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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, Februar y 14, 2018 A- 9 Pursuit of the Cure by Star Parker Celebrate Black History VALENTINE Continued from page 8 Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court Dustin Levi White charged with count I strangulation, a level 6 felony, count II battery and count III domestic battery. Anthony W. Kendall charged with count I domestic battery, a level 6 felo- ny, and count II pointing a firearm. CIVIL Pike Circuit Court Designation of Blaine S. Goode as Sr. Prosecuting Attorney. Tom and Glenda Mills sue BNJ Con- struction LLC on complaint. John Brackney sues Kim Brackney for dissolution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Hoosier Accounts Service sues Craig P. Buckman on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Kim- berly Witt on complaint. Hoosier Accounts Service sues Kelly L. Davis on complaint. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Lukus J. Atkins charged with count I public nudity and count II public intox- ication. April D. Huffman charged with count I operating a vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in the body and count II operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated. Jacob C. Hollen charged with count I operating a vehicle with an ace of .08 or more and count II operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Logan R. Vest charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II op- erating a vehicle while intoxicated. Caleb J. Barley charged with posses- sion of marijuana. Graycelyn A. Bowman charged with possession of marijuana. Calvin H. Oliver charged with operat- ing a motor vehicle without ever receiv- ing a license. Matthew T. Sandifar charged with possession of marijuana. Jordan W. Gosciniak charged with op- erating a vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in the body. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Anne Barber charged with speeding, 76 mph in a 55 zone. Justin Bradshaw charged with seat- belt violation. Brandon Breidenbaugh charged with seatbelt violation. Kyle Burger charged with speeding, 59 mph in a 45 zone. Ilain Castil charged with count I no valid driver's license and count II speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Robert Daugherty, Jr. charged with seatbelt violation. David Derr charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Michael Greene charged with stop- ping, standing or parking where prohib- ited. Danny Harford charged with speed- ing, 65 mph in a 55 zone. Kelsey Lance charged with seatbelt violation. John Lane charged with speeding, 57 mph in a 40 zone. Bobby Lewis charged with seatbelt vi- olation. Charles Mack charged with speeding, 51 mph in a 35 zone. Denny Martindale, Jr. charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Brittany Mullen charged with seatbelt violation. Amy Murray charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Jesus Sandoval Valdez charged with speeding, 53 mph in a 35 zone. Adam Schilling charged with seatbelt violation. Sawyer Schutz charged with speed- ing, 54 mph in a 35 zone. Ashley Sears charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Tracy Simmons charged with no val- id driver's license. Rebecca Sullivan charged with speed- ing, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Dakota Bayer charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Samantha Benefiel charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Sharon Brannon charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Dianna Evans charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Kayla Furman charged with seatbelt violation. Matthew Furman charged with seat- belt violation. Tyler Furman charged with seatbelt violation. Brandi Gladish charged with seatbelt violation. Ronald Harper charged with no valid driver's license. Prem Khadka charged with speeding, 86 mph in a 70 zone. Christopher Nau charged with speed- ing, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Matthew Nonte charged with speed- ing, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Rhiannon Silverwillow charged with operating with expired plates. Jordan Sturgeon charged with speed- ing, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Stone Wright charged with speeding, 89 mph in a 70 zone. Ernest Boger charged with speeding, 81 mph in a 70 zone. Zachary Buechlein charged with seat- belt violation. Shatasia Carter charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Charles Cerbone charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Stevie Chapman charged with speed- ing, 96 mph in a 70 zone. McKenna Durand charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Andrew Eaton charged with speeding, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Kylie Hall charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Cody