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Man killed in Walmart shootout Fleeing BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

IUKA — Walmart shoppers were herded to the back of the store in Iuka before gunfire broke out between police and a man they pursued Sunday evening. Howard Brent Means Jr., 34, of Tishomingo, was killed

in the exchange of gunfire, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, and one officer was treated and released for a minor injury. No one else was injured, but shoppers like Michael Clayton of Iuka were rattled. “I was in the birthday cards section, and he came in like

the next aisle over,” he said. “I didn’t really know what was going on. I could hear him screaming, ‘Y’all killed my family.’ He just kept saying that over and over.” Clayton heard store staff telling customers to get to the back of the store. They gathered at the back for several

minutes until “we heard about 20 or 30 shots go off,” he said. “Then one of the managers said, ‘Y’all run out the back door.’ Everybody just tumbled off the docks.” He waited outside in the cold for more than two hours before Please see SHOOTOUT | 2

driver dies in wreck BY JEFF YORK

Freezing rain forces cleanup

For the Daily Corinthian

GUYS, Tenn. — An early morning alleged shoplifting in Selmer’s Walmart ended in the death of the suspect after she tried to flee from the McNairy County sheriff and two of his deputies. Audrey C. Moore, 31, of Corinth, allegedly had taken two televisions from Walmart around 9 a.m. Saturday. McNairy County Sheriff Guy Buck happened to be inside the store at the time, shopping for gun cleaning supplies when he was alerted about the theft. The sheriff went outside to approach the suspect after he realized what had happened and she quickly left in her 2004 Dodge Stratus, nearly hitting the sheriff and two bystanders who were standing in the park-

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Steady freezing rain created a glaze on trees and foliage throughout Monday, making for a busy day for the Corinth Street Department as limbs and trees began to break. The good news was streets remained largely free of ice as temperatures hovered near the freezing mark for much of the day. Staff photo by Mark Boehler

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John Michael Tucker of the Corinth Street Department clears South Parkway of tree limbs.

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Museum extends hours for Black History Month BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The Black History Museum of Corinth has stories to tell. The doors are open for local residents to find their touchstones to the past, whether it’s in the museum’s collection of obituaries, profiles of military service members or memories and memorabilia of Easom High. For Black History Month, the museum at 1109 Meigg Street is open each weekday from noon to 4 p.m. “We like the month, but we really want to get people interested in coming to the museum all year,” said volunteer Freida Miller. She is encouraging the submission of family histories, obituaries and photos of all military service members, past and present. Things of genealogical

interest are proving to be the museum’s biggest draw. “Obituaries are some of the best history that we have, and people really gravitate toward it,” said Miller. “People come from out of town and they will read the obituaries for hours.” Beyond local history, the museum also has displays on President Obama and the civil rights movement and a collection of African artifacts. It is located in the Webb home, the former residence of William Dakota and Adrienne Combs Webb. Donated to the city in 1990, it became a shelter for families during times of loss. The effort to make it a museum began in 2003. After February, the museum will return to its regular hours of operation, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Friday.

Staff photo by Jebb Johnston

Museum supporters (from left) Mary Nabors Greer, Tyqauvia Sharra Golden Johnson and Sharra Omar Golden recently donated a copy of “Speeches That Changed the World,” a collection of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic addresses.

Booneville resident releases latest album with Volume Five Booneville resident Glen Harrell, who fronts the bluegrass band Volume Five, is celebrating the group’s new album “Voices,” just released on Mountain Fever Records. The album features a special duet with Harrell, who is joined by the Queen of Bluegrass Music Rhonda Vincent on the Dolly Parton tune “Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man.” Harrell sings lead vocals and plays fiddle with the band he founded in 2008. He is joined by members Harry Clark (Man-

dolin & Vocals), Chris Williamson (Bass & Vocals), Patton Wages (Banjo & Vocals,) and Colby Laney (Guitar & Vocals.) These five musicians together truly blend into a band with staying power. “When I put this group together, I knew the style of music I wanted us to play and the goals I wanted to achieve,” stated Harrell. “It was just a matter of finding the right guys who wanted to create their own identity in the industry. I didn’t just want us to be another band

that moves onto the scene and is gone in a few years, but one that would have a unique sound that players and listeners would remember for many years to come — one that sounded like no other band in the business.” “Voices” is the band’s fifth album and features 12 tracks of carefully selected songs, showcasing the many facets of musical tastes that come from within the decidedly bluegrass ensemble — traditional, classic, and on-the-edge. This CD covers it all. The album features the

