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B-8 Opinion Wednesday, September 12, 2018 The Press-Dispatch Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court Darren Love, Jr. charged with count I possession of marijuana, a level 6 fel- ony, count II possession of a controlled substance and count III maintaining a common nuisance- controlled sub- stances. Denise A. Smith charged with count I operating a vehicle as an habitual traffic violator, a level 6 felony, and count II operating a vehicle while in- toxicated. Stephanie Renae Messer charged with count I possession of metham- phetamine, a level 6 felony, count II unlawful possession of syringe, count III possession of paraphernalia, count IV operating a vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance or its me- tabolite in the body and count V oper- ating a vehicle while intoxicated. Matthew R. Walls charged with count I possession of methamphet- amine, a level 6 felony, count II pos- session of marijuana and count III pos- session of paraphernalia. In re: search warrant. CIVIL Pike Circuit Court The Morris Plan of Terre Haute, Inc. sues Angel Wetzel and James A. Wetzel on complaint. USA acting as a Rural Housing Ser- vice sues Darlene Conrad (deceased) on complaint. Discover Bank sues Andrew Cope- land on complaint. Professional and Business Collec- tions, LLC sues Earnest W. Willis on complaint. Professional and Business Collec- tions sues Del K. Culbertson on com- plaint. Discover Bank sues Teresa D. Goodpaster on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Effie Warner charged with seatbelt violation. Kendra Carlton charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Jennifer Crow charged with speed- ing, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Jarell Curry charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Kristi Dischinger charged with seatbelt violation. Austin Dixon charged with speed- ing, 75 mph in a 55 zone. Brian Eckert charged with speed- ing, 104 mph in a 70 zone. Markus Gerber charged with seat- belt violation. Alesia Ginn charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Gary Hackman charged with seat- belt violation. Kyle Hall charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Heather Jennings charged with fail- ure to yield right-of-way to emergen- cy vehicle. Bernard Jessup charged with count I seatbelt violation, count II failure to register and count III operating a mo- tor vehicle without financial respon- sibility. Jalmeen Kaur charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Samuel Kessinger charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Matthew King charged with speed- ing, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Jimmie Knight charged with seat- belt violation. Mariah Leclercq charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. German Loma charged with speed- ing, 54 mph in a 35 zone. Gabrielle McCoy charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Joseph Medina charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Jared Mellinger charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Sean Poselwait charged with seat- belt violation. Terry Scott charged with seatbelt violation. Christian Sisk charged with seat- belt violation. Anna Slaats charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Eric Slunder charged with seatbelt violation. Thelma Smith charged with driving while suspended. Maritza Torres charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Dawn Weber charged with speed- ing, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Amit Arora charged with speeding, 86 mph in a 70 zone. Terri Fry charged with speeding, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Morgan Mayes charged with driv- ing while suspended. Jace Bartley charged with speed- ing, 80 mph in a 70 zone. Tara Mullis charged with speeding, 65 mph in a 55 zone. Charles Murray charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. David Payne charged with speed- ing, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Greg Simmons charged with oper- ating a motor vehicle with a false plate. Gregory Williams charged with speeding, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Scott Weigand charged with speed- ing, 91 mph in a 70 zone. Continued from page 7 HEARING Continued from page 7 CRISIS Continued from page 7 AFRICA Continued from page 7 MCCAIN It's pretty heavy and phil- osophical. His focus is find- ing alternatives in our jour- ney of life. He says we might also want to note in a journal the spontaneous likes, dis- likes, prejudices and fears we have about a particu- lar option. "We should note which alternative gives us the most peace and sense of God's presence. The option that consistently fills us with the presence of God's peace and joy and strength over a period of time likely is God's will for us." In all of this, the decision made may not be primari- ly based on pros and cons of a particular option but on the inner feelings we expe- rience as we prayed about the options. As we discern about the various options available, we need to dis - tinguish what we think and feel when we are in prayer and are most open to God's will. What we think and feel outside of prayer when we might be anxious and at- tached to a particular option. The former is more likely to be God's will for us. Now, that's pretty deep. In simple terms in my think- ing, when we make choices and decisions especially big ones, that which consistent- ly gives us peace of mind, it is likely the right decision. As part of the step, St. Ig- natius of Loyola suggests three imaginative exercises. First, consider what ad- vise you would give to anoth- er person faced with a simi- lar situation. Second, imagine yourself on your final journey in life and ask what you wish you would have done. Third, picture yourself standing before our Creator on the last day and consid- er what decision you would have wished you had done. • • • So why am I dwelling on this matter which seems to be rather poignant or deep? I think when one reaches the seventh decade of life which is where I'm at , one becomes more aware of what's going on with con- temporaries and friends