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The district attorney for the Pittsburgh area is investigating possible forgery and other irregularities on voter registration forms turned in by a group already being scrutinized for registration problems in other states. Similar allegations are being investigated by the Delaware County district attorney and the U.S. attorney's office in Philadelphia. The Pittsburgh-area investigation focuses on fewer than 100 registration forms apparently forged or otherwise illegitimate, such as duplicating the name of someone already registered under another party, said Mike Manko, spokesman for Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. The forms were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for...

From the passed bailout bill S-1424; TITLE I - Troubled Assets Relief Program SECTION 110 b. HOMEOWNER ASSISTANCE BY AGENCIES. 1. IN GENERAL.To the extent that the Federal property manager holds, owns, or controls mortgages, mortgage backed securities, and other assets secured by residential real estate, including multifamily housing, the Federal property manager shall implement a plan that seeks to maximize assistance for homeowners and use its authority to encourage the servicers of the underlying mortgages, and considering net present value to the taxpayer, to take advantage of the HOPE for Homeowners Program under section 257 of the National Housing...

Glenn Reynolds has this from a media newsroom: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: "Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers

How the Palin email hacker suspect was caught Thomas Lifson September 20, 2008 TGDaily, a tech site, explains how the suspected Palin email hacker, 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell, was caught. He used a proxy server supposed to anonymize his identity, but the owner was quite upset at being used to cover illegal activities, and was also contacted by the FBI. Read the further details here. It is obvious from posts the hacker made that he was fully conscious of breaking the law. There is some...

Excerpt - BEIJING (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into allegations Chinese authorities covered up the age of a double gold medal winning gymnast because she was too young to compete. ~ snip ~

Sun August 3, 2008 How State Comp Funds End Up In Campaigns A secretive organization has raised close to $1 million throughout the last decade for political purposes, mostly from injured Oklahoma workers who sometimes don't even know they've donated. Many of the donations to Working Oklahomans Alliance may be illegal, an investigation by The Oklahoman found. The organization could be penalized $1,000 or more for each violation. The lawyers who control Working Oklahomans Alliance specialize in workers' compensation cases. These lawyers raise money for a political fund by withholding a portion of their clients' workers' compensation awards. The lawyers...

Two lovers had a brush with death after their car plunged 46m down a cliff, while they were having sex in the back seat. According to the police Lin Gu, 25, and lover Lee Shin, 29, suffered broken bones when their car tipped over the edge of the hill in XinDian, Taiwan. "They had parked up close to the edge of the mountain and had left the handbrake off," Daily Telegraph quoted a spokesman, as saying. "When they started having sex the rocking motion started the car moving and it rolled off the hill. They were lucky they were not...

BREAKING NEWS: Barry Bonds is charged with 14 counts of lying and one count of obstruction of justice in a new indictment stemming from a steriod probe. Full article coming shortly.

The most senior black congressman in America had a tough warning for Hillary Clinton this weekend as she fought to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Barack Obama. “We’ll be playing with fire if we interfere with the voters’ choice,” James Clyburn, the party’s chief whip in the House of Representatives, told The Sunday Times. “African-Americans will feel cheated.” Clinton is hoping to win by persuading superdelegates – the party officials with a free vote and the power to tip the nomination at the Democratic convention in August – to back her, even if Obama is in the lead once...

NEW ORLEANS -- A class action lawsuit filed in federal court here Friday claims that the New England Patriots "fraudulent videotaping" of the St. Louis Rams' walk-through prior to Super Bowl XXXVI 2002 Super Bowl should cost the team damages in excess of $100 million. The suit targets the Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick. The suit says: "The basis of this action is that the Defendants illegally videotaped the St. Louis Rams ("Rams") "walk through" prior to the 2002 Super Bowl for the purpose of gaining an unfair advantage in the game." It claims the Patriots were engaged in...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday at the Pro Bowl that the NFL is willing to give former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh legal indemnification for any information and materials he would provide to the league regarding his work with the Patriots.

