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The Press-Dispatch Opinion Wednesday, June 6, 2018 B- 5 Court Report CRIMINAL Pike Circuit Court Andrew Gumbel charged with count I maintaining a common nui- sance- controlled substances, a level 6 felony, count II possession of a con- trolled substance, count III dealing in marijuana, count IV possession of marijuana and count V possession of paraphernalia. Jacob A. McCandless charged with intimidation, a level 6 felony. Kayla S. Bromm charged with count I check fraud, a level 6 felony, count II forgery and count III theft. Nathan M. Williams charged with count I resisting law enforcement, a level 6 felony, count II operating a ve- hicle as an habitual traffic violator and count III maintaining a common nui- sance- controlled substances. Riley Joseph Hill charged with count I operating a vehicle with an ACE of .08 or more, a level 6 felony, count II operating a vehicle while in- toxicated and count III operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated. Bobby J. Lewis charged with deal- ing in a schedule I controlled sub- stance, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike Circuit Court Eric W. Montgomery charged with possession of marijuana. Serena E. Poor charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II possession of paraphernalia. Jason P. Poor charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II possession of paraphernalia. Melissa D. Matier charged with op- erating a vehicle while intoxicated. Brian Shover charged with count I operating a vehicle with an ACE of .08 or more and count II operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Nicholas W. Rennals charged with count I possession of marijuana and count II possession of paraphernalia. Jeremy A. Lough charged with op- erating a vehicle while intoxicated. Ivan M. Dawson charged with count I operating a vehicle with an ACE of .08 or more and count II op- erating a vehicle while intoxicated. Brian S. Pride charged with count I operating a vehicle with an ACE of .15 or more and count II operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Zachary D. Parks charged with driving while suspended. CIVIL Pike Circuit Court Personal Finance Company sues Bradley C. Winchell on complaint. Personal Finance Company sues Phillip E. Barrett and Dyla E. Bar- rett on complaint. Personal Finance Company sues Talisa Williams and Earl Williams on complaint. Personal Finance Company sues Falicia Guarnery and Nicholas Gaurn- ery on complaint. Capital One Bank (USA) sues Viv- ian R. Taylor on complaint. Capital One Bank sues Deanna G. Wilson on complaint. Christopher E. Kopp sues State of Indiana and Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles on complaint. SMALL CLAIMS Pike Circuit Court Tower Construction sues Sarah Zit- tel on complaint. Medical and Professional Collec- tion Services, Inc. sues Rhonda S. Keller-Welp on complaint. Medical and Professional Collec- tion Services, Inc. sues Autum N. Hall on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike Circuit Court Christopher Babb charged with speeding, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Robert Blackburn charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Erik Blackwell charged with seat- belt violation. Gerald Blair charged with inspec- tion/repair and maint parts & acces- sories. Iris Castro Campos charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Vicki Catlow charged with seatbelt violation. Gregory Craney charged with speeding, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Kieonna Crowe-Burkhart charged with speeding, 65 mph in a 55 zone. Jamon Deaver charged with speed- ing, 89 mph in a 70 zone. Patrick Denny charged with speed- ing, 90 mph in a 70 zone. Sandra Doublemont charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Sarah Duke charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Ryan Ellerman charged with speed- ing, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Brian Eversole charged with speed- ing, 87 mph in a 70 zone. David Fox II charged with speed- ing, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Landreth Gine charged with oper- ating with expired plates. Jacob Gosciniak charged with seat- belt violation. Jose Guerra Herrera charged with speeding, 83 mph in a 70 zone. Brian Hall charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Mary Hyde charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Alexandra Johnson charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Kyle Kendrick charged with seat- belt violation. Levi King charged with speeding, 59 mph in a 45 zone. Travis Lawyer charged with no val- id driver's license. Kirstin Lintz charged with seatbelt violation and child restraint system violation. Thomas Locchetta charged with speeding, 85 mph in a 70 zone. Breanna Lomax charged with speeding, 83 mph in a 70 zone. Brandon Long charged with speed- ing, 69 mph in a 55 zone. Holly McCormick charged with speeding, 39 mph in a 25 zone. Kayla