The Press-Dispatch
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B-6 Opinion Wednesday, Februar y 26, 2020 The Press-Dispatch Covetousness Saturday, March 21– Feast on Benevolence Monday, March 23–Fast from Inaction Tuesday, March 24– Feast on Diligence Wednesday, March 25 – Fast from Limitations Thursday, March 26 – Feast on Liberty Friday, March 27–Fast from Rigidness Saturday, March 28 – Feast on Resilience Monday, March 30 –Fast from Stress Tuesday, March 31– Feast on Serenity Wednesday, April 1–Fast from Chaos Thursday, April 2–Feast on Peace Friday, April 3–Fast from Confusion Saturday, April 4–Feast on Direction Monday, April 6 –Fast from Resistance Tuesday, April 7–Feast on Obedience Wednesday, April 8 –Fast from Lethargy Thursday, April 9 –Feast on Vigor Friday, April 10 – Fast from Defeat Saturday, April 11–Feast on Victory Blessings and Peace from Christ Jesus as you journey through Lent. Continued from page 5 FASTING Court Report FELONY Pike County Circuit Court John J. Bickerest charged with two counts of burglary, a level 5 felony. Wade Lee Hurdle charged with count I operating a vehicle while intox- icated, prior, a level 6 felony, and count II operating a vehicle with an ACE of at least .08 but less than .15. Shannon R. Stone charged with count I possession of methamphet- amine, a level 6 felony, and count II operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Laura Ann Smith AK A Laura Ann Vest charged with two counts of theft, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike County Circuit Court Kenasia Marales Williams charged with possession of marijuana. Jace M. Taylor charged with know- ingly or intentionally operating a mo- tor vehicle without ever receiving a li- cense. Adrienne Gehlhausen charged with driving while suspended, prior. Brandy Boudakian charged with possession of marijuana. Alyssa Benefiel charged with crim- inal mischief. Morgan R.S. Shaffer charged with reckless driving. April S. Carrico charged with theft. CIVIL Pike County Circuit Court Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC sues Machelle Carnahan on complaint. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC sues Mark East on complaint. First Guaranty Mortgage Corpora- tion sues Tracy L. Richards and any un- known occupants on complaint. SMALL CLAIMS Pike County Circuit Court Phillip R. Sisk sues Robin McDow- ell and Doug McDowell on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike County Circuit Court Derek J. Schwindel charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Justin M. Morris charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Devin L. Phillips charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Michael J. Scraper charged with speeding. Damien E. Fox charged with seat- belt violation. Bryan J. Gabriel charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Chad P. Hobgood charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Mark A. Jones charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Makayla R. Swafford charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Samantha Alexis Marie Meyers charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Evan L. McGuire charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Jennifer M. Sandoval charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Emma G. Johnson charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Rebecca J. Moore charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Megan M. Graham charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Patrick L. Brien charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Mark J. Yoon charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Jason S. Keys charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Braydon T. Brown charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Michael E. Giles charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Anthony R. Allen charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Jamie Hoover charged with driving while suspended. Andrew D. Herndon charged with speeding, exceeding 30 mph. Zachary T. Madinski charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Brianna K. Hester charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. What's more delightful, drinking plain water or drinking sparkling carbon- ated soft drinks? Drinking cold Frappuccino or ice cold water? Let's just be honest. • How many of you have quit looking at gas pump prices? If you're one of the rare ones who do not pay attention to gas prices, you either drive an electric car or you're still riding horse buggies. • If you do not view Face- book or text or email, you either belong to a certain age group or you still have a landline. • If you do not have a credit card and always pay cash, you are likely the kind of person who is quite careful with money. If you do not have an email ad- dress, you likely use a lot of stamps and our US Postal service is grateful for you. When I socialize with peers of my age