Did anyone stay up and watch NBC’s Tonight Show? Jay Leno told a joke about GOP US Senate Nominee Dick Mountjoy and his lack of service on the U.S.S. Missouri. The Los Angeles Times story rests on a mistake Mountjoy stafferPeggy Mew made six years ago. See here.

The joke was a play on his name.Standard Leno, except then Leno added something about Dick making up his war time service.

Jay Leno is wrong. Even the Los Angeles Timesprinted his service record. Dick Mountjoy was involved in combat and gun strikes on Communists in Korea as part of his service on the U.S.S Brementon. Period. Check for yourself.

See his service record here.

Interesting note: The Missouri was deactivated in Brementon, Washington, which served asits’ homeport for many years. Hmmm!… Read More

The new PPIC poll shows Governor Schwarzenegger up 48 – 31 over Phil Angelides.

Angelides is leading among Democrats by 57-21.

Schwarzenegger is up among Republicans, 82-4.

Among independents, it’s Schwarzenegger by 42-27.

Among men: 54-27.

Among women: 41-24.

Schwarzenegger is even getting 30 percent among Latinos.

The question is, will this produce coattails for McClintock, Poochigian, Strickland and the rest of the downticket?

And, in the face of these numbers, will the unions really spend $25 million?… Read More

The Governor has signed legislation targeting one side of the political debate, but not and the other and a bill that is designed to publicly shame pharmacists that are pro-life.

The Governor will never win any awards for protecting innocent Human Life. Everyone knew that he was with the exception of possibly parental notification zealously pro-abortion. His COS Susan Kennedy was the chief political operative for the California Abortion Lobby.

In his kowtowing to the extreme pro-abortion agenda of the Democrats in the legislature he has signed three bills under the banner of benefiting "women’s health" that really target political speech and freedom of religion. See release here.

The Governor signed AB 2251, which limits the amount of personal information about abortion business people, volunteers etc. that can be placed on the web. Of course there is a free speech issue here, but let’s say it isn’t okay to put this stuff on the web. Then why are only abortion businesses protected? Dennis Hollingsworth put up an amendment that would have extended these protections to… Read More

Yesterday’s FR included a link to the SDUT story about Saturday’s rally in National City on sanctuary. Apparently, more than a confrontation than a rally. Mayor Nick Inzunza, purveyor of ignoring illegal immigrants in "his" city, wasn’t even on hand, it was reported.

If Mayor Nick’s goal was to garner some nice news coverage for the city, he achieved it. If his agenda is to get the Chargers to drop a potential National City stadium deal like a greased football, he is doing an outstanding job in that department as well.

I ask again, you think anyone was checking IDs during the event? Ha.

Here is a link tothe KFMB-TV "coverage," as well as video footage.

As I wrote yesterday, Inzunza probably didn’t see his crazy proposal as an election issue, but… Read More

[Republican groups and organizations are encouraged to cut and paste this commentary into an e-mail and send it to their members, link to it on their websites, or place this column in their newsletters.] Since thousands of volunteers who support the re-election of the Governor read this page every day, this seems like a good time to start to have a dialogue about that will happen in Sacramento when Arnold is re-elected by the voters! Given his very wide lead at the moment, and how his opponent Phil Angelides can’t seem to put it together, I think that everyone who prefers to see Governor Schwarzenegger in January and not Governor Angelides can start to look at the rest of the picture — what kind of environment will Arnold Schwarzenegger be operating in when he returns? (This is not an opportuntiy to slack in your hard work, by the way, but rather an invitation to start to think about the bigger picture). For core Republican voters, I would submit that besides whom we elect Governor, there… Read More

The Big Story… There was a ton of political news coverage in San Diego last week. I’ll get to some of that in a minute.

Because, politics or not, there was certainly no bigger story in San Diego than at week’s end, last night on a change-up induced strike-out, placing the Padres’ Trevor Hoffman in a first place tie with Lee Smith for all-time Major League Baseball saves at a whopping 478. The fact that Trevor reached the mark while leading the NL in ’06 saves at nearly 39 years of age, all during a home-stretch pennant race with the hated Dodgers, is simply icing on the… Read More

Since thousands of volunteers who support the re-election of the Governor read this page every day, this seems like a good time to start to have a dialogue about that will happen in Sacramento when Arnold is re-elected by the voters! Given his very wide lead at the moment, and how his opponent Phil Angelides can’t seem to put it together, I think that everyone who prefers to see Governor Schwarzenegger in January and not Governor Angelides can start to look at the rest of the picture — what kind of environment will Arnold Schwarzenegger be operating in when he returns? (This is not an opportuntiy to slack in your hard work, by the way, but rather an invitation to start to think about the bigger picture). For core Republican voters, I would submit that besides whom we elect Governor, there are two major areas in which we need to focus. One is the defeat of all of spending measures on the November ballot (this includes both the measures that raise taxes to spend, and also the measures that would put our children in debt in order to spend) — and the other is electing down-ticket Republicans into statewide office. We will be talking… Read More

Believe it or not, we are quickly approaching the FlashReport’s one year anniversary as an on-line website. Before that, it was an e-mail newsletter for years. You can read the full history of the FR (and find out who it was the inspired me to start it) by reading the entire history of the FR here.

Today I am asking for your help. I am going to update the links menus above this coming week and want to ask for your help in the following four ways:

1) Try the links. If you get time, try to visit some or all of the links to newspapers, editorial pages, cartoons, websites, or blogs. Let me know if the links have a problem, or if they can be pointed more directly than where they take you now.

2) Look over the links and let me know what I am missing. Are there websites that should be on our referral list that are absent? How about blogs that you rely on that you think… Read More