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D-2 Opinion Wednesday, May 24, 2017 The Press-Dispatch Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit court David A. King charged with count I possession of a controlled substance, a level 6 felony, and count II unlawful possession or use of a legend drug. Kyle Aaron Haley charged with count I possession of methamphet- amine, a level 6 felony, count II driv- ing while suspended, count III oper- ating a vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in the body and count IV operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Cynthia M. Cooper charged with in- timidation, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Johnny A. Willis charged with count I operating a vehicle with an ACE of .08 or more and count II operating a vehi- cle while intoxicated. Jodi M. Davis AK A Evans charged with check deception. Angie Lynn Elliott AK A Crow charged with check deception. Mark Alan Coleman charged with count I domestic battery and count II battery resulting in bodily injury. CIVIL DOCKET Pike Circuit Court Reverse Mortgage Solutions sues Sharon R. Barrett, Secretary of Hous- ing and Urban Development, and State of Indiana on complaint. Jefferson Capital Systems LLC sues Sarah A. Livers on complaint. In re: reciprocal support petition, Sheila Phillips vs. Clayton Phillips Nancy Kay Garris sues Wesley Eu- gene Garris for dissolution of marriage. Lisa Durcholz sues David Durcholz for dissolution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Indy Leasing DBA Aarons sues Chyn- na Beckley on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Becky Sullivan on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Tiffany Kline on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Melissa Hendrixson on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Jeff Keith on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Michael Weathers on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Jason Sisk on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues James McCollom on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Josh Vickers on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Eric McQueen on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Barbara Kendall on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Jason Pitcher on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues David Glaser on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Dawn Huffman-Sparks charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Joshua Inman charged with speed- ing, 64 mph in a 55 zone. Christopher Jackson charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 40 zone. Roy King charged with seatbelt vio- lation. Ronnie Rust charged with seatbelt vi- olation. Jacob Saucerman charged with speeding, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Kent Utt charged with speeding, 64 mph in a 55 zone. Shane Randolph charged with operat- ing an off-road vehicle on a public high- way, street or right-of-way or where oth- erwise prohibited. Charles Stewart charged with failure to carry registration. Jose Abarca charged with speeding, 60 mph in a 35 zone. Robert Clarke charged with driving while suspended. Austin Ellard charged with speeding, 82 mph in a 70 zone. John Head charged with no valid driv- er's license. Lorenzo Hillman charged with speed- ing, 97 mph in a 70 zone. Christopher Miller charged with driv- ing while suspended. Jennifer VanWinkle charged with speeding, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Danielle Chapman charged with speeding, 89 mph in a 70 zone. Gerald Fisher charged with three counts of littering. Logan Parrott charged with speed- ing, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Dylan Spells charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Jeffrey Stahl charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. alone would increase ener- gy costs for U.S. families and businesses, causing an overall average shortfall of nearly 400,000 jobs and to- tal income loss of more than $20,000 for a family of four by the year 2035." The cost to the global economy, of course, will be much worse: trillions of dol- lars over the next 80 years. And here's the real kicker: Even if every country meets their stated goals (which is very unlikely), it will bring only the most minuscule re- duction in warming — so lit- tle, quite frankly, that it will hardly be noticeable. Don't just take my word for it. Consider what for- mer Secretary of State John Kerry has said: "The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, car- pooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domes- tic greenhouse gas emis- sions, guess what — that still wouldn't be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world." To call this a flawed deal is the understatement of the year. It's all pain, no gain. No wonder President Obama didn't submit the deal to the Senate for approval (as he should have). He must have known lawmakers would re- ject it. We still can. If President Trump wants to deliver the kind of economic growth he promised on the campaign trail, it's time to jettison this bad deal. Ed Feulner is president of the Heritage Foundation (heritage.org). Continued from page 1 CLIMATE and regulation. Some nations have de- clared war on drug smug- glers, such as the Philippi- ans where President Rodri- go Duterte has urged Filipi- nos to kill drug addicts. Execution is almost cer- tain if one is caught smug- gling or selling drugs in Ma- laysia, Singapore, Indone- sia, China, Vietnam, Thai- land. Possession in small amounts will result in harsh prison time. Nothing works. How do we know this? There is a drug epidemic. The alternatives are to continue to do what we are doing and expect different results, to legalize addic- tion and regulate the dis- bursement of drugs [we do this with alcohol], or to pass draconian and repres- sive laws [build more jails or execute offenders]. You and I, the voting pub- lic, will decide what mea- sures our nation will adopt. No epidemic is allowed to become a pandemic. Social and mental health workers along with doctors tell us that drug abuse is an addiction and a disease. How can we not agree? Who would not have compassion upon a person whose every thought is where to get the next high and degrade them- selves to all indecencies to obtain it? What our secular society refuses to consider is that this epidemic is also a dis- ease of the soul. Living can- not be of value if it is expe- rienced in a haze, a fog, hal- lucinating, intoxicated, or stoned. The why becomes obvi- ous when people lose hope. Hope is a spiritual attribute that is the