who are in the same boat. Once upon a time we were young, we were focused on the big plans and dreams for the future. When you hit a certain time in life, you start looking back and reviewing the major events in life, and major decisions made. And that's when you understand the mystery of life. For those who can relate to what I'm sharing, you know what I mean. For those who lost in- terest in what I just shared, just wait, someday you will understand. So make every moment become precious, every op- portunity be filled with kind- ness and patience, every chance to do good become a priority. Continued from page 7 PEACE tion: No matter how "sympa- thetic" a particular litigant's position is, she said, a judge must do "what the law re- quires" and reach "the re- sult [that] is commanded by law." Our Constitution — which all senators have sworn to uphold — demands noth- ing less. Ed Feulner is founder of The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org). them would make war rather than let the nation survive, the other would ac- cept war rather than let it perish, and the war came." The disagreement on core prin- ciples was too great. "And the war came." Lincoln himself was gunned down in the end. The last line of the last speech given by Martin Luther King Jr., the night before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, was from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic": "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." America is a battlefield because America is about truth, and truth is something only won in struggle. Let's take a look at how our nation has changed since John McCain's plane was shot down in Vietnam in 1967. In 1967, abortion was still illegal in America. Since abortion on demand became legal through Roe v. Wade in 1973, more than 60 million of our ba- bies have been destroyed. In 1967, 10 percent of our babies were born to unwed mothers. Today it is more than 40 percent. In 1967, about 8 percent of white adults over the age of 25 and 9 percent of black adults of the age of 25 had nev- er been married. By 2012, 16 percent of white adults and 36 percent of black adults had never been married. In 1967, no one would have dreamed that in America the sacred and holy institution of marriage could be any- thing other than the bond between one man and one woman. The 1960s marked the beginning of the moral decline of our nation and the flowering of the civil rights move- ment. One pushed moral ambiguity; the other pushed for moral clarity. The stretch from the 1960s to today, during which John McCain served in Washington, was about struggle. What might be taken as a time of bi- partisanship and compromise was in- stead more about morality and poli- tics. "The real crisis we face today," President Reagan said in his famous speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in 1983, "is a spiritu- al one: at root it is a test of moral will and faith." This is our struggle. Let's be hon- est and unapologetic about it. Star Parker is an author and presi- dent of CURE, Center for Urban Renew- al and Education. Contact her at www. urbancure.org. As of this writing, the scandal is festering because Pope Francis has issued "a non-denial response" to press questions about the Viganò testimony: "I will not say a single word ..." Si- lence will not quiet the crit- ics. They smell blood. Wauck cites the 2004 John Jay Report that was conduct- ed by the American Episco- pal Conference for the pe- riod 1950 to 2000. The re- port "demonstrated the link between homosexual- ity and sexual abuse of mi- nors by Catholic clergy and about 90 % of the priests con- demned for sexual abuse with minors are homosexu- al priests." You can see where this is heading. The Catholic Church will have to address human sexuality and the cultural/scientific approv- al of same gender relation- ships. The church has had more than one opportunity to deal with this crisis, and it chose to close ranks and pray the storm passes by. It didn't. The outcome may not bode well for tradition- al Catholic teaching. As Wauck argues, "The long term goal of the Left is sim- ply to destroy any moral au- thority the Catholic Church may still have in the broader conservative society - - Cath- olic or not. "The goal for the progres- sive media will be to try to separate cultural Catholics from the influence of Cath- olic doctrine by discredit- ing the entire hierarchy— not just "conservatives"… and who knows, maybe they can bring down the pope." There are dark days ahead for the church as a whole, and the leadership is responsible. The Apos- tle Peter wrote, "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gos- pel of God? " A shaking process is oc- curring. In the end, the wheat will be separated from the chaff, and there is nothing a theologian can do about it. Church teaching until our modern and enlightened age dictated sexuality was con- fined within the marriage of a man and women. How is this departure from holiness working out? Think about it as you pray. nialism," he said (https://ti- nyurl.com/ycs6l4pb). Zimbabwe, South A fri- ca's northern neighbor for- merly called Rhodesia, was southern A frica's breadbas- ket. That was prior to the confiscation of nearly 6,000 large white-owned commer- cial farms during the 1990s. By the turn of the century, Zimbabwe was threatened with mass starvation and was begging for food. Add- ed to that tragedy, Zimba- bwe experienced history's second-highest inflation rate. It reached 79.6 billion percent in mid-November 2008. (In 1946, Hungary ex- perienced the world's high- est inflation rate, 41.9 qua- drillion percent.) South A frica leads in min- ing, food production and critical infrastructure, such as power production and railroading, in southern A f- rica. But it's going the same way as Zimbabwe, spelling disaster for the entire south- ern part of A frica. What's needed most right now is for South A fricans to adopt some of the principles enun- ciated by Nelson Mandela, one of which is, "You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of ret- ribution." Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. 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