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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 >>
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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 >>
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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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November 28, 2011
Shepard Fairey Designs 'Occupy Hope' Poster, Replaces Obama's Face With 'V for Vendetta' Mask
Updated after the jump: Fairey changes the "Occupy Hope" poster to please occupiers. "Anonymous" hackers, who also rep the Guy Fawkes mask, are likely still unsatisfied. Originally posted November 18 at 3:50 p.m. Here we go again. L.A. street artist Shepard Fairey has released a second original de ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Obama's Latino Election Strategy: Do Nothing, Let Republicans Hang Themselves
NBCPresident Obama is one cool, laid-back dude. If he's sweating the upcoming election, you sure wouldn't know it. Even with this toilet-bowl economy, a recent New York Times Magazine piece saying he's an underdog to win reelection, and a key, Latino electorate that's not as yes-we-can about ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
Marijuana Legalization Petition Gets Blown Off by Obama Administration
DEAObama is not your bud.Admit it: You got all excited when President Obama opened up an online petition process -- promising to respond to top signature-getters -- and one advocating the full-legalization of marijuana went to the top of list. The president would have to respond. So he did. ... More >>
News
October 27, 2011
Obama's War on Weed
In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees
Blogs
October 27, 2011
Marijuana Crackdown in California: U.S. Department of Justice Says it's Not President Obama's Fault
Don't blame this guy.As we've noted, marijuana advocates are mad at President Obama. An Occidental College-educated lefty, Obama's supposed to be one of them. But when his U.S. Department of Justice cracked down on pot dispensaries in California, essentially saying that all weed shops are il ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
Obama Throws Shepard Fairey And His Iconic 'Hope' Poster Under The Bus in Search of New Paradigm For 2012: No More 'Sexy' Time
Shepard Fairey / APObama says no more 'Hope.'What a difference three years make: President Obama has graying hair, Osama Bid Laden and Moammar Gadhafi are dead, and people are, to quote the Facebook meme, now blaming "the black guy" for George W. Bush's Great Recession. Times have changed ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
President Obama to Get Occupied During L.A. Visit Today: Occupy L.A. Takes to Streets Near Hancock Park Fundraisers
Nanette GonzalezOccupy Obama.Updated at the bottom. Occupy L.A. says police are threatening to make arrests. First posted at 12:41 p.m. President Obama will be officially occupied during his fundraising/Latino-hobnobbing visit to L.A. this afternoon. Well, maybe. Protesters probably won't g ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2011
Marijuana Protest During President Obama's Visit to L.A.
The Weed BlogWeed advocates want Obama to hear them.During Monday's Obamajam on the Westside marijuana advocates will be out in force to protest the U.S. Justice Department's crackdown on cannabis dispensaries in California. California NORML is staging a demonstration outside the downtown Fe ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2011
Legalize Marijuana Across The Land Via Constitutional Amendment? Yeah, Right ...
