When current Irvine council member Christina Shea was mayor of Irvine in the late 1990s and the battle against the then proposed El Toro Airport was at a fever pitch, Mayor Shea put her heart and soul into a new…
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The State of the Union
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
In case the coverage in Big Bear distracted you from the State of the Union, it was an ambitious speech by President Obama with a call for a national pre-school program to help kids get off to a better start,…
Young Voters in Montana Skew Blue
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
The New York Times carried this page one story about how in the very red state of Montana, a state that went from Mitt Romney last year and John McCain in 2008, millennial voters are strong liberals who don’t see…
NRA has an Enemies List of Political Cartoonists
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
Remember President Nixon’s Enemies List? The National Rifle Association has one too. The NRA’s list features prominent journalists and political editorial cartoonists. From the post: So perhaps it’s linguistically fitting that of the 37 journalists on an NRA-ILA roster of…
Own a Gun? California Dems want to Require you Buy Liability Insurance
by Dan Chmielewski • • 18 Comments
A car can cause lots of damage to property or people when used carelessly. So can a gun. In a proposal that in no way hinder’s anyone’s ability to own a gun, California Democrats are proposing new legislation that would…
Tea Party Whack Jobs Send Me Mail
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
I’m on some conservative mailing list. It’s happened before. One of my co-workers once registered me for membership in the Republican National Committee as a joke and it was the source of lots of entertainment during the Bush years. And…
Why Hasn’t Cardinal Mahony Been Arrested?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
Each morning, the LA Times team covering the ongoing child sexual abuse scandal by priests in the Los Angeles archdiocese brings new revelations more shocking than the previous days story. Over the weekend, Cardinal Roger Mahony was essentially stripped of…
