I was catching up with my arts & culture reading over the weekend and was interested to see a story in the SF Chronicle about a radio station pulling a book ad off the air that attacked the Christian right after listeners called to complain. It’s not a headline that I would ever expect to see in the Chronicle!

You can read the whole article here, but the gist is that KDFC, a classical music station, pulled an advertisement for the book, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on ," by Chris Hedges. Hedges is coming to San Francisco and his publisher had purchased some ad time to promote the book.

Given how left-wing San Francisco is, it was hard to imagine what prompted those listeners to call and complain (or there are more of us… Read More

Fleischman thinks he’s hot stuff because of all the mainpage "FlashCam" posts today on Mitt Romney’s visit. If Jon were hip, he’d cruise over to myspace.com and become a "friend" of any presidential candidate he chooses, all of ’em if he likes.

Check out http://impact.myspace.com/and know that every candidate is an Internet predator when it comes to courting the under-30 crowd. As Paris Hilton would say, "It’s hot."

Jon, let’s make this a feature….State candidates’ videos, right on the FlashReport!

Here’s the AP-HiTech story:

Presidential Hopefuls Make Myspace Pages

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Prospective voters eager to learn more about John McCain or to become an Internet "friend" of Barack Obama now have a new online opportunity. MySpace.com, the popular social networking site, on Sunday launched a section dedicated to the 2008 presidential election.

Called the Impact Channel,… Read More

The 60th Assembly District stretches From the Diamond Bar/Walnut area of Los Angeles County Down through parts of Northern Orange County to parts of Orange/Anaheim and takes in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. FR contributor posted his views on the race in the OC blog. See it here. Bob Huff represents the area now. Currently there are three candidates mentioned and all will run as conservatives: Curt Hagman is the first term councilman from Chino Hills. Adam Aleman profiled the first term councilman in FR. Read it here.People in Chino Hills do like him and he … Read More

On Friday, I had a chance to take a few minutes with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts. I found him to be a very engaging and articulate person with whom to speak. Below are some excerpts* from our interview…

Governor Romney was in Orange County where he appeared at two fundraising events — one an exclusive ‘pre-sell’ event at the Irvine home of businessman John Clarey, and the other a reception with hundreds of guests at the posh St. Regis Resort in Dana Point. We took along the "FlashCam" and so you can see all kinds of video — they are on the main page now — and I will try to post them into this Commentary in a bit…

AN INTERVIEW WITH MITT ROMNEY… Read More

Did anyone else notice that the pro-military counterprotests were actually much larger than the anti-war protests out in Washington DC over the weekend? Hard to find coverage, but the pictures and police reports were pretty clear.… Read More

On Friday, I had a chance to take a few minutes with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts. I found him to be a very engaging and articulate person with whom to speak. Below are some excerpts* from our interview…

Governor Romney was in Orange County where he appeared at two fundraising events — one an exclusive ‘pre-sell’ event at the Irvine home of businessman John Clarey, and the other a reception with hundreds of guests at the posh St. Regis Resort in Dana Point. We took along the "FlashCam" and so you can see all kinds of video — they are on the main page now — and I will try to post them into this Commentary in a bit…

AN INTERVIEW WITH MITT ROMNEY… Read More

Not really analysis that Jon would be expecting, simply…LET’S GO PITT!!!! As the former Vice President of the University of Pittsburgh College Republicans I could not resist antagonizing the blogosphere…forgive me Jon.

See ya in San Jose on Thursday.… Read More

This is not the first time I’ve weighed in on the San Diego Ethics Commission and the City of San Diego’s campaign laws that often surpass thoseof the California Political Reform Act in their regulatory ambition. Some are good, some are…well…just waiting for a lawsuit.

I was recently invited to a meeting of a potential SD City Council candidate. The individual is definitely running, yet he is not yet a candidate and the meeting in question was not a campaign meeting…because, you see,the city says so. You can’t announce your candidacy, raise money, or even put up a website until a year prior to the primary election…uhhh, not in SD anyway.

Kinda seems like a regulatory chill on the right of free speech to me.

On March 12, the Union-Trib’s Logan Jenkins penned a hilarious, must readpiece on the absurdity of it all, writing that"Franz Kafka would love this stuff." An excerpt:

For the next 2½ months, dozens of “closet candidates” for… Read More