From Blue Grass, Red State:

When an entire precinct of voters are about to have their votes thrown out by state legislators, you would think that some of those bold first amendment types would step up and sue and embarrass everyone in the process, top to bottom, to be sure that the votes were counted.

Thus far in Kentucky, the disenfranchisement has been accompanied only by awkward silence.

Why?  How could they?  Could it have something to do with whose votes are being thrown out?  Whose seat is up for grabs?  I suspect it does.

In the election for the 26th District house seat State Rep. Tim Moore (R) defeated former Rep. Mike Weaver (D), also a failed 2006 congressional candidate, by about 100 votes.

In one Hardin County precinct, there was an issue with a voting machine in which ballots being fed into the machine to be counted were not being counted.  The bipartisan team of poll workers replaced the machine and fed the uncounted ballots into the new machine.  All of the ballots have been counted twice with little or no variation.  Under every scenario, State Rep. Tim Moore defeated Mike Weaver at that precinct, B121 Pine Valley, and in the general election.

County Clerk Kenneth L. Tabb, a Democrat, said proper procedure had been followed.  However, Democrats claim that Kentucky law is explicit when it comes to broken voting machine procedure.  They say the uncounted ballots should have been kept safe until the end of the day to be counted.

The election results will be certified by Secretary of State Trey Grayson’s office this Friday, where they will be promptly challenged by House Speaker Jody Richards, a Democrat whose leadership has come under intense fire this past year.

Guess what happens then?  The challenge will be heard in the House, with Richards presiding over a committe of 5 to 9 other House members, chosen at random.  The Democrats hold a majority in the House and chance tells us they will probably be able to stack this challenge committee.  If the challenge committee concurs with Richards’ challenge they will have to make a recommendation about how to resolve the conflict.

h/t Gateway Pundit

The children are raised by children, 50-year-olds who still smoke pot and leave their kids to their own devices while abdicating their parental responsibilities to the state.

The laws in New Jersey favor criminality with some of the most draconian gun and self defense laws in the country.

And the rich Bergen county kids have no hope of staying rich. New Jersey is lowly draining the money from their families with some of the most onerous taxes in the country leaving them with the knowledge that even if they are as successful as their parents they’ll never be as wealthy.

They are ripe for the picking, looking for a group to belong to that is strong enough to protect them, won’t abandon them and most of all has a future beside downward mobility. No amount of scared striaght programs will change that until the people of New Jersey change from charactures of east coast parents and into real communities whose kids don’t need drugs and gangs for fulfillment:

Fox has a transcript.

h/t Breitbart

It’s exciting that the world is so excited about Barack Obama. I’m excited, too. That he achieved the presidency says something good about America.

But the excitement also frightens me. It reinforces the worst impulse of the media and political class: the assumption that all progress comes from Washington. In a free society, with constitutionally limited government, the president would be a mere executive who sees to it that predictable and understandable laws are enforced. But sadly, the prestige and power of the presidency have grown, and liberty has contracted. That is not something to celebrate.

Read the rest, it’s well worth your time to see the level headed Libertarianism of Stossel making the points about an Obama administration the Alex Jones Libertarians miss in their zeal to claim Obama is the anti-Christ. Stossel is on the mark in his critique of the cultural shift Obama represents slowly eroding our sense of individual worth and responsibility.

The website How Obama Got Elected interviewed Obama voters on election day and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt these people were herded like sheep by the Left and their allies in the MSM:

I’m going out to buy some ammo before this cult starts sacrificing people. Glen Beck was already threatened with death by an Obamunist, so I’m sure a general pogrom against Republicans is coming in the next two years.

h/t Gateway Pundit.

What a moron. Via Breitbart

Yeah, it’s so unfair that people like this are “persecuted” by society. This video is more proof that sex offenders are animals. They aren’t sick, they don’t need counseling or understanding, they are just cretin who do these things because they think they can get away with it.

Blogs like Absolute Zero United archive the organized attempts by pedophiles to garner sympathy for their “plight” and minimize the rape and torture of children. Absolute Zero shows people like Tom Madison try to put a human face on the ultimate in inhumanity for their own selfish and nefarious purposes. But the above is the true face of these people, violent predators who refuse to control their base impulses and it is imperative we never be fooled into thinking they are anything but dangerous.

From The Daily Express:

ISLAMIC extremists are threatening an environmental disaster by sparking a series of catastrophic wild fires.

Western intelligence agencies fear that Al Qaeda terrorists are planning a “global fireball” in a new departure in its war on the West.

Deliberately lighting forest blazes in Europe, the US and Australia would not only stretch emergency services but leave insurance companies facing multi-billion pound damage bills as the credit crunch bites.

The fires would also create a pollution disaster, with billions tons of climate change gases escaping into the atmosphere.

The so-called “forest jihad” is being championed by Islamic scholars and Osama Bin Laden’s terror strategists who believe setting fire to dry woodlands will produce maximum damage for minimum risk.

Western security services have picked up internet chatter which spells out in graphic terms the terrorists’ thinking.

One message warns: “Imagine if, after all the losses caused by such an event, a jihadist organisation were to claim responsibility for the forest fires. You can hardly begin to imagine the level of fear that would take hold of people in the United States, in Europe, in Russia and in Australia.”

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In one warning picked up by monitoring services, exponents of the forest jihad declared: “Scholars have justified chopping down and burning the infidels’ forests when they do the same to our lands.”

California has had several suspicious fires in the last few years, and in a state struggling with a broken economy these fires are particularly devastating.

Adam Housely is all over this story. Breitbart and Fox have more.