The branches of government.We told you recently about how President Obama will have to face the question of legalizing marijuana nationwide after his own initiative to let Americans petition him online with their most-pressing issues brought weed to his desk. The top vote-getter in this effo ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Video: Obama Gets Heckled in L.A. Over God And Marijuana But Plays it Cool
APObama in Weho.Somebody spent $250 to go to the House of Blues last night and tell President Obama that "Jesus Christ is God!" The right wing has been reduced to Tourette syndrome-like outbursts in its efforts to fluster the Man. No way. As Fred Armison's impression on Saturday Night Live p ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
Obamaggedon in Near Future? President's Visit to WeHo Could Cause Major Traffic Jams
WeHo DailyIf only L.A. had some good public transportation options for Obama to takeUpdate: Side-line information from left-wing group press officer after the break. Update: Street protests happening now from left-wing group outside Obama's first stop at the House of Blues Sunset. Also, upda ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
Marijuana Legalization Issue on Obama's Desk Thanks to White House's Online Petition Program
Maybe those efforts to fully legalize marijuana in California are a waste of time. It looks like President Obama will have to officially respond to requests to legalize it nationwide. That's because someone's bright idea (a White House intern?) to allow Americans to petition the administra ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
Obama Campaign Office Shot up With BB Gun in Los Angeles; LAPD on Look Out For Culprit
Pete Souza for the White HouseIf you hate President Obama, please don't do stupid stuff like shoot up his local campaign office with a BB gun and throw an unknown object through the window. That's a surefire way to get lots of cops looking for your dumb ass, which was the case last night aft ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Meet The Guy Who DJs for Obama
The Secret Service was busy digging through the background of Adam Bravin, aka DJ Adam 12, when the two of us spoke yesterday. The reason? The spinner behind popular old school hip-hop party AFEX -- which debuts at Los Globos on Thursday night -- will perform at an Obama fundraiser at House o ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Richest Americans Saw 400 Percent Increase in Income, 40 Percent Decrease in Tax Rates, According to Calif. Sen. Boxer (It's Almost True)
yunguyen666This whole class warfare thing is kind of cool. We haven't seen this much bloodlust among the masses since Apple introduced the iPhone 4. After President Obama proposed that millionaires and billionaires pay the same tax rate as working-class folks (sparking charges by the right t ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2011
L.A. Democrat Says Republican 'Science Deniers' Are Using Solyndra Solar Failure to Argue Against Clean Energy
baycitizen.orgWas Obama blinded by the wonders green jobs could do for his campaign?Solyndra, Inc., the NorCal solar company that just blew through a $535 million loan from the federal government and is being probed by the FBI, had a lot more to lose than the money. (Hell, what's $535 million ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Obama Would Kill in California Against Republican Hopefulls Such as Romney, Bachmann, Perry
whitehouse.govObama, looking up.We like to make fun of Obama for his troubles with his West Coast constituency: He's been seen as no friend of the medical marijuana nation, especially after his federal agents continued to pursue pot shops even after his justice department told the troops to s ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2011
ICE's Official Guidelines for Who to Deport Under Confusing Obama 'Amnesty'
If there really was amnesty, ICE would be out of a job.La Opinion, L.A.'s Spanish-language paper (whose future is much brighter than the English-language paper, turns out!) ran a heartbreaking piece yesterday on the confusion surrounding what many immigrants are referring to as "Obama's law" ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Deportations Halted for DREAM Act Students, Moms With Babies, Crime Victims, Longtime Residents (and Pretty Much Everyone Else)
OK, fine. You can stay.Coming out of the closet party, anyone? After three years of insisting he had no power to do so, Obama (or, more specifically, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano) has ordered the courts to sift through over 300,000 pending deportation cases and ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
Medical Marijuana Across America Someday? Obama Stumbles When Asked
Which way Obama?President Obama, like a beautiful woman who is the target of unrequited love, is an enigma when it comes to his marijuana policy. Marijuana bad, marijuana good? Who knows. We do know that his administration penned a memo a few years back asking feds to back off on enforcement ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
Marijuana Advocates Fuming Over Obama Administration's Confusing Stance on Medical Marijuana Enforcement
Obama, smoking.One would think that President Obama, an admitted onetime pot smoker who is about as liberal a leader one could get in the White House, would be somewhat of a hero for the medical marijuana movement. His administration even told feds to stand down on pot enforcement in states ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Medical Marijuana From Sea to Shining Sea? A Lawsuit Wants to Force Feds to Say Yes to Pot
1ncognitoMarijuana advocates filed a suit in a U.S. Circuit Court today to force the Obama administration to answer a petition that seeks to have the federal government recognize cannabis as a drug with acceptable medical uses. The suit wants the court to order the administration to answer t ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2011
Obama OG Kush: President Gets New Marijuana Strain, Available in Southern California, Named in His Honor
San Diego CityBeatA dose of Obama.President Obama is, like Bill Clinton and his saxophone-playing ways, a pop phenomenon who transcends the pomp and circumstance of the highest office in the Western World. After he put Osama Bin Laden at the bottom of the ocean, he also became somewhat of a ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Obama Disguises Campaign Donation Website as 'Immigration Reform' Fundraiser, the Sneaky Bastard
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May 2, 2011
Osama Bin Laden: Donald Trump Sucks it Up, Gives Props to President Obama
Trump and Dennis Rodman.Props to Donald Trump for being man enough to congratulate President Obama following his administration's takedown of Osama Bin Laden. The man who repeatedly suggested our president wasn't born in the United States (until Obama produced a "long-form" birth certificate ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2011
Donald Trump Calls Out Obama For His Stoner, Underachieving Days at Occidental College in L.A.
