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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, Januar y 16, 2019 C- 9 Continued from page 8 GLIMMER Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court William S. Flener charged with count I intimidation, a level 6 felony, count II resisting law enforcement, count III criminal mischief, count IV public intoxication and count V disor- derly conduct. Jack Douglas Riddle charged with count I theft, a level 6 felony, and count II home improvement fraud. Michael R. Barnard charged with count I dealing in methamphetamine, a level 2 felony, count II possession of methamphetamine and count III false informing. Kyle D. Fleetwood charged with count I possession of methamphet- amine, a level 6 felony, count II main- taining a common nuisance - con- trolled substances and count III pos- session of a controlled substance. Jaslin Lowery charged with count I neglect of a dependent, a level 6 felony, and count II false informing. Shawn A. Heacock charged with count I neglect of a dependent, a level 6 felony, and count II false informing. Victoria L. Tolley charged with count I domestic battery by a means of a deadly weapon, a level 5 felony, and count II interference with the re- porting of a crime. Jeremy M. Petty charged with count I dealing in methamphetamine, a level 2 felony, count II possession of meth- amphetamine and count III maintain- ing a common nuisance - controlled substances. Dennis J. Mitchell charged with child solicitation, a level 5 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court J.H. Manion charged with driving while suspended. Justin Scott Williams charged with count I possession of marijuana, count II possession of paraphernalia and count III illegal possession of an al- coholic beverage. Samuel James Stark charged with count I possession of marijuana, count II possession of paraphernalia and count III illegal possession of an al- coholic beverage. CIVIL Pike Circuit Court LVNV Funding LLC sues Michael Feutz on complaint. LVNV Funding LLC sues Cody Rus- sell on complaint. Old National Bank sues William O. Lewis on complaint. Tonya Jo Frederick sues Shawn Dean Frederick for dissolution of mar- riage. Crystal Lynn Horton sues John Al- exander Logan Horton, IV for disso- lution of marriage. Rhonda Coomer sues Jason Coom- er for dissolution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Mike Martinez sues Jack Riddle (Riddle's Construction) on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Bri- an K. Benefiel on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Jus- tin E. Atkins on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Nichole M. Wininger on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Christopher W. Marcum on com- plaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Jef- frey L. Vinnedge on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Sa- mantha R. Mitchell on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Nathan Ball charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Tisha Bowden charged with driving while suspended. Amanda Boyd charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Adam Chitwood charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. David Creech charged with speed- ing, 91 mph in a 70 zone. Devon Crouch charged with speed- ing, 81 mph in a 70 zone. Cody Dearborn charged with driv- ing while suspended. Raul Diazgonzalez charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Jed Evans charged with speeding, 75 mph in a 55 zone. Reich Gapasin charged with speed- ing, 91 mph in a 70 zone. Maniriho Gatoto charged with count I speeding, 86 mph in a 70 zone, and count II driving while suspended. Kelsey Gelhhausen charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Joshua Hunt charged with speed- ing, 73 mph in a 55 zone. Everett Montgomery charged with speeding, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Wayne Nelson charged with failure to signal for turn or lane change. Taylor Pazera charged with speed- ing, 95 mph in a 70 zone. Nicholas Reinhart charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Allesha Sisk charged with speed- ing, 65 mph in a 55 zone. Phu Ngoc Tran charged with disre- garding stop sign. Eddie Wilkinson charged with speeding, 68 mph in a 55 zone. Emily Cherry charged with speed- ing, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Travis Grubb charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Railford Guins charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Brielle Harden charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Lindsey Hazel charged with speed- ing, 72 mph in a 55 zone. Dana McDonald charged with count I speeding, 65 mph in a 55 zone, count II stopping or suddenly decreas- ing speed, count III failure to signal for turn or lane change, count IV fail- ure to yield right-of-way to emergency vehicle and count V improper