group, I hear a lot of discussions about illnesses, surger - ies, medications, who's in the hospital, best doctors, best hospitals, what hap- pened to so and so. I guess that's life. • Why is it so easy to ac- cumulate and hoard stuff, but it is so hard to get rid of it? To prevent this from hap- pening, I advise watching a T V series called Hoard- ers. You might get an invi- tation to appear on that pro- gram if you like to appear on T V. That would be em- barrassing. I better stop at this point and turn more somber. It is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lenten sea- son. Time to be more se- rious and reflect on better things. Have a good week. Continued from page 5 PUZZLES however, they may soon be required to take a diversi- ty course. Then there's a question about loyalty to our na- tion. Charles Lieber, for- mer chairman of the De- partment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, was arrested earlier this year on accu- sations that he made a ma- terially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement about work he did for a program run by the Chinese gov- ernment that seeks to lure American talent to Chi- na. He was paid $50,000 a month and up to $158,000 in living expenses for his work, which involved cul- tivating young teachers and students, according to court documents. Accord- ing to the Department of Justice, Lieber helped Chi- na "cultivate high-level sci- entific talent in furtherance of China's scientific devel- opment, economic prosper- ity and national security." It's not just Harvard pro- fessors. Newly found court records reveal that Emo- ry University neuroscien- tist Li Xiao-Jiang was fired in late 2019 after being charged with lying about his own ties to China. Li was part of the same Chi- nese program as Lieber. A jury found a University of California, Los Ange- les, professor guilty of ex- porting stolen U.S. military technology to China. News- week reported that he was convicted June 26 on 18 fed- eral charges. Meanwhile, NBC reported that federal prosecutors say that Uni- versity of Texas professor Bo Mao attempted to steal U.S. technology by using his position as a professor to obtain access to protect- ed circuitry and then hand- ing it over to the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei. The true tragedy is that so many Americans are blind to the fact that to- day's colleges and univer- sities pose a threat on sev- eral fronts to the well-being of our nation. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Continued from page 5 BIAS guson and Freymann re- port. We have a generation of American youth today who have grown up in a culture of legal abortion and same- sex marriage, with little sense of responsibility to God and country. Freedom is about per- sonal responsibility, and these youth do not seem to be interested. They appear, rather, to be very open to the idea of turning their lives over to be run by a 78 -year-old socialist. Such values among our youth do not bode well for our future. Meanwhile, the best near-term solution is keep- ing the nation under Re- publican control. Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renew- al and Education and au- thor of the new book "Nec- essary Noise: How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This is Good News for America," avail- able now at starparker.com Continued from page 5 FREEDOM Continued from page 5 CRITICS Destroy the World Economy." There were dozens of stories about why the Trump tax cuts couldn't and wouldn't work. You might even say there was a "sci- entific consensus." The purpose of this column is not to rub their noses in it—well, maybe a little. The truth is I've been wrong in some of my economic predictions over the years. I thought the Clinton presidency would be a disaster for the economy. Still, after his first two shaky years in the White House and a GOP takeover of Congress, Clinton announced that "the era of big govern- ment is over," and the economy soared. I've admitted my mistake. I will read- ily concede that the economic winds could shift next week, and the econo- my could start to slip. My point is this: Where are the mea culpas from the liberals who got pre- dictions about the economy upside down over the last three years? Their economic malpractice was the equiva- lent of a doctor amputating the wrong arm. I don't have to recite the catalog of statistics on how good financial con- ditions are today. It's all wrapped up in the recent Gallup poll, which finds nearly 9 out of 10 people feel good about their personal lives. Trump didn't de- stroy the economy. He rebuilt it. Where is the humility from the left in admitting, "Hey, my economic worldview has been put to the test and proven all wrong? I better rethink this. Maybe tax cuts and deregulation and energy production really do fire up the supply side of the economy. Maybe put- ting America first really does help the stock market and raise incomes. May- be everything I was taught