You might be surprised what sort of low-lives would crave a quarter mil job with no professional qualifications and no…
That would just spark even more corruption and only allow independently wealthy people to run and win.
SB 249? It got killed via suspense file in assembly appropriations. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB249
Without commenting on your specific stats, I would say that is an excellent question. Maybe you should be a Supervisor.…
Criticizing past elected trustees of the Orange County Board of Supervisors reflects not only their leadership weaknesses but also flaws…
Can someone explain why there are 1 county worker for every 160+ citizens that doesn’t include state, federal, cities plus…
Given how significant this would be in addressing MAGA misbehavior, one would think that Newsom should sign it. What's the…
I'm leaning toward the concept of making the Board, de facto part time by cutting Supervisor's salaries by two-thirds and…
By the way, on the County Board of Education - they have almost no authority over anything and have been…
barack obama Archive
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Underwear! The evil, and the magical.
Posted on May 12, 2012 | 8 CommentsThe anniversary of President Obama’s taking-out of Osama Bin Laden, as expected, brought more scary news of revenge attempts. Specifically, we learned of more plots from Yemen’s Al Qaeda on […] -
Romney backers spend $6 million attacking Obama for investing in Anaheim’s Fisker Automotive
Posted on May 3, 2012 | 6 CommentsThe political world is abuzz today with a $6.1 million ad guy from “Americans for Prosperity”, the Citizens United-fueled independent expenditure machine. AfP, the creature of twisted oil billionaires Charles and […] -
PPACA & SCOTUS: An Executive Order Fix? (Warning: deep law discussion here)
Posted on March 29, 2012 | 61 CommentsI’ve long been a loud critic, within the unpaid progressive legal semi-pundit blogger community, of the Obama Administration’s decision to ground its right to impose a health insurance mandate in […] -
PPACA at the SCOTUS: The Case of the Case of the Year (that’s Obamacare to you!)
Posted on March 26, 2012 | 23 CommentsAn exciting week is coming up for constitutional law geeks of all stripes: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or “PPACA,” now for some reason usually abbreviated only as […] -
A Silent Thank You
Posted on March 23, 2012 | No CommentsI missed a small story yesterday — although it was a story that a sizable community within our country will probably still discuss with pride 50 years from now. A […] -
What does it mean for the OC, when three of our Supervisors say “Thanks But No Thanks” to $10 million in Federal Healthcare Money?
Posted on March 14, 2012 | 25 Comments. And also, like, what the fuck? Is this what you voted these guys in for? I sat down to write this piece, having been alerted that three of our […] -
People Power Beats the Bastards for the Third Time in 35 Days!
Posted on February 6, 2012 | 11 CommentsTHREE TIMES already in this very short year – that is, if you cheat a little and count New Year’s Eve as part of 2012 – spontaneous and overwhelming outrage […] -
Orange County’s Ritual Humiliation, aka Dana Rohrabacher.
Posted on January 31, 2012 | 11 CommentsDamn, what schmucks we are here in the OC. What rubes, what drooling idiots. It’s surprising we don’t sit and play in traffic more than we do. Someone should just […] -
Kudos to President Obama for Rejecting Keystone XL Pipeline
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 11 Comments. . . Once again, the blatantly biased and morally bankrupt Orange County Register has gotten it totally wrong! (“Politics of Pipeline Denial,” January 20, 2012.) Despite the mindless babble […] -
Is Issa a trustworthy source re Fast & Furious? ‘Murdergate’ update!
Posted on January 6, 2012 | 25 Comments. . . This story is Geoff Willis’s beat, but as I don’t know if he’s going to write about today’s development I thought I’d better send out the alert. […] -
Have you heard the one about Obama’s signing the NDAA?
Posted on January 1, 2012 | 43 Comments. . . There is lots, and I mean lots of discussion on the Intertubes today about President Obama’s signing of the NDAA. Many people are talking darkly about […] -
Republican Economic Saboteurs, Part 2 of ∞
Posted on November 7, 2011 | 40 Comments. . . I first wrote about this matter lat week in this post, but new things have happened since them. This is going to be one of the […] -
Defying the Feds, the Orange Juice Blog offers free advertisement for OC medical marijuana dispensaries.
Posted on October 25, 2011 | 18 Comments. . . We watch, in distress, confusion, and resentment, the Obama Justice Department’s redoubled war on California’s Medical Marijuana laws and industry. We recall clearly that this President and […] -
The DPOC declares solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and Occupy OC.
Posted on October 20, 2011 | 11 Comments. . . . Writing from Night 5 of Occupy Irvine: So, we hear on the front lines that the Democratic Party of Orange County on Monday night passed a […]
If we want better and more transparent elected representatives we simply need to pay them more. Take a look at…