Monday, Nov. 10
Brigadier General Ondra Berry, who is a Harrison High School and UE graduate and the first African-American Brigadier General in the Nevada Air National Guard, will make a stop Monday at Harrison High School to talk about his experiences and motivate students to follow their dreams. Brigadier General Berry will be at Harrison around 10 a.m. to speak with upper classman. The presentation will be recorded and shown to lower classmen later in the week.
Here is a link to the unofficial Vanderburgh County 2014 General Election totals by political Wards and Precincts.
Rick McKee / Augusta Chronicle
Republicans may have won the Senate and kept the House, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is no inspiration, allowing President Obama to keep all of the leverage of shutting down government spending while the President wags the threatening finger of executive orders in McConnell’s face.
If Ted Cruz stays the course of conservative leadership and McConnell is replaced as Senate Leader, the Republican Party has the chance to achieve great success in pushing through policies that will actually create an environment in which businesses can grow and individuals can succeed.
If Republicans fail to achieve improvements in just two years, Democrats can certainly propagandize the electorate towards a reversal of this success.
“Hope and change†is a successful campaign theme only when there seems to be no hope and any change at all feels like forward momentum. We Americans learned all too well that campaign themes don’t guarantee positive results. Too many Americans still vote on the uneducated impulse of such themes.
Some good news is that Republicans in charge means tighter control over an IRS that has been illegally turned into a partisan weapon.
There might be more scrutiny of the Federal Reserve’s activity.
“If the Republicans take control of the Senate and thus have control of both the House and the Senate—two words for the Federal Reserve: Watch out,†said Camden Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, “Leading the GOP wish list in dealing with the Fed would be legislation to open the central bank to more scrutiny of its interest-rate decisions, using congressional audits of monetary-policy matters that Fed officials strongly oppose. Many Republican lawmakers also want to require the Fed to use a mathematical rule to guide interest-rate decisions or shift its focus more directly to inflation rather than inflation together with unemployment.â€
Republicans may actually be able to defy billionaire Tom Steyer who bought President Obama’s anti- XL Pipeline stance despite pleas from Obama’s union constituencies who just didn’t have as much money as Steyer.
Ted Cruz has promised to repeal and replace Obamacare with a plan that restores affordable major medical health insurance to the millions of Americans who now suffer from extraordinary premium increases as much as 300 percent.
Cruz wrote in USA Today that he will “pursue all means possible to repeal Obamacare. There is a reason Obamacare has miserable 37 percent approval ratings: it has caused millions to lose their jobs, be forced into part-time work, lose their health insurance, lose their doctors, and pay skyrocketing premiums. It simply isn’t working. We should pass repeal legislation (forcing an Obama veto), and then pass bill after bill to mitigate the harms of Obamacare. Prevent people from having their healthcare plans cancelled, prohibit insurance company bailouts, eliminate the provisions forcing people into part-time work, and repeal the individual mandate.â€
Now is the time for Republicans to replace the failed Obamacare with a substantial improvement or be doomed in 2016.
Will Republicans do something as simple as passing legislation that strips American citizens who join ISIL of their U.S. passports so they cannot return home and wage jihad against innocent men and women? Democrats refuse and Republicans can hardly afford to fail.
A couple of agenda items Republicans will fail to achieve include instituting a flat tax and passing a balanced budget amendment.
What they need to do is pass legislation reducing the corporate tax rate to be competitive with other countries so as to reduce inversion, in which U.S. companies incorporate in foreign countries to reduce their tax burden.
Inversions include maneuvers such as Burger King buying Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain, in which Burger King’s operations would stay in Miami and the taxable corporate headquarters of the new company would be in Canada thus avoiding U.S. corporate taxes. Lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate would de-incentivize this legal behavior.
Now that Republicans have won the Senate and the House, they need to earn their keep just as the Democrats failed to earn theirs.