energy of life. When the complexities of life become overwhelmed by uncontrollable events, hope becomes fragile. The psalmist wrote centu- ries ago: "But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never per- ish." Therein lies part of the so- lution. All 12-step programs for addiction have a concept of a force or entity that one can rely upon. Secular reme- dies can help, but their rem- edies cannot touch the soul, which is where the real pain lies. Pray for those struggling. Think about it! Continued from page 1 HOPE Continued from page 1 NCAA hibited men from entering ladies' restrooms. Eventu- ally, after threatening to withhold tournaments from North Carolina cities, they prevailed on the legislature there to overturn the law. They have threatened Texas with economic consequenc- es should its legislators en- act a similar law. "Power tends to corrupt," Lord Acton famously ob- served, "and absolute pow- er corrupts absolutely." The NCA A is so powerful that it has become tyrannical, not to mention perverse. At their worst, the NCA A elites' am- bitions are totalitarian. Now we know how the disfavored athletes and coaches have felt for decades. The NCA A bullying is most unwelcome, and I think freedom-loving citizens should begin think- ing about ways to cast off its shackles. A good start would be to revoke its federal tax-ex- empt status. How bizarre that a church is forbidden to engage in politics, on pain of losing its tax exemp- tion, but these depraved par- asites are empowered to dic- tate terms to elected legisla- tures and governors. If only to generate tax deductions, the NCA A might consider paying the student-athletes who have made it so rich, year after year. The NCA A was founded, according to its website, "to protect young people from the dangerous and exploi- tive athletic practices of the time." That was a noble un- dertaking. But perhaps on- ly Teddy Roosevelt would be bold enough to undertake what's needed in 2017—pro- tect young people from the NCA A. net edition yeah, it's that fast! Z M www.PressDispatch.net/Subscribe It's The Press-Dispatch. No matter where you live. Delivered every Wednesday morning! Add it for $5 to your current print subscription or stand-alone for $35/year. Pursuit of the Cure by Star Parker Trump should move embassy to Jerusalem This weekend President Donald Trump departs on his first overseas trip, which will include visits to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican and Europe. Trump's Israel visit coincides with a very special day – the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty after 2000 years. Many, including me, hope that Pres- ident Trump will take this very special occasion to announce that he will ful- fill his campaign promise and move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Is- rael's capital, Jerusalem. It was in the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War, 50 years ago in 1967, de- feating the attacking armies of Israel's three neighboring countries – Egypt, Jordan and Syria – that Israel captured East Jerusalem, held by Jordan, and united it with West Jerusalem, held by Israel. The U.S. Congress passed the Jeru- salem Embassy Act in 1995 stating, as a matter of U.S. policy, that Jerusalem should remain an undivided city, that it should be recognized as Israel's cap- ital city, and that the American embas- sy should be moved from Tel Aviv to Je- rusalem no later than 1999. The act included a waiver for the president to not implement the law if he deems that the action creates a na- tional security problem. All presidents since then, Clinton, Bush and Obama have exercised this waiver. Now President Trump holds the cards. He promised during the cam- paign to move the embassy. Will he do it? When asked about this on "Meet the Press," Secretary of State Tiller- son showed signs that the administra- tion may be going wobbly on the presi- dent's promise. He said that the embas- sy move would be considered "in the context of a peace initiative." The Internation- al Christian Em- bassy Jerusalem delivered a strate- gy paper to Presi- dent Trump, which includes my orga- nization CURE as a signatory, urg- ing him to move the embassy to Jerusalem. The paper quickly gets to the heart of the matter, saying that hesitance to recognize Je- rusalem as Israel's capital, because of "fear of Islamic backlash," is not policy "based on principle, fairness and his- torical right, but it is based solely on weakness and fear." These Christian Zionists are right. If the United States wants to further peace in the Middle East, and else- where, the best start is to demonstrate clear, principled leadership, defined by our free principles and not by intimi- dation. Israel has been under siege since its founding in 1948. Yet, under the con- stant shadow of war and terrorism, in just 69 years Israelis have built a mod- ern, industrialized country, with per capita income on par with the industri- alized countries of Europe. It is the on- ly free and democratic country in the Middle East. I wrote a column a number of years ago entitled "The Simple Path to Mid- dle East Peace." I quoted the late tele- vision personality Art Linkletter, who said, "Things turn out best for the people that make the best of the way things turn out." I said then, and I say now, that this captures the difference between the Israelis and the Pal- estinians. Israelis built a modern thriving nation in the wake of a devastating Holocaust. In contrast, the Pales- tinians have allowed themselves to be immobilized by hatred and denial, insisting that their prob- lems and suffering are because of others. I have watched for years how this culture of victimhood has locked low income black Americans in our inner cities in a never-ending cycle of dependency and poverty. Nothing defines the unique relation- ship between the United States and Israel more than the scripture from the Book of Leviticus in our Bible in- scribed on the Liberty Bell – "Proclaim Liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." With beautiful irony, this scripture is about the jubilee year, which occurs every 50 years. Now President Trump arrives in Is- rael for the jubilee year of the reunifica- tion of Jerusalem. He should take this occasion to announce that the United States will, finally, recognize Israel's capital and move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Star Parker is an author and pres- ident of CURE, Center for Urban Re- newal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure.org. To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndi- cate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2017 STAR PARKER