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vocal and instrumental prowess of each V5 band member along with the added talents of Jeff Partin, who plays dobro and also contributed three original songs (“Satan’s Ridge,” “Faithfully” and the first single, “Crazy Nights”). V5 guitarist Colby Laney brought two original songs (“Going Across the Mountain” and “Sam’s Gap”) while the album is rounded out with cuts written by noted country artists Hal Ketchum, Jedd Hughes, and Dolly Parton, whose classic “Daddy Was

An Old Time Preacher Man,” is sure to be a standout track with the addition of Vincent sharing the vocal spotlight with V5’s Harrell. “Voices” was produced by Aaron Ramsey and recorded at Mountain Fever Studios. 2014 proved to be a stellar year for the band. On the heels of its well-received Southerngospel CD release “The Day We Learn to Fly,” the band earned two International Bluegrass Music Association Award Please see HARRELL | 2

On this day in history 150 years ago Columbia, South Carolina, is in flames. Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton orders thousands of cotton bales burned and the fire spreads through the city. The city is surrendered but the Federals do not extinguish the fires, which burn much of the city. EXECUTIVE RENTALS COR CORINT INTH, H,, MISSISSIPPI MISSIS MIS SISSIP SIPPI PI CORINTH,

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Daily Corinthian Cat of the Week Staff photo by Mark Boehler

A tree fell on a house on Bunch Street, one of many reports of limbs and trees down in yards and on roadways.

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“The bridges got a little slushy, but they were in pretty good shape, ” said Street Commissioner Philip Verdung, who spent the day dispatching for a crew of about a dozen. Those workers spent the Presidents Day holiday clearing the streets of tree debris. “We ’ve had about ve dozen calls of tree limbs and trees blocking the road, ” he said at 3:30 p.m. “I know of several trees on houses — one on Eighth Street and two on Young Street. It ’s been pretty busy but we were able to keep up with it. ”

Isolated power outages occurred as trees and limbs brought down power lines. At one point, trafc lights went dark at all of the intersections on Highway 72. A crew of about ve worked in the early a.m. hours Monday, and Verdung expected to have a crew continuing to work overnight. While the precipitation was moving out, it appeared limbs would continue to fall under the weight of the ice. At 4:30 p.m., Emergency Services Coordinator Ricky Gibens was heading out to help cut some trees in the Farmington, Central and Wenasoga areas. He said the county

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ing lot, according to Buck. Buck began the pursuit south on U.S. Highway 45 and he soon lost sight of the speeding vehicle. The sheriff estimated the vehicle was going 120 mph when she went out of his sight. Buck said he had the Mississippi license plate number and believed that Moore would try to get back into Mississippi. The sheriff said there was a Mississippi law enforcement ofcer waiting on the eeing driver at the state line. The driver later turned on Houston Cemetery Road headed toward Guys when she passed a sheriff ’s deputy. The driver then turned to head west on Guys-Chewalla Road to Chewalla, according to the sheriff. When the vehicle got on Butler ’s Chapel Road, it was stopped by a train and

had seen some scattered power outages but no major property damage with the fallen limbs and trees. He was concerned about the overnight hours, however. The National Weather Service urged extreme caution on roadways. With a Monday night low of 14, freezing of any standing water was expected and could persist for a few days with a chilly forecast that includes a low of 1 degree Wednesday night. Both city and county schools were out Monday, and a number of businesses closed. The weather service has posted a chance of snow on Friday.

SHOOTOUT the driver turned around to head back east on GuysChewalla Road, where she again met a deputy who was looking for her, said Sheriff Buck. She passed the deputy and, less than ve minutes later, lost control of her car and hit a tree at 3400 GuysChewalla Road near Guys. She died at the scene of the wreck. Buck said there was no high-speed chase because none of the ofcers could get close enough to her. The sheriff said his ofcers have been instructed what to do in pursuit situations and that it is always based on the crime. According the accident report led by Tennessee State Trooper Andrew Naylor, Moore ran off the left side of the road, overcorrected, and ran off the right side of the road and hit a tree. The report stated Moore was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the wreck.

