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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, March 7, 2018 B- 11 Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court John Paul Allen charged with count I dealing in methamphetamine, a level 2 felony, count II possession of meth- amphetamine, count III possession of a narcotic drug, count IV unlawful pos- session of a syringe and count V habit- ual offender. Edward L. Simison charged with count I dealing in methamphetamine, a level 2 felony, count II possession of methamphetamine, count III posses- sion of a narcotic drug, count IV unlaw- ful possession of a syringe and count V habitual offender. Jordan R. Sattler charged with do- mestic battery, a level 6 felony. Tommy Biggs petitions for an intra- state probation transfer. Lori Toby petitions for an intrastate probation transfer. Search Warrant. Search Warrant. David Wood, Jr. petitions for an in- trastate probation transfer. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Justin R. Pride charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II possession of paraphernalia. Jessica Cheshire charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II possession of paraphernalia. Amy Schutz charged with battery re- sulting in bodily injury. Kyla A. Yeager charged with driving while suspended. Brandon W. Taylor charged with driving while suspended. Alexander L. Montgomery charged with criminal trespass. Jamie L. Walls charged with oper- ating a vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in the body. CIVIL Pike Circuit Court Cach sues Fred H. Ahlert on com- plaint. Prof and Business Collections sues Barbara S. Morris on complaint. Prof and Business Collections sues Benny D. Thomas on complaint. Jason D. Schisel sues Pike Co. Pros- ecuting and State of Indiana BMV on complaint. OneMain Financial of Indiana sues Christina E. Potts and Jason W. Potts on complaint. Kathryn D. Wiscaver sues Danny Joe Wiscaver for dissolution of mar- riage. Penny M. Newport sues Jarred R. Newport for dissolution of marriage. Stephen T. Sims sues Janet L. Sims for dissolution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Trinity Ambulance Service sues St. Vincent Warrick Hospital on com- plaint. Autumn Apartments sues Cody Catt on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Kevin Miller charged with speeding, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Faith Brinker charged with speed- ing, 95 mph in a 70 zone. Crit Downing charged with seatbelt violation. Marvin Goodrid charged with no valid driver's license. David Harvey charged with speed- ing, 86 mph in a 70 zone. George Hassell charged with seat- belt violation. Douglass McDowell charged with speeding, 44 mph in a 30 zone. Brittany Mullen charged with seat- belt violation. Zachary Parks charged with seat- belt violation. Marsha Slaven charged with speed- ing, 73 mph in a 55 zone. Claire Slomski charged with speed- ing, 77 mph in a 55 zone. Misty Wilkins charged with speed- ing, 75 mph in a 55 zone. Brian Collins charged with open al- coholic beverage container during op- eration of a motor vehicle. Cole Forrest charged with count I unlawful possession of tobacco and count II speeding, 82 mph in a 70 zone. Jacob Jarvis charged with driving while suspended. Tina Leonard charged with oper- ating a motor vehicle with a fictitious plate. Seamus Coffey charged with litter- ing. Nathan Stokes charged with litter- ing. Kathy Bass charged with speeding, 74 mph in a 55 zone. William Borrero Caraballo charged with no valid driver's license. Jaylene Cooper charged with speed- ing, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Darrell Cox charged with driving while suspended. Norman Danford charged with seat- belt violation. Clayton Greener charged with seat- belt violation. Ethan Kuebler charged with seat- belt violation. Bruce Lane charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Dorothy Lauderdale charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Travis Norrington charged with driving left of center. Vince Pitstick charged with speed- ing, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Aaron Rice charged with seatbelt vi- olation. Graham's approach to Christianity as "multicul- tural, ecumenical, and a believer in the big tent that includes all, but he was never a universalist, in the sense of 'there are many paths to God and they're all equally valid.' He challenged his read - ers to listen to a Billy Gra- ham sermon and 'count the number of times Billy Gra- ham said 'Jesus Christ' in any sermon.' Graham was promoting the 'Christ the Messiah'." Billy Graham's lega- cy is "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, only Jesus Christ." And people responded in "droves, and they believed, and that's his legacy, nothing else." In his "My Answer" col- umn penned before his death, Graham wrote his own epitaph, and it is worth sharing because it con- tains the confession of a man confident in his faith: "By the time you read this, I will be in heaven, and as I write this I'm looking for- ward with great anticipa- tion to the day when I will be in God's presence forev- er.