in college and grad school about Keynesian eco- nomics is a fraud." Alas, we hear none of that, just flimsy excuses for why they were so wrong about Trump. First, the econo- my was going to crash. Then, when it didn't crash, the boom was just a "sug- ar high" from large budget deficits and tax cuts. Then, when the "high" last- ed three years, we were told a reces- sion was "right around the corner." Then, when the recession didn't hap- pen and the economy picked up steam in the last six months, we heard that this was just the continuation of the Obama trend. So, this is the left's line of reasoning: If the economy crash- es, it's Trump's fault. If the economy soars, Obama gets the credit. The wonder of it all is that the an- ti-Trumpers are still squawking from their lofty perches as if nothing that happens in the real world—rather than in la-la land or on MSNBC—re- ally matters. Being wrong five or 10 or 100 times isn't punishable; it can even win you a Nobel Prize. It is the unique sanctuary of pundit- ry and academia. If you hired a stock picker that consistently recommend- ed losing stocks, would you keep that person on retainer? If you hired a con- tractor and the house collapsed, would you pay him? If a football team lost ev- ery game, would you give the coach a five-year contract extension? But the press keeps turning to the same sources no matter how many times they have been wrong on the economy. Then, they wonder why they receive criticism for being fake news. Stephen Moore is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Project for Econom- ic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. BETTERED Continued from page 1 "Defensively, we did a great job, espe- cially if you take away the easy one we gave them off turnovers. We just aren't putting the ball in the basket right now. We are having too many careless turn- overs and are just not finishing plays with makes." Titan coach Kyle Runyan comment- ed, "Our effort was pretty good. Defen- sively, we did a nice job forcing them to play fast and take quick shots. We re- bounded the ball well. We committed too many fouls though. That is why we changed defenses in the second half." Charger Connor Young looks for the hoop while being defended by the Titans. James Capozella photo Charger Aden Brown looks for the open man in the contest with Gibson Southern. Young scored a team-high 12 points in the 49-44 JV loss. James Capozel- la photo Charger Ashton Evans draws the Titan defense during action on Tuesday night at Pike Central. James Capozella photo Charger flag girls stream onto the court at the beginning of the varsity match-up with Gibson Southern. James Capozella photo CHARGER JV NIPPED BY TITANS 49-45 An 18 -point third quarter should have lifted the Charger junior varsi- ty to a win while hosting the Gibson Southern Titans, but they too poured in 18 points after securing a 25 -18 first half edge. Braden Howald and Trent Zimmerman got the three bagger to go in the 8 -6 final stanza, but the Ti- tans hung in there with three fourth- quarter baskets to pull out a 49 -45 win. Aden Brown, Alex Clark and Kend- ric Sorgius picked up the Charger of- fense with a combined 18 points in the third, but the club fell short after trail- ing 25 -18 at the half. Charger Varsity: 6 8 7 9 -30 Titan Varsity: 14 14 11 6 -45 Chargers: Scott: 1 0 1-0 1 2, Sorgi- us: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Gorby: 0 3 0 -0 2 9, Han- selman: 3 0 6 -6 0 11, Mills: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Guth: 1 1 0 -0 0 5, Howald: 1 0 0 -0 1 2, Caldwell: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Clark: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Craig: 0 0 2-1 2 1, Brown: 0 0 0 -0 0 0. Totals: 6 4 9 -6 6 30, 6 14 21 30 Titans: Malone: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Hurless: 0 0 0 -0 3 0, Foster: 4 1 0 -0 3 11, Neel: 2 1 0 -0 3 7, Bryant: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Riggs: 1 2 0 -0 0 8, Brindle: 0 0 0 -0 3 0, J. Spin- dler: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, May: 4 1 0 -0 0 11, Re- inbrecht: 0 0 2-0 1 0, M. Spindler: 4 0 0 - 0 0 8. Totals: 5 5 2-0 13 45. 14 28 39 45 Charger JV: 10 8 18 8 -44 Titan JV: 10 15 18 6 -49 Chargers: Brown: 3 2 0 -0 0 12, Boyd: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Sorgius: 3 1 0 -0 1 9, Clark: 3 1 0 -0 1 9, Traylor: 0 0 0 -0 2 0, Evans: 1 0 0 -0 1 2, Zimmerman: 0 1 0 - 0 0 3, Morson: 1 0 0 -0 3 2, Johnson: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Young: 0 0 0 -0 1 0, B. How- ald: 0 1 0 -0 0 3, P. Howard: 2 0 0 -0 2 4. Totals: 13 6 0 -0 11 44. 10 18 36 44. Titans: Reid: 3 0 0 -0 2 6, Bryant: 0 1 0 -0 1 3, Shelton: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Hirsch: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Chandler: 3 0 0 -0 1 6, Ziliak: 3 0 2-1 1 7, Hamilton: 0 0 0 -0 0 0, Yanc- ey: 0 0 2-2 1 2, Spindler: 7 0 5 -3 1 17, Beauchamp: 1 0 0 -0 0 2, Toy: 0 0 0 -0 0 0. Totals: 20 91 9 -6 8 49. 10 25 43 49.