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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, June 26, 2019 B- 5 Court Report FELONY Pike County Circuit Court David Wilson Reed charged with count I dealing in methamphetamine, a level 2 felony, and count II posses- sion of methamphetamine, a level 4 felony. Amanda Elizabeth Thompson charged with count I possession of methamphetamine, a level 6 felony. Steven Houseworth charged with count I unlawful possession of sy- ringe, a level 6 felony, and count II possession of marijuana. Kevin R. Woods charged count I au- to theft, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike County Circuit Court Cameron Brage Hall charged with public intoxication, endangerment. Torey A. Houchin charged with public intoxication, endangerment. Robert Wayne Gunn charged with cruelty to an animal. Kiersten R. Gish charged with pos- session of marijuana. Dalton L. Moore charged with pos- session of marijuana. David A. Speakman charged with possession of marijuana. Allison Wininger charged with pos- session of marijuana. Thomas Lindauer charged with driving while suspended. CIVIL Pike County Circuit Court Personal Finance Company sues Josh Anderson on complaint. Midland Funding, LLC sues Bryan Grubb on complaint. The Brooke Jewelry Shoppes, LLC sues Jeremy Henderson on complaint. Midland Funding, LLC sues Jesse- ka Tolbert on complaint. Caroline Perry sues Francis Perry for dissolution of marriage. Amy Marie Hyneman sues Joshua Lee Hyneman for dissolution of mar- riage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike County Circuit Court Gilmour Consulting, LLC, DBA Gilmour Homes sues Kevin R. Woods and Keri A. Woods on complaint. Gilmour Consulting, LLC, DBA Gilmour Homes sues Bernard E. Church on complaint. Gilmour Consulting, LLC, DBA Gilmour Homes sues Shelly K. Church on complaint. Medical & Professional Collection Services, Inc. sues Glenda R. White- Mills on complaint. Pike County School Corp. sues Krystle Moore on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike County Circuit Court Thomas A. Verkamp charged with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regula- tion Violation/IFB. Whitney A. Cook charged with seat- belt violation. Amy R. Waggner charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Colton M. DeJarnett charged with improper display of license plate. Kevin W. Lubbehusen charged with speeding, exceeding maximum 55 mph. Timothy P. Beam charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Eric W. Turner charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Jennifer N. Cotton charged with speeding, exceeding 30 mph. Kelsey R. Huffman charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Susanne A. Hansen charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. John E. Kretzmeier charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Christopher P. Skelton charged with failure to register. I use my three criteria: the Constitution, Christian- ity and Capitalism. On all three fronts, Don- ald Trump is making Amer- ica great again. The Supreme Court now has a solid conservative ma- jority with the addition of Trump nominees Neil Gor- such and Brett Kavanaugh. Overall, 107 Trump court nominees have been con- firmed, including 40 appeals court nominees. As a result of a more sol- idly conservative judicial front, President Trump has improved the environment friendly to the Christian val- ues that we need to restore our respect for life and fam- ily. Aggressive moves in the states to enact anti-abortion laws increase the chances of this vital issue being revisit- ed in the nation's now more conservative high court. Most recently, new Trump administration rules bring major new constraints on conducting research on fetal tissue using federal funds. And regarding the third "C," capitalism, Harvard economist Robert Barro es- timates that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act "add- ed 1.1% per year to United States' GDP growth rate for 2018 -19." This is a boost in growth almost a third over the average growth rate in the Obama years. Optimism among the na- tion's small businesses is surging, according to the most recent National Feder- ation of Independent Busi- ness Small Business Opti- mism Index. Record-low unemploy- ment among Hispanics and blacks could be paying polit- ical dividends for this pres- ident. A new Wall Street Jour- nal/NBC poll shows Pres- ident Trump's approval at 32 percent among Hispan- ics and 17 percent among blacks. Compared with 29 percent of Hispanics and 8 percent of blacks who voted for Trump in 2016, this could be a game changer favoring President Trump in 2020. President Trump's cour- age to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has changed the face of the Mid- dle East, and potentially the world, for the better. Now a historic U.S.-spon- sored meeting is sched- uled in Bahrain, where Sau- di Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, the United Ar- ab Emirates and Qatar will join with the U.S. to focus on capitalism and prosperi- ty as the keys to Middle East peace rather than the politi- cal dead ends of the past. None of these achieve- ments would be imaginable without Donald Trump's con- viction that American great- ness is unique and based in key principles rooted in my three Cs — the Constitution, Christianity and Capitalism. Even the market-opening trade demands toward Chi- na, which have elicited crit- icism in some circles, are driven by these principles. Success will make everyone, including China, better off. Donald Trump, the most unconventional president in American history, is de- livering, and the dividends are starting to flow. Americans will face a clear choice in 2020 between individual responsibility and freedom or, alternatively, collectivism and tyranny. I anticipate a Donald Trump landslide in 2020 not seen since Ronald Reagan. Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Cen- ter for Urban Renewal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure.org. Continued from page 4 TRUMP scouts on faculty? This ap- pears to be a matter of indif- ference to many of our elites. The only child seduction that stirs them to outrage is by priests. We basically have a cul- ture of appeasement now. We seem to think that if we capitulate, that will end the siege, and we'll no longer be under attack. But the Sexu- al Revolution is ultimately totalitarian. Predatory lib- ertines will not be appeased. Kirk and Madsen urged pederasts at the North America Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBL A) to drop out of Gay Pride pa- rades and keep a low profile while mainstream gays es- tablished incremental gains by desensitization, jamming and conversion. Parade organizers only excluded NAMBL A after exasperated lesbian partic- ipants laid down an us-or- them ultimatum. Gay rights founding father Harry Hay protested when the Los An- geles parade organizers ex- cluded the child molesters. He carried a sign that said "NAMBL A Walks With Me." Even Kirk and Madsen inti- mated in their book that the broader Gay movement might revisit issues of sex between men and boys af- ter establishing enough po- litical gains for mainstream gays. Even some gay sympathiz- ers recognize that, as cities and major corporations cel- ebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall homosexu- al riots this week, the stars have aligned for neo-peder- asts to have another go at le- galization. "The taboo against sex- ualized children may very well be challenged by adults who grew up desensitized to explicit sexuality," writes Rod Dreher in The Ameri- can Conservative. "If so, then all of us — even those who believe the "A fter the Ball" strategy was deployed in the service of a good and just cause — had better be ready for the propaganda campaign." Continued from page 4 DEPRAVITY is only subjective morality; how can this be termed evil? This brings us to the prob- lem with goodness. If evil exists, then goodness re- sides as its neighbor. Our Universities have taught generations of schol- ars that that culture shapes the individual; therefore, there are no intrinsic or ob- jective cultural values. Sociology points out there are many shared cultural traits among the many cul- tures of the world. How did this happen if there are no cultural absolutes among humans? All cultures experience love and show compassion for their friends and rela- tives; these actions have ob- jective reality because we can observe it by the actions themselves. Consider life without a concept of goodness; this is attempting the impossible. An evolutionary problem exists when one is granted or shown goodness, mer- cy, and/or grace by another when it is against one's own self-interest. All would agree that hu- manity resides in a universe that operates on fixed "laws" that humans have no influ- ence upon. When the sun rises, the monsoons com- mence, or the tectonic plates shift is out of the realm of human intervention. However, what we focus life upon since time began is beauty, virtue, love, hon- or, and the quest for truth. Each of these actions exists outside of the realm of the physical universe; in other words, they are intangible and they exist! The apostle Paul gave voice to things eternal where he wrote to the church at Philippi, "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any vir- tue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things." Each of us can say we have our own definition of beauty, but still we agree there is beauty, and this is objective reality. How can this be without God? Humanity has built mon- uments, dams, cathedrals, moved mountains, created cities, ventured into space, and created music, art and dance. There is not a human alive who can argue these actions have not contribut- ed to goodness and the ben- efit of mankind. The very fact that man- kind wrestles with the ex- istence of God gives testi- mony that objective morali- ty exists, and there must be a transcendent and objective moral law [and giver]. Think about goodness as you try to think there is no Creator; that will keep you up at night! Think about it! Continued from page 4 GOODNESS Continued from page 4 KOREA Continued from page 4 DECLINE Continued from page 4 ENTERPRISE speed, 3 D view of where we were, the constant chatter of communications which of course I did not understand. And finally, the hotel in the down- town area. It's a typical modern Best Western hotel but noticeably, space is a luxury in downtowns so it was okay by our US standards. Receptionists and concierge spoke English well. I requested ocean view, but they ig- nored me. Rather disappointing. LOL. • • • Lets jump to the next day. Hotel was clean, real nice and was a great oa- sis considering we were in a confined place called jumbo or jumbled jet, or something like that.. Breakfast the fol- lowing day was good—half of the res- taurant food was a typical American breakfast, half was Korean. I tried to take a few portions of each item just for the taste. Since we were on a 12-hour differ- ence in time zone, we were having breakfast 8 p.m. USA time. Surpris- ingly, I felt good after a good night rest, so food and flavor were fine. A f- ter the breakfast, we were picked up from the hotel lobby by our tour guide for a seven to eight hours of sightsee- ing. The tour guide was really nice, she was petite, spoke excellent Eng- lish, we understood everything she said. Except when she was talking to the driver. Hope they were not talk- ing about us. Since we were in the South Kore- an section of the country, we felt re- ally safe. One thing I noticed was the super abundance of cars, SUVs, vans, coaches , trucks all bearing the signs of Hyundai and Kia brand. I just saw maybe eight Chevys and one Ford product. So out of a thousand vehi- cles on the road, one percent was an import. Just mind boggling. As we drove around the city, here's what's surprising: lots of Starbucks, several Col Sander's KFC, several Mc Don- alds, one or two 7-11 stores. Hhhm- mm, our USA products indeed