Daily Archives: April 22, 2008

No, there wasn’t any American “occupation”

Jubal aka Matt Cunningham over at Red County/OC Blog pointed out here that in an OC Register column about Trong Doan the protester, Frank Mickadeit (photo) twice referred to what the U.S. did in Vietnam as an “occupation.” The Bolsavik used … Continue reading

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Viet students at USC meet, talk flags

(I broke this entry into two parts. The background information is in a prior entry here.) Something funny happened at the forum. Tensions dissolved and a spirit of compromise and accommodation set in as two separate groups of Vietnamese students … Continue reading

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Flag forum at USC – what led to it

(This is broken off from the old entry so that each won’t be so long. The background information is in this entry; the report on the forum itself is here.) The forum at the University of Southern California arose following controversies over the … Continue reading

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OC GOP endorses Janet Nguyen

The Orange County Republican Party Central Committee in its meeting last night voted to endorse Janet Nguyen (photo, left) in her re-election to the OC Board of Supervisors, reports The Orange Juice here. The vote count of 44-14 was comfortably more … Continue reading

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