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Gavel Gamut
By Jim Redwine
(Week of 10 November 2014)
SOMEBODY BETTER DO IT!
If you have been engaged in the happenings of Unanimous for Murder, Chapter 10 will appear next week. For now, my thoughts are on last Tuesday’s election; perhaps yours are too?
To those who garnered the most votes, congratulations and thank you for serving. However, the following comments mainly concern those who dreamed of serving but will not have the opportunity.
I do not wish to plagiarize, however, after William Shakespeare, all who write in the English language are plagiarists. Therefore, with a respectful nod to Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “Ifâ€, and to Teddy Roosevelt’s essay, “The Glory Belongs to the Man in the Arenaâ€, I offer the following without further apology.
Our sense of schadenfreude as aided by media cynics aside, we should come to praise those who wish to serve whether or not they win. And, if they do not win, we should still thank them for giving their time, resources and hopes for a better place for all of us.
Contrary to popular opinion, almost everybody who takes the difficult step of putting their friends, family and themselves through a political campaign does it for the best reason of all, they just want to serve.
Few public service jobs pay as well as similar private sector jobs and job security is in the hands of a frequently fickle electorate. Worst of all, even our most celebrated leaders have their lives dissected for any item of gossip that can be dredged up. Of course, those pundits, critics and coffee shop experts would never have the courage to put others first and run for public office.
So I say, and maybe you do too, thanks to those who run and are willing to run our governments at every level from bottom to top.
Jennifer Nelson for www.theindianalawyer.com
The Indiana Court of Appeals, after clarifying a point in their original opinion, still did not believe that a police detective tried to mislead a judge in order to obtain a search warrant. The judges upheld their original decision that affirmed the denial of a man’s motion to suppress evidence collected at his home following drug deals.
Victor Keeylen sold drugs to police officers through controlled buys. Those officers received authorization from the court to place GPS tracking devices on his vehicles. Police continued to track his car after authority to do so expired. They applied for a warrant to search Keeylen’s residence but left out the fact police had used GPS tracking devices.
The COA in August held that the warrantless installation of the GPS devices was improper but upheld the denial to suppress evidence of heroin, cash, paraphernalia and a shotgun. Keeylen had argued that the warrant for the search of his home was predicated on a probable cause affidavit that contained omissions that misled the court.
In the original opinion, Judge Paul Mathias wrote that the detective submitted the probable cause affidavit to the very same trial court and trial judge who had been authorizing the GPS searches for more than a year. The judges believed it was unlikely the detective, Ryan Graber, thought that the omission of his information would mislead the judge.
In this petition for rehearing, Keelyen maintains that the judicial officer who issued the search warrant did not issue all of the orders authorizing GPS tracking. But the commissioner who issued the warrant did issue the final order authorizing the GPS tracking, the judges pointed out Thursday in Victor Keeylen v. State of Indiana, 49A05-1308-CR-419. In addition, the last four authorization orders were issued by the very same court.
“The point we made in our original opinion remains valid: it is unlikely that Detective Graber was attempting to mislead the judicial officer issuing the search warrant by omitting information regarding the GPS tracking because the same judicial officer who issued the search warrant had previously authorized the GPS tracking and was thus well aware of the GPS tracking,†Mathias wrote.
On Friday, October 31, 2014 Mr. Hardrick fled from Henderson County Sheriff’s deputies who tried to arrest him at the Henderson Downtown Motel. Mr. Hardrick was armed with a handgun and made statements that he would not return to prison.
The Sheriff’s Office, assisted by a Henderson County detective, located Mr. Hardrick at the Super 8 Motel on E. Morgan Avenue. Mr. Hardrick was taken into custody without incident in the parking lot of the motel. Mr. Hardrick is currently lodged at the Vanderburgh County Jail awaiting extradition to Henderson, Kentucky.
Pictured above: Ronald “Ronnie” Terrence Hardrick, 51, of Henderson, KY
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