If a recently elected Republican office holder waiting to be inaugurated were the subject of an expose that made him look like a crook taking advantage of mentally-disabled people, do you think the Washington Post would neglect to mention his party? Isn’t that the kicker? Yet the Washington Post published an article of more than 4500 words on the sale of structured settlements – when someone receives payments spread out over time instead of a lump sum (generally, to protect that person from squandering the entire amount) -- and the questionable practices and oversight that have led to people receiving as little as 16 cents on the dollar of the real net present value, without ever mentioning that the dominant figure profiled as responsible was just elected as a Democrat to the Virginia House of Delegates. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit points out this glaring omission. Here is the case laid out by the WaPo without the big political reveal: What [Terrence] Taylor...(Read Full Post)