Howard charged with count I driving while suspended and count II speeding, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Adam Svendsen charged with operat- ing with expired plates. Alexis Wheeler charged with speed- ing, 95 mph in a 70 zone. Jeffrey Whiteside charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Continued from page 8 FREER Continued from page 8 MURDER Lent but fail to undertake the journey as a pilgrim. Many come along for the ride and meander through with no real purpose or spiritual goal. Lent is about Jesus and becoming more like Him. We can turn the coin over and discover sever- al reasons why one should become a pilgrim during Lent. A journey through Lent is to emulate Christ, to be- come more like him. One cannot make a resolution to become like Jesus; it is a lifestyle, a journey through life denying the desires of self. One aspect of Lent that is difficult to reproduce is that Christ was, as Isaiah wrote, a Man of Sorrow. He was acquainted with grief, and bore it for us, for it was our grief. The only way we can emulate grief is through repentance. Re- pentance is and should be a daily spiritual activity, but even more so during the Lenten pilgrimage. The modern church has moved away from fasting. However, this was part of the life of discipleship in the early church. Fasting bends our will and puts the carnal self under sub- jection of the spirit. It re- quires self-discipline and reliance upon the Holy Spirit. Abstaining from food or a habit for just a few days will demonstrate how weak you really are. Without debate, one re- ceives what one sows; and Lent is no different. If you enter Lent as a pilgrim on a spiritual journey, then blessing await. Seeking God expands your outlook on life and can help devel- op a "Big Picture" that God is working everywhere to bring deliverance and sal- vation to his creation. Lent, the Passion of Christ; it is something big- ger than yourself! Lent is a journey that if entered into with a spiritu- al motivation will enhance your life and future. Think about it. Continued from page 8 OBSERVE Continued from page 8 SPENDING mation, the world in which we live is profoundly bet- ter in myriad ways than the world our parents inhabit- ed. We enjoy better health, better nutrition, and better housing. We live in a clean- er environment and have more options than ever for fulfilling work. "We live in a Golden Age of economic progress," Steve Forbes writes in the 2018 Index. "Things we take for granted – antibiot- ics, the iPhone, air travel – would have seemed like magic to our great-grand- parents." If we haven't quite achieved the American promise of e pluribus un- um (out of many, one), the globalized world econo- my has nonetheless large- ly united around the prin- ciples of free-market cap- italism, whose proven re- cord of promoting growth and prosperity has won over all but the most com- mitted socialists and Com- munists. The enhanced trade among nations that has ac- companied the growth in economic freedom has al- so proven to be a powerful force for peace. As Presi- dent Ronald Reagan said in 1983: "The winds and waters of commerce carry op- portunities that help na- tions grow and bring cit- izens of the world closer together. Put simply, in- creased trade spells more jobs, higher earnings, bet- ter products, less inflation, and cooperation over con- frontation. The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger the tides for eco- nomic progress and peace among nations." As the 2018 Index shows, those tides are ris- ing, but there is much to be done. The question is, do we have the will to do it? Ed Feulner is founder of The Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org). day with many couples getting hyped with an obsession to buy something for the love of their life, mostly flow- ers and chocolates to hopefully send a message of courtly love. This is al- so a time when couples pen romantic notes and expressions of affection via greeting cards. As I matured in years, the percep- tion I had changed to different planes of emotion and thinking. I noticed the younger couples unattached had the highest level of romantic ideas, then those who became committed became more serious in their expressions, and those who then became seriously at- tached backed by legal and church documents had different expressions of the courtly love. It came in different forms, differ- ent media of communications. Wow, this is getting heavy and complicat- ed. The reason it is hard to envision my thoughts is because in the current cultural setting we are in, gender per- ception and gender identification, com- plex and non- traditional relationships emerged. Faith and religious values became so different from the era of yesteryears. So, it is now harder to de- fine and describe what I think. So let us leave this matter to the supposed