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Birther Icon Orly Taitz Faces Some Uncomfortable Questionsnew

Unwittingly, Florida criminal-defense attorney Bradford Cohen had entered a world known to some as “The Birtherverse,” where Barack Obama isn’t considered an American citizen and the planets revolve around Orange County dentist-turned-lawyer Orly Taitz.
OC Weekly  |  Spencer Kornhaber  |  02-23-2010  |  Politics

Professor Helps Mainstream a New White Supremacist Political Partynew

At that summer IHR meeting, professor Kevin MacDonald began shedding his regular-guy façade. And with his introductions to Freedom 14 and other local neo-Nazis at that conference, he began the first steps toward emerging as a full-fledged bigot.
OC Weekly  |  Gustavo Arellano  |  01-26-2010  |  Politics

Anti-Obama Birthers Breaking Ties With Orly Taitznew

Lucas Smith isn't the first in the Obama-conspiracy world to quarrel with Taitz. In May, Pennsylvania lawyer Phil Berg teamed up with his assistant, Taitz's former webmaster and an online-talk-show host to sue Taitz for slander, harassment and privacy violations.
OC Weekly  |  Spencer Kornhaber  |  09-29-2009  |  Politics

Meet the Queen Bee of People Obsessed With Barack Obama's Birth Certificatenew

With her strong will, busy travel schedule and breathless blogging, Laguna Niguel dentist Orly Taitz has become the most controversial figure in the effort to prove that President Barack Obama is foreign-born.
OC Weekly  |  Spencer Kornhaber  |  06-23-2009  |  Politics

Pastor Wiley Drake Thinks He Still Has a Prayer of Unseating Barack Obamanew

Drake is not discouraged in light of the Dec. 8 announcement the U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a New Jersey man's case that argued Barack Obama cannot be sworn in as president because his father was a British citizen.
OC Weekly  |  Matt Coker  |  12-23-2008  |  Politics

Orange County Sings the Obama Bluesnew

Election night in California's bastion of conservatism: Frolicking Dems, Dana Rohrabacher unbound, praying for fag hags, and booze all around.
OC Weekly  |  Matt Coker, Vickie Chang and Daffodil J. Altan  |  11-11-2008  |  Politics

Debbie Cook Takes on Orange County's Weirdest Republican Congressmannew

With little help from her fellow Democrats, Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook takes on Orange County's weirdest Republican congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, a fight primarily motivated by the "Surfing Congressman's" ignorance of environmental issues.
OC Weekly  |  Nick Schou  |  09-23-2008  |  Politics

Declassified FBI Files Exonerate Orange County's Original Conservative Scapegoatnew

More than four decades after Joel Dvorman's tragic death, once-sealed FBI files obtained by the Weekly reveal an indisputable truth: The former Magnolia School District trustee and liberal martyr was the victim of an unwarranted witch-hunt.
OC Weekly  |  Gustavo Arellano  |  07-01-2008  |  Politics

The Gross Ambition of Wayne Grossnew

The federal prosecutor recused himself from the Mike Carona probe. But it seems he couldn't stay away from Carona.
OC Weekly  |  R. Scott Moxley  |  02-26-2008  |  Politics

Moneyopolynew

Who are the Orange County players who contributed to the 2008 presidential candidates?
OC Weekly  |  Staff  |  01-29-2008  |  Politics

GOP Operative Going to Prison for Sex Crimesnew

Well-connected Orange County conservative activist Jeffrey Ray Nielsen finally admitted on Dec. 5 that he used two boys for sex since the early 1990s.
OC Weekly  |  R. Scott Moxley  |  12-11-2007  |  Politics

Waiting With Red-baited Breathnew

Little Saigon's latest wave of anti-communist fervor spreads beyond Viet Weekly.
OC Weekly  |  Nick Schou  |  08-28-2007  |  Politics

Orange County's Recall Madness!new

The nuts and bolts (with extra nuts) of direct democracy gone wild in Southern California.
OC Weekly  |  Gustavo Arellano  |  08-28-2007  |  Politics

Red Scare in Little Saigonnew

The Viet Weekly newspaper endures Orange County's latest anti-communist witch hunt.
OC Weekly  |  Nick Schou  |  08-21-2007  |  Politics

Tom Tancredo: On the Borderlinenew

It's all anti-illegal talk at the Tancredo rally at the Nixon library.
OC Weekly  |  Derek Olson  |  06-26-2007  |  Politics

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