While we’re managing our reporting of the Jerry Amante recall effort, we nearly forgot to mention that it’s been 30 years since President Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley. In constrast to the Reagan shooting, no one brought up…
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A Reader Rebuttal worth Reading
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments

On April Fool’s Day 2007, Mike Lawson pulled the perfect prank announcing that Red County has acquired the Liberal OC blog and changed the name to “The Blue Minority” with a tag line “Because even Liberals should get the chance…
Note to Tea Partiers: The Auto Industry Bailout Worked
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
Dick Polman has a thoughtful column in a recent edition of the Philadephia Inquirer about all the grief President Obama and President George W. Bush got for the TARP and Automobile Industry bailouts. And a little more than two years later,…
The Obama Rebound
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
It’s been a tough year for President Obama, but there are a host of new polls and editorials out suggesting the President has done a pretty good job in the first half of his presidency. For example, the New York…
Cheney and Rumsfeld Tonight at the Nixon Library
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
As we reported a few weeks ago when Ann Coulter was in town, the bigger event coming to the Nixon Library before the end of the year happens tonight when former Vice President Dick Cheney joins former Defense Secretary Donald…
Is it possible to be against illegal immigration but for immigration reform?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 8 Comments
  It’s a befuddling question. And one sure to have strong opinions, but I pose this question to our readers. Is it possible to be against illegal immigration and for comprehensive immigration reform. And by being anti-illegal immigration, does that…
Hey Tea Partiers! Direct Your Outrage Here;Bush Great Recession Cost Average American Households $100,000
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
Meagan Barth! Are you there? And where are you Chuck DeVore. DeMint! You were just in OC. Hey Van Tran, I can tell you apart from Lou Correa. Scott Baugh, place your notes on your TeaParty Crate and direct your…