PHOENIX - A member of the New England Patriots' video staff taped the St. Louis Rams' last walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl, a Boston newspaper reported Saturday. The NFL, however, said it was satisfied this was not another Spygate. New England Patriots chairman and owner Robert Kraft, center, is seen as the team gets ready for a team photo at University of Phoenix Stadium on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 in Glendale, Ariz. The Patriots will play the New York Giants in the Super Bowl XLII football game on Sunday, Feb. 3 "We were aware of the rumor months ago...

You're rooting for the Patriots to lose. I don't blame you. If they weren't my team, I'd probably be rooting against them too. I understand your dislike. The boredom of perfection. The unsporting offensive onslaught. The records broken. That cover boy with the dimples at quarterback. Spygate. Really, when you look closely, what's to like? But I come from a different place. I remember the first Patriots championship appearance. It was January 1964 and I was nine years old. The Pats suffered a 51-10 blowout....

An unnamed source has claimed a New England Patriots employee secretly videotaped the St. Louis Rams' pre-game walkthrough the day before Super Bowl XXXVI, the Boston Herald reported Saturday.

Even if New England goes 19-0 and wins its fourth Super Bowl, being busted for cheating in Week 1 will always be a part of the conversation. Always.

DES MOINES, Iowa: Jason Huffman has lived in Iowa his whole life. Lately he has been watching presidential debates on the Internet and discussing what he sees with friends and relatives. But when fellow Iowans choose their presidential nominees Thursday night, he will not be able to vote, because he is serving with the Iowa National Guard in western Afghanistan. "Shouldn't we at least have as much influence in this as any other citizen?" Huffman wrote in an e-mail message. He is far from the only Iowan who will be unable to participate. Because the caucuses, held in the early...

Angels owner Arte Moreno said Wednesday that he fully expects the soon-to-be-released Mitchell report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball to include the names of players linked to those substances. Moreno is the first owner to say publicly that names will be included in the report. "The names of players will come out that people will be mad about," Moreno said, referring to the likelihood that the names may upset fans, players, the players' union and others. "Some of my information is second-hand, but I know there's going to be names." Moreno spoke to reporters after a news...

The age-old business of breaking up has taken a decidedly Orwellian turn, with digital evidence like e-mail messages, traces of Web site visits and mobile telephone records now permeating many contentious divorce cases. Spurned lovers steal each other’s BlackBerrys. Suspicious spouses hack into each other’s e-mail accounts. They load surveillance software onto the family PC, sometimes discovering shocking infidelities. Divorce lawyers routinely set out to find every bit of private data about their clients’ adversaries, often hiring investigators with sophisticated digital forensic tools to snoop into household computers. “In just about every case now, to some extent, there is some...

Ron Paul’s supporters are actively encouraging Iowa voters to take advantage of Mitt Romney’s offers of free transportation to the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames on Saturday and then, once they are there, to vote for Mr. Paul. “Some say if Mitt is willing to bus Iowans to Ames for the straw poll, they should take him up on his offer!” says a flier in Iowa and on the Internet in advance of the straw poll for the Republican presidential candidates. The flier says that after riding the Romney bus to Ames, and allowing the Romney campaign to pay one’s...

Imagine going to get your car repaired, paying for it, and then finding out the work was never even done. With the help of insiders, NBC4 uncovered an apparent scheme at stores that are part of a nationwide chain with 30 million customers a year.NBC4 shelled out a lot of cash at repair shops across town. But were the repairs paid for really done? "Does this happen to customers a lot?" NBC4's Joel Grover asked a former employee of America's biggest Lube and tune chain, Jiffy Lube. "Every day," the insider replied. To conduct the investigation, NBC4 wired two test...

Funny Video! Spin off of Hillary's Soprano's Video done to "Cheaters" TV Show! Bill and Hillary Clinton "Cheaters ReUnion Edition"

If you think about it, all of our laws – and indeed, the very idea of respect for and equality under the law – are written to protect Tit-for-Tat, because Tit-for-Tat produces the best results. You may sell your product at a profit, but if you lie about what it does we will call that fraud and you will go to jail because successful societies start nice but retaliate against those that decide to Screw the Other Guy. The punishment of fraud is what gives us confidence in the claims made by other products. Retaliating against Screw the Other Guy...