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going home. Clayton said the store wasn ’t particularly busy at the time of the shooting. He estimated about 30 people were there. MBI said two Iuka police ofcers began following a man in a car about 6:10 p.m. and pursued him for a short time until the man went to Walmart on Battleground Drive and entered the store. The ofcers followed him inside, and the man opened re. Police then returned re. According to a social website prole created by Means, he was a 1999 graduate of Belmont High School and a logger with three children. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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nominations for Emerging Artist of the Year and IBMA Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year for the album ’s title cut. “Voices ” is now available at iTunes, Amazon, and wherever newly released music is sold. For more about Volume Five, visit volumevebg.com. For more about Mountain Fever Records, visit www.mountainfever.com.

Daily Corinthian Dog of the Week Rhettington is this week’s Daily Corinthian Dog of the Week. He is beautiful and has a great heart. He is ready for his forever home. For more information about Rhettington or any other adoptable pets, contact the Corinth Alcorn Animal Shelter at 662-284-5800.

Columbus police officers deploy 55 body cameras Associated Press

COLUMBUS — Columbus police ofcers are now using body cameras on the job, and chief Tony Carleton is hopeful the new equipment will positively impact his department. Carleton said the department has deployed 50 cameras within its patrol division. The department used $14,045 from a federal grant to purchase the

cameras from TASER. Procedurally, Carleton said ofcers will engage the cameras in any instance where there might be “enforcement action, ” be it a trafc stop or arriving on the scene of a call. At the end of each shift, he said ofcers must place their cameras in a docking station that will automatically download the contents to an off-site server.

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Field takes shape for vacant House seat Associated Press

Today is Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 17, the 48th day of 2015. There are 317 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 17, 1865, during the Civil War, Columbia, South Carolina, burned as the Confederates evacuated and Union forces moved in. (It’s not clear which side was responsible for setting the blaze, or whether it had been deliberate.)

On this date: In 1815, the United States and Britain exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812. In 1863, the International Red Cross was founded in Geneva. In 1904, the original two-act version of Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” received a poor reception at its premiere at La Scala in Milan, Italy. In 1913, the Armory Show, a landmark modern art exhibit, opened in New York City. In 1933, Newsweek magazine was first published under the title “News-Week.” In 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces invaded Eniwetok Atoll, encountering little initial resistance from Imperial Japanese troops. (The Americans secured the atoll less than a week later.) In 1959, the United States launched Vanguard 2, a satellite which carried meteorological equipment. In 1965, comedian Joan Rivers made her first appearance on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon departed the White House with his wife, Pat, on a historic trip to China. In 1985, Murray P. Haydon became the third person to receive a permanent artificial heart as doctors at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, implanted the device. (Haydon lived 488 days with the heart.) In 1995, Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings (he was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison).

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush named John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as the government’s first national intelligence director. Iraq’s electoral commission certified the results of the Jan. 30 elections and allocated 140 of 275 National Assembly seats to the United Iraqi Alliance, giving the Shiite-dominated party a majority in the new parliament. Actor Dan O’Herlihy died in Malibu, California, at age 85.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama marked the oneyear anniversary of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, saying it had staved off another Great Depression and kept up to 2 million people on the job.

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HERNANDO — Speculation has begun in earnest over who will succeed the late Alan Nunnelee in Mississippi’s First District House seat, and conventional wisdom is that DeSoto County will play a key role in determining who North Mississippi’s next congressman will be. At least three DeSoto County names — Hernando Mayor Chip Johnson, state Sen. David Parker of Olive Branch and former state Sen. Merle Flowers — are being mentioned among the potential field of candidates for the post, which is expected to remain in Republican hands. Other familiar Republican names from throughout North Mississippi are considered serious contenders as well should they choose to run, and at least one Democrat is mentioned for the seat that was held by Democrat Travis Childers for a term before Nunnelee won it. Then there’s the Chris McDaniel factor. Should United Conservatives Fund, the political action committee recently formed by the tea party-backed McDaniel, decide to field a candidate in the race, observers say it could upset the balance for Republican candidates supported by the GOP mainstream. It would also represent the first test of McDaniel’s staying power among voters since his prolonged and acrimonious, but ultimately unsuccessful, challenge of Sen. Thad Cochran’s re-election victory last year. Before anything can happen. Gov. Phil Bryant has to set a date

