iraq war Archive
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It’s that special time of year: Anti-War Xmas Caroling!
Posted on December 16, 2008 | 4 Comments. . . It’s that time of year again – starting THIS afternoon – when Orange County’s Anti-war contingent (or more specifically, contingent against the occupation of Iraq, spearheaded by... -
Hey, wasn’t there a WAR going on or something?
Posted on December 16, 2008 | 11 Comments. . . As they love to say, “The ‘SURGE’ worked.” That is, the combination of sending a larger though untenable number of our troops to Iraq, utilizing them more... -
Famed Maverick ex-GOP Congressman Pete McCloskey writes a letter to Republicans in the 46th CD:
Posted on November 1, 2008 | 12 Comments. . . Pete McCloskey, the maverick Republican Congressman who stood up to Nixon and against the Vietnam War, came down last night to headline a Long Beach fundraiser for... -
Debbie & Dana & Tom & Ernst, pt III: Healthcare, Iraq, and Prop. 8
Posted on October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments. . . . . (Part one here) – (Part two here) In today’s video snippet, Dana defends Proposition 8: “I would suggest that we do not change the definition... -
My Pal Pat at the Palin Rally
Posted on October 5, 2008 | 45 CommentsHere’s my anti-war buddy Pat Alviso’s account of getting thrown out of yesterday’s Sarah Palin rally in Carson. Pat runs the Orange County chapter of Military Families Speak Out, and... -
Colonel Andrew Bacevich on the National Security State
Posted on August 17, 2008 | 10 CommentsTrue conservative, retired Army colonel, international relations expert and longtime Iraq war critic (whose own son was tragically killed in Iraq last year) COLONEL ANDREW J. BACEVICH holds forth on... -
R.E.D. Alert: Homes for Our Troops
Posted on July 4, 2008 | No CommentsR.E.D. (Real Estate Diversion) Alert Above, is a picture of Jeff Guerin. He is an army medic who suffered severe injuries when a roadside bomb went off during his tour in... -
Declaration 2008
Posted on July 4, 2008 | 5 Comments. . . . . When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and... -
The Bridges of Orange County (pt. 1 of 19)
Posted on June 29, 2008 | 14 Comments. I know, I know, Sean H. Mill wrote a post of the same title some months back at the Liberal O.C., alluding like myself to that execrable novel which... -
Happy Memorial Day! Your Chickenhawk Congressman Loves the War & Hates the Troops.
Posted on May 26, 2008 | 55 Comments. . . There’s just no way around it, no polite way to put it: If you live in Orange County and you’re not in Loretta’s district, then your Congressman... -
Your Sunday Video: Mathis Chiroux
Posted on May 18, 2008 | 9 Comments -
What happened, did America get up on the right side of the bed this morning?
Posted on May 15, 2008 | 4 CommentsFirst the California Supreme Court hands down the splendid it’s-about-time decision that our gay friends are worthy of the same rights as us breeders, including the right to be married.... -
Come protest the war today at 5:30, Orange Circle – It’s the New Black!
Posted on April 23, 2008 | 20 Comments. . . . . As you may have read, on our naughty little sister blog and elsewhere, the long-lived Wednesday evening protest at the Orange Circle has started to... -
Did I ever tell you about the time…
Posted on April 21, 2008 | 6 Comments. . . . . Most people living in the 46th Congressional District have their very own Bizarre Dana Rohrabacher story—not something they heard somewhere, but something they experienced themselves....
