Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will be in Orange County today, where I will be catching up to him. We’ll have the FR "FlashCam" along with us, and hopefully be able to bring you some exclusive footage (probably to run on Monday). The House passed, by the bare minimum 218 votes, an appropriation for the War in Iraq that continues a provision for a timeline for withdrawal. In order to get her votes, Pelosi packed the measure with tens of billions in non-related pork-barrel projects. Shame on all who voted for this horrible bill. When are Republicans (yes, even those in ‘rural districts’) going to end the double-standard of supporting massive subsidies for the agricultural industry, such as found in the ‘farm bill’ due for reauthorization this year. I am not sure what is more egregious, subsidizing farms for NOT producing certain products, or the idea that the federal government taxes all Americans and redistributes that wealth to farmers who have crop losses do to natural weather conditions. Isn’t that what private insurance is for? Last night, as the Southern Vice Chairman… Read More

Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will be in Orange County today, where I will be catching up to him. We’ll have the FR "FlashCam" along with us, and hopefully be able to bring you some exclusive footage (probably to run on Monday). The House passed, by the bare minimum 218 votes, an appropriation for the War in Iraq that continues a provision for a timeline for withdrawal. In order to get her votes, Pelosi packed the measure with tens of billions in non-related pork-barrel projects. Shame on all who voted for this horrible bill. When are Republicans (yes, even those in ‘rural districts’) going to end the double-standard of supporting massive subsidies for the agricultural industry, such as found in the ‘farm bill’ due for reauthorization this year. I am not sure what is more egregious, subsidizing farms for NOT producing certain products, or the idea that the federal government taxes all Americans and redistributes that wealth to farmers who have crop losses do to natural weather conditions. Isn’t that what private insurance is for? Last night, as the Southern Vice Chairman… Read More

I’m blogging from a luncheon near John Wayne Airport where the featured speaker is reknowned conservative columnist and TV persona Bob Novak.

The event is a day long symposium cosponsored by the Federalist Leadership Center (type the name plus dot com for their website) and the Orange County Lincoln Club (you can reach their website via their ad on this site). Conservative movement icon Don Devine, former Director of the Office of Personnel Management in the Reagan Administration, is the head of the Center’s program.

Our own former FR Managing Editor Nicholas Romero played a lead role in recruiting young students for a day of learning about conservatism, and about fifty or so Lincoln Club members are on hand at this luncheon, making for a pretty large crowd. Jim Silva, Van Tran and Chuck DeVore, Assemblymen all, are here flying the Republican legislative banner.

Novak’s remarks centered around a stinging critique of the Democrats on Capitol Hill, pointing out that on just one day last week, Democrats tried to advance three different measures that violate the U.S. Constitution.

Novak also looked at the Presidential… Read More

Sometimes you just can’t get a Los Angeles Times reporter to read a sentence for what it actually says.

In the decision in the Gilchrist Minuteman case yesterday, the Judge wrote a pretty clear sentence in his order regarding Gilchrist’s request: "The application for a writ of possession is denied." Unfortunately, the reporter for the Times couldn’t quite get what that sentence in the Order meant, as she wrote in today’s paper "Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist and his opponents within the anti-illegal-immigration group both claimed victory Friday after an Orange County Superior Court judge put Gilchrist back in charge of the organization’s funds but indicated that those assets might soon be put into receivership." The reality is, the Judge DID NOT put Gilchrist "back in charge of the organization’s funds." I explained this ad nauseum to the reporter, but she was argumentative with me, didn’t like the Orange County Register front page above-the-fold headline stating "Gilchrist Loses Round in Court,"… Read More

Gerald Parsky finds himself back in the news. And, it’s not good.

The LA Times reported yesterday about Parsky’s failed attempt to save one of the U.S. Attorneys recently fired by President Bush. Democrats and the press are attempting to paint a picture of a unmentionableterriblescandal. But, they conveniently forget to mention Clinton’s unprecedented wholesale firing of all US Attorneys when he took office. Of course, both Presidents were exercising their constitutional authority.

The Times revealed that Parsky who vetted the US Attorneys for California placed an "outraged" call to Main Justice defending the soon to be fired US Attorney of San Francisco, Kevin Ryan. Clearly, White House deputy counsel, William Kelley was concerned with Parsky’s outrage in a private email to former Gonzales Attorney General, Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson. We’renot sure aboutfull Ryan story, butBush sacked Ryan despite Parsky’s threats.

Another story the press has failed to investigate is the connection between Parsky and recently fired US Attorney Carol Lam. Parsky was a strong proponent for… Read More

USC has produced many Republican activists. I run into many, especially in the OC.

Today is a very big day.

USC meets North Carolina in the NCAA Basketball tournament (my prediction isUSC will lose) AND it is also the Northrop Grumman sponsored Second Annual California Leadership Summit for the Transgender Movement at the USC campus. With speakers from groups like GenderQueer Revolution and as a bonus an "unofficial"AA meeting, I know some of my USC friends may be confused about which event to participate it in.

Then again that may be the point.

The event is sold out, but you can read more and get on a waiting list here.… Read More

Recently, the Sacramento Bee ran some news stories about some very unusual goings-on with the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. The stuff they were publishing was so outrageous that I thought I would do a little bit of nosing around myself. My take is that there was a ‘real story’ here, one that didn’t get told by the Bee’s version of what happened…

All of the hubbub has come about because of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to clean up years of abuse by the Board of Chiropractic Examiners (BCE) under the Davis Administration

Three people controlled the BCE since Davis took office in 1998. They seemed to enjoy unmanaged control of who was appointed to the BCE and had their way with enormous regulatory powers. Despite growing opposition from consumer and professional associations, scandals continued to plague the BCE until two weeks ago. With a Board filled with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees, the BCE terminated Executive Director Catherine Hayes, and showed a lack of confidence with her ally and friend Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Jana Tuton by asking her leave the room for an Executive Session.… Read More

Recently, the Sacramento Bee ran some news stories about some very unusual goings-on with the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. The stuff they were publishing was so outrageous that I thought I would do a little bit of nosing around myself. My take is that there was a ‘real story’ here, one that didn’t get told by the Bee’s version of what happened…

All of the hubbub has come about because of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to clean up years of abuse by the Board of Chiropractic Examiners (BCE) under the Davis Administration

Three people controlled the BCE since Davis took office in 1998. They seemed to enjoy unmanaged control of who was appointed to the BCE and had their way with enormous regulatory powers. Despite growing opposition from consumer and professional associations, scandals continued to plague the BCE until two weeks ago. With a Board filled with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees, the BCE terminated Executive Director Catherine Hayes, and showed a lack of confidence with her ally and friend Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Jana Tuton by asking her leave the room for an Executive Session.… Read More