Obama in L.A.We've seen the photos of President Obama during his L.A. college years. He's got some hair. And his pants had flair. And, well, he even admitted to smoking "reefer" in his 1995 memoir. Yeah, we even imagine a "bow-chica-bow-wow" soundtrack following the future president named Ba ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2011
Obama Invites Eva Longoria, Rosario Dawson to Talk Immigration (Because Hollywood Millionaires Are Huge Border Experts)
Eva has deep immigration knowledge (we kid).President Obama is having prominent Angeleno Latinos over to his Casablanca today for a little talk on immigration. Among the invitees are Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria, fellow actresses Rosario Dawson and America Ferrera, and local radio hero ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
President Obama to Be Met in L.A. by Angry Latinos, Armenian Protesters (Including 'System of a Down' Frontman Serj Tankian)
Asbarez.comL.A. Armenians to Obama: Just say it.Updated after the jump: Obama arrives -- and the riot gear comes out. Update: Obama is prepared for the worst after being sung to by a group of San Franciscans this morning. Apparently they paid $5,000 each to air their outrage that a WikiLeake ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
Obama a FAIL on Marijuana Policy, Says Pro-Cannabis Group
Obama is no bud to medical marijuana, say advocates.On a day when President Obama was visiting L.A., the marijuana dispensary capital of the nation, the pro-Cannabis group Americans for Safe Access, gave him a failing grade for weed policies. An ASA statement blames Obama's government for "u ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
R.I.P. Hungry Baby Bear of San Bernardino
His only crime was a grumbly tummyUpdated after the jump with VIDEO of some nasty country trash and the poor baby animal who made the mistake of rummaging through it. Forget immigration reform/the Armenian genocide. And traffic, for that matter. What President Obama, and the rest of SoCal, s ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
Where NOT to Go To Dinner Tonight: President Obama Has Booked Tavern
Tavern's websitethe dining room at Tavern As you probably know already -- hopefully, if you're going to be in a car anywhere on the Westside later today -- President Obama is in town. Why? Why do you think: the man is fundraising in a place that has historically been very kind to him. So, the ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Poll: Latinos Like Obama Less After His Latin America Tour, Univision Town Hall (Ouch)
Michelle's cheeseball Latina look didn't fool the votersPresident Obama made his first major outreach effort to the giant Latino voter block last month, spouting on immigration reform in Latin America and chatting with minority students on Univision about how much standardized tests, like, s ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2011
President Obama Headed to Los Angeles For Fund-Raiser: You Can Attend For $100 if You're Under 40
He wants you.President Obama, do you really love us? Or are you just using us? You've been here five times since you moved to Washington. You used to live here. Remember those college days at Occidental? How come you don't visit more often? Only when an election's coming up, huh? And wh ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Obama en Español: U.S. President Tours Latin America, Talks Chilean Miners, His Own Stellar Immigration Policy (Really?)
