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Kentucky Victim Of KKK Beating Wins $2.5 Million From Attackers (AHN)

(AHN) - A Kentucky teen beaten up by Ku Klux Klan members in 2006 has won $2.5 million in damages from his attackers. - Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:25:02 GMT

Watchdogs decry Kentucky's 141-site net casino land grab

Today, gambling sites. Tomorrow... Three civil liberties groups urged a Kentucky appeals court to overturn the seizure of domain names for some of the world's most popular gambling sites, arguing the move is based on "incorrect factual assumptions" and violates Free Speech guarantees and other provisions of the US Constitution.?

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Campaigns Use Anything With Wheels to Get Out the Vote

With Election Day upon us, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have shifted their focus from tearing each other apart to getting out the vote. They want every one of their supporters to pull a lever, tap a touchscreen or punch a ballot, and they're doing everything they can to get them to the polls. Convincing people to vote is different than actually getting them to vote, and the campaigns ? and their armies of supporters ? know it. So they're pulling out all the stops to get voters to the polls. "We have drivers and we have vans," Obama volunteer Val Scarborough told Wired.com. "We're doing everything in our power to get people out." None of the four McCain campaign offices we contacted responded to our requests for comment, but you can be sure McCain's people are all over it, too. Carless voters have almost no excuse for not getting to the polls. Shuttles are ferrying people from nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. Packs of helpful drivers are roaming the inner cities and rural plains, scooping up the transportation-challenged. Cities like Fort Pierce, Florida; Toledo, Ohio; and Austin, Texas, have their city buses providing free rides to the polls. Sioux City, Iowa, provides free rides to voters with "any kind of disability." During the primary, Federal Glover, a county supervisor in California's Contra Costa County, went so far as to offer rides to the polls in a stretch limo ? two-passenger minimum, to cut the cars' carbon footprint. Voter shuttles are running nonstop at colleges and universities nationwide. It would be nice if these were nonpartisan efforts to promote civic responsibility, but let's get real. Kent State's Minivan Obama Mamasobviously have an agenda when loading up a Dodge Caravan with sophomores, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University isn't canceling classes on Election Day so that the school's 10,000 students pull the lever for Obama. With so many ground workers transporting so many people to their polling place, it's hard to imagine that this kind of thing used to be illegal. According to a New York Timesarticlefrom 1912, giving a fellow American a ride to the polls violated the Corrupt Practices Act. All of these shuttles and buses are great, but most of us drive to the polls, so let's talk cars. A polling place with bad traffic flow and a crowded parking lot is enough to tick anyone off, but for disabled voters it can be an access issue. That's why the Department of Justice provides municipal officials with a 32-page bookletto ensure they comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act. "It covers everything from space between parking spaces to the gradient of the parking lot to the width of curb cuts and the location of loading areas," Ohio State professor Dan Tojaki, an expert in election law, told Wired.com. "From a legal standpoint, this is a very important issue." Also important for those of us driving to the polls is knowing exactly where the hell we're going. Enter ESRI. The company's "election solutions" use GIS to get voters to the polls. "The technology basically looks at spatial relationships," ESRI's Chris Thomas told Wired.com. "It marries the certified voter to the pre-assigned polling place." I went to the San Bernardino Registrar's websiteto see if it actually works, pretending I lived at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on University Avenue. The site returned my closest polling place a second later, and while the map was a little sketchy, I knew exactly where I needed to go. Thomas says ESRI doesn't track voter turnout in cities using the technology, but several mayors believe it has helped cut the confusion that can hamper turnout. Taking the bus or a shuttle may be a smart idea. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found there are 24 more traffic fatalities on Election Day than on other Tuesdays in November. That may not sound like much, but it's an 18 percent jump. Turnout expected to break all records ? some say as many as 80 percent of registered voters will cast a ballot today ? and voters are going to great lengths to make their voices heard. But the most extreme example has to be the couple living in India who didn't receive their absentee ballots, so they spent 22 hours flying to New York to cast their votes. "We decided it was important to stand up and be counted," Susan Scott-Ker told The New York Times . It's crazy, but it's awesome. And if they can do it, so can we. Whether you drive, bus, fly or walk, please make sure you hit the polls this year. Photo by Flickr user Josh Thompson

Fox News aired graphics featuring inaccurate poll-closing times

During their Election Day coverage, Fox News repeatedly aired graphics that purported to show "POLL CLOSINGS" in Eastern Standard Time for each state. But in states that cross time zones, the times listed in the graphics reflected the western-most time zone in the state, in which polls close an hour later than the rest of the state. Thus, people watching Fox News in the eastern portion of some states could be left with the impression that local polls would be open for an hour after they actually close. For example, according to the Florida Department of State's "2008 Voter Registration and Voting Guide," "Polls will be open on election day from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. local time." Since Florida is split between the Eastern and Central time zones, polls close at 7 p.m. ET in some parts of the state and at 8 p.m. ET in other parts, not at 8 p.m. ET throughout the state, as the Fox News graphic indicated. Likewise, according to the Michigan Secretary of State, polls in the state are "open from 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.," but since the state is in two time zones, the majority of the state polls close at 8 p.m. ET, and the remainder close at 9 p.m. ET. But the Fox News graphic suggested that all polls in the state close at 9 p.m. ET. Other states in multiple time zones include Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Texas. According to Fox News' graphic, "POLL CLOSINGS" at 8 p.m. ET include Florida:

