Rick Perry

How Medicare Fraud Became the Nation's Most Lucrative Crime

It costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. But the feds say they're finally trying to crack down

Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Only a few short weeks into the new year and the GOP is busy. The president's recent inaugurati ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Today: I am in Oklahoma City. Outside the tour bus, the wind is blowing nonstop, hair-dryer ho ... More >>

What if Texas Seceded? Comedy Writer Bob Smiley Imagines What Would Happen, in Don't Mess with Travis

Sometimes, something has to make you truly miserable before you can see the humor in it. Los Angeles-based TV writer and ESPN.com contributor Bob Smiley entered Princeton University with the idealistic dream of studying politics and eventually becoming a small-town mayor back home in Southern Cali ... More >>

Arizona Nutjob Sheriff Joe Arpaio Bringing His Drivel to Beverly Hills

There goes the neighborhood. Self-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff" and aging crackpot Joe Arpaio will be bringing his special brand of media whoring from Phoenix, Arizona, to Beverly Hills on Friday. Arpaio's endorsing Phil Liberatore, a mustachioed conservative facing off in the Republican ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I was just in Texas for a show. Since 1981 I've done a lot of shows in Texas. Whenever I am the ... More >>

Larry Flynt Wants to Out Sex Lives of More Politicians: $1 Million For Dirt

Attention hypocritical, bible-thumping politicians. Someone really doesn't like you. He's rich. And he's a smut-peddler of the highest degree. Yes, Larry Flynt of Hustler and The People vs. Larry Flynt fame has put up another $1 million bounty on the closeted skeletons of prominent U.S. leaders. H ... More >>

Open Mike Eagle Talks Uganda, the Indie Rap Illuminati, and the Republican Primaries

​See also: Open Mike Eagle Unapologetically Talks About "Art Rap" Over the last two years,

Mos Def and Talib Kweli - Club Nokia - 12-15-11

Timothy Norris​Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli) Club Nokia 12-15-11 Better than: Vanilla Ice's cameo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. Mos Def and Talib Kweli were already established alternative hip-hop artists when they came together to form Black Star, produc ... More >>

INCENDIARY: The Willingham Case Review

LMFAO Says 'We Came Here to Party' Inspired by Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney (Really)

Original shufflers.​If you ask us Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would be the last person to inspire a dance-floor anthem. After all, his biggest claim to fame so far as hopefuls vie for the GOP nomination is being a steady rocking, under-the-radar, cardboard cutout candidate ... More >>

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

Let's Get Retarded: Anti-Vaccine Group Claims Federal Law Trumps California's New Rule That Allows Girls to Get HPV-Prevention Drug

Bachmann vs. HPV.​The organization that injected the specter of retardation-via-vaccine is at it again, this time criticizing California's new law allowing 12-year-old girls to avoid cancer by getting HPV-prevention shots without their parents' consent. Now, we're not sure if the National Vac ... More >>

Sarah Palin Must Run, Says Jerry 'Peace Activist' Rubin, Who's on 1-Month Hunger Strike to Add More Chaos to GOP Lineup

Palin inspires a diet plan.​In an only-in-L.A. scenario, one ultra-lefty really wants Sarah Palin to run for president. So much so that he's been on a hunger strike for one month to urge the Alaskan to get on the campaign trail. Our old pal Jerry Peace Activist Rubin (that's his legal name) i ... More >>

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 >>

Justin Tanner's Day Drinkers and Cody Henderson's Wonderlust

Rules of attraction

Concussions Take a Terrible Toll on America's Young Athletes

City of Vernon in Fight to Death With Assembly Speaker John Perez

Will You Watch 'Conan' At 11 Tonight, Or Stick With Jon Stewart?

Pulse2Back up off my slot, Stewart​All the bleeding gingerhearts on Team Coco finally lay down their arms tonight. After 10 months following "The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour," Conan O'Brien fans will gather J.Bieb-style outside the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, w ... More >>

Asylum Denied

Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories

Insults Across the Divide

Schwarzenegger's Lost Year

The Austrian Oak is beaten by a bureaucracy he swore he'd change

That's Wack

California’s legislature approves 1,000 new laws annually. Insert laugh track here

Diana Ross: O.G. Diva Sings the Blues

A long-lost ’71 jazz album smashes imitators, from Madonna to Beyoncé

Waiting for Karen

George’s pals are doing him wrong, but can Hughes save him?

Texas Crude

Racial politics hits another low in redistricting fight

Exiled in Texas

Bush turns on the Democrat who introduced him to the nation

Powerlines

Without vision, the party — well, a Senate majority — perishes

You Called It Madness

Sugar 'N' Spikes

Captain Beefheart: The Mirror Man as mere man