for the special election to fill the seat. Bryant has 60 days from the date of Nunnelee’s death from brain cancer at age 56 on Feb. 6 to set an election date, and that date must be within 60 days of when Bryant sets it. Once the date is set, maneuvering will move into high gear for the nonpartisan election to fill the remainder of the second two-year term Nunnelee won just last November. Despite being unable to campaign because of his illness, Nunnelee, of Tupelo, easily defeated Democrat Ron Dickey of Horn Lake. This time, however, DeSoto County is likely to play a key role in determining who’s on the winning side of the ballot, believes Kevin Blackwell, chairman of the DeSoto County Republican Party. “If we can get a significant number of our registered voters to turn out, DeSoto will play a pivotal role,” predicted Blackwell, noting that voter turnout for special elections tends to be low. “If we could get 50 percent turnout, DeSoto County would decide the election.” With more than 90,000 registered voters, heavily Republican DeSoto County is one of the most populous counties in the district, which also includes the Tupelo area. Marty Wiseman, who is now retired but was the longtime director of the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University, said the election will highlight the two-sided nature of the district, with DeSoto County and Tupelo again battling to see whether the

eastern side of the district or the western side controls the outcome. As for the influence of McDaniel and his PAC, Wiseman said the election will be the first real litmus test of how influential his conservative backers really are. “It’s time to see if they put up or shut up,” Wiseman said. McDaniel, a state senator, ran extremely well in DeSoto County against Cochran in last year’s Republican primary, which McDaniel won, and the runoff, which Cochran won. McDaniel, though, easily carried DeSoto County in both. McDaniel, from Ellisville in South Mississippi, doesn’t live in the First District, but DeSoto voters might be receptive to a candidate backed by McDaniel and his PAC. In a statement last week to Roll Call, a Washington-based newspaper that reports on legislative and political happenings, McDaniel said his group has its eye on the First District race. “The United Conservatives Fund has been contacted by many regarding several prospective candidates to run for the District 1 Congressional seat previously held by congressman Alan Nunnelee,” McDaniel said in the statement. “Our UCF team is currently discussing scenarios and who we might support in the election, if anyone.” Wiseman also didn’t rule out a Democrat being able to mount a serious challenge in the district, which Childers represented from 2008-2011 after Roger Wicker gave it up to move to the Senate. Public Service Commissioner

Brandon Presley, a Democrat who represents North Mississippi on the three-member PSC, has been mentioned as perhaps the most formidable Democratic candidate, but Presley said last week he isn’t interested. Among Republican possibilities, in addition to the DeSoto County names mentioned, the lengthy list of possible candidates includes Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Jimmy Maxwell, state Sen. Gray Tollison of Oxford, state Rep. Brad Mayo of Oxford, Highway Commissioner Mike Tagert of Starkville and State Treasurer Lynn Fitch. Johnson, the Hernando mayor for nearly 10 years, said he had never considered the possibility until he began receiving calls that he should consider a run for the post. “People from across the state have asked me to run,” Johnson said. “The first couple who ask, it catches you off guard. But the more who ask, who I respect greatly, it makes you take a serious look. So what I would say is that I just want to see how much support there is.” Johnson said he thinks he was approached in part because there is a feeling that “somebody local,” who knows the needs of individual communities, would be good in the job. “But I’m not one who would just beat the podium and say ‘no,’” Johnson added, an apparent nod to the kind of conservative hard-liner likely to be supported by McDaniel and his PAC. “If that’s what you’re looking for, I’m not your candidate. I like to be thorough and deliberate.”