Moore charged with speed- ing 84 mph in a 70 zone. Thomas Naas charged with count I driving while suspended and count II operating a motor vehicle with a fic- titious plate. Alex Neukam charged with speed- ing, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Marsha Palacios charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Patricia Pollock Fields charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Misty Prentice charged with speed- ing, 70 mph in a 55 zone. Dylan Query charged with speed- ing, 93 mph in a 60 zone. Mason Rickleman charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Lucas Roberts charged with speed- ing, 54 mph in a 45 zone. Gissele Santos Mora charged with speeding, 49 mph in a 35 zone. Dewayne Simmons charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Colton Simpson charged with speeding, 79 mph in a 70 zone. Jeffrey Sisk charged with seatbelt violation. Derek Strange charged with speed- ing, 66 mph in a 55 zone. Kaine Trinkle charged with speed- ing, 87 mph in a 70 zone. Ethan Uppencamp charged with driving while suspended. Abigail Alexander charged with speeding, 100 mph in a 70 zone. Harry Crow charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Richard Escalera charged with speeding, 84 mph in a 70 zone. William Garland charged with seat- belt violation. Christopher Manning charged with driving while suspended. Tyler Olston charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Nicholas Pegram charged with speeding, 88 mph in a 70 zone. Evan Rawlins charged with motor- cycle learner's permit violation - hel- met. Steven Taylor charged with speed- ing, 89 mph in a 70 zone. Samuel Troyer charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Troy Wiley, Jr. charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. Jennifer Young charged with speed- ing, 84 mph in a 70 zone. got to care whether it's true. Otherwise, you're part of the problem. Even PBS documenta- ry filmmaker Ken Burns joined the posthumous lynch mob. He could have re- searched Cobb's bold public comments in favor of admit- ting Blacks to major league baseball, or Cobb's praises of Mays and Campanella, but he dramatically repeat- ed Stump's dishonest claim that Cobb was a racial big- ot. I believed it for years. This is the power of gossip. It's why college librarians belabor the distinction be- tween primary and second- ary sources. Burns obvious- ly satisfied himself with sec- ondary sources (Stump and imitators) and never looked for primary sources like po- lice, hospital or morgue re- cords. Ty Cobb's reputation is under rehabilitation by peo- ple who rely on the prima- ry sources. We are fortunate that his sport is the subject of scholarship, not just gos- sip. The Society for Ameri- can Baseball Research pub- lishes The National Pastime, a footnoted, peer-reviewed journal. In it, meticulous re- searchers have not only dis- credited Stump's accusa- tions of psychotic violence and racial animosity, but have uncovered evidence that Stump swindled collec- tors and auction houses after Cobb's death with forgeries and fraudulent memorabil- ia. Through Ken Burns, Ron Shelton and others of simi- lar integrity, he has swin- dled us, too. For 50 years, Stump and ilk deprived us of a genuine American hero. I resent it. I had never heard of pri- mary and secondary sourc- es when I was on my paper route. But my customer was a primary source, alright. She was there. And she said Ty Cobb got in some fights with the guys, but he was al- ways a gentleman to her, al- ways courteous. TRUTH Continued from page 4 tion, Russia, which is a major energy supplier to Europe, stands to gain greater eco- nomic and political power. Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Sci- ence, Space and Technology Committee, has raised the possibility that those com- plicit in the scheme to use American environmental- ists to advance Russian pro- paganda and interests could be in violation of federal stat- utes that apply to foreign agents lobbying in behalf of foreign interests. Russia is also a major sup- plier of natural gas to all of Europe. U.S. natural gas producers long wished to export some of their product to Europe and Japan to take advantage of higher prices. But up until 2016, they were blocked by natural gas ex- port restrictions. In the case of natural gas, the Russians didn't have to bribe environ- mentalists to do their dirty work. They had willing sup- port from U.S. industrial gi- ants such as Dow, Alcoa, Celanese and Nucor, mem- bers of America's Energy Advantage. These U.S. com- panies lobbied against natu- ral gas exports, saying that it would be unpatriotic to al- low unlimited natural gas exports. Export restrictions kept natural gas prices ar- tificially low and gave U.S. manufacturing companies a raw material advantage. The lifting of export restrictions has raised natural gas prices in the U.S. but lowered them in the recipient countries and weakened Russia's eco- nomic and political hold on Europe. In my book, that's a good thing. