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From the category archives:
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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.
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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