experts of cultural and spiritual his- tory, and then make your own conclu- sions. As for me, the simpler the bet- ter. I often have read and heard, there is an agent or force who creates con- fusion in our lives. And there is also a True Source of Peace and Orderli- ness in the Universe. I often refer to the Scriptures as a very reliable source of Truth. Never fails. • • • Now here's some ideas I have heard and read: yes, there is value in mate- rial things gifted to our loved ones as a form of an expression of love. But there are also immeasurable things we can offer on Valentine's Day. They don't cause financial burdens, but have deep and satisfying rewards be- yond measure. Example: saying I love you or I care for you, making calls to love ones, visiting the sick or shut ins. Sending a card or a note to the ones who are lonely or feeling isolated. Do- ing acts of service to the ones who are needing help. Forgiving the ones who have seemingly wronged us, ask- ing forgiveness from the ones we may have caused sadness, and many other acts of charity. Sometimes, these things are easier said than done. But the journey of life is short, let's fill it with a daily dose of Valentine's day, not once a year on February 14. Incidentally, it is also Ash Wednesday today, let's hope this reminder of brevity of life inspires us to love while we have time. Have a great St. Valentine's Day! tine operations" by Ameri- can intelligence agents. In other words, Sen. Church threw the baby out with the bathwater. A fter the Church re- forms, U.S. intelligence agencies necessarily re- placed our de-funded hu- man intelligence (HU- MINT) programs with electronic intelligence (ELINT). We thought we could rely on satellite pho- tography and interception of electronic communica- tions. But in some cases, there is no substitute for human informants who notice sub- tle clues and know how to ask the right questions. ELINT was of no help in preventing the September 11 attacks. Today, House Intelli- gence Committee Chair- man Devin Nunes and President Donald Trump are fighting a necessary battle against tyrannical cronyism at the FBI and the Department of Justice. It's as urgent now as it was after Watergate. Last-min- ute FBI and Justice Depart- ment appeals to keep their misdeeds secret have fur- ther discredited them be- cause their alarmism was proved unfounded. No congressman has been more supportive of this investigation than Rep. Trey Gowdy. He's been a bulldog. Gowdy al- so supported disclosure of the Nunes memo, over the objections of the FBI, Jus- tice Department and Dem- ocrats. "It is important for the American people to know," he tweeted, "if the dossier was paid for by another candidate, used in court pleadings, vetted before it was used, vetted after it was used, and whether all relevant facts were shared with the tribunal approv- ing of the FISA applica- tion." Yet Gowdy speaks high- ly of the FBI agents who are in the trenches every day, solving crimes, inves- tigating government cor- ruption, busting narcotic rings, and wiretapping for- eign spies. He said he has confidence in "the over- whelming majority of the men and women" in feder- al law enforcement, includ- ing Robert Mueller. There's tyrannical cor- ruption at the FBI and Jus- tice Department. It must be rooted out. But I hope we follow the example of Trey Gowdy, not Frank Church. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath- water. Continued from page 8 REFORM percent is good enough for the Baptist Church, it ought to be good enough for the U.S. Congress. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. timated this winter night. His cheeks were ruddy in the cold, and though he was plenty warm from swinging the axe, he felt like he'd been going at it for much longer than he re- ally had. He decided a lit- tle rest might do him good before he finished up. He leaned the axe up against the fence, let out a bunch of air, and turned to look at the stars in the empty sky way out beyond the bound- aries of Stuhr. "Beautiful," he mur- mured, and he ended up staring out across the night for a fair bit longer than he'd planned. He was still breathing heavy from splitting logs, and he never heard the soft footsteps in the snow behind him. He never heard the small rubbing sound of his axe's handle turning in a gloved hand. He only heard the thunk it made as it sunk into his back. Letter to the Editor Central Time Resolutions Indiana was shifted from it's cor- rect Central Time Zone to Eastern in the mid-1960's, however, we didn't ex- perience a sunlight-schedule change until 2006 when Eastern Daylight Sav- ing Time was adopted. Two resolutions in the General Assembly (HCR 2 and SCR 11) call for an examination of the effect of Eastern's sunlight schedule on the well-being of Hoosiers. Why is this important? While observing Daylight Saving Time has proven beneficial