…But I won't be in heav- en because I've preached to large crowds or be- cause I've tried to live a good life. I'll be in heaven for one reason: Many years ago I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross to make our forgiveness possible and rose again from the dead to give us eternal life. Do you know you will go to heaven when you die? You can, by committing your life to Jesus Christ today." I suspect Graham had in his mind what Paul wrote in his second letter to Tim- othy centuries earlier: "For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my depar- ture is near. I have fought the good fight, I have fin- ished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing." As long as this present world stands, we still need men and women like Paul and Graham. Where have they gone? Think about it! Continued from page 10 GONE? QUESTIONS Continued from page 10 corporate a combination of great cook- ing and cuisine in different parts of the world. They show the best of skills in cooking, and the great chefs and res- taurants all over the world. Naturally, when you watch these programs, your appetite gets stirred up and it sure- ly induces you to munch something. Here's some programs I have watched and recommend. For wonders about the earth we live in, Planet Earth is something I watched with amazement. For the great accomplishments of en- gineering, try watching Mega Build- ers, Grand Designs, or ArchitectureTop 10. There are so many features about cooking and restaurants and street food markets, I have enjoyed watch- ing; for example: I'll have What Phil is Having, Founder-McDonald's, Ain- sley Eats the Treats, the Luxury Travel Show, and many others. If you want more choices, click on the search section and a whole slew of choices on topics of interest appear. Categories such as documentaries, comedies, mysteries, etc. would show up. The choices are so numerous, it is truly amazing what our current tech- nology has achieved in the world of electronics and entertainment. • • • There are also shows that touch the human spirit. One of my favorites is Kindness Diaries. It tells of a story about a man who earned a lot of mon- ey working in the world of stocks and bonds. So he thought about going to different parts of the world, pretend- ing he did not have any money, traveled using a motorcycle, approached people at random asking for food, gas and ac- commodation. He had, of course, sev- eral rejections, but for those who ac- commodated him for a place to sleep and eat, although these people did not have much, he rewarded them with some life changing gifts the following morning before he would depart. The show was a series of the trav- els he made around the world. Sur- prisingly, he indicated the most re- jections he had were in a resort in Eu- rope, where the super rich had big yachts anchored on docks. Whenever he would ask if he could stay for the night just to sleep, the guards or staff who took care of the gorgeous yachts turned him down. The most touching parts of the stories were the places or homes who had meager resources but the family shared what little they had. Guess what, before he left their homes, he would give a sizable amount of gift that would change the lives of these kind people. These humble but gener- ous souls did not expect anything in re- turn, but they were so surprised about the rewards they were given. The lesson the author shared is that there is indeed still a lot of kindness in many human beings in different parts of this planet we live in, and that those who did not have much, surprisingly shared what little they had in the name of humanity and kindness. A thought for this week: Having seen and watched the memorial service for the greatest Evangelist of our times, in my faith mind, I envision most Rev. Billy Graham shaking hands and em- bracing Pope John Paul II and Moth- er Teresa, and the other great saints and evangelists as they celebrate his coming home. to the German rating sys- tem. Americans have attempt- ed to counter the influence of toxic entertainment me- dia here, too, but have been unable to overcome elite opposition in Congress, the courts and the main- stream media. A fter the Columbine High School massacre, President Bill Clinton de- nounced "video games like Mortal Kombat, Killer In- stinct and Doom, the very game played obsessive- ly by the two young men who ended so many lives at [Columbine]." "What does it do to chil- dren, who see thousands of acts of violence on televi- sion," asked Attorney Gen- eral John Ashcroft in 2001, "who are conditioned by video games to do things that are abhorrent to the human spirit? " Manufacturers should "understand that there's a certain responsibility in the development of video games," he said. Ashcroft said boys who massacred fellow students at Columbine (Colorado) and Heath (Kentucky) watched violent video games before their crimes. The Kentucky murderer learned tactical shooting skills in video games and was a better shot than most police officers, according to the Attorney General. Industry spokesmen were dismissive of the idea that video games condition players to commit violence or that they can hone play- ers' marksmanship. Al- though everybody seems to agree that great art and literature