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Continued from page 4 Continued from page 4 benefit of protecting human life. You might say that our president understands that building a culture of life is a vital part of making Amer- ica "great again." The new HHS order re- quires complete financial and physical separation of Title X funds from abortion activity. No Title X funds can be used for abortion. And abortions cannot be performed in any facility in which programs being funded by Title X are tak - ing place. Although Title X counsel- ors will be prohibited from discussing abortion as a fam- ily planning measure, they can discuss it when a wom- an has already decided it's what she wants. Then they can provide a list of abortion providers. But as we think about this, let's consider the big- ger question. What is the federal government doing in the family planning busi- ness anyway? The Office of Population A ffairs describes, among the activities of its "Fami- ly Planning Mission," offer- ing guidance "to assist indi- viduals in determining the number and spacing of their children." Given that this family planning guidance is tar- geted to low-income Ameri- cans, who happen to be dis- proportionately black, let's consider what has happened to the black family since the Office of Population A ffairs first began. The budget of the Title X Family Planning program in 1971 was $ 6 million. To- day, it is $286 million dollars, an increase of 50 fold. What have we gotten? In 1970, 38 percent of black babies were born to unwed mothers. Today it is more than 70 percent. In 1960, 10 years before the program started, 2 per- cent of black children lived with an unmarried parent. By 2008, 41 percent did. In 1960, 61 percent of blacks over the age of 18 were married. By 2008, 32 percent were. I would suggest that gov- ernment "family planning" is really an insidious, perni- cious kind of racism. It's not about improving the quality of life, but rather it is about discouraging black wom- en, and other poor women, from having children and encouraging them to abort their pregnancies. The collateral damage has been the collapse of the black family. This important new HHS proposed rule will take care of the abortion issue. But we need a broader ini- tiative to get rid of the dam- aging and wasteful govern- ment "family planning" business. The nation would be bet- ter served, particularly at a time of trillion-dollar defi- cits, to return the $286 mil- lion spent on Title X pro- grams to taxpayers. Black women should be getting their "family plan- ning" guidance from their pastor, not from government bureaucrats. Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Cen- ter for Urban Renewal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure.org. ABORTION RUSSIA Continued from 4 DENMARK 56 percent. So in our currency, for ev- ery one dollar you earn, you pay 41-56 cents in taxes. It is a leveler that some- times makes it possible for blue collar workers to earn more than white col- lar workers. Danish happiness according to the author of this article "is closely tied to their notion of tryghed, the snuggled, tucked in feeling that begins with a mother's love and extends to the rela- tionship they have with their govern- ment. The system does not as much ensure happiness as it keeps people from doing what will make them un- happy." More than 90 percent of Danes be- long to a club or an association, and more than 40 percent volunteer for civic groups. Many families share a housing community, each fami- ly owns a small lego-like house, but together they share a large garden, laundry room, workshop, storage ar- ea, parking facility, and dining hall, where they can opt in to communal meals. Each family cooks one or two meals a month for the whole commu- nity and then eats the rest of its meals free. There are many communal farms where schoolchildren harvest vege- tables that they raised and will cook and eat as part of a program designed to inspire a deeper appreciation of the environment. The housing complexes are usually within biking distances of the neighborhood elementary school and university. In Scandinavian fash- ion, the housing complex offers an el- egant mix of private and public, an ap- propriate sentiment for Danish soci- ety as a whole, with emphasis on trust and community. Defining where happiness and con- tentment resides in a particular place, city or country is quite complex, I have no intention of telling the formula the Danish people have embraced is the way to go. I merely wanted to share some ideas the author had researched and discovered. I'm sure there are ma- ny more factors that contribute to the happiness and contentment of citizens of a particular culture. Next destina- tion... Costa Rica. • • • Humor of the week: Somebody has well said that there are only two kinds of people in the world, thereare those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning , Lord." And