passing. Alex Milam charged with stopping, standing or parking where prohibited. Wyatt Newman charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Tori Ogden charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Miguel Ortiz charged with count I operating with expired plates and count II driving while suspended. Cherish Shoultz charged with speeding, 95 mph in a 70 zone. Jackob Smith charged with speed- ing, 86 mph in a 70 zone. Kelli Steiner charged with speed- ing, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Brianna Vinson charged with speeding, 59 mph in a 45 zone. Emily Wardlow charged with speed- ing, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Stephanie Western charged with speeding, 59 mph in a 45 zone. Continued from page 8 BREXIT Continued from page 8 ANTITRUST Mr. Lal goes on to give other examples, but you get the idea. Britain doesn't have to kowtow to demands from Brussels. It can and should negotiate for the best deal possible. Another substantial ben- efit of doing so is that it can help facilitate a highly antici- pated bilateral trade deal be- tween the United States and Britain. Woody Johnson, U.S. ambassador to Britain and a staunch Brexit sup- porter, has been highly crit- ical of the May agreement, which President Trump calls "a great deal for the EU." It's time for Mrs. May and other politicians in London to ignore the fear-monger- ing coming from Brexit's most implacable foes. "The architects of Project Fear would have us believe that a hard Brexit would leave Britain isolated, doomed to a lonely decline," Nile Gar- diner, a former aide to Mar- garet Thatcher, writes in the Daily Telegraph. The reality will be a pros- perous nation — one that can negotiate trade deals with anyone it pleases with- out getting permission from its EU overlords. "A sovereign Britain that can trade freely across the world, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the U.S., can only be delivered by a clean break with Brussels in March," Mr. Gardiner adds. That can't happen if they're willing to give away the store. It's time to adopt Mr. Lal's tit-for-tat strate- gy — and pursue a no-deal Brexit. Ed Feulner is founder of The Heritage Foundation. In 325 AD, Emperor Con- stantine called an Ecumen- ical Council at Nicene to hammer out a Creed for the church that would combat "heretical" teachings, which it did. However, with the sec- ular emperor Constantine controlling the Council, a precedent was set of the po- litical or the state being the protectorate of the Church. This would have dire conse- quences over the centuries for the Orthodox Church. However, the Church at Rome did not fall under the tutelage of the Emperor who resided at Constantinople. Instead, the Roman church would become an institu- tion that would wield politi- cal and ecclesiastical (spiri- tual) power in the west (Eu- rope.) 1054 AD saw a schism oc- cur between the Church at Rome and at Constantinople over a number of reasons: distance, supremacy of the bishop of Rome, language (Rome was Latin, Constan- tinople was Greek,) culture, and administrative differ- ences. The rupture created a western church (Catholic) and an eastern church (Or- thodox) and the two have never officially reconciled. The good is the Catholic and Protestant Churches through the centuries exer- cised influence on politics and the culture of Europe. The bad is the Orthodox Church is tied to the politi- cal structure of the nations that it ministers within in Eastern Europe. Therefore, the Orthodox Church tradi- tionally has not spoken out on political issues that con- flict with the practice of the faith, which has caused it to lag behind formulation posi- tions on political and cultur- al issues that need to be ad- dressed. With this in mind, one can see that the Church in the Ukraine splintering is due to the political unrest in the nation, not a spiritual crisis. As mentioned on Jan. 5, the Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed a "Tomos of Autocephaly," which established the Or- thodox Church of Ukraine. TASS writes of this de- velopment, "Since the Feb. 2014 coup, Kiev has sought to create an independent church in Ukraine that would sever ties with the canonical Ukrainian Ortho- dox Church. In April 2018, Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko wrote a person- al letter to Ecumenical Pa- triarch Bartholomew of Con- stantinople asking for auto- cephaly for the Ukrainian church." It is worth pointing out that it was President Poro- shenko who asked for the independent church, not the Orthodox Church itself. The "official" or "The ca- nonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church" refused to take part in the event, stressing that both the 'unification coun- cil' and Poroshenko's newly- founded ecclesiastical estab- lishment were illegitimate. Nevertheless, the Ukraini- an president announced the establishment of this new