Bill Maher’s popular New Rules segment from Friday’s ‘Real Time” should serve as an eye-opener for the Occupy movement. In short, camping ain’t going to cut it for Occupy. Maher calls them out to get engaged in the process, register…
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Occupy Protests Cost Irvine Taxpayers $30,000
by Dan Chmielewski • • 7 Comments
The Orange County Register is reporting that the Occupy OC protests from last fall and early winter cost the city about $30,000 — about half in legal fees. That’s really a drop in the bucket for Irvine which has a…
The Register’s First Step to the Left
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
 Our first great April Fool’s gag was an announcement that TheLiberalOC had been acquired by OCBlog (now the heart fo the RedCounty blog). The tag line on the new “Blue Minority” blog template was “even liberals should get the…
Crashing the “Drinking Conservatively” Party
by Dan Chmielewski • • 7 Comments
Since Drinking Liberally usually features a few conservatives every Thursday that we can carry on an intelligent conversation with over our favorite beverage, I decided to crash the inaugural “Drinking Conservatively” event in Costa Mesa last night. And my thanks…
Beth Krom Gets Some Love from Prominent National Progressive Blog
by Dan Chmielewski • • 5 Comments
CrooksandLiars.com is one of my favorite websites and was my inspiration to start political blogging. And while doing my daily trolling, I came across this post about Beth Krom that effectively introduces her to the rest of Progressive America. They…
Will New Register Owners Recognize the Market They Currently Ignore?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 8 Comments
The Orange County Register emerged from bankruptcy last week with a new set of corporate owners. Â I’m delighted to see any newspaper emerge from financial difficulty, but I’m also hopeful the new owners of the Register will finally acknowledge the…
Shea’s Sugar Daddy for 2010 Election in Irvine?
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
Word around Irvine is that termed out Christina Shea wants one more chance to hang on to her council seat by running for Mayor in 2010, which would set up a rematch against current Mayor Suhkee Kang. Using history as…
