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C-12 Opinion Wednesday, July 18, 2018 The Press-Dispatch Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court Charles D. Morrison charged with count I possession of methamphet- amine, a level 6 felony, and count II maintaining a common nuisance - con- trolled substances. Shannon L. Futrell charged with count I possession of methamphet- amine, a level 6 felony, and count II unlawful possession of a syringe. MacKenzie Nolan petitions for in- trastate probation transfer. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANORS Pike Circuit Court Bambi M. Spade charged with false informing. Robert J. Martin charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II violation of driving conditions. Benjamin E. Booher charged with possession of marijuana. Joshua D. Cooper charged with pos- session of marijuana. Jesse Houston charged with public intoxication. CIVIL Pike Circuit Court Discover Bank sues Jeremy W. Gib- son on complaint. Joan and Jack Parks sue John Ste- vens on complaint. U.S. Bank National Association sues Catherine A. Whitney and Tri- ple C. Oil Producers on complaint. Continued from page 11 tersburg Press and com- bined it with the Dispatch to form a new countywide newspaper. Frank's two sons, John and Andy, hied it to one of the finest journal- ism schools in the nation, in my opinion, and came home equipped to practice small- town journalism that is, by comparison to most weekly newspapers in similar small communities, lavish. That is the obvious part of Frank Heuring's legacy. But I learned more at his funer- al when men stood to speak of his quiet generosity: a struggling student's last semester of tuition "picked up." A youth pastor support- ed all the way through As- bury Seminary. A recurring and previously undisclosed financial contribution to the bus ministry of a church that wasn't even his denomina- tion. And there was another kind of generosity—an emo- tional generosity. One man recalled pastor- ing a small country church that Frank attended in his latter years. Frank had suf- fered a stroke that made speech difficult, but he al- ways paused at the door on his way out to give the younger man some encour- agement, no matter how hard he had to work on get- ting the words out. Beyond the usual compliments of a "good sermon" or "good message," Frank always made eye contact and told him "I'm so glad you're here." It was much-need- ed emotional oxygen for the laborer toiling in the of- ten-breezeless fields of the Lord. He needed to hear that he was making a difference, and the old man made sure he heard it. The Winslow diaspora is pretty intimate, so when my mom told me "Frank Jr." had died, I knew who she was talking about. No sur- name required. So farewell, Frank Jr. We're so glad you were here. FAREWELL always had an attractive in- vestment climate, and we've had current account deficits and capital account surplus- es throughout most of our nation's history (http:// tinyurl.com/jczqrhu). In fact, the only time we had a sustained current account trade surplus was during the Great Depression, when we had a surplus in nine out of 10 years, with 1936 being the lone exception. Let's delve a bit into the politics of trade tariffs. Whom do we see spending the most resources lobbying for tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum? Is it Ameri- can users of steel and alumi- num, such as Harley-David- son and John Deere? Or is it United States Steel Corp. and Alcoa? Of course it's U.S. Steel and Alcoa. They benefit from tariffs by being able to sell their products at higher prices. Harley-David- son and John Deere lose by having to pay higher pric- es for their inputs, steel and aluminum, and their cus- tomers lose by having to pay higher product prices. There's a lot of nonsense talk about international trade, which some define as one country's trading with another. When an Ameri- can purchases a Mercedes, it does not represent the U.S. Congress' trading with the German Bundestag. It repre- sents an American citizen's engaging in peaceable, vol- untary exchange, through intermediaries, with a Ger- man auto producer. When voluntary exchange occurs, it means that both parties are better off in their own es- timation — not Trump's es- timation or General Motors' estimation. I'd like to hear the moral case for third-par- ty interference with such an exchange. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Continued from page 11 SHOOTING Continued from page 11 Continued from page 11 the church embrace as foun- dational to any and all dis- cussions? The apostle Paul admon- ished the Church at Corinth for their schisms and here- sies. He encouraged them to speak the same things in matters of faith, or at least strive for the unity of the faith. Jesus himself used the analogy "he that can hear" to denote a spiritual truth that can be missed by clos- ing one's mind. Where do we go from here? Identifying core val- ues can be time consuming because those at the dis- cussion table bring what is dear to him/her with them. It would not be surprising to compile a list of values that would near 100, which obvi- ously all cannot be consid- ered of equal weight. The Wesleyan model of life is a starting place: do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God, but it does not identify what to base inti- mate discussions upon. Allow me to suggest four, which would impact and guide most everything we do as a local church: godli- ness, biblical authenticity, love and community. Godliness is to emulate Christ, who was "God in the flesh! " Biblical authen- ticity means the Bible is to be taken as the authorita- tive word of God. Love ex- tends to all that we do and means without reservation or conditions. Community is where we live out and share our faith. In the next few weeks, I will share what each of these values means and the impact that they have upon decision making and living a faith that is alive. Think about it! VALUES GRANDPA Continued from page 11 FACTS Continued from page 11 LIGHTER ally is "prime-age men and women" who are reentering the workforce," and wheth- er one can refer to the size of that group as "large" or not. The upshot of her analy- sis? Maybe yes, maybe no. It depends on how you look at it. A fter illustrating how one can spin the data in dif- ferent ways, Ms. Kelly pro- claims: "Trump is using ac- curate data to draw faulty conclusions." There's already a journal- istic label for what Ms. Kel- ly is doing, and it's not "fact- checking." It's "news analy- sis." So