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The Voice of OC!Get Vern’s Latest and Greatest…
- John Earl’s Surf City Voice!
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- OC Political. Warning – Jubal sightings
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- Navel Gazing (OC Weekly)
- Carlos Sanchez Hernandez Busted for Jerking It While Staring at Santa Ana School Girls: Police
- Martinis and Movie Fundraiser at The Frida Screens The Women This Friday!
- Santa Ana Federal Judge Seeks August 2015 Trial on $5 Bil Suit Against Standard & Poor's
- St. Michael's Abbey Begins Holtz Ranch Grading, Conservationists Scramble
- Mark LeVine, Provocative UC Irvine Professor, Proposes "Parallel" Israeli-Palestinian States
- Timothy Charles Wilkinson Wanted to Commit Murder-Suicide But Only Got Suicide: Deputies
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- A Bubbling Cauldron: Costa Mesa blog
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- OC Politics by Pedroza and friends
- Duffy reports $67K in donations to his Newport Beach City Council campaign
- Cronyism infects a second Lake Forest City Commission
- The Bryson Chronicles: She didn’t violate the Brown Act
- Rep. Sanchez introduces a bill to deal with the border crisis
- Right, let’s do business with Caltrans
- Jose Solorio’s 34th S.D. campaign has $625K to spend against Janet Nguyen
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Police Brutality Archive
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Sean Paden: A Tale of Two Anniversaries
Posted on July 3, 2014 | 7 CommentsAdapted from a speech given by attorney Sean Paden at the last Fullerton Council meeting, and reprinted with his permission: July 4th and 5th: A tale of two anniversaries There... -
Eleanor Hernandez, woman beaten into brain damage by female Garden Grove police cadet, dies.
Posted on June 29, 2014 | 13 CommentsI met up with Eleanor Hernandez, police beating victim, a week or two ago at Sweetelle Cafe, but before I could write my story about her she up and died... -
A Rackauckas Retrospective: Is This the County we want to be?
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 29 CommentsAh, Orange County. California’s ruling bastion of rich white privilege. Populated largely in the 70’s by post-Watts riot White Flight, Orange County has long boasted a voting majority of people... -
The Exoneration of Chris Norby.
Posted on May 16, 2014 | 25 Comments“Permanent War is not a viable way of life, whether abroad or at home,” opined Chris Norby. “Hey, that’s a great epigram for this story, let me write it down!” ... -
Chief Quezada’s Comments on Hernandez Lawsuit Get a Grim Reception in Anaheim’s Barrios
Posted on April 6, 2014 | 30 CommentsHere are comments from Anaheim Police Chief Raul Quezada — someone whom I truly want to respect, because it’s hard to imagine Anaheim hiring anyone much better than him in... -
Orly Taitz: An Examination
Posted on March 31, 2014 | 42 CommentsThe biggest surprise, interviewing Attorney General candidate and famed Rancho Santa Margarita “birther queen” Orly Taitz at her dentist office Friday, was that she spoke passionately and in detail about... -
Kelly Thomas Tragedy Shows: OC needs the “Memphis Model” for dealing with the mentally ill.
Posted on March 18, 2014 | 12 CommentsIn the aftermath of the media scrutiny surrounding the verdict in the Kelly Thomas case the media and bloggers missed an opportunity to ask the question of not just how... -
Today’s the Day for DIAMOND FOR DA 2014 — If You Want Me to Run, Show Me!
Posted on March 6, 2014 | 4 CommentsToday’s the day when I make a critical decision about my campaign for District Attorney. (That link is to my still-spare website. The only things that really matter there for... -
The Triumph of Paul Lucas pt 3: Keystone Kops, Steele Smith, and remembering Danielle.
Posted on March 4, 2014 | 50 CommentsSpoiler Alert Spoiler After we published part two of this blockbuster four-part series detailing the trials, tribulations, and eventual triumph of our friend Paul Lucas, the always-hateful Dan Chmielewski of... -
I Can’t Stand That No One’s Running Against Tony Rackauckas — So I’ll Do It
Posted on February 26, 2014 | 38 Comments[I just made an announcement on Facebook, so while I'd planned to spend a few hours today polishing my campaign announcement, I'll just go ahead and reproduce that statement here.... -
The Triumph of Paul Lucas pt 2: Bad Buena Park Cops and Feckless Druggies!
Posted on February 18, 2014 | 63 Comments“…Paul Lucas won’t be the last to have been left drooling and limping pathetically in an erratic loop by one too many encounters with the everlasting car wreck of the... -
The Triumph of Paul Lucas over Dirty Cops and Draconian Drug Warriors, pt 1.
Posted on February 16, 2014 | 33 CommentsWe all know Paul Lucas here – those of us who read blogs, and anyone who’s been involved in local politics over the last decade, especially in the Democratic Party.... -
Is plunging ahead with Laura’s Law the appropriate response to the Kelly Thomas verdict?
Posted on February 11, 2014 | 22 CommentsEvery now and then, over the years, in a masochistic frame of mind, I listen to Rush Limbaugh‘s radio program. There’s the legitimate “hearing the other point of view” thing,... -
Photos and Video: Rally after Kelly Thomas Verdict at Fullerton Police Department, 1/18/14
Posted on January 18, 2014 | 16 CommentsThere will be more to say about the killing of Kelly Thomas, about the trial, about the rally. For now, here’s an impressionistic sense of what it was like there...