to Indi- ana's economy by keeping our clocks in sync with other states, being in the same time zone as New York is no lon- ger valid. In the meantime, statistics show that our current sunlight schedule is adversely affecting Hoosier's well-be- ing. Hoosiers are the eighthmost tired in the U.S. Indiana's teens have the second highest suicide attempt rate. We are the eighth most obese and seventh least physically fit. Fifth-five thousand students are chronic absentees each year, mostly due to truancy. More than 630,000 adult Hoosiers don't have high school or GRE diplomas. Twenty-eight thousand Hoosiers and 51 public school boards have signed pe- titions to restore Indiana to its correct Central Time Zone which simply means that the sun would rise and set one hour earlier. Indiana's counties would be re- united in the same time zone again. Broadcast of prime time programs and national events (NFL, NCA A, Olympics, etc.) would occur one hour earlier in the evening. July 4th fireworks could return to 9 oclock and children could grow up seeing the stars and catching lightning bugs again. Students would travel to school in the safety of sunlight and schools and teens could meet the recommended 8:30 a.m. start time. Central Time is Indiana's correct time. It's a no-brainer. Verdayne Miley I have long been in favor of reforming Social Security by changing it to a system of personally owned retirement accounts. Instead of paying a payroll tax, with the U.S. government telling you what you'll get when you retire, you take ownership of that money – the payroll tax – and invest in your own retirement account. I am for IR As not the IRS. This is a good time to bring this up, fol- lowing a big drop in the stock market. Such a drop, to many, is exactly the reason to not do this reform. As of this writing, the stock market dropped around 5 percent. What is official- ly called a market "correction" is a drop of 10 percent. However, over the last year, the stock market has increased 26 percent. Since the presidential election in November 2016, it's up 35 to 40 percent. The point is, stocks are a long-term prop- osition and so is retirement investing. Al- though gyrations are part of the day-to-day reality of stocks, over the long haul they provide positive returns. Because they re- flect the underlying health of the economy, if stocks aren't healthy in the long run, it means the country is not healthy in the long run. The historical annual average return on stocks is 8 percent. Stocks are like life. Time, optimism and faith smooth out the ups and downs. I'll take the ups and downs of a free life and a free marketplace over turning control of my life over to politicians. In 2010, William Ship- man and Peter Ferrara pub- lished an analysis in The Wall Street Journal of what would have happened to a couple who invested their payroll tax in their own retirement account, over 44 years, and then retired in 2009, the year after the huge stock market drop in 2008. In 2008, their account lost 37 percent of its value. Even this huge one-year drop did not off- set the accumulated positive gains. The av- erage return from 1965 to 2009 was 6.75 percent and "would still pay them about 75 percent more than Social Security would have." But even this is not the main point. Al- though it makes sense to be invested in stocks over a 40 -year plus working life, no one is saying you have to do it. You can buy bonds or put the money in a bank CD. The main point is that every citizen should be free to have these options. There are particularly important impli- cations here to black Americans. Per the Federal Reserve, in 2016 me- dian black family net worth was $17,600, about 10 percent of median white family net worth. Thirty-four percent of black families have retirement accounts, compared with 60 percent of white fam- ilies, and 31 percent of blacks have some kind of stock own- ership compared with 61 per- cent of whites. And only 8 per- cent of blacks have received wealth through inheritance compared with 26 percent of whites. Social Security provides survivor benefits to spous- es and unmarried minor chil- dren. As of 2012, 36 percent of blacks over 25, compared with 16 percent of whites, had never been married. Because of the sorry state of marriage and family in black America, a large percentage of black Americans will have paid into So- cial Security over a full working life, and those benefits will just go up in smoke when they pass away. With all the handwringing about gaps in wealth and income in our country, if we were serious we would have policies that promote, rather than prohibit, ownership. Let's at least give low-income Ameri- cans the option to get out of Social Secu- rity and invest in personal retirement ac- counts to build ownership and wealth that can be bequeathed to others. This would be a great way to celebrate Black History Month.