why is this article fly- ing under the "fact-checker" flag? Simple. It carries the cache of objectivity. "Anal- ysis" can be done by any journalist with an anti- or pro-Trump axe to grind, but "fact-checking? " You can't question that, right? Wrong. You can, and you should. As The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto has noted: "Some good work is do- ne under the rubric of 'fact- checking,' but 'fact-check' journalists do not limit them- selves to questions of verifi- able objective fact. Frequent- ly they accuse politicians of dishonesty because the jour- nalists favor a different inter- pretation of facts that are not in dispute. Sometimes their 'rulings' are mere opinions on matters about which they do not know the facts, or that are not factual questions at all." Pinocchio longed for the day he'd become a real boy. Can we look forward to a time when Ms. Kelly and her fellow journalists become genuine fact-checkers? Ed Feulner is founder of The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org). the block for 10 years, If I don't give you a ticket, I'll lose my job. Lead us not into temptation." • • • This week has been a gut wrench- ing experience to watch congressio- nal hearings of the FBI agents, the announcements about the Russian agents who apparently hacked our na- tion's computers, the number of pro- tests in our country and Europe, the political atmosphere of the meetings of world leaders in Europe, and just so many news items that are so mind blowing. Fortunately there are still some T V programs that are uplifting and entertaining, but seemingly they have gotten fewer. What in the world is going on. I hope and pray that better times will come. I once saw a wise saying which goes this way..." When life gets too hard to stand, kneel." Keep cool and continue to enjoy the summer. Have a blessed week. our laps and let the ripples carry us on as we breathed in the forest air. Once in a very great while, a blue heron passed overhead, emerging from the trees on one side of the river and disappearing again into the leaves. Grand- pa would always say the her- on was the prettiest thing in all the woods, and I figured he would know. When we pulled back to shore, we would carry the canoe back through the narrow path, over the or- angey clay, and clean it off in Grandpa's yard. Grand- ma would come out to tell us what kind of pie she'd made, and to hurry in for it. And so we did. There was a picture of us up at the funeral home this weekend. We were in the ca- noe together, with our life vests and big floppy hats, not in a hurry to get anywhere in particular. As we enter into what surely will be another contentious confirma- tion process for a new Supreme Court justice, let's consider under- lying realities that deeply divide us and make it so hard to agree about how our Constitution should be in- terpreted and applied. The Declaration of Independence lays the groundwork for us. It tells us that all men are en- dowed by their Creator "with cer- tain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pur- suit of happiness. — That to secure these rights governments are insti- tuted among men." The important news here, if you accept the founding document of our nation, is that human rights are not created by government. They precede it. The point of government is to build a fence around and pro- tect these rights — these truths — articulated in the Declaration. Regarding life, the Declaration tells us that the role of government is to protect it. This explains the rancor sur- rounding Roe v. Wade and legal abortion that is becoming center stage to our court confirmation de- liberations. Legal abortion is, at its core, about whether unborn children should be included in what we con- sider mankind. If yes, they must be protected, like all life. The "pro-life" movement is clear on this. The unborn child is living and must be protected. Where's the other side coming from? Most telling is from then-candi- date Barack Obama, who told Pas- tor Rick Warren, in response to Warren's question, at what point "does a baby get human rights? " that the answer "is above my pay grade." President Obama was an aggressive advocate for abortion and was the first sitting president to ad- dress the annual meeting of Planned Parenthood, where he concluded his remarks with "God Bless You." He was comfortable in- voking the blessings of God for the nation's largest abor- tion provider despite his candor that he has no idea whether abortion means taking human life. Recently, Maine Republican Sen- ator Susan Collins expressed dis- may at border security policies that separate children from their parents. Collins called this "trau- matizing to children, who are inno- cent victims, and it is contrary to our values in this country." At the same time, Collins says she will not support a Supreme Court nominee "who demonstrat- ed hostility to Roe v. Wade." I ask Collins, is the unborn child, who has a heartbeat and can feel pain, not also an innocent victim? Does Collins not find this violence on life also "contrary to our values in this country"? Perhaps Collins finds taking a po- sition on whether the unborn child is human life, like Obama, above her pay grade. Collins, and others, tell us that Roe v. Wade is "settled law" and therefore now intrinsically part of American life. To overturn it, they say, would create intolerable disrup- tions. I reject this bogus idea. If you believe the unborn child is living, that life must be pro- tected under the U.S. Constitution. Several years ago, Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, spoke at the Huma- num colloquium on complementarity at the Vatican. He began his remarks, which received a standing ovation, saying he would speak about "the most beautiful idea in the history of civilization: the idea of the love that brings new life into the world. ... Life begins when male and female meet and embrace." As we move forward to confirm a new Supreme Court justice, let's re- member that although our Constitu- tion was constructed by men, it was designed to protect and preserve principles from a higher place. Abortion is a symptom of, not the cause of, the tensions and confusion in our nation. Our real problem is the abandonment of our society to the crass, gross ideas of an empty and false materialism that can only take us to oblivion. Star Parker is an author and pres- ident of CURE, Center for Urban Re- newal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure.org. 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