The chairman of the special commission set up to examine the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball said for the first time yesterday that he had asked a number of active players to appear before the commission, a move that represents a major turning point in the yearlong investigation. The former Senator George J. Mitchell of Maine, who is overseeing a team of lawyers and investigators working on the case, declined to say how many players had been sent letters requesting their appearance. But others familiar with elements of the investigation said they believed at least three dozen...

While it may appear that Republicans generally are getting hammered in a wide variety of polls going into this last month before the November mid-term elections, what is almost never explained by the pollsters, or their media conspirators, is that the polling data is deliberately skewed to favor the Democratic outcome. (Gee, who would have guessed?)The scam is a simple, yet thoroughly devious one. The polling service simply "samples" a disproportionately large number of Democrats versus Republicans in its poll. Taking as an accurate generalization that Democrats poll one way for the most part, and Republicans another for the most...

Senate Democratic leadership threatens Disney with legal and legislative sanctionsby John in DC - 9/07/2006 06:02:00 PM This letter was sent today by the entire Democratic leadership of the US Senate. This letter is such a major shot across the bow of Disney, it's not even funny. It is FILLED with veiled threats, both legal and legislative, against Disney. US Senators don't make threats like this, especially the entire Democratic leadership en masse, unless they mean it. Disney is in serious trouble. Read it, then read my analysis of it below:September 7, 2006 Mr. Robert A. Iger President and...

BEIJING (AP) -- Students at a sports school in northeastern China were caught using performance-enhancing drugs in a doping raid, state media said Wednesday. It's the latest scandal to hit the country's track and field athletes. Officials from China's Olympic Committee Anti-Doping Commission and other high-level sports administrators paid a surprise visit Aug. 8 to a training base used by the Liaoning Anshan Athletics School, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Writing the history of our time in song. MIDI - DON'T THINK TWICE - scroll down to David Ball It ain't been fun for Dems on election day It seems that they're losing every time Donovan said he'd be setting the example They could win if they'd commit little crimes Where his ex was living he's casting his vote Yes, Riley's a cheater, let's not sugarco-oat In Chicago, the records would note He'd vote twice...it's all right Lately Dems have cried on election day Things have not gone too well They just need a little edge so that they're winning...

Whether you’re a free-loading virus or a meat-stealing monkey, selfishness pays. So how could cooperators survive in a cheater’s world? Thomas Flatt, a postdoctoral research associate at Brown, was part of a group that created a theoretical model that neatly solves this dilemma, which has stumped evolutionary biologists and social scientists for decades. The trick: Keep the altruists in small groups, away from the swindling horde, where they multiply and migrate. It’s a truth borne out in biology and economics: Selfishness pays. Viruses can steal enzymes to reproduce. Tax evaders can take advantage of public services to survive and thrive....

Who here is a Yankee fan? Yankees have gotten off to somewhat of a rocky start but the starting pitching has been generally fantastic and once the offense stops coming in spurs, they will do some solid damage. This is the year that they finally break through and win the World Series.

Bettis closes with storybook ending By Kevin Smith TRIBUNE-REVIEW SPORTS EDITOR Monday, February 6, 2006 DETROIT -- Jerome Bettis wanted to roll out of the NFL with a Super Bowl title in his hometown of Detroit. Sunday, he got his wish, as the Steelers gave him a championship send-off with a 21-10 victory in Super Bowl XL at Ford Field. Bettis announced his retirement from the NFL after the game and finishes as the league's fifth-leading rusher with 13,662 regular-season yards and 91 touchdowns. Padding those numbers didn't mean

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four men working with the reality television show Cheaters have been indicted on criminal charges related to a filmed confrontation between a woman and her estranged husband over her relationship with a Fort Worth police captain.

