Marianela Toldeo MIAMI — It may be getting harder to sneak into the United States, but once you’ve arrived, getting fake documents in Florida is a piece of cake. Counterfeit, altered or stolen birth certificates coming from Puerto Rico are the Holy Grail to Florida’s undocumented. With a phony birth certificate you can live the […] Continue reading → 
The senior executives who played leading roles in the 2008 financial crisis can breathe a sigh of relief: If any committed crimes, the statute of limitations will run out for most of them this year. It’s safe to say nobody will go to jail. One doesn’t have to presume guilt to feel that the lack […] Continue reading → 
It’s crunch time at the Supreme Court, where the justices are racing to issue opinions in 17 cases over the next two weeks. The religious rights of corporations, the speech rights of abortion protesters and the privacy rights of people under arrest are among the significant issues that are so far unresolved. Summer travel, European […] Continue reading → 
Christine Rousselle More than 50 people have been indicted in Georgia for what is likely to be one of, if not the, largest welfare fraud rings ever uncovered. Over $18 million in WIC and SNAP benefits were exchanged for cash at a variety of stores throughout the state. A federal grand jury in Savannah on […] Continue reading → 
Online shoppers often fill up their carts and bail at the last minute when the bill comes. Usually it’s because they can’t remember their log-in, don’t have their wallets handy or can’t bear to fill out a credit-card form. A Swedish startup called Klarna has discovered a way to get people to complete more purchases […] Continue reading → 
New laws requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls were enforced in two Southern primaries on Tuesday, but with mixed results. In Alabama, there were few hitches, but a razor-tight U.S. Senate race in Mississippi could hinge on provisional ballots, some of them cast as a result of a new voter ID law. […] Continue reading → 
Chris Versace Welcome to PowerTalk. I’m your host, Chris Versace. These are my one-on-one conversations with the movers and shakers in the business world that take you behind the scenes and in the know. Be sure to check out ChrisVersace.com for more on my newsletter PowerTrend Profits, as well as past episodes of PowerTalk. Also check out FabianWealth.com for more on my […] Continue reading → 
CNET.com Seth Rosenblatt A lawsuit filed Tuesday against Google accuses the tech titan of engaging in widespread fraud by canceling AdSense accounts just before they were due to pay out. The suit relies in part on recent anonymous accusations that Google developed an AdSense fraud scheme in 2009 to prevent publishers from collecting money that […] Continue reading → 
A significant issue facing our society today that is mostly under-reported is the rampant occurrence of voter fraud. A couple of examples from the 2012 election include a woman from Cleveland who proudly announced that she voted 5 times for President Obama, or the more than 35,000 cases of ‘double-voting’ discovered in North Carolina. These […] Continue reading → 
Confessions of a College Professor Rants and raves about the mess of higher education in the United States. The above map, from here, really demonstrates how completely insane higher education has become. That’s a map of highest paid public employees, by state. State by state, every state, the highest paid public employee is in higher […] Continue reading → 
The New Boston Tea Party If you want to know how to break into a bank, ask a successful bank robber. And so if you want to know how to cast an illegal vote ask a Democrat, for they surely know how its done. Very rarely have Republicans been caught in the act, but Democrats, […] Continue reading → 
At least 40 American veterans are dead thanks to bureaucratic delays at Veterans Affairs clinics. But you wouldn’t know it from VA Secretary Gen. Eric Shinseki’s bland and bloodless demeanor at a Senate hearing Thursday. He droned on like an apathetic office manager fielding complaints about the copier being jammed. Shinseki told the Senate panel […] Continue reading → 
When Obamacare operatives aren’t busy trashing the private health insurance market and squandering billions on useless technology, they’re busy … being idle. File the latest example of government health care profligacy under “Caution: Your tax dollars not at work.” According to at least one Obamacare paper-pusher, employees at an application-processing center in Wentzville, Mo., are […] Continue reading → 
By JB Williams As the nation searches for the proper peaceful remedy to the crisis known as Obama, good people of good intentions often research a common subject and arrive at a different conclusion. Such has been the case on the topic of whether or not Barack Hussein Obama can be impeached. In a WND […] Continue reading → 
Diane Sullivan says that when she pulls out her food-stamp card to buy groceries, she keeps the side with her photo cupped in her hand so people can’t see. While Massachusetts requires her to have the identification to prevent fraud, the 40-year-old mother of five from Medford calls it “a card of shame.” Maine and […] Continue reading → 
Hugh Hewitt With a wave of the pen -actually, 90 pages of waving- U.S. Federal District Judge Lynn Adelman in Milwaukee struck down Wisconsin’s three year old voter identification law on Tuesday. As The Atlantic’s Andrew Cohen noted yesterday “[i]t is far from certain that the ruling will withstand review by the very conservative 7th […] Continue reading →