On Wednesday, October 5, 1960, a crowd at the Evansville airport was drenched while waiting for a special airplane to arrive. It was an hour behind schedule, but when Senator John F. Kennedy finally stepped off the plane about 3 p.m., the rain suddenly stopped. A few minutes later, the charismatic Democratic candidate for president greeted a welcoming crowd of an estimated 12,000 admiring adults and squealing teenagers on the steps of the Old Courthouse. Kennedy’s appearance came only days after a visit to the city by Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, who was also vying for the presidency. It would be a close election in November.
EPD Join Forces With Animal Care And Control To Help Find Forever Homes For Some Furry Friends
EPD Join Forces With Animal Care And Control To Help Find Forever Homes For Some Furry Friends
Beginning today, the Evansville Police Department will team up with the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Animal Care and Control Shelter to help find “Furever” homes for animals who are in need of a loving family.
Each Friday, the EPD will use their Twitter (@EvansvillePD) and Facebook pages to post the FRIDAY RESCUE ROUNDUP!
The post will include a picture of one of EPD’s Finest and one of Animal Care and Control’s Furriest. There will also be some information about the animal and details on how to adopt them.
We hope this new partnership helps reduce the population at Animal Care and Control and, more importantly, puts these amazing animals into loving homes!
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Adopt A Pet
Stella is a 4-year-old female potbellied pig! She weighs approximately 150 lbs. She is not yet housetrained or leash-trained, but pigs are very intelligent and social animals. They also love to eat, so training them is usually not difficult! Stella is already spayed & vaccinated so her adoption fee is $250. She must be adopted outside Evansville city limits. Call (812) 426-2563 or visit www.vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!
Deadline Approaching for College Help
| Dear Friend,
Do you know of a student looking for ways to help pay for college? The Indiana 21st Century Scholars program, which was recently renamed in honor of former governor Evan Bayh, was established to help students from low-income families achieve their goal of going to college. Hoosier students can enroll in the program as early as seventh grade, but no later than June 30 of their eighth-grade year. To sign up for the program and learn about the eligibility requirements, click here. Students who are in the program not only receive a scholarship, but also are provided with the tools needed to assist with college applications, the admission process, financial aid and campus visits. The 21st Century Scholarship program has helped more than 70,000 low-income Hoosier students pay for college, many of these students were the first in their families to receive higher education. This scholarship is a great way for students in our community to achieve educational success, and develop the character traits and work ethic that will carry them into adulthood. Please remember that the deadline for students entering the eighth grade to apply is quickly approaching. For more information about the program, call 1-888Â-528Â-4719, email info@che.in.gov or visit www.scholars.in.gov. Sincerely, 
State Rep. Wendy McNamara |
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MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOWNPLAYS LIBERAL VIOLENCE
MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOWNPLAYS LIBERAL VIOLENCE
By Rick Jensen
Violence. Burning cars. Sucker punches. Chanting obscenities and displaying signs with the sort of obscenities that get children punished when they are raised by good parents.
No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump supporters. I’m actually talking about left wingers, who lately are behaving the way they’ve tried so desperately to portray their Tea Party rivals.
They throw bottles and rocks at police and jump innocent Americans, beating them to the point where they are seen in videos leaving with blood pouring down their faces.
Predictably, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, a Hillary Clinton supporter, blames Trump for the violent behavior.
“At some point Donald Trump needs to take responsibility for the irresponsible behavior of his campaign,†Liccardo said.
Think about this for a moment. Supporting Clinton means you can legitimately sucker-punch strangers who wear t-shirts you don’t like..
“Videos taken at the scene showed a number of physical confrontations. In one, a supporter wearing a football jersey emblazoned with Mr. Trump’s name was pelted with eggs,†the New York Times reported.
The “supporter†of whom the Times wrote is actually a woman who was assaulted because she was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the name, “Trump.â€
The presumed Hillary supporters celebrated their assault on the woman by waving Mexican flags.
Downplaying the fact that men assaulted a woman because of the clothing she is wearing makes the New York Times complicit in approval of the assault.
Period.
Drop the mic.
“Outside the event, protesters, some brandishing Mexican flags, clashed violently with Mr. Trump’s supporters,†downplays the New York Times.
No, New York Times, the protesters and Hillary supporters did not “clash†“with†Trump supporters. They viciously attached them. They mobbed the entrance to the rally and assaulted at least one woman and sucker-punched men.
You may recall that over the years liberals have called the Tea Party racist and violent with no supporting evidence. The Black Caucus accused Tea Partiers of hurling racial slurs at them during a protest against Obamacare
Check the omnipresent youtube videos. No such behavior exists. Did not happen.
Meanwhile, the violent left is in full view and full swing.
I have been a consistent Trump detractor, and with the exception of his idiotic encouragement of rally attendees to punch agitators, I don’t think Trump deserves blame for the behavior of others.
Dara Lind of Vox.com is one of them. He writes, “There are Americans to whom Trump poses an existential threat. You don’t have to agree with protesters beating up Trump supporters, or even sympathize with them, to understand this. There are people who feel Trump’s rise puts their lives in danger. And many people make decisions about what actions are ‘appropriate’ differently when they feel personally under threat.â€
Vox and others excuse this violence as a reaction to a perceived existential threat.
Tea Party Americans have recognized the existential threat to our lives posed by a socialist agenda that would destroy our free market society. We see a tyrannical President who, unhappy with the wishes and controls put upon him by citizens, congress and the Supreme Court, issues an extraordinary number of Executive Actions including Executive Orders plus Presidential Memoranda.
The power of these actions exceeds even their number.
Still, the Tea Party Americans don’t riot in the streets, throw rocks and bottles at police or beat innocent Democrats walking to a Hillary rally.
Reports are that MoveOn.Org, funded in part by Hillary supporter George Soros, are sending mobs to the streets to stoke violence at Trump rallies.
If they continue this, they will be making your vote in November count as cowering fearfully from these mobs threatening violence if Hillary isn’t elected or standing up to them.
Senate Committee To Vote On Ong Nomination
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote June 16 on the nomination of Winfield Ong to be U.S. District judge for the Southern District of Indiana.
Ong was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Judge Sarah Evans Barker who took senior status June 30, 2014. Sens. Joe Donnelly, Democrat, and Dan Coats, Republican, recommended Ong’s appointment, praising his qualifications and temperament.
The committee, chaired by Republican Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, is scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. and vote on a handful of nominations to the federal bench including Donald Schott to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Schott, a partner at the Quarles and Brady office in Wisconsin was nominated to fill that state’s vacancy on the appellate court.
Former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Myra Selby who was nominated to fill the Indiana seat on the 7th Circuit is still awaiting a hearing by the committee.