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February 26, 2013
Illegal Immigrants Hit The Streets As ICE Fears Sequester Cuts; Republicans Pissed
In what feels to us like a middle finger to those Republicans cheering on draconian "sequester" cuts to the federal budget following a congressional impasse, the Department of Homeland Security says undocumented immigrants are being released from detention centers across America. The action is appa ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2013
Obama Marijuana Policy Shift? Gil Kerlikowske Notes 'Serious National Conversation' On Pot
If you were to ask the marijuana nation if President Obama is friend or foe, the answer would probably be the latter. The Obama administration has cracked down on medical marijuana dispensaries in states such as California despite his vow that such prosecution would not be a priority. But now decr ... More >>
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December 14, 2012
Obama: Marijuana Users In Pot-Legal States Shouldn't Be Prosecuted
President Obama says "we've got bigger fish to fry" when it comes to weighing whether or not to prosecute pot users in states where marijuana has essentially been legalized. In a Barbara Walters interview to air on ABC's 20/20 tonight, the president addresses the full legalization of weed in Washin ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2012
Obama's Occidental Records Remain Under Wraps Despite Birther Orly Taitz's Lawsuit
An O.C. birther who took Occidental College to court in an attempt to get the Eagle Rock school to release President Obama's undergraduate grades and records lost the case this month, according to the campus paper, The Occidential Weekly. The woman, Rancho Santa Margarita attorney Orly Taitz, argue ... More >>
Film+TV
November 29, 2012
Killing Them Softly Review: Violent Brad Pitt Drama Argues Crime Is Just Business
An O.C. birther who took Occidental College to court in an attempt to get the Eagle Rock school to release President Obama's undergraduate grades and records lost the case this month, according to the campus paper, The Occidential Weekly. The woman, Rancho Santa Margarita attorney Orly Taitz, argue ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2012
Romney Writes Off Latinos, Young Voters As Government Moochers
The Republican party has four years to do something thinking, mainly about how you can be elected president, as Obama was last week, without a majority of white voters. The big story there is Latinos, and how they rocked the booths for Obama, with 70 percent or so going for the incumbent, according ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2012
2012 Election Results: Historic Night for Gay Issues and Candidates Across the United States
Four years ago, Senator Barack Obama won the presidency, but gay folks across the country were outraged that California voters approved Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ban. Last night, it was a completely different story -- and one of the most historic and significant nights for the LGBT comm ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2012
7-Eleven Coffee Drinkers May Predict Presidential Race Outcome
Predicting the outcome of an event can be done in one of several ways. Possible results can be gauged using statistics, polls, qualitative analysis -- or maybe psychic octopus. For the presidential election, the convenience store 7-Eleven partnered with The Onion and drew in voters with the simply- ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2012
Presidential Winner 2012: Obama Beats Romney
President Obama's reelection campaign took Ohio and thus the election shortly after 8:13 p.m., NBC News reported. Mitt Romney won in contentious and important states such as North Carolina and Arizona, but once the projections had Ohio and its potent electoral votes in Obama's corner, it appeared t ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2012
Obama's Got the Techno Vote
LA-based collective, The Looking Class, has taken up the challenge of reinvigorating our political disillusionment through an inspired social engineering design project now embarking on its maiden voyage.
Blogs
October 25, 2012
Gays Could Win Presidential Election for Barack Obama, Says Gallup Report
Guess ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and taking a strong pro-gay marriage stand could help President Barack Obama's re-election effort. According to the Gallup Report, with the presidential race running so tight, gays and lesbians overwhelming support for Obama could help him edge out Republican ca ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2012
Obama's Return To L.A. Today For Jay Leno Prompts Traffic Warning
President Obama is back, baby. And we're not just talking about winning the last two presidential debates after choking in the first one. No, the POTUS is back in L.A. this afternoon for the taping of the The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. And you know what that means? Traffic:
Blogs
October 22, 2012
Obama In L.A. Wednesday For Jay Leno
President Obama will be back in L.A. this week. Given the tight presidential race, it's only logical that the candidates would be aiming at voters through the most effective of means -- late-night talk shows. That's right, the prez will be appearing on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno ...
