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A good friend of mine has started blogging about politics. His site? Keep 1600. Only a few posts are up now, but it looks like the bug has bitten him hard.

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 [...]

Nader voters are not necessarily Dem voters
Common wisdom blames Ralph Nader for swinging enough Florida votes to cost Gore the election in 2000. The underlying assumption that Nader drained votes from Gore is just that - an assumption. Nader got voters to the polls who, in all likelihood, wouldn’t have bothered but for [...]

Florida allows voters to march into select centralized polling places days before the scheduled election and cast their votes. Today, because I won’t be able to vote on the scheduled date next Tuesday, I did just that.
I haven’t spent a lot of time writing about the primary this year, in part because [...]

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 [...]

I haven’t been one to do video here, but I thought this well-presented opinion warranted an exception. A response to Senator Obama’s criticism of the recent partial birth abortion ruling by the Supreme Court:

This neatly sums up the debate between liberals and conservatives on the judicial function. Via RedState.

In honor of today, exercise your freedom. Make it stronger by learning something new about a candidate or issue that helps you decide how you, as one of The People, want from your elected leaders.
Then go have a beer at your neighborhood barbecue.

Jadell Kerr, a regulator with the Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission, has been suspended for two weeks from her six-figure job with the county due to comments she made on local blog Sticks of Fire. Tommy notes it here.
She said, of the county commission’s action to shift wetlands regulation from the county to the state, [...]

Courtesy of Redstate comes this very helpful how-to guide on getting federal funding for your own pet project through earmarks, written by the influential folks over at Venable, LLP.
You might have questions about the earmark process. The lobbyists have answers:
What can get earmark funding?
Just about anything for which the federal government provides [...]

Twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate of the Berlin Wall, extolling the virtues of freedom and challenging the world to follow us. (over the objections of virtually the entire foreign service bureaucracy.)
Via RedState.

Muhammad.
Still think immigration policy doesn’t matter? It does: it can change the shape of a nation.
Hat tip: Freaks.

Finally! U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, indicted:

The charges came almost two years after investigators raided Jefferson’s home in Washington and found $90,000 in cash stuffed in his freezer.
In. His. Freezer. And they said Republicans were corrupt?

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According to Wired newly proposed legislation in Congress would lower the threshold for criminal prosecution (and, I think, for civil liability) for computer intrusion under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030.

Watching Monday’s Colbert Report, I couldn’t help but notice that Tennessee’s Congressman Steve Cohen bears a striking resemblance to a better-known representative of the dead.

I ordered a few things from a large online retailer. Yes, that one. They emailed me a receipt, which contained the following:
Please be aware that items in this order may be subject to California’s Electronic Waste Recycling Act. If any items in this order are subject to that Act, the seller of that [...]

Sen. Bayh has dropped out of the 2008 Presidential race. He’s not alone:
Bayh is the third Democrat to pass on a presidential bid in recent months. Former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner announced this fall that he would not run for national office. Sen. Russell Feingold (Wis.) took his name out of contention shortly [...]

In 1941, the children’s author we know as Dr. Seuss was a political cartoonist. He had a lot to say, graphically, about the events of that time. He was particulalry harsh on appeasers and isolationists.

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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 [...]

In the wake of the elections it is now apparent that, even insulated from any potential electoral consequences, the outgoing Senate majority - of the President’s own party - will not even give him the courtesy of an up-or-down floor vote on John Bolton, the President’s nominee for U.N. Ambassador. This has more to [...]

Not sure why I didn’t know this, but it explains darn near everything about the politics of the minimum wage:
…union contracts are often pegged to the minimum wage…
So the legendary single mom with two kids scraping by on five bucks an hour really has nothing to do with Democrats’ enthusiasm for jacking the rate [...]