MSNBC continually airs graphic featuring inaccurate poll closing times for multiple states

During MSNBC Live's Election Day coverage, MSNBC continually aired graphics that purported to show "POLL CLOSING[]" times for each state. But in states that cross over time zones, the times listed in the graphics reflected the western-most time zone in the state, in which polls close an hour later than the rest of the state. Thus, people watching MSNBC in the eastern portion of some states could be left with the impression that local polls would be open for an hour after they actually close. For example, according to the Florida Department of State's "2008 Voter Registration and Voting Guide," "Polls will be open on election day from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. local time." Since Florida is split between the Eastern and Central time zones, polls close at 7 p.m. ET in some parts of the state and at 8 p.m. ET in other parts, not at 8 p.m. ET throughout the state, as the MSNBC graphic indicated. Likewise, according to the Michigan Secretary of State, polls in the state are "open from 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m," but since the state is in two time zones, the majority of the state polls close at 8 p.m. ET, and the remainder close at 9 p.m. ET. But the MSNBC graphic suggested that all polls in the state close at 9 p.m. ET. Moreover, MSNBC aired the graphic even after NBC News political director Chuck Todd acknowledged the differences in poll closing times in Florida. During the noon ET hour of MSNBC Live, Todd said, "And a reminder, when you see that we have polls closing at 8 o'clock in Florida, that doesn't mean polls are open until 8 o'clock in the Eastern time zone of Florida. So if you're in South Florida or Central Florida, your polls close at 7. It's in the panhandle that they close in 8 Eastern." Later in the hour, Todd said: TODD: And a little guide to viewers. You see this ticker below talking about poll closing time. The time that you see is the last time that polls close in a state. There are a lot of states with split time zone, like Florida. We'll say that the polls close at 8 o'clock. Well, they close at 7 local. Eight o'clock in the Central time with Pensacola, but 7 p.m. Eastern in most of the rest of the state. That's the same with Indiana. It's 6 to 6, local. We encourage you, if you're confused about when your polls close, to go and check with your local polling officials, check your local polling places. They will obviously have the exact information you need. We want to tell our viewers when we'll start seeing vote counts, and that's why we have those final times up on our screen. So, if you need to know when your polls close, check with your local election official. Despite Todd's acknowledgment that the graphics were inaccurate and misleading, MSNBC continued to air them unaltered. Other states in multiple time zones include Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Texas. According to MSNBC's graphic, "POLL CLOSINGS" at 7:00 p.m. ET include Indiana and Kentucky.

Cunningham compared Obama to Castro, Mao, and Hitler, declared Obama is "now poised ... to seize power in America"

On the November 3 broadcast of his Cincinnati-based radio show, Bill Cunningham repeatedly compared Sen. Barack Obama to dictators such as Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, and Adolf Hitler. Cunningham stated: "Much like Castro took over Cuba, Mao Zedong took over Red China, and the Communists took over Russia, Obama now is poised, according to many of my good friends on the left like Paul Mason and others, to seize power in America, and I hope to be a bloodless coup." Cunningham later added, "[Obama] goes out to his left-wing buddies in San Francisco and smears God, smears guns, smears everything great about this country. Then he comes to these rallies like bromides, like Adolf Hitler in 1933, and the faithful are shouting, 'Yes we can, yes we can.' " During the program, Cunningham also stated: "Obama's gonna make America go repeatedly and radically to the left and is gonna impose the values of Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and other left-wing radicals who want to blow up the Pentagon and kill police officers, and mainstream those values into Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. And if you think that's what America needs tomorrow, go ahead and vote for the socialist. Vote for Castro." As Media Matters for America has documented, numerous media figures have compared Obama to Hitler and the Nazis in recent days. Cunningham asserted on the October 30 broadcast of his show that "Obama wants to gas the Jews." From the November 3 broadcast of Clear Channel's The Big Show with Bill Cunningham: CUNNINGHAM: Well, now, my fellow Americans, this is the day we've been waiting for, in a sense, for the last year-and-a-half. As the failures of the Bush administration has become more apparent, and the American people -- they're turning farther left. Much like Castro took over Cuba, Mao Zedong took over Red China, and the Communists took over Russia, Obama now is poised, according to many of my good friends on the left like Paul Mason and others, to seize power in America, and I hope to be a bloodless coup. [...] CUNNINGHAM: But what's gonna happen, and mark my words, is that Obama's gonna make America go repeatedly and radically to the left and is gonna impose the values of Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and other left-wing radicals who want to blow up the Pentagon and kill police officers, and mainstream those values into Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. And if you think that's what America needs tomorrow, go ahead and vote for the socialist. Vote for Castro. [...] CUNNINGHAM: Barack Hussein Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry. Of course, the San Francisco Chronicle held that story for 10 months. He says things in San Francisco he would never say in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, or in Dublin, Ohio, or Covington, Kentucky. He goes out to his left-wing buddies in San Francisco and smears God, smears guns, smears everything great about this country. Then he comes to these rallies like bromides, like Adolf Hitler in 1933, and the faithful are shouting, "Yes we can, yes we can." Well, my fellow Americans, no he won't, if you stand up and vote tomorrow. I have my doubts, but I have my prayers for the American people.

Baptist Minister Killed While Attending A Funeral In Covington, Kentucky (AHN)

(AHN) - A Baptist minister was killed and a deacon wounded on Saturday morning when a gunman shot them at a fellow minister's funeral in Covington, Kentucky. - Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:01:06 GMT