Blogs
October 17, 2012
Jimmy Kimmel: Folks Describe Watching Presidential Debate Before It Aired (VIDEO)
We gloated a little when, earlier this month, the latest World University Rankings out of the U.K. said Caltech is the best school on the planet and UCLA is No. 13. L.A. is a smart place, innit? Well, not exactly. Last night Jimmy Kimmel Live aired a segment on street reaction to the presidential ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Did Villaraigosa Cozy Up to Leon Cooperman, Billionaire Enemy of The Obama Campaign?
By most accounts L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been a good Democrat. He supported Hillary Clinton in her presidential bid. And he carried water for the Obama campaign when the contentious issue of God came up during a Democratic National Convention platform meeting. But a new New Yorker story ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Obama 'Race Video' Touted as October Surprise Could Be About L.A. Riots, Katrina
Updated at the bottom: The Daily Caller posted the video, posted below. Today the site Daily Caller has been teasing video of a Barack Obama "race speech" that some in the rightblogger world have been touting as an "October surprise" that could upend a so-far uneven match between the president and ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2012
Party With Obama in L.A. For Only $44?
Most fund-raisers for President Obama's reelection campaign are more like the $40,000-per-couple dinner reportedly being organized by Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg Oct. 7. But, then again, Obama is a Democrat. According to a campaign email, you can see him at his big Nokia Theater shindig dow ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2012
Marijuana Supporters Decry Obama's 'Harold & Kumar' Ad: VIDEO
The Democrats have enlisted Kal Penn of Harold & Kumar fame to help get out the youth vote. In an ad by the campaign both Penn and John Cho reprise their roles as the clearly stoned duo. Kumar nonchalantly takes a call from the prez who says, "I need to know if you're on-board." The duo is munchi ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2012
Marijuana Advocates Plan Anti-Obama Protests at Presidential Campaign Offices
Mitt Romney's embrace of the Republican right wing (via his choice of running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan) would seem to have put most of the left firmly in the hands of Team Obama. Not so fast, apparently. Many in the marijuana nation are still fuming over the president's crackdown on weed dispensaries ... More >>
Stage
August 23, 2012
Martin Crimp's The City and How Obama Got His Groove Back Show the Art of Escaping Reality
Mitt Romney's embrace of the Republican right wing (via his choice of running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan) would seem to have put most of the left firmly in the hands of Team Obama. Not so fast, apparently. Many in the marijuana nation are still fuming over the president's crackdown on weed dispensaries ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2012
VIDEO: Obama Calls Mars Rover Team at JPL, Talks Martians and Mohawk Guy
As is tradition after big American achievements or tragedies (such as, earlier this month, Michael Phelps' 19th Olympic medal and the Sikh community's tragic loss), President Obama reached out to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this morning over telephone. You'd think the big White House phone cal ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2012
Marijuana Activists Infiltrate Democratic Party in SoCal
So the figurehead of the Democratic Party, President Barack Obama, hasn't exactly been kind to the medical marijuana nation, what with all the federal raids on dispensaries and all. While Obama's flip-flopping on pot has some weed activists burning mad, one group of cannabis supporters in Californi ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2012
Mila Kunis Says She's Been Campaigning for Obama by Doing 'Illegal' Graffiti in L.A.
