The Press-Dispatch
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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, Januar y 1, 2020 B- 5 which will culminate with the Second Coming of Je- sus. Does president Trump have a "mandate from heav- en? " America and western ideology is not predicat- ed upon this philosophy. Nonetheless, he [Trump] was elected, and there is a provision to remove a president. Christianity To- day would have been better served if it had allowed the process to play itself out. Support and vote for whom you will; that is your choice. However, I would suggest you refrain from calling into question the supporters for a politician whom you do not support I suspect Christianity Today will lose many sub- scribers just as The Week- ly Standard did as it chart- ed a "never Trump" edito- rial board. Galli along with Christi- anity Today troubled their own house by editorializ- ing, "Christians must sup- port Trump's removal;" the proverb writer summariz- es their predicament, "He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind." Think about it and have a blessed New Year. Continued from page 4 TODAY? Court Report FELONY Pike County Circuit Court Kyle J. Johnson charged with count I dealing in a schedule I controlled sub- stance, a level 2 felony, count II main- taining a common nuisance, a level 6 felony, count III possession of marijua- na, and count IV possession of a con- trolled substance. Andria McAdams charged with count I unlawful possession or use of a legend drug, a level 6 felony, and count II possession of marijuana. Christina Stevens charged with pos- session of cocaine, a level 6 felony. Audrey Mattingly charged with do- mestic battery committed in the pres- ence of a child less than 16 years old, a level 6 felony. Thomas C. McAdams charged with count I unlawful possession or use of a legend drug, a level 6 felony, and count II possession of marijuana. Jason D. Schisel charged with do- mestic battery committed in the pres- ence of a child less than 16 years old, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike County Circuit Court David J. Dunn charged with viola- tion of rule adopted by director. Brianna S. Schaller charged with il- legal possession of an alcoholic bev- erage. Michael Seals charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II disorderly conduct. Christina Jean Ashby charged with false informing. Todd A. Flinn charged with posses- sion of marijuana. Jacquel Denard Johnson charged with possession of a controlled sub- stance. CIVIL Pike County Circuit Court Capital One Bank (USA), NA sues Aimee Guy on complaint. Midland Credit Management, Inc. sues James C. Cannon on complaint. Capital One Bank (USA), NA sues Mark McCandless on complaint. Ruth Welp sues Frederick John Welp for dissolution of marriage. INFRACTIONS Pike County Circuit Court Tyler J. Fehribach charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Cordale A. Kenley charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Chad A. Warden charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Connor J. Bartek charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Erin N. Eblin charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Emma C. Mundy charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Christopher M. Majors charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Whitley M. Burgan charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Colton R. Corlett charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Joshua P. Travis charged with speed- ing, exceeding 55 mph. Dillon R. Eagan charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Aaron J. Rogers charged with speed- ing, exceeding 55 mph. Don L. Tracy charged with speed- ing. Daniel P. Chillemi charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Michael L. Weathers charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Marissa A. Schmitt charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Olivia L. Harris charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Nyoka L. Armour charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Andrew K. Aiman charged with op- erating with expired plates. Jacob E. Wade charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Keith D. Miller charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. William T. Shook charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Jennifer A. Young charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. James A. Travis charged with seat- belt violation. Breanna M. Engle charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Chet E. Roberts charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. William C. Jackson charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Jacob A. Leighty charged with seat- belt violation. John J. Driscoll, Jr. charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Yun Liu charged with speeding, ex- ceeding 70 mph. Ty H. Cassitty charged with driving while suspended. Kevin Heller charged with count I driving while suspended and count II operating with expired plates. Madeline E. Dodson charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Michelle R. Hammett charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Cavan X. Tharp charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Natasha D. Day charged with no val- id driver's license. Vonteria M. Watts charged with fail- ure to signal for turn or lane change. Jeremy A. Lough charged with speeding, exceeding 30 mph. Jeffrey D. Knepp charged with seat- belt violation. Isaiah A. Travis charged with count I seatbelt violation and count II learn- er's permit violation. Kayla N. Gellinger charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Brandon D. Font charged with driv- ing while suspended. Amanda D. Walls charged with no valid driver's license. Samuel H. Borden charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. David T. Barnes charged with oper- ating a motor vehicle with a fictitious plate. Torez W. Baham charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Alexi N. Pape charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Krystal S. Butts charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Alisha Wolfe charged with driving while suspended. Nathaniel J. Horn charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Joshua D. McCandless charged with operating a motor vehicle with a false plate. Katherine V. Austin charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Lucas E. Vazquez charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Conrad M. Hart charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. April D. Burks charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Nguyen P T Nguyen charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Ethan L. Robison charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Brett C. Gastineau charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Zachary R. Garver charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Adrienne H. Hirsch charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Prentiss H. Boyd charged with count I speeding and count II driving while suspended. Andre D. Hendricks charged with driving while suspended. Quinn K. Hardin charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Lane J. Miller charged with disre- garding lighted