THE time is 5am. A watery dawn light is bringing a new day into my study; I'm reaching the weary end of a bottle of brandy and a gruelling six-hour internet session on Paradisepoker.com. And I've just haemorrhaged a packet. It all started so well. I broke even for the first few hours. But since 2am, I've lost £670. They say you should never play poker with any more money than you can afford to take to the bottom of your garden and burn; I can't afford to burn £670. So now I'm playing like a wild man, trying to...

At least one former and four current Miami-Dade County schoolteachers are among the Florida Memorial University students who paid friends to change their grades in the college's computer system, The Herald confirmed Thursday. The school district was unaware of any problems with the teachers until contacted by The Herald this week. It was not immediately clear whether any of the teachers lost their bachelor's degrees because of the grade changes, though the university said that all students who had changed more than five grades were expelled. Degrees were revoked for graduates who had more than five grades changed. CASH FOR...

Iowa Governor Will Give Felons the Right to Vote By KATE ZERNIKE Published: June 18, 2005 Gov. Tom Vilsack's order will end what advocates for voting rights had called one of the most restrictive disenfranchisement laws in the country.

Wis. Gov. Vows Veto on Voter ID Bill MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would require voters to provide a driver's license or other government-issued photo identification before casting a ballot. Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle said he would veto the measure. If the bill becomes law, Wisconsin would join South Carolina with the toughest requirements for voter identification in the country, said Jennie Drage Bowser, who tracks state election laws at the National Conference of State Legislatures. Indiana lawmakers Tuesday passed a similar voter identification bill, and Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels has said he will...

The discovery of uncounted ballots in a King County elections facility could change the tenor of the governor's-election lawsuit, and it comes just as Republicans fine-tune their case in the final weeks before trial and drop some previously high-profile claims. Already, attorneys for both sides say the news of 94 uncounted, valid absentee ballots means scrambling to change plans for last-minute collection of evidence. They will expand the list of officials they want to question under oath and will change the nature of questions they'll ask King County's top two election officials, who were already scheduled for depositions. News of...

Test Takers Try to Cheat With Cell Phones Mon Feb 28, 7:09 PM ET Strange News - AP BANGKOK, Thailand - Forty-six young men preparing to take a military school entrance exam were caught trying to cheat using mobile phones taped to their bodies and hidden in their shoes and underwear, an army official said Monday. The men, aged 18-24, were among nearly 30,000 who showed up Sunday morning at Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok to take the test to vie for 2,000 spots in the one-year military program. Officials searched the students and discovered the phones after some shied away...

MIDI - LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY THEME The DemocRAT way We said we'd secure Wisconsin Like Cook County did for Johnson We always pull this thing off with ease The DemocRAT way Voter fraud we have perfected It will never be detected We always pull this thing off with ease The DemocRAT way Have you seen dead people vote That is really quite hysterical Weekend at Bernies, round two The DemocRAT way Multiple votes are so easy We don't care if we are sleazy We always pull this thing off with ease It's the DemocRAT way...the RAT way We make...

BC-APNewsAlert,0037 OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Democratic state chairman says recount results from King County give Democrat Christine Gregoire an eight-vote victory in Washington's governor's race. (Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) AP-NY-12-21-04 2312EST

Leftists Stealing Votes That Don't (Really) Count? In a matter of only hours, two left wing blogs - Kos and Atrios - went from the bottom of the pack of blogs and suddenly pulled ahead by a pretty fat margin in the Best Overall Blog category in the Wizbang Weblog Awards. I have a deep suspicion that (ahemm) someone rigged the poll. There is a huge possiblity that someone could have nixed the system, and after roaming at Kos and Atrios, Atrios hasn't even advertised himself in the Weblog Awards! I humbly ask that Mr. Alyward, chairman of the Election...

This morning, all UNC students were autodialed from the Democrats stating even if they were NOT registered to vote, that they could do so at the UNC campus, but vote for the President only.Lines are estimated 3+ hours long.Many UNC students are farming out to other close-by precincts attempting to vote there as well.Thankfully, the precinct I was monitoring was turning them away, back to UNC.Thousands of provisional ballots may be cast as a result, wasting the time of the clerk and recorders office...if they aren't registered in Colorado, these votes will NOT count...Geez.