Compared to President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, his second run has been lagging in hip factor. No free "Yes we can" ads from Will.i.am; no Shepard Fairey prints; no hot YouTube chicks with a "Crush on Obama." Mila Kunis, rebel patriot, to the rescue! Although she's not on the list of young Hol ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2012
Obamacare Was a Republican Idea! 5 Obama Issues The GOP Once Owned
Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>
News
June 7, 2012
Disruption, Rebellion and Resistance: Activists Call for Action
Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>
News
June 7, 2012
Voter Suppression Efforts Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall
Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>
News
June 7, 2012
Crossing the Line: A Village Voice Media Special Report on Freedom Under Fire
Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2012
Obama Traffic, LA Pride Edition
Just in time for L.A. Pride 2012, President Obama will be in town capitalizing on his new cachet with the gays at two fundraisers--the $1,250 per person LGBT Leadership Council gala at the Beverly Wilshire, followed by a $25,000 per plate dinner at the home of "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy. The Preside ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2012
Update: Defense of Marriage Act: Federal Appeals Court Says Anti-Gay Marriage Law is Unconstitutional
Update, 11:25 a.m.: California gay rights activists respond to DOMA ruling, after the jump. The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act has been found unconstitutional by a federal appeals court in Boston, Massachusetts. The U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in on the ruling. "Under current Supreme Court authorit ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2012
Secret Service Attracted Prostitutes Way Back in Nixon's SoCal Days
The U.S. Secret Service got serviced by prostitutes ahead of President Obama's visit to Columbia last month, it is alleged. And much has been said about how this happened on Obama's watch. It's positively Clintonian, if you ask some in the Republican party. What's with these horny Democratic admini ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2012
Obama Gets California's Support Despite Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana Prosecution
You might whine about President Obama's flip-floppity ways when it comes to medical marijuana, but you certainly don't put your votes where your mouth is, at least not according to this poll. Californians, it seems, are solidly in Obama's corner in 2012. One would think that his administration's c ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2012
Obama's Marijuana Use as Teen Was EPIC: Joints 'Intercepted' by Future President
When Barack Obama was running for president he wasn't shy about his past marijuana use, saying, "I inhaled. That was the point." Well, it looks like he wasn't joking. A forthcoming election-year biography of the Commander in Chief, Barack Obama: The Story, by David Maraniss, describes the future l ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2012
Cannes Film Festival: Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly and Gael Garcia Bernal in No
The opening credits of the Brad Pitt-starring Killing Them Softly are set to snatches of Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech, focused on the notion of "the American promise," jarringly jump-intercut with scenes of Frank (Scoot McNairy) making his way through a tunnel onto a dismal Ameri ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2012
3 Out of 4 Americans Want Obama Off Medical Marijuana's Back
Obama's flip-flop on medical marijuana last month might seem like a political ploy meant to appease Middle Americans for whom legit cannabis dispensaries aren't even an option, let alone a right. After all, if you don't like it, who are going to vote for? Mitt Romney? Yeah right. But it turns out ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2012
Obama Traffic, the Valley Edition! Starring George Clooney's Studio City Mansion
Updated at the bottom with all known street closures. (See also: "Obama Totally Screws Up Gay Activists' Plans to Protest His L.A. Visit Tomorrow.") Originally posted May 9 at 9:15 a.m. We might as well get used to President Obama making campaign stops in Los Angeles. His most moneyed and importan ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2012
Obama's Marijuana Moments: Top 5 Stances, Statements And Subterfuges
The Left Coast is rejoicing today after President Obama announced that same-sex couples should be able to marry. And it wasn't lost on us that he made the statement on the eve of a fundraising trip to George Clooney's house tonight in the hills above Studio City. Maybe the timing was intended to he ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2012
Obama Totally Screws Up Gay Activists' Plans to Protest His L.A. Visit Tomorrow
The best part about President Obama's frequent ATM stops in L.A. are the myriad protesters who storm Beverly Hills and try to seek out his motorcade. Among them, always, are the LGBT activists, angry that the president still hasn't come out in support of gay marriage (perhaps in fear of further ali ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
