The Press-Dispatch
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C-12 Opinion Wednesday, October 3, 2018 The Press-Dispatch Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court David L. Kennedy charged with count I theft, a level 5 felony, and count II theft. William Yarbrough charged with count I operating a motor vehicle without ever receiving a license, a level 6 felony, count II invasion of privacy and count III inva- sion of privacy. Jordan M. Hunt charged with count I intimidation, a level 5 felony, count II do- mestic violence animal cruelty and count III killing a domestic animal. Denise Burch charged with count I ne- glect of a dependent, a level 6 felony, and count II nonsupport of a parent. Roy S. King charged with count I pos- session of methamphetamine, a level 6 fel- ony, and count II maintaining a common nuisance - controlled substances. Wilfred G. Klueg II charged with do- mestic battery, a level 6 felony. In re: search warrant. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court James A. Young, Jr. charged with driv- ing while suspended. Colton E. Mallory charged with count I resisting law enforcement, count II dis- orderly conduct and count II unauthor- ized entry of a motor vehicle. Misty A. McCandless charged with op- erating a vehicle while intoxicated. Jerald Charles charged with theft. Ronald L. Gross charged with posses- sion of marijuana. Deavon M. Drone charged with driv- ing while suspended. David K. Truong charged with posses- sion of marijuana. William S. Flener charged with count I criminal trespass, count II public intox- ication and count III disorderly conduct. CIVIL Pike Circuit Court Hoosier Accounts Service sues Amber M. Creel on complaint. Old National Bank sues David L. Yo- der on complaint. RIPCO, LTD, Inc. sues CTB, Inc. on complaint. Audrey Sue Clark sues Jeffrey Kevin Clark for dissolution of marriage. Kimberly K. Miller sues Anthony D. Miller for dissolution of marriage. Julie D. Leavitt sues Steven D. Powell for dissolution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Medical and Professional Collection Services sues Jeremiah Raney on com- plaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Philip Alt charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Kristy Asani charged with speeding, 51 mph in a 25 zone. Aaron Blount charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Randy Bolin charged with seatbelt vi- olation. Mary Buckman charged with seatbelt violation. Jamarcus Buckner charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Stephen Carlsgaard charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Justus Chase charged with speeding, 99 mph in a 70 zone. Justin Clark charged with speeding, 68 mph in a 45 zone. Barbara Clore charged with count I driving while suspended and count II op- erating a motor vehicle with a fictitious plate. Tyler Divine charged with following too closely. Elisabeth Dougherty charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Gregory Elenbaas charged with seat- belt violation. Dane Gladish charged with unlawful possession of tobacco. Jager Galdish charged with unlawful possession of tobacco. Jeffrey Heifner charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Ricky Henke charged with count I op- erating a motor vehicle with a fictitious plate and count II seatbelt violation. Savannah Jasper charged with speed- ing, 77 mph in a 55 zone. Gerald Knight III charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Cameron Lancaster charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Zachary Lotter charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Marcus Martin charged with speed- ing, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Richard Mathis charged with no valid driver's license. Mariah Moore charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Therese Neidige charged with seat- belt violation. Henry Nichols charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Alexander Peacock charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Jason Phillips charged with speeding, 74 mph in a 55 zone. Clayton Pritchard charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Matthew Robertson charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Sarah Shearin charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Tracy Sparks charged with speeding, 71 mph in a 55 zone. Clair Strobel charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Katie Thompson charged with speed- ing, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Kelsey Ward charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Angela Weeks charged with speeding, 74 mph in a 55 zone. Delena Willis charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Alejandra Cazares Herrera charged with speeding, 73 mph in a 55 zone. William Wilkins charged with unlaw- ful possession of tobacco. Wesley Brown charged with hunting without a license in possession. Abdulah Ayedh Alrashidi charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Alphonse Desruisseaux charged with learner's permit violation. Andrew Durcholz charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Katherine Lindstrom charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Andrea