<p>October 19, 2004 -- The woman who's suing TV personality Bill O'Reilly for sexual harassment boasted she had written a book to "take [him] down" — months before she went back to work for him, a witness swore yesterday.</p> <p>Andrea Mackris also bragged that she was good buddies with O'Reilly's arch nemesis — Air America talk show host Al Franken, the witness said.</p>

We all know the Democrats will do whatever it takes to regain power. Like Hitlers' brownshirts, the Left will stop at nothing to see Kerry placed into power. Voter intimidation, organized propaganda, protests, vandalism, racism, theft, fraud, assault, and even acts of random gunfire have been the campaign tools of choice for Kerry. Yet despite the Kerry campaign's organized assault on democracy, it looks as if Bush might be gaining some ground. And while this is a great thing, it doesn't provide as much comfort as one would expect. I ask you my friends, will Bush's margin of victory be...

I have worked very hard to ensure George W.'s re-election. I am confident it will happen. Very confident. But a thought occurred to me at dinner tonight. If John Kerry were to win, would that kill the Democratic Party forever? After Clinton won, the country was so impressed that it gave Republicans the advantage in the Senate, the House, the Governorships, and the State Legislatures. Nice move bonehead Dems. Now if Kerry were to win, would that mean in two years, no Democrat could get elected to anything, ever? Just a thought, I'm not too concerned we'll have to find...

In a not-too-surprising development, Democrats and their allies in the more radical elements of political activism believe they have penetrated the town hall forum and will be represented in the audience of so-called “swing voters” at tonight’s debate. According to the Gallop organization, who was responsible for selecting the voters in tonight’s debate audience, the participants may have opinions about the candidates. They may be leaning to one candidate or the other. But they must also have told a Gallup representative that they might still vote for the other guy. The participants were chosen at random through phone interviews conducted...

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Democrats sue to allow provisional ballots cast in wrong precinct 9/28/2004, 5:20 p.m. ET By AMY F. BAILEY The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats in Michigan sued the state's highest-ranking election official on Tuesday, arguing that voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Nov. 2 but are in the right city, village or township can cast a provisional ballot. The state party and the Bay City Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit in Bay City against Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, a Republican. They say she is refusing to count provisional ballots of voters...

State investigates voter drive Offhand, Prens Ferrell doesn't remember President Bush's party affiliation, his first name or his opponent in the fall election. He also doesn't know how his own personal information ended up on a Wake County voter-registration form. Even if he cared about politics, Ferrell couldn't vote. He is only 15. Because of problems on Prens' form and others, the State Board of Elections is investigating a voter-registration campaign in Wake County. Some of the forms turned in by the N.C. Public Interest Research Group had nonexistent addresses, suspiciously similar signatures, or birth dates that appear to have...

Voter list reads like fiction Langston Harris, if you're out there, can you give me a call? See, I've been trying to reach you since Tuesday morning, when I read about how your voter registration and more than a dozen others collected by the Public Interest Research Group, a lefty fund-raiser/do-gooder outfit, are being investigated by the local and state boards of election. But geez, man, you are hard to find. You're not listed in the phone book. The Raleigh address you gave the Board of Elections? Well, it doesn't appear to exist. What really amazes, though, are the coincidences....

For Immediate Release For Further Information Contact Doug Guetzloe (407) 895-0077 DYER CANVASSING BOARD SEEKS DELAY OF ORLANDO ELECTION FRAUD TRIAL SET FOR JULY 27TH King & Blackwell representing the City of Orlando Board and coordinating Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's legal team has improperly scheduled a motion to continue or delay the long anticipated Orlando election fraud trail set for July 27, 2004, before Circuit Judge Theotis Bronson. A motion for continuance (delay) of the trial will be presented by the Dyer legal team tomorrow (Wednesday, 7/7/04) to Judge Bronson at 8:30 a.m. (11th floor, Orange County Courthouse) during the...