As he says: “The decade of 2000 to 2009 appears to be the warmest one in the modern record, the World Meteorological Organization reported in a new analysis on Tuesday. … [...]
State Senator Lou Correa celebrates the opening of the new Lee’s Sandwiches in Santa Ana
It is a big deal when a new business opens up in Santa Ana, particularly during the awful economic crisis our nation is currently undergoing. Perhaps that is why [...]
Aside from oil and coal companies, I can think of another group with a BIG stake in climate change denial and that is developers, property owners and realtors who are trying to sell coastal property.
Imagine what happens to the value of property that is less than 50 feet above [...]
Well, the House passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill that covers only part of current operating expenses and includes 5,000 earmarks from congresscritters — you know, those pet projects that the department in question has not requested but the critters put in to pay off special interests in their [...]
The race to replace Senator Sam Aanestad (SD4) is certainly going to be interesting. As I have bloged here before, both Assemblyman LaMalfa and Assemblyman Keene have similar voting records (see link here), with LaMalfa being sightly more conservative (California Republican Assembly lifetime voting [...]
Bus Rules Fail. Sign on the Seattle Metro route #358
Why does a sign like that need to be posted? Would you want to ride on a bus line where they alert passengers that gang rape apparently happens all the time? [...]
An expensive date: Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez
Residents of Santa Ana have a median income of $41,050 per family, according to Wikipedia. That works out to $789 a week.
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, who represents Santa Ana in the 47th Congressional District, is having a reception on Monday, December [...]
The LA City Council, after a lot of deliberation these past couple months, has OK'd a cap on medical marijuana dispensaries. The ordinance dictates a total number of 70 throughout the city, with an allowance for the 140 or so operating now under legal city registration. There may be as [...]
First, a bloggin disclaimer: This post is undertaken with no financial compensation or editorial oversight from CD 2 Candidate Paul Krekorian's campaign consultant Eric Hacopian. It seems that the "Observing West LA and his Westside Times" blogger Kevin Roderick has some "breaking news" about a' [...] 
In these pages, I’ve taken my councilmember to task for contacting me only to invite me to his expensive fundraisers. I’ve wondered what he does. Yesterday I got the following message which tells me, for the first time, [...]
