For three days last week Republican activists in Orlando heard an unrelenting stream of taunts, slams and jokes against President Barack Obama, a feast served by the candidates who want to replace him. Raucous cheers followed. But some left Presidency 5 wondering if it was too much of a good thing. “I don’t like the Obama-bashing,” said Judy Gordon, a Tampa retiree. “I can    .. more …

The main purpose of a grand jury is to hear evidence presented by the prosecutor and decide whether or not there is probable cause for an indictment. Unlike a regular jury trial, the grand jury will only hear conflicting or contrary evidence if a prosecutor wishes to present it in good faith. For this reason, modern grand juries are viewed as a prosecutor’s best friend, but this was not always the    .. more …

San Francisco-based security firm Qualys is throwing its support behind an experimental project designed to improve the security and privacy of website authentication by reducing reliance on certificate authorities that issue secure sockets layer credentials.The Convergence project was devised by Moxie Marlinspike, a security researcher who has exposed repeated flaws in the SSL system that serves    .. more …

The lack of a voter-fraud smoking cannon in the recent report from Maine Secretary of State Charles Summers has brought delighted cheers from Democrats in this state. They feel confident the report confirms what they have been repeating mantralike for years: “There is no voter fraud in Maine… There is no voter fraud in Maine…”The report confirms nothing of the kind. In fact, it shows yet    .. more …

Democrats and the Obama campaign are rolling out a new voter registration website as part of an aggressive early effort to help get supporters back to the polls. GottaRegister.com , officially a project of the Democratic National Committee,is intended to offer one-stop-shopping for voters with interactive registration instructions for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.While Democrats have    .. more …

Public records are basically made up of information that has been recorded by public government agencies. There are many different types of public records such as birth, death, marriage, divorce, criminal and bankruptcy records just to name a few. These records are created by the federal and local government. Public records can also be created by the individual, for example when one gets a    .. more …

Secretary of State Mark Hammond will offer a free notary public seminar at 6 p.m. Sept. 20 at Trident Technical College. The seminar will address state laws governing a notary’s duties and responsibilities. It will be held in Building 920 College Center, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. To register, go to www.surveymonkey.com/s/7TQLRZG , contact Renee Daggerhart at rdaggerhart@sos.sc.gov or    .. more …