I love to see community activists starting their own blogs. Joe Shaw did it to fight Huntington Beach’s City Council: Greetings From Huntington Beach. And now a group of people that are trying to stop development in the 510-acre West…

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The Voting Rights Act wins renewal in the House. [Political Affairs Magazine] The bill reauthorizes three important provisions of the Voting Rights Act that will expire in August 2007. The law, arguably the most successful civil rights legislation ever passed,…

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I know that this may be a small step back, but try to think back to mid-June when the Westminster School Board hired and then fired Kimoanh Nguyen- Lam in the blink of an eye…making Nguyen-Lam the first Vietnamese-American superintendent…

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I don’t know too much about the Huntington Beach City Council. That’s why I really liked the Huntington Beach Independent article on Joe Shaw and his run for a council seat. The article explains some of the issues that Joe…

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Well the Garden Grove City Council decided Tuesday to continue to subsidize the long-standing tradition of coming to Garden Grove on July 4th, lighting things on fire, leaving all of your smoldering trash, and then going back to your city.…

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This morning I was thinking how literature has provided social commentary throughout history. This led me to consider what classic literary works might provide commentary on the state of affairs in the United States today. I found two such works…

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I just read in the OC Register that the day-labor site along Laguna Canyon Road will remain open for at least another year, thanks to the good folks working at The City of Laguna Beach. Of course, the agreement with…

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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” — Buddha Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak, revealed in his column on Tuesday July 11, 2006 that Karl Rove was indeed his source for the outing of Ambassador…

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Really glad the Register’s Frank Mickadeit is still so interested in the comings and goings at Irvine City Hall. Frank still can’t stop writing about the Irvine Sister Cities issue between PRC and Taiwan. There was a letter to the…

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I found this photo at the OC Blog. Only a Republican would make a joke out of one of the lowest points in the history of the American Presidency. [OC Blog]

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From the Orange County Register: The Orange County grand jury, under its government oversight function, has issued a report criticizing the Board of Supervisors for not doing enough about the county’s homeless problem. The problem “does not appear to be…

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I picked this up at metroG.com. It seems that the right will stop at nothing to scapegoat the LGBT community. While I’m not surprised, I am disapointed. TRANSGENDERS CLAIM FEMA SEX CHANGE SCANDAL WAS FABRICATED The public was “bamboozled” by…

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