In a desperate effort to repair his tattered drunken-bad-boy image, Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach whipped up outrage on the part of a small band of bigoted religious leaders to threaten boycotts of the parade he chaired. All this because "The Commies Gays are Coming, The Commies Gays are Coming to march in a...
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Tags: Andy Quach, Bigotry, Little Saigon, Tet Festival, Tet Parade, Westminster
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On the heels of last week’s national Tea Party convention, two of OC’s leading teabaggers are geting together to headline a Laguna Niguel protest in which most of the attendees got a federal tax cut this year. State Rep. Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) who is running for the US Senate seat now held by Senator...
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Tags: Barbara Boxer, Barbara Coe, Bigotry, Bill Hunt, Captain America, Chuck DeVore, Gay Marriage, George Will, Glenn Beck, Joe Arpaio, Marvel Comics, Meagan Barth, Racism, Scott Brown, Steven Choi, tea party, Teabaggers
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When I was child, my father, a World War II Navy veteran, taught me the story of the four chaplains of the USAT Dorchester.
I thought of the four chaplains during the presidential election when I listened to former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell explain why he endorsed Barack Obama for President of the...
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Tags: . George L. Fox, Alexander D. Goode, American Muslims, Arlington National Cemetery, Barack Obama, Bigotry, Bronze Star, Christianity, Clark V. Poling, Colin L. Powell, Colin Powell, Corporal Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Islam, John P. Washington, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Memorial Day, Muslims, Purple Heart, Religion, religious bigotry, Religious prejudice, U.S. Army, U.S. Muslims, Us. Navy, USAT Dorchester, veterans, World War II
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If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this doozy of a Rec List diary at Daily Kos. Apparently, there’s plenty that Rick Warren hasn’t been honest about. His AIDS programs in Africa have forsaken the effective measures taken to actually reduce transmissions of the virus, and instead have resulted in more infections. His...
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Tags: Bigotry, Civil Rights, inauguration, LGBT rights, President Obama, Prop H8, Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, South County
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Is this for real? Seriously?! I guess so.
The Democratic Party office in Denver was attacked last night. Someone threw bricks through the glass door and the window. Fortunately no one was in the office when the attack occurred, so no one was injured. Still, this makes me scratch my head.
It feels so bizarrely creepy...
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Tags: Bigotry, Hate, John McCain, Republican mistakes, sleaze, violence
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The Irvine Chamber of Commerce hosted a breakfast last Friday for the candidates for Mayor and City Council. Council member Steven Choi, running for re-election despite already having a committee to raise funds for a run at Chuck DeVore assembly seat in 2010, by luck of the draw, was selected to be the final...
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Tags: Bigotry, CAIR, Choi, Gallinger, Irvine City Council, Muslim, Shea
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