About 250 people at UC Irvine gathered for a “student solidarity speakout” Tuesday. They protested the university’s recent arrests of students, along with the spate of racist incidents at UC San Diego that targeted black students and another incident last month at UC Davis, which targeted a Jewish student with a swastika carved on...
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Tags: intolerance, OCLNN, Racism, student solidarity speakout, Tolerance, UCI
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The rationalizations of the racist are too many and too contradictory for the rest of us to keep them straight. The whole of the anger at government movement is predicated on this. Times are tough. The future is confusing. The threat from those who would dismantle our way of life...
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Tags: Countdown, Fear, Keith Olbermann, Racism, racism in america, Special Comment, Tea Partiers
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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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What Steven Choi did at the Democratic Party of Orange County's Harry S Truman Awards Dinner last Friday night was worse than the conduct of Dean Grose. It is worse because Choi is a non-partisan elected official in the City of Irvine. Because of that when dignitaries of any political party come to visit...
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Tags: Choi, Dean Grose, disrespectful, Irvine, Irvine City Council, Josef Stalin, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Racism, Socialism, Speaker of the House, Stalin, Steven Choi, Sukhee Kang
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With yesterday’s surprise announcement we are finally rid of Lou Dobbs racist rants on CNN. Granted, he would be a perfect fit along side Glenn Beck on Faux News Network.
Media Matters had this to say:
“For too long, CNN provided Lou Dobbs with its stamp of approval as he pursued a dangerous, one-sided and all...
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Tags: Andy Borowitz, birthers, Chris Prevatt, CNN, Faux News, Fox News, Lou Dobbs, Media Matters, Racism
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Last night the President visited David Letterman. The following are some clips from the show.
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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 about their motives, I applaud the efforts of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Representative Peter King (R-NY) to obtain a presidential pardon for...
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