church in the country." This splinters the church from the Ukrainian Ortho- dox Church of the Mos- cow Patriarchate, with ma- ny priests within the larger Orthodox community con- sidering this as a schism with Patriarch Bartholomew stepping outside of his au- thority. The Church has as a whole has always been in tension and conflict with the political and secular arms of the nations. The Ukrainian schism is not religious, but political, and I suspect noth- ing positive or spiritual will come from tearing the man- tle of Christ for political gain. Finally, the other reminds us that politics and religion never go well together; for the spiritual is likened to oil, while the political is vin- egar, therefore they cannot coexist as equals because the foundations of each are diametrically opposites. The political (or the state) subjugating the church neu- ters its effectiveness of call- ing humanity to a higher lev- el of consciousness and life. With the political at loose without a spiritual throt- tle, carnality becomes the norm. Pray for the church! Think about it! books around the house and read- ing to preschoolers is vitally impor- tant. According to Mariah Evans, who headed a 20 -year worldwide study that found "the presence of books in the home" to be the top predictor of whether a child will attain a high lev- el of education, "one of the things that is most striking ... about it is that the book's effect appears to be even larg- er and more important for children from very disadvantaged homes." By the way, one doesn't have to be rich to have books around the house. Plus, there are libraries. One vital measure for communi- ty involvement in black education is that of preventing youngsters who are alien and hostile to the educa- tional process from making educa- tion impossible for everybody else. That can be accomplished by ignor- ing politicians and the liberal vision that restricts schools from removing students who pose severe disciplin- ary problems. The problem goes be- yond simple misbehavior. An article in Education Week last year, titled "When Students Assault Teachers, Effects Can Be Lasting," reported: "In the 2015 -16 school year, 5.8 per- cent of the nation's 3.8 million teach- ers were physically attacked by a stu- dent. Almost 10 percent were threat- ened with injury, according to federal education data" (http://tinyurl.com/ y7ndtyom). Given the huge educational achieve- ment gap between blacks and whites, one might ask whether black peo- ple can afford to allow students who have little interest in being educat- ed to make education impossible for others. Students who assault teachers ought to be summarily removed from the school. One might ask, "Williams, what are we going to do with those ex- pelled students? " I do not know, but I do know one thing for sure: Black peo- ple cannot afford to allow them to re- main in school and sabotage the ed- ucational chances of everyone else. The educational achievement gap between blacks and whites is hid- den from black students and their families. All too often, a black stu- dent with a high school diploma can- not read, write or compute at a sixth- or seventh-grade level. This tends to make high school diplomas held by blacks less valuable in the eyes of em- ployers. As such, it sparks racial divi- sion where it otherwise would not ex- ist. There have been complaints that police and fire departments and oth- er civil service jobs don't have ma- ny black employees. The problem is that to get hired in the first place — and get promoted if hired — one needs to pass a civil service exam. If one's high school diploma is fraudu- lent — meaning he has not mastered the 12th-grade levels of all subjects — he is seriously handicapped. I say hats off to the vision being pro- moted by the NA ACP's Maria Scrug- gs. She and her supporters have their work cut out for them, but it's doable. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Continued from page 8 THE GOOD Continued from page 8 FACEBOOK So what is that line and where do we find it? I don't have a very good answer but history has proven that societies, cultures, governments and peoples who have lost obedience to the moral compass provided by nature and ba- sic decency have imploded and dis- appeared. Empires, dynasties, cultures and societies have come and gone. I am trying to figure out which system or organization has lasted in a rather sta- ble and lengthy existence for a cou- ple of millennia. I'm also curious who had founded such and what common thread it has. I would be so curious to know. I challenge you to think and be the judge. I happen to be fascinated by history and religion and have formed some personal opinions. So… think. • • • Here's what caught my attention: an item sent by a classmate from col- lege years of many moons ago. It goes this way: " When tired, pause. When discouraged, pause. When confused, pause. When