The Daily BeastBarack and Michelle, lookin' the partUpdated after the jump: The president makes his last stop in El Salvador. If there's one thing our POTUS can do, it's talk. Barack Obama could talk himself out of Guantanamo Bay through a thick swatch of duct tape. In perfect form, he tur ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
UCLA Professor: Cash From L.A. ($20 Million Per Year) Makes Up Half the Economy in One Part of El Salvador
From your wallet to El SalvadorYou know all those stacks you drop on yardwork, Pico Union ethnic food and the live-in nanny? Bet you were feeling pretty good about doing your part to stimulate the local economy, or whatever. But there's a good chance your fat Los Angeles dime is instead goin ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
Back Story: How Jeremy Bernard Became the White House's First Openly Gay Social Secretary
Ted SoquiJeremy Bernard, left, with former partner Rufus Gifford in 2008On February 1, 2007, political fund raiser Jeremy Bernard wasn't thinking about making history. It was his first day on the job for U.S. Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and Bernard and his then-partner, R ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Gay Rights Activists Thrilled with Barack Obama's Decision to Back Off on Defense of Marriage Act
Gay rights activists in California and across the United States are thrilled with the Obama Administration's decision today to stop defending the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act in federal court. "This is a huge victory for gay and lesbian couples and removes any doubt that the freedom to marr ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2011
Top 10 Songs About Presidents (in Honor of Presidents Day)
Remember Clinton and the sax? Monarchs, political authority figures, and presidents have been inspiring pissed-off punk rock anthems or passionate, pleased glorification--whether subtle or direct--since human beings could pick up an instrument and pluck or pound out a feeling. And given our ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Obama Touts Caltech Research That Would Turn Sun Rays and Water Into Fuel
CaltechSossina Haile and William Chueh work on Ed Begley Jr's dream fuel: sun rays and water.Was President Obama smoking some of that good stuff they sell legally right here in L.A. when he gave his State of the Union address Tuesday night? (He did go to college in the area). Because we're su ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2011
20 Band Names From the State of the Union Address
20 Band Names From the State of the Union Address
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Why Is L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Mourning The Deaths Of Two Chicago Firefighters?
Villaraigosa, far right, is outside Obama's camp for now.Two Chicago firefighters died Wednesday as they battled a Warehouse blaze and became trapped. Sad, tragic story, to be sure, and our heart goes out to their families. But why is L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa issuing a press release a ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
U.S. Study: High-School Seniors Smoked More Weed In 2010
Fast times in 2010Updated after the jump: Both tobacco and marijuana use are on the rise. So why is weed getting all the flack after today's report? The experts weigh in. Don't you just love watching statisticians get all tussled about the numeric rebellions of today's youth? According to a ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
The L.A. Lakers Have A Date With Obama Tonight (What Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Wouldn't Give...)
Associated PressDoesn't Biden get a No. 2? Racism, we tell yaBarack Obama and the lagging Los Angeles Lakers meet again, for their annual shoot-the-shit play date! A presidential elbow-rub is apparently one of the perks of winning NBA titles -- and both parties are milking this photo op for ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Is L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Lobbying For A Job In The Obama Administration?
Los Angeles magazineNot exactly an endorsment for higher office.City Hall watchers have long wondered what would befall L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. When he became mayor word was it would be a stepping stone (like his that cut-short term on the City Council) to something bigger -- likely ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
The Great Latke vs. Hamantash Debate
Like the profoundest of profound intellectual quandaries, the latke vs. hamantash debate may never be fully resolved. Since 1946, when Hillel House at University of Chicago sponsored the first annual debate pitting potato pancakes against triangular cookies, great minds -- like Nobel Prize-winnin ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Break-In Burglar Takes $2,000 In Coins From Manhattan Beach Wells Fargo
Way more than $2,000 in coins... but not everyone can have hustle like ScroogeIt's the season for artistic public thieving in L.A. County. First, on Oct. 27, there was the guy with the Obama mask who stuck up an El Pollo Loco branch in Duarte with a toy knife. A week or so later, there was t ... More >>
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