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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, November 15, 2017 D- 9 Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court Seth J. Smith charged with count I aggravated battery, a level 3 felony, count II kidnapping, count III domes- tic battery resulting in serious bodily injury, count IV criminal confinement, count V operating a motor vehicle af- ter forfeiture of license for life, count VI intimidation, count VII resisting law enforcement and count VIII habitual offender. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Felicia McRoberts charged with op- erating a motor vehicle with an ace of .15 or more. Joshua J. Eager charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II possession of paraphernalia. Amber R J Hatton charged with pos- session of paraphernalia. David Lemon-Thompson charged with count I domestic battery, count II disorderly conduct and count III pub- lic intoxication. Clifford M. Folsom charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II possession of paraphernalia. CIVIL DOCKET Pike Circuit Court LVNV Funding, LLC sues Ashley Hayes on complaint. Countrymark Energy Resources sues Carrie E. Bellamy on complaint. Countrymark Energy Resources sues Jeffrey M. Bellamy on complaint. Countrymark Energy Resourc- es sues Matthew L. Bellamy on com- plaint. MED and Professional Collections sues Teresa Hudson on complaint. MED and Professional Collections sues Jodi M. Davis and Gragory M. Da- vis on complaint. Bank of America sues Wendell K. Nolan on complaint. Discover Bank sues Jennifer Ficklin on complaint. First National Bank of Omaha sues Lorri L. Edrington on complaint. Jessica L. Kinman sues Jesse Keith Kinman for dissolution of marriage. Carrie E. Dillon sues Nichole L. Dil- lon for dissolution of marriage. Jacob Matthew Kaeck sues Amy Jo Kaeck for dissolution of marriage. Amanda Gladish sues Brian Gladish for dissolution of marriage. Shelly Renea Phelps sues Joshua Ca- leb Phelps for dissolution of marriage. Cheyne Kermode sues Elizabeth D. Grant-Kermode for dissolution of mar- riage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Rob Franklin 1st Franklin Group sues Jennifer Purkiser on complaint. Medical and Professional Collec- tion Service sues Aletha C. Dedrick on complaint. Medical and Professional Collection Service sues John A. Marsee on com- plaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Hal- ey A. Ackison on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Zachary N. Loveless on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Heather A. Nowark on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Am- ber S. Schwindt on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Ad- am Benefiel on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Bri- an P. Wamser on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Bri- an D. Mounts on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Krystal A. Greener on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Dy- lon M. Brittain on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Jer- emy J. Bouillon on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Keith J. Nordhoff on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Brittany Brock charged with seatbelt violation. Kacy Carlisle charged with operating with expired plates. Patrick Cox charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Austin Dotterweich charged with count I registration and display of reg- istration and count II operating a vehicle without financial responsibility. Alexander Holmes charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Michelle Jennings charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Cassandra Johnson charged with dis- regarding an official traffic control de- vice. Keith Kelso charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Casey McCoy charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Ashton O'Keefe charged with speed- ing, 80 mph in a 70 zone. Ashley Patton charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Tammy Redman charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. George Verghese charged with speeding, 80 mph in a 70 zone. Jeremiah White charged with speed- ing, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Christopher Coleman charged with speeding, 87 mph in a 55 zone. Clifford Folsom charged with count I speeding, 58 mph in a 35 zone, and count II open alcoholic beverage con- tainer during operation of a motor ve- hicle. James Hathaway charged with seat- belt violation. Gaynecia Keusch charged with fail- ure to register. Peter Vasallo, III charged with speed- ing, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Joshua Young charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 55 zone. Zoe Brown charged with speeding, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Travis Craven charged with speed- ing, 102 mph in a 70 zone. Jeremy Hardy charged with speed- ing, 72 mph in a 55 zone. James Kendrick charged with count I driving while suspended and count II speeding, 89 mph in a 70 zone. Jason Rainbolt charged with driving while suspended. Carama Smith-El charged with speeding, 80 mph in a 70 zone. James Wilhite charged with speed- ing, 60 mph in a 45 zone. Danny Clark charged with count I open alcoholic beverage container dur- ing operation of a motor vehicle and count II driving while suspended. Joseph Eilbert charged with speed- ing, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Daniel Fair charged with seatbelt vi- olation. Alfred Foust charged with speeding, 76 mph in a 55 zone. Marcus Hopkins charged with speed- ing, 92 mph in a 70 zone. Morgan Momcilovich charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. word on whether you may be heard. Consider Prager Univer- sity, an online conservative video advocacy site owned by Dennis Prager, an ortho- dox Jew. Anonymous cen- sors at Google-owned You- Tube have taken offense to some of Prager's content, and branded it "inappropri- ate" for minors, although it isn't even remotely sala- cious or violent. This trig- gers Prager's removal from history, making it unsearch- able, and blocking any in- come stream in connection with those videos. Prager's content is thoughtful anal- ysis–controversial, but not sensational. It's clear that YouTube's guerrilla cen- sors found Prager's conser- vative, patriotic perspective intolerable. Perhaps their disquiet is compounded by the fact that Prager's videos are persuasive. The burden of policing American opinion seems to have come upon Silicon Val- ley tycoons as a surprise. