In the era of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, it did not take long for the trend to display every aspect of one's personal life to begin impacting litigation.  Defense lawyers, primarily in personal injury and employment discrimination cases, are asking for, and courts are granting, permission to obtain both public and private online social media content. 

I have had clients in my own cases asked for information regarding their screen names and on which sites…

President Obama and our very own Rep. John Mica are touting federal dollars to assist Florida in bringing High Speed Rail to our sandy shores. 

Issue:  Federal dollars are OUR dollars.  The Federal government does not make money – they take ours in from tax dollars.  We do not want to use our tax dollars we send to the Federal government to be sent back to Florida to pay for High Speed Rail.  Something smells fishy here.  Who’s behind the curtain of the High Speed…

Have to watch as new people of interest start announcing they will be running in 2012.   Michael Williams is a conservative and has also spoken at tea parties.  He has an admirable backgroud as well and is apparently pretty well known both in his state and in DC!  Here's hoping many more will step forward to run for both the congress and the senate. 

Well worth…

U. S. News did their homework and found that most of the SOTU speech was "borrowed" from a number of other people.  As the article states:  "If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what can be said of plagiarism? President Obama’s second SOTU contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of others to make historians wince".   Very well put together article with links to polls or other related information.

I found…

Very short article about Rick Scott and the Jacksonville Port.  A couple of things I found interesting are that Gov Scott used great care not to commit to state funding for the port and also indicated something I was not wild about and that is trying to get federal funding (Florida's "fair share").  I am at a point where I want Washington to stop spending, so I am not happy to hear Mr. Scott will be requesting federal money for anything for our state.  After all,…

Ms Adkins' bill would eliminate  the Department of Health, Department of Children and Family Services, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, and the Agency for Health Care Administration due to duplication of services.  I think, right now, we have multiple departments doing the same thing at all levels of government.  No one ever replaced anything, they just added something new along with the cost of manning everything.  It is worth while saying also that another…

A coalition of business groups have recommended tightening the eligibility for unemployment as costs have gone through the roof for businesses.  A number of business groups are involved and have made recommendations and the state legislature is considering revamping both the eligibility requirements and the tax rate at this time.  Lots of very good information in this article and well worth a read to keep abreast of this important issue for the businesses and…

Ben Stein is a favorite of mine..........think it is the ultra dry humor.   Hoping if you haven't already seen and reaq this, you might enjoy the read!  More on the SOTU as only Ben Stein can explain it.

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Taken from Jerry Holland's facebook page:

Are you available on Election Day, if so come work with us? On March 22nd registered voters in Duval County will cast ballots in the 2011 First Consolidated Government Election of Jacksonville. Classes for poll worker training started on Jan18th and run through Feb18th. Interested…

from my blog at http://theatleeappeal.com/

“We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook” – Which I guess is why he is trying to get everyone to stop using Edison’s light bulb and go for the mercury laced fluorescent light bulb while making a huge push for everyone to drive batteries instead of combustion engine…

Is he going to stick with those that brought him to the dance or is he afraid to associate with the likes of Rand Paul, Jim DeMint and Mike Lee?

Posted on Sun, Jan. 23, 2011…