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NOTE: I’m writing more about this at the Florida Foreclosure Fraud weblog.
Florida’s new Foreclosure Rescue Fraud law
Last week, Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed a new law which imposes broad-ranging restrictions on so-called “foreclosure rescue” service providers. The well-intentioned bill is meant to curb the worst abuses by bottom-feeding predators who use foreclosure as [...]

As Lewis Black once said:
The only thing worse than a Republican or a Democrat, is when these two pricks work together! Basically how it works in congress is that a Republican stands up and says ‘Hey, I got a really bad idea’, and a Democrat stands up and says ‘And I can make it [...]

As Dan originally noted, and as Jon Gruber has reported in more detail, some shabby logo mill has ripped off the SimpleBits logo to re-package and sell for their own profit.
The Flickr thread is lengthy, and much of the amateur legal analysis on both sides is quite simply wrong. But it’s very [...]

Just posted on RedState:
As DNC Chair, Dean didn’t disappoint… his opponents. He said things like, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for…” and accused the President of playing “hide the salami” with Supreme Court nominations. He even felt compelled, during an “interesting conversation” about “dog pee,” to warn a class of 8th grades [...]

I never for a moment imagined that we’d be able to get through the month of October without some major scandal or stumble by Democrats. Even then, my wildest dreams never approached what actually happened — John Kerry insulting our troops in Iraq:

If the Republicans were worried last week about the base turning out, [...]

Frank J. on the Tennessee Senate race:
When a dog whistle blows, only dogs hear it and start barking. When someone “blows a racist whistle” only the racists should hear it and start making noise. But, when each of these ads first appeared, the only barking I heard was from the nutroots.
Link via RedState.

In a move that demonstrates both political cynicism and the difficulty of true anonymity on the Internet, the people behind the website Stop Sexual Predators (the site that first publicized the emails, innocuous compared to the messages revealed later, from then-Congressman Mark Foley to former Congressional pages) have been revealed.
At least, their computers have. [...]

Wild Bill at the Passionate America blog got an email from attorney Stephen Jones, on behalf of former Congressional Page and infamous prankster Jordan Edmund. While this may be an “Oh, crap!” moment for Bill and his family, it’s a chance for me to engage in a little translation of lawyer-speak to ordinary English:

Dear [...]

We now know about some suggestive e-mails, some explicit instant messages, a long history of close contact with the Page program (including one alleged instance of showing up drunk at the Page residence) - so question One is, did Foley actually have sex with any of these pages or was he just chasing wild geese?
How [...]

By now the entire world knows that Former Congressman Mark Foley sent sexually explicit email and instant messages to former Congressional pages. When he knew he was about to be exposed, he resigned and checked himself into rehab.
His once-promising career is over. His reputation is destroyed. He may even face criminal charges [...]

When a burglar breaks into a house, is it the fault of the thief, or the fault of the homeowner for having insufficient security?
Or maybe, just maybe, is it both?
The Crime
The good folks at RedState rightly condemn two recent episodes in which Democratic operatives have broken into supposedly secure areas of political web sites to [...]

Consumerist reports that - suprise! - Cingular continues to find new ways to screw its customers.

Beckie is a reader who started out with a cell phone from a small company that got bought by AT&T. As you well know, AT&T was bought by Cingular. A few months later, Beckie received a letter from Cingular asking [...]

Several months ago, I noted that the Florida Bar had decided to burn witches - urm, prohibit the mining of metadata.
Doing some metadata research today, I finally found the real reason the Bar acted so strongly - one of the members of the Board of Governors got suckered.
One Florida lawyer was quite upset when he [...]

Who’s the latest victim in the Democrats’ war on the “Republican Culture of Corruption” in D.C.? Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson, who was caught on videotape taking a $100,000 bribe from undercover agents. Most of the money was later found in the freezer of his Washington home.
Astute readers will recall that this is the [...]

Riding in a vehicle operated by anyone in the Kennedy clan continues to be a serious hazard to public safety and public morals. U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, son of the notoriously lethal driver Ted Kennedy, crashed into a barricade at the Capitol Building sometime around 3.a.m Thursday.

The two officials said officers at [...]

I think running Windows on an Apple machine is tantamount to desecration. Andrew Kantor of USA Today thinks it’s a market-share opportunity for Microsoft. I use the word “thinks” very lightly:

But the notion put forward by some Mac folks — that Boot Camp will improve the Mac’s position in the business and gaming marketplace [...]

This one’s all in the metadata. A few days ago, Oliver Willis posted an immigration-related item on his blog entitled They Just Hate Hispanics, Admit It. Oliver put the entry under the categories “Immigration” and “Racism.”
Who are these mysterious racists Oliver calls “they”? Oliver doesn’t specifically say, but he links to a [...]

Will the last person to leave the Katherine Harris for Senate campaign please turn out the lights?

We all know that Cynthia McKinney is a raving loon. The fact that she’s a Member of Congress (again!) troubles me only a bit, because even the clinically insane, paranoid, and racist are entitled to have representation in Congress, and why not one of their own? Besides, if you took the nutjobs and [...]

She will never surrender! Katherine Harris is scheduled to make a “major announcement” this week, and it’s not what everyone expected it was. According to the Washington Prowler:

…Harris very bluntly told them to forget about [dropping out]. When told they had strong interest from a well-known, respected former Florida elected official in [...]