![Scandalous! President Barack Obama decided to take over control of the next U.S. Census, taking that oversight away from the Secretary of Commerce. Obama’s pick for that post, New Hampshire […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/texas-redistricting.gif "Did Judd Gregg pull out as Commerce Secretary due to Census controversy?")
![Today is the birthday of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln. You may not know that Lincoln was a friend of his Mexican contemporary, Benito Juarez. “The similarities were in […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/abe-lincoln-and-benito-juarez.jpg "President Abe Lincoln was a Republican who didn’t hate Mexicans")
![“Outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden points out, Mexico poses a great threat to U.S. security, second only to Al Qaeda. I’m glad at least SOMEONE is remembering our suffering neighbor […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/failed-drug-war.jpg "Mexico is now second only to Al Qaeda")
![Oh my. I knew that Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman had issues, but now I am completely aghast, having read an interview with her in the L.A. Times. She contradicts […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/meg-whitman-has-no-clue.jpg "Meg Whitman is a complete disaster")
![Rather than hire the SAPD to protect them, maybe the Supervisors can pack their own guns? “Assistant to the Orange County CEO Rob Richardson reported to the Board that yesterday […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/pistolera-janet.jpg "Maybe the Orange County Supervisors can bring their own guns to work?")
![“Last week, Obama quietly issued an executive order that, as The Associated Press described, “encourages federal agencies to have construction contractors and subcontractors enter project labor agreements. Those agreements require […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/union-thugs.jpg "Obama’s message to non-union workers – screw you!")
![[poll id=”85″] “A panel of three federal judges, saying overcrowding in state prisons has deprived inmates of their right to adequate healthcare, tentatively ruled Monday that the state must reduce […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/californias-crowded-prisons.jpg "Judges say our prisons are overcrowded, why not revise Three Strikes and decriminalize pot?")
![Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO who announced Monday that she is exploring a run for governor, has settled a dispute with the cybersquatter who claims several key domains like […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/latino-vote.jpg "Poizner and Whitman forget the Latino vote")
![Meg Whitman and her Republican Pals “Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, 52, a billionaire Republican businesswoman who built the online marketplace into a household name, has announced an exploratory committee […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/meg-whitman-and-the-boys.jpg "Meg Whitman for Governor? I don’t think so!")
![OC GOP Tramples Justice Again “A federal jury has sided with Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas in a lawsuit brought by a veteran former prosecutor,” according to the O.C. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/oc-gop-tramples-justice.jpg "T-Rack gets away with it as jury agrees with him")
![Republicans are starting to use the “s” word a lot – socialism, in reaction to President Obama’s policies. But an interesting article in Newsweek posits that we are already a […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/bush-socialist.jpg "Is the U.S. a socialist country now?")
![This just in from our old friend Benny Diaz: It is with great pleasure that we extend salutations on behalf of Orange County LULAC Foundation. We are pleased to announce […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lulac.gif "LULAC 80th Anniversary Banquet to feature the Hon. Cruz Reynoso")
![This is the latest in our SAUSD threads. Unlike the other threads, this one will be devoted to keeping track of the interesting stories that appear in the local media […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/sausd.jpg "SAUSD related news & links")
![[poll id=”80″] “The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) blasted a web video to 60,000 online activists Friday asking them to support Congresswoman Hilda Solis’s confirmation,” according to Hill.com. In the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "SEIU leaders ask Congress to support the confirmation of Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor")
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It's about time! I've been calling for a Nascar David P for weeks - someone at CHISPA finally made one.…
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