Richter charged with speed- ing, 89 mph in a 70 zone. Continued from page 11 VOTE Continued from page 11 SCANDAL Continued from page 11 SERENITY criminal records, minor offense re- cords, etc,etc. Then of course they sell or share these. Anymore, there is practically noth- ing to hide because all electronic activ- ities via computers and cellular phones are available for analysis. • • • Because the article was long, I fo- cused on the section on how you can protect yourself. There are no absolute guarantees because criminals try to al- ways be one step ahead of the game. And they work 24/7 since personal da- ta are available 24 hrs a day. Most crooks work in the comfort of their homes so they do not have to in- vest in expensive offices. The article has a section titled: The top three ways to stop cybercriminals. Here they are. 1) Freeze your credit- the number one piece of advice is to place a securi- ty freeze on all your accounts with the three major reporting agencies when you get victimized. For a detailed guide to the process, go to aarp.org/ credit- freeze. 2) Monitor your accounts. Regis- ter online access to every financial ac- count you have like bank accounts, cred- it cards, etc and about once a week or as often as you can review your accounts. Also there are ways to set up text alerts which you can request if there are trans- actions taking place, and you also can set up threshold limits to your expenses. 3) Use password manager to store all your passwords. I've never used them. I have not studied how they work. What I do is write down my passwords in a se- cure place. Most often the password I re- cord has a mix of notations that I would be the only one who can decipher them. My head is just spinning trying to un- derstand and absorb these steps. I am not an expert on this matter. I will have to sit down with somebody more knowl- edgeable on this subject. Gracious, how complicated the world we live in has become. I long for them days when life was a lot simpler. Don't you? • • • On the lighter side of life......take a look at this. Humor of the week..... "Honey," said the husband to his wife, "I invited a friend home for supper." Wife then jumps up from her chair and says, " What? Are you out of your mind? The house is a mess, all the dish- es are dirty, the laundry has not been do- ne, the floor has not been cleaned, and I don't feel like cooking a fancy meal anyway. Besides that, I want to go shop- ping." Husband replies, "I know all of that." Wife then replies, " Then why did you invite a friend for supper? " Husband mutters, "Because my friend wants advise on getting married." Have a great week! Continued from page 11 DARK WEB our elections via cyberspace and through other means. That's a helpful first step. But there's more to be do- ne. If we care about protect- ing the democratic process, we need to ignore those who claim that voter fraud is rare — and do whatever's neces- sary to ensure that our elec- tions are fair and honest. Ed Feulner is founder of The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org). Continued from page 11 REPUBLICANS equally to every citizen regardless of race, gender and anything else, must stand above political bias. This as- sures our society is free and just. The absence of equally applied law is what tore our nation apart in the 1850s, with the acceptance of slavery and the infamous Dred Scott decision, denying A frican-Americans legal sta- tus as citizens. The whole point of the 14th Amend- ment, enacted after the Civil War, was to guarantee every American due pro- cess and equal protection under the law. But with this show around Kavana- ugh's confirmation, the Democratic Party has unmasked itself as a party whose only interest is in a left-wing political agenda, not the law. It is exactly why Democrats see con- servative judges, like Kavanaugh, who take the Constitution seriously, as a mortal threat. Democrats want poli- tics and their agenda, not law. Hence, an outstanding and honor- able man's good name and reputation is being besmirched with unsubstan- tiated and tenuous claims. The long-accepted tradition that the burden of proof is upon the accuser, not the accused, is being thrown to the trash bin. It should be of particular concern to blacks and women that we live in a na- tion in which law stands above politics. Blacks, because this is what the civil rights movement was about. Women, because this is not just about them- selves and their daughters but equally about their husbands and sons. The economy is booming. In recent days, stock indexes have reached new highs and, as The Wall Street Journal reports, new claims for jobless bene- fits have "hit a half-century low." The National Federation of Indepen- dent Business reports record high op- timism and hiring plans among small businesses, the main job generators in our economy. The Republican Senate has now confirmed 68 conservative judges to the federal bench — with 125 to go. And every federal department ad- ministrating anti-poverty funds— which constitute one-quarter of the federal budget — must follow an ex- ecutive order from President Donald Trump to become more efficient. Yes, it's true that generally the president's party loses