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to put down potential muti- ny last December when top staff demanded a green light to purge Facebook of posts by President-elect Donald Trump. Zuckerberg has giv- en ground since then, enlist- ing in the war against "mis- information." Zuckerberg's plan in- volves toughened "detec- tion" (surveillance) of or- dinary users' posts, but the equivalent of a TSA pre- check for mainstream me- dia organizations. Wikileaks exposed about 65 journalists who colluded with the Clin- ton campaign, but they suf- fered no loss of credibility at Facebook, and will not be subjected to heightened scrutiny under the new plan. Maybe it's not Silicon Val- ley digital barons' fault that they are as ignorant of ba- sic American civics as their less-talented snowflake classmates. The dumbed- down curriculum has conse- quences. But let's hope they get the hang of this democ- racy thing, and soon. Continued from page 8 LEFTISTS Continued from page 8 CENTURY Continued from page 8 HEALTH poverty. Most of the 88 coun- tries that score "repressed" or "mostly unfree" on the Heritage Foundation's In- dex of Economic Freedom are either communist, for- mer communist, or some type of socialist economy. They are also the world's poorest nations. And that, even more than the appalling body count, is what ultimately doomed So- viet communism: the awful material conditions. Life ex- pectancy of Russians in the 1980s was six years lower than in western Europe, ac- cording to economist Nico- las Eberstadt. Infant mortal- ity was three times higher. Death rates were rising for every age group. "Russians looked west- ward and were appalled by their own poverty," Mr. Holmes writes. "Whatev- er the West had — freedom and wealth — that was what the Russians wanted." So when President Rea- gan stood at the Branden- burg Gate in 1987 and urged Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," he was giv- ing voice to a frustration that had long been pent up inside the people who lived behind the Iron Curtain. The wall fi- nally came down, undone in large measure by the mani- fold failures of communism itself. Of course, Russians even today must deal with the continuing fallout of the 1917 revolution. "Every day they face the corruption and poverty caused not only by authoritarian rule, but by the social habits and struc- tural problems created by communism," Mr. Holmes writes. You can still see the devastation it wrought, echoing across the country. And you can see how vi- tal it is that we keep freedom alive here in what President Lincoln so aptly called "the last best hope of earth." Ed Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation. Cowspiracy and In Defense of Food. I kind of felt confused and enlightened both at the same time. Confused in the sense of asking my- self how do we balance sus- taining and supporting the meat industry and on the other side of the equation supporting the science pre- sented by those who advo- cate plant base food. So if you have a chance to see these documentaries, I will leave it up to you to decide. There are those who advo- cate moderation in every- thing which I think is the way to go in everything in life. There are those who advocate we need some nu- trition from meat, there are those who advocate every- thing we need for nourish- ment can be found in veg- etables, fruits, nuts, le- gumes. One other thing that struck me—dairy prod- ucts. I did not realize that milk which is derived from cows is primarily designed for consumption by calves so they can bulk up and grow big at a fast pace, and that we human beings are the only species that con- sumes milk from cows. Hmmm, that seems to be against all that I have learned about milk from our lessons in Nutrition during medical school. Can you imagine the industries that depend on cow's milk- industries that produce but- ter, cheese, chocolate prod- ucts, bakeries, dairy prod- ucts of all sorts, etc. I need to go back and research the biochemistry of milk and it's impact on the body's biochemistry and physiol- ogy. • • • Lets go to sugars. De- cades ago, our source of sweeteners were sugar cane, beets and honey. But after the industry found it got real expensive to pro- duce sugar from those sources, scientists in this field researched on cheaper alternatives. So we came up with corn syrup which was cheaper to produce. Seems like everything now that we consume that needs to be sweetened has concentrat- ed corn syrup. So is it possible the car- bohydrates we now ingest from this new source may be contributing to diabetes and obesity? There are a lot of debates for and against these theories, and I am continuing to watch the controversies. One thing we cannot deny is that di - abetes and obesity in the world has increased three- fold and scientists are try- ing to figure out the cause or causes of this unfortu- nate disease. There are many theo- ries being discussed about the causes of these illness, from nutrition, to behav- ioral science, to genetical- ly modified food, to