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The future of these four officers remains unclear. They all appealed their suspensions, but it could take weeks until a decision is made.

The four Evansville Police officers are accused of using excessive force in the arrest of Matt Healy on October 29th. Officers filed documents stating Healy fought with them during the arrest. But body cam footage showed that was not the case.

Officers Mark Decamps, Marcus Craig, and Nick Henderson could be fired. Sergeant Kyle Kassel could be demoted. Indiana State Police are also investigating to see if the men should face criminal charges.

The officers suspensions will be up on Thanksgiving. The chief will decide if they come back to work November 25th or be suspended with pay.

The next Police Merit Commission meeting is November 28th, but no disciplinary action will be taken. However there could be disciplinary hearings scheduled.

Hillary Blames Her Loss on James Comey

Part of me is tempted to give her a pass on this for now. The woman just suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of the least-popular presidential nominee in modern American history, dealing a crushing blow to her lifelong quest for power. Coming to grips with just how deeply the American people detest you cannot be an enjoyable process, and such harsh realities undoubtedly trigger coping mechanisms. That is what’s going on here. That being said, even if you’re inclined to cut her a little bit of slack, this is pitiful and delusional spin:

Hillary Clinton blamed FBI director James Comey for her stunning defeat in Tuesday’s presidential election in a conference call with her top campaign funders on Saturday, according to two participants who were on the call…Clinton told her supporters on Saturday that her team had drafted a memo that looked at the changing opinion polls leading up to the election and that the letter from Comey proved to be a turning point. She said Comey’s decision to go public with the renewed examination of her email server had caused an erosion of support in the upper Midwest, according to three people familiar with the call…Comey sent a letter to Congress only days before the election announcing that he was reinstating an investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified information when she used a private email server while secretary of state from 2009 to 2012. Comey announced a week later that he had reviewed emails and continued to believe she should not be prosecuted, but the political damage was already done. Clinton told donors that Trump was able to seize on both of Comey’s announcements and use them to attack her, according to two participants on the call.

Democrats assured us that Comey’s ‘treachery’ or whatever would only serve to motivate Clinton’s base down the home stretch. They later claimed that his reiteration of his decision not to recommend a criminal indictment two days before the election was vindication. In truth, scapegoating the FBI Director after the fact is a naked effort to deflect blame for a Hillary’s humiliating loss, which she earned all by herself. James Comey didn’t force her to set up an unsecure, rules-violating, national security-compromising email server. He didn’t make her ignore explicit warnings that she was putting sensitive material at risk. He didn’t make her wrongly withhold and attempt to destroy thousands of work-related emails. He didn’t compel her to lie about every element of the email scandal, over and over again. He didn’t tell Huma Abedin to fail to turn over a computer with previously unreviewed emails on it. All of those actions were taken by Mrs. Clinton and her team. In fact, Mr. Comey did Hillary a large favor by recommending against charges in the first place, even though he confirmed that her conduct was grossly negligent — while averting his eyes from clear evidence of intent.

Even if it’s true that the eleventh-hour renewed scrape with the FBI contributed to her loss (it surely did), it was merely one factor of many, including the Obamacare meltdown, ongoing questions about the Clinton Foundation, and voters’ overarching desire for change. Comey’s decision to briefly reopen an investigation in light of new evidence merely reminded voters of longstanding reasons they were planning to either vote against her, or sit at home: She is an historically untrustworthy and unlikeable political figure. A majority of voters held an unfavorable view of Clinton, and a super-majority saw her as dishonest. Those are fundamental flaws that no team of handsomely-compensated consultants or multimillion-dollar advertising blitz could overcome. And they certainly aren’t the fault of James Comey. If Hillary Clinton wants to face up to the real reasons she crashed and burned, she need not look any further than her own loathed status among the US electorate, and her team’s bad missteps.

Case in point:  Team Clinton vastly, vastly outspent Team Trump overall, but they missed the boat on key indicators over the final weeks of the campaign. Instead of locking down their “blue firewall,” Clinton’s campaign devoted major resources to places like Arizona, in an effort to scramble the map and run up the score. They lost there anyway, and left the barn door wide open in their supposedly “safe” states in the process. In the campaign’s closing weeks, Hillary was running more ads in Omaha, Nebraska “than in the states of Michigan and Wisconsin combined.” Result: Slim, devastating losses in the latter two states, and a three-point defeat in Nebraska’s second Congressional District. And for their much-ballyhooed data superiority, funded by tens of millions in high-dollar donations, they ended up failing in new and entertaining ways:

To make matters worse, because Republicans had a non-existent ground game in many areas this cycle, this powerful reminder from a Clinton volunteer to get out and vote might have been the only personalized GOTV communication these Trump voters received. The campaign’s text messaging GOTV effort may have been the worst offender. Volunteers reported as many as 30% of the replies they received from voters they were urging to get out were Trump supporters.

But Comey. Speaking of refusing to learn hard lessons, I’ll leave you with this ludicrous take on the media’s role in Trump’s victory:  An American Secretary of State and major party presidential nominee put extremely high-level national security secrets at risk — recklessly handing our adversaries a trove of sensitive intelligence — then lied to voters’ faces about it at every turn. Some embittered leftists and journalists believe this was a “non-story” that the media over-covered. Preposterous. The American people clearly disagreed, meting out the ultimate political indictment of Mrs. Clinton several months after it became clear that the Obama Justice Department was never going to hold her accountable.