there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it's morning." Have a great week! Forging a better strategy on Iran Heritage Viewpoint by Edwin J. Feulner Continued from page 4 SECULAR world as it [the world] con- tinues to descend into cov- etousness, debauchery, and hedonism is to remain faith- ful to God. The actual translation to the modernists of "become relevant" means God loves me as I am, He made me, and so He loves me. Any- thing other than this is His problem. That is where the church was in early years of the 20th century and where we remain 100 years later. The Word of God has not changed. Many of the men and women who led the church through these social changes allowed the pres- sures of relevancy to change how they viewed the saving power of Jesus Christ. The power of the church remains in the cross, and the Christ of the resurrec- tion is a change agent to all who embrace His calling through faith. The author of the book of Hebrews wrote, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." Jesus remains relevant to world gone mad with sin. Think about it! To hear many in the media tell it, President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal was the worst thing to happen since he was elected. "Trump withdraws from Iran nu- clear deal, isolating him further from world," a CNN headline read. A New York Times reporter said the presi- dent is "isolating the United States from its Western allies." The BBC, meanwhile, said: "He has put U.S. diplomacy on a collision course with some of Washington's closest allies. And some fear that he may have brought a new and cata- strophic regional war in the Middle East that much closer." Notice a pattern? Almost all of the criticism I've cited here (and I could cite many more examples) focused on how Mr. Trump is breaking with the rest of the world — as if that, in and of itself, is irrefutable evidence of error. News flash: There is no inherent value to swimming with the tide. Yes, we should pay attention to what our allies are doing, but to suggest that following a different course of action is proof that we're doing something wrong is ridiculous. Real leadership is standing up for what's right, regardless of what oth- ers are doing. Indeed, it takes genu- ine strength to buck the trend. And the trend on the Iran deal is something that definitely called for some serious recalibrating — some- thing that our big-thinking president excels at. Mr. Trump knew that the Iran deal, far from ensuring peace, has been posing a threat to it. So it followed that having a huge player such as the U.S. pull out of it wasn't dangerous. On the contrary, getting rid of a bad agreement is a key first step to avoid- ing the real danger: a nu- clear-armed Iran. "This was a horri- ble one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made," the presi- dent said. "It didn't bring calm, it didn't bring peace, and it nev- er will." Our allies know this. For political reasons, though, they can't say so publicly, so they have to leave the U.S. to take the flak. That's fine. Mr. Trump is up to it. So is Secretary of State Mike Pom- peo, who went before an audience at the Heritage Foundation recently to clarify the administration's rationale. Mr. Pompeo first explained why the deal had to go. Iran has contin- ued — under an agreement that so many claim is the key to peace — to be "the world's largest sponsor of ter- ror." Since the agreement went into ef- fect, he said, Iran has funded terror- ism in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and A f- ghanistan, among other areas. Not anymore. They're about to get hit with some serious sanctions. "Iran will be forced to make a choice: Either fight to keep its econ- omy off life support at home or keep squandering precious wealth on fights abroad. It won't have the resources to do both," Mr. Pompeo said. The secretary also fo- cused on something else we've heard precious little of from the media: the Ira- nian people. "Iranians are angry at a regime elite that com- mits hundreds of millions to military operations and terrorist groups abroad, while the Iranian people cry out for jobs, opportunity and lib- erty," Mr. Pompeo said. "The Iranian regime's response to the protests has only exposed that the country's lead- ership is running scared. Thousands have been jailed arbitrarily, and at least dozens have been killed." Yet the same leftists who at other times flaunt their concern for human rights are more concerned about up- setting the leaders in Tehran than the people they treat so atrociously. Iran can forge a new deal with the U.S., Mr. Pompeo said. But it will have to comply with specific demands that, unlike the old Iran deal, actually stop their march to a nuclear weapon and bring their reign of terror in the Mid- dle East to a halt. In short, establish real peace. Hard to imagine a better reason to break with one's allies and withstand slings and arrows from the media. Ed Feulner is founder of the Heritage Foundation (heritage.org).