Former solicitor general under President George W. Bush, Ted Olson is the principal lawyer for those seeking to overturn Prop 8 in the highly publicized trial taking place in San Francisco. He pens a thoughtful piece in this week’s edition of…
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Irvine Council Member Steven Choi Embarrasses Himself and City at Truman Dinner
by Dan Chmielewski • • 160 Comments
While the Irvine City Council is officially non-partisan, Council member Steven Choi has taken the extreme step of conservative partisanship to show up in the lobby of the Irvine Hilton wearing a banner on his back equating House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Josef Stalin, complete with a Hammer and Sickle.
The First Person to Say Something Good About President Obama on Fox
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
Since YouTube took down the video, click here
Paul Krugman: Reagan’s Zombie Economic Policies
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
Sunday’s New York Times features this terrific column by Nobel-prize winning economist and Princeton professor Paul Krugman who speculates on why Reaganism’s economic promise is a documented failure but still lives on in Conservative strongholds in Congress and State Legislatures.…
QuachGate: Andy Quach’s Apology to the City
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
Last night Councilman Andy Quach, who was arrested on August 2 after driving his Mercedes S550 into a power pole and block wall with a .26% blood alcohol level, apologized for his actions. Comparing himself to Former President George W.…
Did Bush Directly Authorize Torture? FBI Email Says Yes
by Misha Houser • • 5 Comments
The article below was posted on the Los Angeles based 501c3 group, The Public Record website today. An FBI email claims that “W” signed an executive order approving torture. This explosive bit of information should further heat up the debate over torture.…
The Trial of John Yoo
by Michael D. Fox • • 4 Comments
I have just returned from a debate on presidential power at Chapman University Law School. In retrospect, the event should more properly have been called “The Trial of John Yoo.†And strikingly, it was Yoo who cast himself in the…