The Voters Say No To Obama And Yes To America

By Richard Moss MD

The American People rose up to change the direction of the country and put an end to the wrecking ball presidency of our first half black President, Barack Hussein Obama.  They rose up to say No to Obama and his surrogate Hillary Clinton who would have continued his legacy.  They said No to the Democrat Party, the media, campus radicals, and the cultural elite that insult them as racists, bigots, and homophobes. They said No to the assault on American values and culture, identity politics, and political correctness.  They said No to the smearing of our police, the burning of our cities, and waves of unassimilated immigrants crossing our borders.  They said no to a Supreme Court packed with leftist ideologues.  They said No to radical feminism and its assault on family and marriage, to abortion on demand and transgendered bathrooms.  They said No to a social engineered and demoralized military, the appeasement of our enemies, the pathetic Obama economy, and the war on fossil fuels.

The country was at the precipice.  A 16-year Obama-Hillary continuum would have permanently wrecked the American experiment, ended unalienable rights, liberty, and the Constitutional system.  In its place would have come incremental tyranny, rule by an imperial President and his panels of bureaucrat masterminds who would decide our fates. American style free market capitalism, with its dazzling achievements and innovations, the creation of unprecedented wealth for Americans, would also have grinded down as we pursued the socialist valleys of no growth Europe.

With the election of Donald Trump, the nation pulled back from the precipice that it may live once more.  Against the odds, with the full weight of the Sovietized media, the Academy, the millionaire Marxists in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street arrayed against him, Trump, the non PC firebrand who broke all the rules, gave life and meaning to the forgotten man, pulled out an upset victory – and saved the nation.

Wave Republican elections have dogged Obama, our first anti-American, affirmative action President, a radical leftist who wanted to fundamentally transform the nation. This election was the third act of a trilogy.  Each of the three acts was a referendum on Obama. The first act occurred in 2010 when the Republicans took the House, the year of Obamacare and the Tea Party.  Then, 2014, when the GOP took the Senate and overwhelming majorities of State Houses and Governors.  In 2016 Republicans held the House and Senate and took the Presidency.  They expanded their dominance at the state level and now have monopoly control of the federal government in Washington.  At every level, the American people have rejected the radical leftism of Obama.

And because Obama had a pen and a phone and couldn’t be bothered to pass legislation through Congress, he ruled instead by executive order.  But lacking a statutory basis to so much of his agenda, from open borders amnesty to the Iran Nuclear deal, his legacy can just as easily be undone by the same pen, phone, and executive order of President Donald J. Trump.  The Obama legacy depended on a Hillary victory.  Absent that victory, rather than a legacy, there will be only the ash heap of history.

Before the election, we thought we already lived in Obama’s America and that victory for the left was inevitable.  We had been deluded by the media into believing the America we loved no longer existed.  Obama’s America was becoming the next great third world nation.  The hated white majority would shrink into oblivion.  Christianity would also vanish, as would the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Free market capitalism would finally be vanquished, replaced by brilliant central planners who would manage the economy, the nation, and our lives.

But something else happened.  The phony pundits, pollsters, and media were wrong.  The victory of Obama’s America died, and the Trump movement prevailed.  The forgotten man and woman, the loathed white working class, and others, the gun owner and churchgoer, the family man, the taxpayer, the backbone of the country rose up.  They launched a revolution to halt the counter-revolution of the progressive left, to restore the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  They repudiated the Obama legacy of division, hate, and fundamental transformation of the nation.  They dismissed Obama as irrelevant.  He was not a God after all, only a mortal. History will see him as a self obsessed, small-minded demagogue and agitator, an American Castro, a painful blip and aberration in the annals of time.

The voters said Yes to America and a second American Revolution to beat back the counter-revolution of the “Progressive” left and restore the Republic.  Donald Trump and his movement saved the nation from a dark fate and gave us a second chance to live and prosper again.

November 12 2016

Brief Bio: Richard Moss MD is a practicing Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, author, and columnist who resides in Jasper IN.  He recently lost his bid for the Republican nomination for Congress in Indiana’s 8^th district. Find more of his essays and blog posts at exodusmd.com.  Also find him on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram

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District Court Fees To Increase Dec. 1

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Several fees included on the U.S. District Court’s Miscellaneous Fee Schedule will soon increase after the Judicial Conference approved fee changes at its September 2016 session.

The increases, which will take effect Dec. 1, are as follows:

•    Attorney admissions to practice will increase to $231
•    Miscellaneous Matter filings will increase to $47
•    Record searches will increase to $31
•    Exemplification of documents or papers will increase to $22
•    Recordings reproductions will increase to $31
•    An appeal to a district judge from judgment of conviction by a magistrate judge in misdemeanor cases will increase to $38
•    Duplicate Certificates of Admission or Certificates of Good Standing will increase to $19
•    Actions under Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act will increase to $6,548
•    An annual rate of 20 basis points of assets on deposit will be assessed from interest earnings on CRIS Disputed Ownership Funds
•    An annual rate of 10 basis points of assets on deposit will be assessed from interest earnings on all other CRIS Registrty Funds.

The notice of fee changes can be viewed here.