congressio- nal seats in midterm elections. How- ever, in 2014, Democrats lost only 13 House seats in the midterms, despite Barack Obama's 44 percent approv- al, which isn't far from where Trump stands today. Republicans need to stand firm with the truth on Kavanaugh. That plus the great economic news in our nation will take them over the finish line in No- vember. Star Parker is an author and presi- dent of CURE, Center for Urban Renew- al and Education. Contact her at www. urbancure.org. struct was challenged and ridiculed. Almost 40 years ago [1979], President Jimmy Carter was ridiculed over what became known as his "Malaise" speech. Though the speech was aimed at ad- dressing the energy crisis, he suggested that what America faced ran much deep- er. He said, "We are confronted with a moral and a spiritual crisis…The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation." Carter warned that America was "dedicated to perpetuating a collective anxiety. It's a social malaise." He may have been prophetic. We had the Rea- gan years of self-confidence, but over- all, what has changed? We are bombarded with messages to tempt us to surrender to our carnal urges and desires. However, the Apos- tle John wrote centuries ago about the dangers of enmeshing oneself into the cares of life: "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Fa- ther, but from the world." John ascertains that when we identi- fy ourselves with the demands and illu- sions of self-gratification, we set in mo- tion an estrangement with the Father, and the results are devastating. To find peace from anxiety, we must "let go" of the world and embrace a rela- tionship with God through Christ Jesus; we must worship God and not mankind. The people of the world are anxious- ly searching for something but fail to re- alize their quest is spiritual, not carnal. What they desire is something that re- places their relationship with God, their creator. The cure for anxiety is to die to Christ, and then to live becomes Christ. The Apostle Paul put it this way in his letter to Timothy: "Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him." Our focus as we contemplate the re- alities of Christ is to grab and hold on- to His presence. As Paul wrote to the church at Philippi: "Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, what- ever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is any- thing praiseworthy—meditate on these things. Think about it! males make up 75 percent of workers in health care-re- lated fields but only 14 per- cent of engineering workers and 25 percent of computer workers. Nearly 82 percent of obstetrics and gynecolo- gy medical residents in 2016 were women. Mac Donald asks sarcastically, "Is gyne- cology biased against males, or are females selecting where they want to work? " "The Diversity Delusion" documents academic prac- tices that fall just shy of lu- nacy at many universities. Nowhere are these practic- es more unintelligent and harmful to their ostensible beneficiaries than in univer- sity efforts to promote racial diversity. UC Berkeley and UCL A are the most competi- tive campuses in the Univer- sity of California system. Be- fore Proposition 209's ban on racial discrimination, the median SAT score of blacks and Hispanics at Berkeley was 250 points below that of whites and Asians. This difference was hard to miss in class. Renowned Berke- ley philosophy professor John Searle, who sees affir- mative action as a disaster, said, "They admitted people who could barely read." Dr. Thomas Sowell and others have discussed this prob- lem of mismatching stu- dents. Black and Hispanic students who might do well in a less competitive setting are recruited to highly com- petitive universities and be- come failures. Black parents have no obligation to make academic liberals fe! el good about themselves by allowing them to turn their children into failures. Many readers know that I am a professor of economics at George Mason University. A few readers have asked me about "Black Freshmen Ori- entation," held Aug. 25 and advertised as an opportuni- ty for students to learn more about the black community at George Mason Universi- ty. GMU is not alone in pro- moting separation in the name of diversity and inclu- sion. Harvard, Yale, UCL A and many other universities, including GMU, have black graduation ceremonies. Ra- cial segregation goes be- yond graduation ceremo- nies. Cal State Los Ange- les, the University of Con- necticut, UC Davis and UC Berkeley, among others, of- fer racially segregated hous- ing for black students. University administra- tors and faculty members who cave to the demands for racially segregated ac- tivities have lost their mor- al mooring, not to mention common sense. I'm sure that if white students demanded a whites-only dormitory or whites-only graduation cere- monies, the university com- munity would be outraged. Some weak-minded admin- istrators might make the ar- gument that having black- only activities and facilities is welcoming and might make black students feel more comfortable. I'm won- dering whether they would also support calls by either white or black students for separate (themed) bath- rooms and water fountains. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Continued from page 11 CORRUPT the impeachment vote." On the eve of the Senate impeachment trial, the Wash- ington Post carried this shot across the bow from Moldea, authorized by Flynt: "Some Republicans should be send- ing us flowers and thank-you cards. They weren't going on T V talk shows and shooting their mouths off, or going to the floor of Congress to seize the moral high ground. We've thrown them back in the riv- er. We're not going to interfere with their lives." Flynt Nation had arrived. Flynt was good to his word. Republicans and conservative Democrats who laid low and offered no resistance to Clin- ton were spared their own em- barrassing sex headlines. The landscape is littered with the bones of the defiant: Rep. Helen Chenowith- Hage of Idaho called for the president's resignation, then was confronted in 1998 with her own six-year affair with a married rancher, 14 years earlier when she was a single woman. Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana called for the president's res- ignation. In 1998, Vanity Fair magazine published details of his 1983 adulterous relation- ship in which he fathered a child. Pro-life hero Henry Hyde (R-Illinois) led the anti-Clin- ton forces in Congress. In 1998, Salon exposed Hyde's extramarital affair with a mar- ried woman from 1965 to 1969, before he won federal office. Sen. Pete Domenici vot- ed to remove President Clin- ton from office. Eventually he was confronted about father- ing a son out of wedlock by the daughter of Reagan con- fidante Paul Laxalt. Flynt's weaponized scan- dals had the virtue of be- ing true. He inspired numer- ous imitators in the media, and in political organizations that systematized the verifi- cation of gossip ("opposition research"), collected in dos- siers. The political organi- zations developed discipline in the use of their dossiers. They learned to keep their powder dry, and leak or open- ly announce negative materi- al timed for maximum impact. Negative campaigning came into its heyday. I have no civic or moral objection to op- position research. I've always thought that the complaints about negative campaigning are misguided. If a candidate has done bad things, made dumb decisions or expressed troubling opinions, I think I'm entitled to take them into con- sideration when I vote. I don't appreciate candidates enter- ing a gentlemen's agreement to avoid bringing them to the voters' attention. Admittedly, people—in- cluding candidates—can grow. They can disown earli- er views, learn from dumb de- cisions and express regret for unfortunate actions. And neg- ative campaigning can be dis- honest, trivial or unfair. I still care whether it's true. The means AND the end of every political declaration, and of every work of journal- ism, ought to be truth. The truth can be ugly, especial- ly when it's used as a means by somebody like Dan Mold- ea but the end, the purpose, is the suppression of truth. It can be messy. But the highest po- tential of politics and journal- ism alike is to restore truth to its rightful summit. There will always be a temptation to confuse truth with consensus. This is at the root of "decibel democracy," in which we see mobs of vacu- ous people crowded in front of cameras, intoxicated by their comrades' agreement, shout- ing imbecilic chants about whom they believe and don't believe, before they've even heard their testimony. And it's difficult not to su- perimpose subjective feelings and symbolism on a straight- forward question of objective fact. "This process is sending the worst possible message to girls — and boys — ev- erywhere," Sen. Kirsten Gil- librand said of the courteous and reasonable cross-exami- nation of Brett Kavanaugh's accuser. "It's telling American women that your voice doesn't matter. It's telling survivors everywhere that your experi- ences don't count, they're not important and they are not to be believed." Sen. Gillibrand, despite a UCL A legal education, is re- pudiating several historic, bedrock American rights: the right to the presumption of innocence, the right to con- front the evidence against us, the right to due process. But more fundamentally, she is re- nouncing the task of objective fact-finding. This is a call to to- talitarianism. "The really frightening thing about totalitarianism," wrote George Orwell, "is not that it commits 'atrocities,' but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future." Continued from page 11 TOGETHER en Dwarfs. Good luck remembering their names, but if you just make sev- en other people wear a potato sack and sock hat, you can copy "the fairest in all the land's" style and look GREAT compared to all your friends. Finally, if you somehow have NINE people who want to trick or treat to- gether, there's the residents of the Hundred-Acre Woods, with easy-to- replicate costumes. I mean for good- ness sake, Pooh just wears a red shirt every day. Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo and Gopher makes nine, and if one of your cadre invites someone without telling you, make the tenth be Christopher Robin. Hopefully you all have enough close friends to try one of these group cos- tumes for All Saint's Eve this year, and have a great week!