Obama's Latino Problem Might Have Just Been Solved by This Hipster T-Shirt
You're young and Latino. And, frankly, you're on the fence about this Obama guy. After all, he promised immigration reform and only recently started to deliver after continuing George W. Bush's militaristic build-up of security along the border. And by "only recently" we mean that he planned to rel ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
Marijuana Being Shut Out of Santa Barbara After Feds' Medical Crackdown
Obama recently said it: "Big" marijuana business would not be immune from federal prosecution, even in medical weed states like California. Today the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. announced that the feds are walking that walk: They raided four pot operations, filed legal papers to seize the asse ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Obama: Marijuana Dispensary Busts by Feds Aren't About to Stop
If you think President Obama is a liar for promising to hold back on federal prosecution of medical marijuana and then seeing his feds bust more pot shops than they did under George W. Bush, maybe you're not listening to him carefully enough. Obama says that, perhaps, you misinterpreted his words w ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Ecstasy Emblazoned With Obama's Likeness Found in California And 14 Other States
Springtime brings party season back to Southern California, the rave capital of the nation. But what's that on your tongue? Obama, you say? Be careful. Obama, as any Republican will tell you, might not be all that he claims to be. Consider:
Blogs
April 18, 2012
Marijuana Movement Plans 420 Day of Action Friday
April 20, a.k.a. 420, is the stoner's holiday -- almost as big as Cinco de Mayo in L.A. But this time around, marijuana decriminalization activists want you to turn it into "a day of action," a time to voice displeasure with the Obama administration's crackdown on dispensaries in California. Dale ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2012
Villaraigosa Wants Democratic Presidential Platform to Embrace Same Sex Marriage
You can almost hear the sound of regret coming from the White House. Only a few weeks after President Obama's party leaders named Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as the high profile chair of the Democratic National Convention, the L.A. leader said something that Obama and the party faithful might not ha ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2012
$5.59 Gas in Los Angeles: Fuel Reaches High Not Seen Since 2008
The jobless rate is down. People are starting to spend money again. Some of Wall Street's biggest stocks, like Apple, are trading at record highs. Damn, this Great Recession might have just turned a corner for the better. Finally. Wait a minute. Did you say $5.59-a-gallon gas? Right here in L.A?
Blogs
February 15, 2012
'Occupy 90210' to Protest Outside Obama's $40K-per-Plate Campaign Fundraiser in L.A.
Unlike the people's beloved First Lady -- who stops by Inglewood groceries when she's in town; so humble! -- President Obama is notorious for never letting his limo stray beyond L.A.'s lavish Westside. Especially now that election season is drawing near, and so many deep Hollywood pockets have yet ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
Iranian-Americans in L.A. Protest China's Support of Iran, Erect Huge Mural Outside Chinese Consulate
It's a strange week for Chinese-U.S. relations. We're welcoming Vice President Xi Jinping to Los Angeles day after tomorrow for a full city tour (including yacht ride and Lakers game) to strengthen L.A.'s business ties to the rich communist country. Similarly, on a national scale, President Obama i ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
President Obama Returns to Southern California Wednesday (You've Been Warned)
Oh, come on, you know you've been awaiting the return of President Obama. The east-west traffic. The Secret Service. The roar of the helicopters. L.A. loves us some Obama ... when he's not here. Oh well: Read 'em and weep, because the prez is returning to the L.A. area to tap some deep pockets:
Blogs
January 30, 2012
America Wants Marijuana Reform, Former LAPD Leader Tells Obama Via YouTube: Will He Respond?
Updated at the bottom with Obama's response. First posted at 7:01 a.m. The people who want to decriminalize marijuana are bringing the issue to President Obama this morning. A retired LAPD deputy chief, Stephen Downing, submitted a video to the White House in which he asks what the president would ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2012
Snoop Dogg Says He Wants to Smoke Out President Obama, Is Soon Arrested by Federal Officers
President Obama, what with his Hawaiian heritage, is one of the most laid-back presidents ever to sit in the ultimate seat of power. He once shook the hand of a Marine, which is outside protocol, and you just know that he plays it cool. But Snoop Dogg's recent suggestion is beyond the bounds of ev ... More >>
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