Keeping Families Together immigration bus tour will make a stop outside Congressman Ed Royce’s office. Congressman Royce, has ignored previous requests to speak to immigrant rights groups about a common sense immigration policy.
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The State of the Union
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
In case the coverage in Big Bear distracted you from the State of the Union, it was an ambitious speech by President Obama with a call for a national pre-school program to help kids get off to a better start,…
Tea Party Whack Jobs Send Me Mail
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
I’m on some conservative mailing list. It’s happened before. One of my co-workers once registered me for membership in the Republican National Committee as a joke and it was the source of lots of entertainment during the Bush years. And…
Allan Bartlett to Join Irvine Finance Commission
by Dan Chmielewski • • 12 Comments
Libertarian and conservative media darling Allan Bartlett is getting an appointment to the Irvine City Finance Commission courtesy of council member-elect Christina Shea, according to sources inside Irvine City Hall. Bartlett runs an investment practice in the city and always…
The Tea Party is Over: A Tale of Allen and Alan in Florida
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
In 2010, The Tea Party was the big winner in the mid-term elections forcing sometimes reasonable Republicans to embrace the crazy far right fringe and insisting taxes were too high in spite of evidence from the Congressional Budget Office that…
Irvine is the GOP’s Only Bright Spot on a Night of Losses
by Dan Chmielewski • • 15 Comments
Irvine is back under Republican control but for those reading some of the other blog coverage out there, Tea Party candidate Lynn Schott will not be joinnig the city council. Steven Choi is the new mayor. Beth Krom retains her…
“You Didn’t Build That Business” in Full Context
by Dan Chmielewski • • 10 Comments
I watch Fox News every now and then for the creative editing that happens. Like when Sean Hannity shows footage of a Tea Party rally happening in DC in late Fall but the video images are clearly from a summertime…