overwhelmed, pause. When hurt, pause. And when you pause, pray." • • • A friendly reminder: nowadays since it gets dark during the early part of the day, make sure your headlights or driving lights are on. I find there are still many vehicles that don't have daytime driving lights or who forget to turn on headlights in the evening. There was a study conducted in Canada about the incidence of wrecks dropping significantly once they made a law that all vehicles should have day- time driving lights. As well, I think there ought to be a law that prohibits those new lights that practically blind you because they are like laser lights. Don't forget as well that once we get the white stuff, drive more carefully and slowly and make allowances for safe stopping. • • • Humor of the week: There was this guy who went to his barber. He said he wanted to have something done to his hair. The barber was a bit confused about what to do because the guy had only seven strands of hair. So the bar- ber politely asked: " Sir, what would you like me to do today? " The guy an- swered, " Color my hair". Moral of the story: Never give up even if the num- bers are few. Have a great week. Continued from page 8 FAKE NEWS The proposed rules from the Ag- riculture Department would tighten down on the latitude states have in providing waivers for existing work requirements for receiving food stamps. Is this aimed at clamping down on the less fortunate and the needy? Certainly not, and I explicitly said so in the "Fox and Friends" interview. Twice I said the "crisis is not the poor." It's about "able-bodied, non-working, mostly males." The Agriculture Department rule explicitly states that the target is "able-bodied adults without depen- dents between 18 and 49" and does not apply to the "elderly, disabled or pregnant women." Estimates are that the total num- ber that will be affected is 775,000. We're talking about two percent of the 40 million people currently receiving food stamp benefits. With the aver- age annual expenditure per person at $1,500, moving these able-bodied individuals into the work force would save $1.2 billion in food stamp expen- ditures per year and add 775,000 pro- ductive citizens to the work force. According to The Wall Street Jour- nal, "Some seven to nine million food- stamp recipients capable of work re- port no income." American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt has writ- ten about our national crisis of prime working age, 25 to 55, non-working men. The labor force participation rate, or LFPR, reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics consists of those working or actively seeking work as a percentage of the population. In 1965, as Eberstadt reports, the LFPR of prime-age working males was 96.7 percent. Today, it is 89 per- cent. So almost eight percent fewer men aged 25 to 55 are working or ac- tively seeking work today compared with 1965. Eberstadt calls this "an ever-grow- ing army of jobless men no longer even looking for work — over 7 mil- lion between 25 and 55, the prime of working life." He notes that one defining charac- teristic of these millions of men who have dropped out of the workforce is an absence of family. They are either not married or if they have children, they don't live with them. What are these work dropouts do- ing? They spend 800 more hours per year watching T V and movies than employed men, 1,200 more hours than working men and 1,400 more hours than working women. Thirty-one percent admit to illegal drug use, compared with eight per- cent of working men. We have a huge problem that car- ries a great moral and economic cost to the nation. But all this doesn't interest the left- wing media. They'd rather just broad- cast that I said the poor are "watch- ing porn." Star Parker is an author and presi- dent of CURE, Center for Urban Renew- al and Education. Contact her at www. urbancure.org. dirty work. U.S. conserva- tives are already under siege from capricious, sometimes petulant acts of censorship by snowflakes embedded in the social media workforce. Philanthropist and evan- gelist Franklin Graham, re- ports that Facebook recent- ly banned him for a post two years ago in favor of a bill pending in his state's legis- lature to prohibit men from using women's restrooms. Facebook's only explanation was that Graham's comment violates "community stan- dards on hate speech." One wonders what com- munity they're referring to. Youtube, a subsidiary of Google, has restricted ac- cess and monetization of more than 80 of Jewish con- servative Dennis Prager's topical videos. Prager's vid- eos are not hateful or sala- cious, just stubbornly con- servative. Is it time to enforce anti- trust laws against Facebook and Google? I don't have a firm opinion about that. But if their arrogant attacks on freedom of speech pro- voke a groundswell of sup- port for monopoly-busting, they'll have only themselves to blame.