signal. David L. Fuqua charged with speed- ing, exceeding 55 mph. Johny J. Cabrera Mejia charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Kristen N. Jenkins charged with speeding, exceeding 30 mph. Shameca N. Cantrell charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Trump, has written how important the president's rejection of the Obama- Iran agreement has been. — To us, enabling millions of black Americans to find work — resulting in the lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded — is a moral issue. — To us, more Americans than ever being employed and almost 4 million Americans freed from reliance on food stamps is a moral issue. — To us, appointing more conserva- tive judges than any president in his- tory — over the same period of time — is a moral issue. That whether the courts, including the Supreme Court, are dominated by the left or by conser- vatives is dismissed by Galli as "politi- cal poker" makes one question not on- ly Galli's moral thinking but also his moral theology. — To us, moving the American em- bassy to Israel's capital city, Jerusalem — something promised by almost ev- ery presidential candidate — is a moral issue, not to mention profoundly coura- geous. And courage is a moral virtue. — To us, increasing the U.S. mili- tary budget — after the severe cuts of the previous eight years — is a mor- al issue. As conservatives see it, the American military is the world's great- est guarantor of world peace. Yet, none of these things matter to Galli and other misguided Christians and conservatives. What matters more to them is Trump's occasional crude language and intemperate tweets, what he said about women in a private conversation and his having commit- ted adultery. Regarding adultery, that sin is for spouses and God to judge. There is no connection between marital sexu- al fidelity and moral leadership. I wish there were. And as regards the "Access Hollywood" tape, every religious per- son, indeed every thinking person, should understand that there is no connection between what people say privately and their ability to be a mor- al leader. That's why I wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal 20 years ago defending Hillary Clinton when she was charged with having private- ly expressed anti-Semitic sentiments. That the editor of Christianity Today thinks the president's personal flaws, whatever they might be, are more im- portant than all the good he has done for conservatives, for Christians, for Jews, for blacks and for America tells us a lot ... about Galli and the decline of Christian moral thought. Dennis Prager is a nationally syndi- cated radio talk-show host and colum- nist. His latest book, published by Reg- nery in May 2019, is "The Rational Bi- ble," a commentary on the book of Gen- esis. His film, "No Safe Spaces," comes to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com. Continued from page 4 RESPONSE compare notes because we seem to run parallel to items like: helping out our kids take care of the grand- kids, going to or helping others for doctor appoint- ments, doing volunteer work, attending school pro- grams for our grandkids and the list goes on and on. Well, there was a time immediately after retiring that I just read the paper, watched T V and ate and took naps. I soon found out that was absolutely boring. So I changed di- rections and now find it is important to socialize, do volunteer work, be active in church, check out nice eating places ( especially this one), do some travel, watch and read informative and entertaining materials, and have quiet times for re- flection. • • • So it's now time to be re- minded of the same favor- ite activity we do year after year. It's called New Year's Resolutions. Here are some: I promise to eat healthy and not overeat, to exer- cise, to be charitable, to be kinder, to be more forgiv- ing, to be more considerate, to be happy, be helpful, be more tolerant, and be hon- est. This last one I need to apply to my promises. Yeah, I promise. If I fail, my guardian angel will gen- tly whisper and remind me to keep true to my resolu- tions. Wisdom of the week: "We do not have to do ex- traordinary things, but do ordinary things with ex- traordinary love."- From Mother Teresa of Calcutta Humor of the week: Cell phones have proven people would rather look at them than look at each other or talk. Now, why are you laughing? Have a blessed New Year! Continued from page 4 HIGHLIGHT thoritative, void, and of no force." Too many Americans view the Second Amend- ment as granting Ameri- cans the right to own fire- arms to go hunting and for self-protection. But the framers of our Constitution had no such intent in mind. James Madison, in Feder- alist Paper No. 46 wrote that the Constitution pre- serves "the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." Thomas Jefferson wrote: "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their peo- ple preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." Similar quotations about our founders' de- sire for Americans to be armed against the possi- ble abuses of government can be found at https:// walterewilliams.com/quo- tations/arms/. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Continued from page 4 ATTACK correct. Once again, a compari- son to 2000 is instructive. Revenue per household, adjusted for inflation, was $26,750 in 2000. Today, it's roughly $27,000, even after the 2017 tax cut. If federal spending had grown based only on pop- ulation and inflation start- ing in 2000, today's trillion- dollar deficit would turn in- to a surplus. Policymakers should recognize that the feder- al government has grown far too quickly. Since there is no way to undo the past, they should take some pru- dent steps to return the country to sound financial footing. First, Congress should trim excessive spending that has accumulated over the years. The Heritage Foundation's Blueprint for Balance offers hundreds of policy ideas to save money by eliminating waste, mak- ing Social Security and Medicare sustainable, and slashing perks for political- ly connected industries. Second, Congress should enact meaningful guardrails that rein in fu- ture spending growth. One model for reform comes from Switzerland, where the budget balances over the course of a business cycle. Closer to home, the "tax- payer bill of rights" ap- proved by Colorado voters in 1992 limits spending based on a combination of revenue, inflation, and pop- ulation growth. Such rules would create headaches for Washing- ton by forcing big-spend- ing members of Congress to make tough decisions, rather than all of them getting what they want by abusing the national cred- it card. Yet this would merely force legislators to behave the way most families do every day; namely, pay for necessities first, and only add extras if there's cash to spare. Congress is ending the decade on a note of fiscal irresponsibility, but next year lawmakers have a fresh chance to do right by Amer- ica. David Ditch is a budget and transportation associ- ate in the Grover M. Her- mann Center for the Feder- al Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Continued from page 4 SPENDING Help Wanted Applicant must be experienced in industry electri - cal maintenance. Must know 440 volt control cir - cuitry. 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