over- eating. • • • I think from my point of view, it is important to re- member the following: moderation in everything is undeniably correct. It is even in the scripture. The best beverage is still two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen (water). Many studies show plant based diet (vegetables, nuts –caution about nut aller- gies- and fruits) indeed is very healthy, but I will still eat some meat, in modera- tion. I'm not sure what to think about cow's milk. I think soy milk is a good substitute. Definitely so- das have undergone a lot of research and have been shown to possibly have con- tributed to health problems because of the corn syrup or the artificial sweeteners mixed into them. One in- teresting research showed there is a large group of se- niors in the United States in Loma Linda California liv- ing in their late 80s and 90s who consume a particular kind of diet and do regular exercise. Read the book The Blue Zone. The author of this book studied people in dif- ferent parts of the world who lived very long lives. • • • Wisdom of the week: Try your best to eat to live and not live to eat. Humor of the week: Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you will diet. Have a great week. Pursuit of the Cure by Star Parker How Rep. Cohen keeps his district poor Last week, I testified before the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, on HR 490, also known as the Heartbeat Bill. The bill, introduced by Iowa Repub- lican congressman Steve King, prohib- its abortion of an unborn child once the child's heartbeat is detectable. I have been fighting for the last 30 years to protect the unborn, and I wholeheartedly gave my endorsement to this bill. In follow-up questioning, I respond- ed to allegations, often made, that abortion is essentially a health and welfare program, categorizing it like major government spending programs that target the poor, such as Medicaid and food stamps. I shared my view that thinking about abortion in this way is "disingenuous." It represents the very sick view that killing children in the womb is a way to fight poverty. One member of the committee, Steve Cohen, a Democrat represent- ing the 9th district of Tennessee, has a lifetime record, both in the U.S. con- gress and as a state legislator, advocat- ing this distortion that somehow abor- tion is a remedial measure for low-in- come black women. Confused liberals like Cohen think the problem is pregnancy rather than sexual activity taking place outside of where it belongs — in marriage. So they encourage the very behavior that leads to poverty — promiscuity and abortion. We can see the results in Cohen's own district. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in Cohen's 9th district in Tennessee, 8.7 percent of house- holds headed by a mar- ried couple with children under 5 are poor. Howev- er, 59.5 percent of house- holds headed by a single woman with children un- der 5 are poor. Cohen attacked me in the hearing, calling me "ignorant," and suggest- ed that my telling the truth somehow showed disrespect to him. A fter the hearing, he approached me, put his finger in my face, and told me to come to his office and personally apologize to him. In 1997, Cohen opposed legislation that banned partial-birth abortion in Tennessee. This procedure was banned in federal law in 2003. Because of the unique brutality of partial-birth abortion, Associate Jus- tice Anthony Kennedy included in his opinion, in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of banning this procedure, testimony of a nurse who witnessed it. She described the baby moving its fingers and toes as the doctor jammed scissors into the back of its head. Cohen's district in Tennessee is a picture of the kind of distressed com- munities that my organization CURE targets to help recover. It is two-thirds black, has eight ZIP codes with infant mortality rates triple the national aver- age, has a median household income two-thirds the national average, and poverty 10 points higher than the na- tional average. It is indeed a challenge to get truth into poor black communities that have suffered for years from liberal leaders like Co- hen telling them what they need is more government and abortion. My work in Washington, D.C., focuses on getting public policy that will allow more flexibility for people like those in Cohen's district to self-govern. In 1996, a year before Co- hen voted to oppose banning partial- birth abortion in Tennessee, I worked in Washington to pass welfare reform. The only apology I have to make is that I do not have more opportunities to testify against the distortions and damage caused by liberals like Cohen. He extols his affection for Planned Parenthood, which annually aborts more black babies than any organiza- tion in the country: "For me Planned Parenthood is part of my DNA. It is one of the finest organizations in this coun- try." And he equates black fertility to slavery: "women since the days of slav- ery were ... encouraged to have chil- dren, because ... you needed ... more property to bring the crops to make the money." Work needs to continue to help poor blacks in Steve Cohen's district under- stand that he is the last person they should have representing them. Star Parker is an author and presi- dent of CURE, Center for Urban Renew- al and Education. Contact her atwww. urbancure.org. you can learn a lot from the Newspaper! Encourage your children to make reading the newspaper a part of their everyday routine for lifelong learning. Newspapers are living textbooks, helping students develop reading, math, social studies and language skills while exploring the issues affecting our world today. 1 Year Subscriptions start at just $30.00 for Pike and Surrounding Counties CALL 812-354-8500 or e-mail subscriptions@pressdispatch.net