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U.S. mortgage fraud reports jumped 36 percent last year as desperate homeowners and industry professionals tried to maintain their standard of living from the boom years, the FBI said on Tuesday.

Suspicious activity reports rose to 63,713 in fiscal year 2008, which ended last September, from 46,717 the year before. California and Florida, centers of the housing bust, had the highest numbers of suspicious reports as foreclosures jumped, the stock market dropped and credit dried up.

"These combined factors uncovered and fueled a rampant mortgage fraud climate fraught with opportunistic participants desperate to maintain or increase their current standard of living," the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in its report.

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Why Socialized Medicine Does Not and Never Will Work: Taken Straight From the Headlines

by Roland, the Gunslinger on Wed 08 Jul 2009 04:51 AM EDT

Think socialized medicine is the answer for our country? Better think twice. Many countries the world over have tried and failed because no matter what...the government must eventually turn to rationing care to keep down costs. Why would we want to destroy the greatest system available here in our country when there are already systems in place to help those who, for one reason or another, find themselves without insurance in a moment of medical need? Our friend over at the Liberty Page has compiled a list of headlines from around the globe of just a few of the horror stories related to government-run health care. We don't want this in the United States, friends. Ever.

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Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

by Roland, the Gunslinger on Wed 08 Jul 2009 03:38 AM EDT

A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.

The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week, according to officials inside and outside the government. Some of the sites were still experiencing problems Tuesday evening. Cyber attacks on South Korea government and private sites also may be linked, officials there said.

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Who Killed California's Economy?

by Roland, the Gunslinger on Wed 08 Jul 2009 03:28 AM EDT

Right now California's economy is moribund, and the prospects for a quick turnaround are not good. Unable to pay its bills, the state is issuing IOUs; its once strong credit rating has collapsed. The state that once boasted the seventh-largest gross domestic product in the world is looking less like a celebrated global innovator and more like a fiscal basket case along the lines of Argentina or Latvia

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EDITORIAL: Return of the Black Panther: Justice is stonewalling on voter intimidation

by Roland, the Gunslinger on Wed 08 Jul 2009 03:25 AM EDT

Rarely does the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights vote unanimously on anything. A partisan divide has made the commission contentious in recent years. Yet the Department of Justice's decision to forfeit its voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and three individual defendants drew a 6-0 vote with one abstention by the commission. What unified the commission was outrage at the Justice Department for letting the Black Panthers off the hook.

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EDITORIAL: Black Panther double standards

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