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Water in the aqueduct that helped fuel Los Angeles' growth was flowing toward the city Wednesday for the first time in six months after workers removed an earthen and concrete dam that had diverted runoff to the parched Owens Valley. ... Owens Valley ranchers are .. at the mercy of Los Angeles .. LA owns most of the water rights it furtively bought in the early 1900s in a widely chronicled land grab loosely recounted in the movie Chinatown. William Mulholland conceived the gravity-fed channel to slake the growing city's thirst and famously quipped, "There it is. Take it," as...

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) -- A former housekeeper for gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman held a news conference Tuesday to tell the public she is not a puppet for attorney Gloria Allred, Jerry Brown or anyone else. Nicky Diaz Santillan, appeared with Allred for a third week to claim that Meg Whitman knew she was an illegal immigrant when she worked for the former eBay founder for nine years. Santillan says it was only after Whitman launched her campaign that she was fired. 'I want everyone to know my name," Santillan said. "I make my own decisions and I am nobody's...

Note: The following text is a quote: Queens Man and Accomplice Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to Hizballah Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph M. Demarest, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the FBI, announced the filing of an indictment yesterday charging Patrick Nayyar and Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland with attempting to provide material support to Hizballah, a designated foreign terrorist organization. The indictment also charges Nayyar with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. On Sept. 24, 2009, Nayyar, a 46-year-old citizen of India who had...

Will missiles soon be flying in the California governor's race? Bob Mulholland, senior advisor to Democratic nominee Phil Angelides, aims for controversy this morning, saying: "With North Korea leader Kim Jong-Il back in the news, it reminds me that he and Schwarzenegger have something in common. Both have their shoes specifically made to add a couple inches of lift. What we don’t know is does Kim Jong-Il have his shoes made by Schwarzenegger’s shoemaker in Italy." Hillary is hosting a fundraiser for Angelides today in San Francisco. In 2003, Mulholland warned Arnold Schwarzenegger that "real bullets" will be coming his...

When The New York Times, “Nightline,” and CNN nominate a young blonde for sainthood ahead of the Pope, it’s time for a reality check. Especially when that blonde, Marla Ruzicka’s sole purpose is to legitimize our enemies, cause problems for U.S. troops already in harms way, and morally equivocate dead terrorists with victims of 9/11. Jane Fonda lite—but unfortunately without having been spat upon by right-thinking veterans. The recent death of Ruzicka, an American “activist” in Iraq, elicited an orgy of gush—everywhere from Time Magazine to The Guardian of London to Al-Jazeera. A 28-year-old San Franciscan, Ruzicka was in Iraq...

As I read the book “If Grace Is True,” a well-known old bromide kept coming to mind: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” This book may be the ultimate and most ironic example of the truth of that saying. This book is based on a simple premise: if grace (God’s unmerited favor) is true, then literally everyone will go to heaven, no matter their religion or behavior. Those who are familiar with orthodox Christian doctrine will immediately realize there is a problem with this premise: there is nothing in all of Christianity that supports it. As a...

Bob Mulholland, official spokesman for the California Democratic Party, recently referred to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s support for redistricting as a “Hitler-esque power grab.” The comment, made just days after Schwarzenegger led the annual Capitol Hanukkah celebration, was published in the Capitol Morning Report, a newsletter read religiously by political insiders and news reporters in Sacramento. Although Mulholland’s comparison of the governor and the man who slaughtered millions of innocent people surely reached the desk of every policymaker in California, only one responded. Republican Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, a board member of the Anti-Defamation League in his Orange County district, was quoted...

They have lobbied in the halls of Congress wearing pig costumes and wandered the streets of Manhattan dressed in evening wear and rags. But the three founders of the women's antiwar group Codepink are seasoned advocates who may have pulled off the protest coup of the convention: While thousands of demonstrators chanted on the streets, drawing only glancing attention from the Republicans, their members were inside Madison Square Garden night after night, unfurling banners and baring slogans, forcing even the president to take notice. ''We don't want just to be outside on the street talking to ourselves,'' said Medea Benjamin,...

<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. - Delegates to the California Democratic Party convention delayed a decision Sunday on whether to support Proposition 57, the statewide bond measure championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as the key to his economic recovery program.</p> <p>The proposition, which goes before voters at the March 2 primary, would allow the state to borrow $15 billion to pay off debts which come due June 30.</p>

THE LEADING REPUBLICAN Challenging the Governor on His Own Lawn SACRAMENTO, Oct. 5 — The Arnold Schwarzenegger bus tour made its final stop on Sunday, on the lawn of the state Capitol. Addressing a crowd of 10,000, Mr. Schwarzenegger was upbeat and avoided comment on the headlines of recent days about women who said the actor had molested them or a book proposal that quoted him saying he admired Hitler. He did not refer to "yellow journalism" nor did any of his supporters here try to rally the crowd, as one did on Saturday, to beat up reporters. On Sunday,...

The LOS ANGELES SLIMES has, not surprisingly, done the dirty work for the California RATS and their chief scumbag, Bob Mulholland. The SLIMES will be running in tomorrow's edition, the charges of six women, four of whom are anonymous, who claim sexual harassment by The Terminator. Some of the charges go back to the '70s. Unfortunately for Mulholland, who successfully slimed Bruce Herschensohn in the Barbara Boxer senate race, it is not going to work this time. Republicans who are set to vote for Arnold will not be taken in by the Mulholland trick. Republicans recognize the SLIMES for what...

California Democratic Party operative Bob Mulholland reversed himself Monday night and apologized to GOP gubernatorial front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger for saying he'd have to fight off "real bullets" during the campaign. "I should not have used Hollywood words," Mulholland told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "And I apologize for that." Mulholland insisted that he merely meant that California Democrats have real differences with Schwarzenegger on the issues when he told ABC News on Sunday, "Schwarzenegger's going to find out that, unlike the Hollywood movie set, the bullets coming at him in this campaign are going to be real bullets...

TONIGHT! Must See Political TV on MSNBC!! TODAY!!! 6:30 PM Eastern 3:30 PM Pacific .. Buchanan & Press Feature the Great Recall Gray Davis Debate Vs. The Honorable Howard KaloogianChairman, Recall Gray Davis Committee The Dishonorable Bob MulhollandCalifornia Democrat Party "Bob Mulholland is the US Democrats' leading dirty trickster." SOURCE: The Guardian If you ask Bob Mulholland, campaign advisor for the California Democratic Party, President Bush is nothing but a “dry drunk that lies everyday.” SOURCE: The California Aggie "The nation's quintessential dirty trickster is helping to oversee the recount of ballots in Florida. "In fact, this guy once...