 The late Senator Everett Dirksen once said wryly about spending public money, “A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.†Red County’s Matt Cunningham is positively shameless when it comes to being…
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Obama Weekly Address: Calling for Fiscal Discipline
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
From The White House Blog: This week the President reiterates a theme that has been a hallmark of his career, namely that “old habits and stale thinking” will simply not help us solve the new and immense problems our country…
A Great American Hope: Time to Pardon Jack Johnson
by Michael D. Fox • • Comments Off
O my Lord What a morning, O my Lord, What a feeling, When Jack Johnson Turned Jim Jeffries’ Snow-white face to the ceiling. Adaptation of the spiritual “My Lord, What a Morning” by William Waring Cuney, 1910. While I’m skeptical…
Thanks Mr. President for Visiting Orange County
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
We’ve covered just about every point of view I could think of regarding President Obama’s visit and town hall meeting in Costa Mesa last week. Or so I thought. It turns out that we missed some things in our coverage…
Obama Weekly Address: A Budget Equal to the Task Before Us
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
From the White House Blog: The President reflects on lessons from his time spent outside Washington recently, which only reinforced the core principles in his budget. The budget will be his central focus throughout this week: “These investments are not…
Best Seats in the House, Dayle McIntosh Activists Rewarded for Efforts
by Misha Houser • • 14 Comments
Senator Correa requested tickets for the two activists who had waited in line, and then made a phone call to the White House to explain the situation. At long last, Rudder’s efforts were going to pay off, but she was as yet unaware of her change of luck.
Los Alamitos Mayor to Resign?
by Andrew Davey • • 7 Comments
Via Calitics, I found this from the paper that occasionally notices that we exist whenever we have “big news”: Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose has announced that he will resign over a controversy that has sparked charges of racism from…