pen- etrate the global market. First stop and the next several stops were vis- its to Buddhist temples, a palace, then lunch was a Korean delicacy which I did not enjoy much, because it was spicy, like most Korean foods. The highlight of the tour was watch- ing the changing of the guards in one of the palaces. It was colorful, im- pressive and entertaining. I'm sure the guards were not the typical av- erage Korean male. They were taller and bulkier. All had mustaches and beards, I'm sure some of them were fakes. I mean the mustaches and beards. They wore outfits from eons ago. A fter the guard show, we had a chance to go to a local market. It was quite a sight, lots of goods, foods, and tour- ists. A fter a lengthy tour, we made one last round around the city, viewing the sights and sounds of the pulse of life of a city that is bursting with energy and prosperity. I remember reading Korea was one of the most electronically con- nected cities in the world, thanks to Samsung and it's powerful dynasty. People looked well, healthy, and happy. So much sharing for now, It's a real tiny scratch of the surface of this rising nation. Next journey- the Philippines. Zzzzzzzzzz. The time difference makes my head fuzzy. Jet lag hit me again. Happy Birthday USA!!! Wisdom of the week: Everywhere as I look around another place on the planet earth, people are the same. They work hard, they enjoy family, they love to eat, they have their own unique challenges in life. I wonder sometimes why we can't all get along in peace. Humor of the week: When a mar- ried man says I will think about it." He means he does not know his wife's opinion yet. Why are you chuckling? Have a great week. other plausible reason for the decline in academic achievement is that there has been a change in black culture. It doesn't take much to reach this con- clusion. Simply look at school behav- ior today versus yesteryear. An Education Week article report- ed that in the 2015 -16 school year, "5.8 % of the nation's 3.8 million teach- ers were physically attacked by a stu- dent." The Justice Department's Bu- reau of Justice Statistics and the De- partment of Education's National Cen- ter for Education Statistics show that in the 2011-12 academic year, there were a record 209,800 primary- and secondary-school teachers who re- ported being physically attacked by a student. Nationally, an average of 1,175 teachers and staff were physical- ly attacked, including being knocked out, each day of that school year. In the city of Baltimore, each school day in 2010, an average of four teach- ers and staff were assaulted. A Na- tional Center for Education Statistics study found that 18 % of the nation's schools accounted for 75% of the re- ported incidents of violence, and 6.6 % accounted for half of all reported in- cidents. These are schools with pre- dominantly black student populations. It's not only assaults on teachers but cursing and disorderly conduct that are the standard fare in so many pre- dominantly black schools. Here are questions that might be asked of de Blasio and others who want to "fix the diversity problem" at New York's specialized schools: What has the triumph of egalitarian and di- versity principles done for the rest of New York's school system? Are their academic achievement scores bet- ter than students at New York's spe- cialized schools? The most impor- tant question for black parents: What has been allowed to happen to cripple black academic excellence? Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Letter to the Editor Not very patriotic To the Editor: When America accepted homo- sexuality as just another lifestyle, we opened Pandora's box and the slide down the slippery slope into the abyss. Next came same-sex marriage and promotion of homosexuals in all the sitcoms and commercials. This has now been followed by accepting "transsexuals" as normal and allow- ing "gender-neutral" choices on driv- ers licenses. Add this to it being le- gal and acceptable to kill our young in the womb and even after birth, and we have truly become the new Sodom. Where is the outrage from the peo- ple? Where is the outrage from the church? Wake up, America! Take a good, honest look at what we have become and where we are heading. Truly, the Bible said this would happen in the last days before Christ's return. We Christians need to speak out with a loud voice and a loud vote. We can't change God's timeline, as to when the Rapture will occur, but we Christians can't and shouldn't stay quiet until it does. Time is growing very short. Verdayne Miley Petersburg es nano-sensors to detect those parts when analyzing the sample. This is not only simpler and less painful (no need for a more invasive medical pro- cedure), but improves survival rates. "If you detect [the cancer] earlier, you can completely change the ability to cure it," Mr. Arsene said. Of course, Pitch@Palace gives a platform to a wide range of compa- nies, including those working in data management, cybersecurity, robotics, and educational tools. Simply bring- ing them together with prospective investors helps forge important con- nections. "We have met people tonight whose work has been so instrumental in the development of our business ideas, but who we have never actually been able to access to have a one-on-one conversation with," said Irra Ariella Khi, CEO of VChain Technology, a 2018 Pitch@Palace winner. Prince Andrew said something else at that dinner in Seoul — something that really stuck with me. He said, es- sentially, that we're all born with an equal amount of potential, intelligence and ability. The only real question is what we do with it. Are we doing our best to make a positive difference? In the case of Prince Andrew, I'd say the answer is an emphatic yes. Few of us have the resources of a member of royalty. But we can all take our God-given abilities and do something to make the world a bet- ter place. Let's hope we try and fol- low the prince's example. Ed Feulner is founder of The Heri- tage Foundation (heritage.org).