can inspire us, many who enjoy or profit from the bad stuff claim to doubt that it's harmful. Yet an Australian uni- versity experiment stud- ied participants who played Mortal Kombat and found that "playing violent vid- eo games leads players to see themselves, and their opponents, as lacking in core human qualities such as warmth, open-minded- ness and intelligence." Simulated violence can lead to actual violence, wrote a University of Mis- souri psychology profes- sor, because "to the ex- tent that a player learns to make specific or vio- lent responses in the con- text of the game, those same skills could transfer to scenarios outside the game, potentially increas- ing aggression in non-gam- ing situations." Novelist Stephen King, a former classroom teach- er, was more sensitive than video game entrepreneurs to the fact that art and en- tertainment can rehearse adolescent violence. He was appalled to learn that the Kentucky shooter had a copy of King's rampage novel, Rage, in his school locker. King asked his publisher to let it go out of print. The U.S. courts have sided with the publishers against parents. When three parents of Heath High School shooting vic- tims sued, their claim that media violence inspired the shootings got as far as the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals before it was was dismissed in 2002. It's "simply too far a leap from shooting characters on a video screen to shoot- ing people in a classroom," that Court held. I don't know enough about law to express an opinion on the legal merits of that hold- ing. But it was certainly a dagger through the heart of any prospect of account- ability for the racketeers who get rich degrading and destabilizing adoles- cent character, at the cost of great human suffering. Even our video game in- dustry's rating system is a sham. The Video Game Decency Act of 2006 was an attack on the obvious corruption of our system, which relies on voluntary disclosure by publishers. It would treat publishers' false descriptions of their video game content as "unfair or deceptive acts affecting interstate com- merce" under the Federal Trade Commission Act. It died in committee. In oth- er words, it was never even brought to the House floor for a vote. Thus parents have no re- course against entertain- ment media corporations when their children fall in a media-inspired hail of bullets, and they have no reliable, authoritative rat- ing system to guide them in shielding their own ado- lescents from material that might deform their charac- ter. "A child growing up in America today witness- es 16,000 murders," NR A executive Wayne LaPierre said after the Sandy Hook massacre, "and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18. And through- out it all, too many in the national media, their cor- porate owners, and their stockholders act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators." The suppression of American gun owner- ship will not reduce ram- page murders. When will we join the rest of the civi- lized world in confronting the loathsome commercial media cartel, mostly Amer- ican, that invades our fami- lies to entice and train our most troubled adolescents to slaughter classmates and teachers? Continued from page 10 CONTROL Continued from page 10 FAILURE Worst of all is the fact that the liberals who engineered the shutting down of men- tal institutions have never been held accountable for their folly. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. CALL TODAY AND RESERVE YOUR SPACE! e Pike Central Chargers compete in six varsity spring sports: Baseball, Girls' Tennis, Boys' Golf, Boys' and Girls' Track & Field, and Girls' Soball. e Press-Dispatch 2018 Spring Sports Preview will take an in-depth look at each of the coaches and all of the teams. Team outlooks, interviews, player profiles, rosters, schedules and special features will be included in this section. Readership and interest in this section is high, especially with the anticipation of a very promising season for the teams. Spring Sports fans are sure to find this section entertaining and informa- tive. Reach your potential customers with your message in the 2018 Spring Sports Preview. 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Not only no National Review, still America's pre- eminent journal of sensible thought and analysis, but no institutions of the right, ranging from the Young Amer- ica's Foundation to The Philadelphia Society. None of the thousands of next- generation followers who have made their individual marks in myriad ways to promote freedom worldwide. Ever the defender of what Russell Kirk called "the permanent things," Mr. Buckley continually reminded us that real conservatism is based on tra- dition and the cumulative wisdom of those on whose shoulders we stand. He was reluctant to provide a final definition of conservatism, but he of- fered himself as a definition, admitting he was dependent on human freedom, not as an end, but as a means—to "live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth." What a legacy William F. Buckley has left for us to celebrate—and em- ulate. Ed Feulner is founder of The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org).