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President Barack Obama is spending a long Father’s Day weekend in the desert oasis of Rancho Mirage. The president and the first lady arrived at the Palm Springs International Airport Friday night after visiting an Indian reservation earlier in the day. SNIP The Obamas are staying with White House decorator Michael Smith and his partner, U.S. Ambassador to Spain James Costos, at their vacation home. The president’s handlers scoped out some golf courses and gave a list to Obama just in case he wants to spend Father’s Day on the links. SNIP Obama plans to take a short flight to...

Per Megyn Kelly on Fox News

Houston Mayor Annise Parker and longtime partner Kathy Hubbard are now married - at least in the eyes of 18 states, including California, where the couple formally exchanged vows Thursday in a sunset ceremony in Palm Springs.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Police shot a Camp Pendleton Marine who struck an officer with a car in a parking garage in Palm Springs. The Marine ignored orders to stop after being approached by officers on bike patrol. One officers partially climbed into the passenger window. The car accelerated, striking the other officer and continued with the officer hanging out of the window until the car crashed near the garage exit. Both officers discharged their weapons... (shot the unarmed Marine). Both officers were treated for injuries at a hospital and released. The Marine died at the scene.

The co-owner of a Palm Springs nudist resort today defended the facility's policy banning children, saying it is not discriminatory -- despite claims to the contrary by an anonymous group of detractors. Desert Sun Resort owners John and Elizabeth Young, who live in Orange County, filed a lawsuit March 16 in Orange County Superior Court against 500 unnamed defendants, asking a judge to rule that the clothing-optional resort's policy against children does not violate state law. According to Elizabeth Young, the lawsuit was filed in response to a letter she received Feb. 17 from Palm Springs attorney David Baron. The...

The wife and I are heading to Palm Springs for a long delayed and overdue vacation in the morning. Fellow FReepers, if you have spent some time there, we would love to hear what you would suggest doing. So far, I am going to be playing golf a couple of days at least, we may be going to a concert Thursday night, wifey will be pampered at a spa for a day and we will of course, be eating out quite a bit. I was hoping someone could suggest; Restaurants Activities Good values for a Spa Good values for Golf...

As the nation is riveted by the antics of wildly overpaid narcissistic drug addict, Charlie Sheen, the anti Sheen passed away. We had the good fortune to see Jane Russell perform at a fund raiser for Soliders Organized Services (SOS) in Palm Springs. The organization provides free transportation for Marines from Palm Springs airport to the base at 29 Palms, a trip that can easily cost $150. The event was held in the Palm Springs Air Museum, a wonderful place to visit. It was set up to feel like a 1940′s USO show. Miss Russell was the highlight of the...

After videos were placed on Big Government and Breitbart.tv from a progressive rally in Palm Springs, FL where protesters were preaching the evils of those big, bad Koch brothers, a firestorm ignited after participants were captured on video calling for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be hanged, go back to the fields, and be lynched. Common sense, the liberal activist group who was the main sponsor of the event, was forced to condemn the actions of the participants. Let’s get serious here, if these outlandish and spiteful words were caught on tape a Tea Party rally, the outcry would...

<p>The 69-year-old widow of famed “Singing Cowboy” Gene Autry struck and killed a homeless man while driving in Palm Springs on Thanksgiving Day, authorities said.</p>

People who run around naked at a Palm Springs resort reject the notion of body scanners at the airport. To date, Palm Springs International Airport doesn’t actually have any body scanners, but the nudist community has weighed in. "It’s an invasion of privacy,’ Michael Patrick Williams, general manager of The Desert Sun Resort, told City News Service. ‘Naturists aren’t really different from anyone else.’" Of course, “naturists” are exactly like the rest of us, except for the part about wandering around naked amid a bunch of strangers. "‘We protect our guests’ privacy’, Williams said. ‘Naturists have as much right to...

Joy Tiz ©2010 Steve Pougnet, Palm Springs’ incompetent mayor, claims “stimulus” saved the city from a “major, major depression.” It’s hard to argue with that when one termer Pougnet, can point to the $1.37 million dollar gateway park that features not one, but two Bocce ball courts, or fields or whatever it is you need to play Bocce ball. Now that Palm Springs can boast of being home to two Bocce Ball things, can an economic boom be far behind? Under current leadership, Palm Springs has deteriorated into a ghost town—barely recognizable as the glamorous resort it once was. The...

Because nothing says “grassroots” like hiring a bunch of tour buses: Immigration advocates expect roughly 1,000 Coachella Valley residents to caravan to Los Angeles on Saturday for a march protesting a new Arizona immigration law. “Nine tour buses spread throughout valley cities are scheduled to leave at 7 a.m. ‘We have to demonstrate that we care as a group. People have to realize it’s time to protest before they start doing the same thing in California. We have to act now,’ said Rosalio Plata, president of Club Michoacan, a community civics organization helping sponsor the trip. In past years, immigrants...

Watch this amazing video of an anti Proposition 8 mob in Palm Springs swarming an elderly woman, ripping a cross out of her hand, and then stomping on it. What is most amazing about this video is the idiotic summation of what happened by KPSP TV anchorman, Kris Long. However before we get to his money quote, let us take a look at a report on this mobbing by LifeSiteNews.Com: Video footage from KPSP CBS 2 Palm Spring News shows Proposition 8 protesters surrounding an elderly woman and the reporter trying to interview her, shouting and blocking the camera's view...

A lady has a cross torn from her hands and destroyed counter-protesting a band of angry Palm Springs tolerance-mongers.

<p>SONNY Bono, former husband and singing partner of superstar Cher, was clubbed to death by hitmen on the orders of drug and weapons dealers, an ex-FBI agent claims.</p> <p>Ted Gunderson, now a private investigator, has told the US Globe tabloid that Bono, who served as mayor of Palm Springs for four years, did not die after hitting a tree on a Nevada ski slope in January 1998 as everyone believed.</p>

Human chain protest stretching from Mecca to Palm SpringsJune 18, 2007 07:29 PM PDT By Gil Diaz NewsChannel 3 Hundreds of Coachella Valley residents are expected to line up in the streets Monday night to protest the immigration bill currently in the US Senate. Event organizers plan to form a human chain from one end of the Coachella Valley to the other. The rally begins at 7 PM lasting about an hour and a half. The grassroots organization known as Comite Latino is putting this on and they're hoping nearly 3,000 people show up. This is the second demonstration Comite...

Met with those traveling through Palms Springs Area tonight. It was an honor to meet Deborah Johns Blue Star/Marine Mom and the gal who's moto is "Cindy Doesn't Speak For Me. I was interviewed by a newspaper gal and a TV news crew. I did get Freerepublic and Gathering of Eagles mentioned. If they don't cut me out I am a blonde with glasses and a white jacket on. It will be on one of three local news stations in the palm springs area. I am visiting and don't know the stations. Take care and God Bless our troops. Tess...

Hello FReepers of the Southern California Desert Communities, we (the team at Move America Forward) have a question for you. Move America Forward's "THESE COLORS DON'T RUN" caravan (which is the national, cross-country, patriotic caravan that will head to Washington, D.C. and join up with everyone for the "Gathering of Eagles") will be coming through Palm Springs on Friday, March 9th (arriving in the evening/at night and there through the morning hours of Saturday, March 10th). We're looking for a good location to hold our pro-troop rally stop and press conference there - we want a place that is easy...

California Muslim Arrested after Threat to "Kill All Jews" http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/81967.aspx PALM SPRINGS a 35-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly made terrorist threats inside a Palm Springs bar, police said

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