Students looking for different sort of degree Associated Press

GREENWOOD — The journalism school at the University of Mississippi has experienced phenomenal growth in the five years since Will Norton Jr. returned to the Oxford campus to head up the program. Norton says, however, he is troubled by the number of students who arrive at college illequipped at basic writing skills and the coddling they have received growing up. “I can’t tell you what a difference Ole Miss is now than when I came 40 years ago, when students had a much better work ethic than they have now,” Norton said in a recent civic club speech in Greenwood. “Today we have generations of people who don’t want their children to go through the hardships they went through, but they don’t understand that going through those hardships has made you and your fellow parents the people that you are.” Norton has served as dean of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media since 2009. He

had previously been chairman of what was then the university’s Journalism Department, before leaving the state for almost two decades to serve as dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of NebraskaLincoln. The University of Mississippi journalism school now has an enrollment of 1,200, a growth of 700 students in the past four years. Most of that growth has come from the addition of an integrated marketing communication major. Students in the program minor in business and major in publicity, promotion, advertising and public relations. “People are looking for a different sort of degree,” Norton said. When recruiting professors, Norton has put a heavier emphasis on candidates with sterling practical experience in the media as opposed to those whose background is mostly in academia. Among his recruits are a former national editor of the Mi-

ami Herald, a former website manager for NBC, a Pulitzer Prizewinning photographer, and a former vice president of communications at the Principal Financial Group, a global investment firm. “Our whole focus is on practical things,” Norton said. Norton said that his efforts run counter to the trend in journalism education, in which the emphasis on faculty has been more on research and less on working with students. The problem with that trend, though, is that students today “need more attention now than they did 35 years ago,” said Norton. As an example, he cited an experience he had when he took eight journalism students to Waynesboro for a weekend to work on a reporting project for the newspaper there. “All but one did not know how to punctuate a quote,” he said. “That’s not the university that’s failing. ... That’s a basic problem that has to do with education.” There has been much written

and said in recent years about how the electronic media, especially social media, are impacting newspapers, television and radio. Norton said he doesn’t deny that the news landscape is changing, but he doubts the future is as gloomy for traditional media as the doomsayers claim. “Ever since the beginning of media, no medium has gone out of business,” he said. Norton said he could not predict what form the newspapers of the future might take. He said his son, now a lawyer in Nashville, predicted some 15 years ago that most daily newspapers would convert to print editions only on weekends with Internet delivery the rest of the week. In some markets, daily newspapers have moved in recent years toward fulfilling that prophecy. Newspapers in cities as large as Portland, Oregon, and New Orleans have reduced their print schedule. Nearer to home, former daily newspapers in Grenada and Clarksdale now publish twice a week.

Ex-official pleads guilty in scheme Associated Press

HATTIESBURG — A former Hattiesburg public works official has pleaded guilty to plotting to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a roofing contract kickback scheme. Former general man-

ager Jim Pittman made a plea deal with federal prosecutors. He’d been charged on three felony counts and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy. The scheme involved apartments managed by a company owned by Pittman and his father.

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A divestment disgrace Most maps show that California is part of the United States. That would make, by a fairly airtight chain of reasoning, the University of California also part of the United States. Although not if its Student Association has anything to say about it. Not satisfied merely to urge divestment from Israel, as is the trend on campuses around the country, the Student Association board has voted to divest from the United States itself, in an act that is a mashup of Noam Chomsky Rich and a Monty Python skit. The “Resolution Toward SoLowry cially Responsible Investment” National recalls the notorious motion Review that carried the day at the Oxford Union in 1933, “that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.” Back then, the forces of social responsibility rallied behind the Oxford motion. One proponent argued that “the only country fighting for the cause of peace, Soviet Russia, is the country that has rid itself of the warmongering clique.” The heirs of the Oxford scourges of “King and Country” live on in the student representatives of the University of California. In their critical distance from and lack of sympathy with these United States, they are particularly callow representatives of a left that is most comfortable when afflicting its own country. The UC resolution cites U.S. drone strikes, the prison system and deportations of illegal aliens. Reasonable people can disagree about policy in all these areas without endorsing a symbolic secession from the United States. (Somewhere old Jeff Davis is smiling that self-styled progressive students caught up to his wisdom 150 years later.) The UC students lump in the U.S. with other divestment-worthy governments like Sri Lanka and Russia. What the UC students lack in thoughtfulness, they make up in presumptuous brattiness. Through no fault of their own, they were born in a country that respects individual rights, enjoys untold material abundance and invests massively in the education of its young people – even though the UC resolution suggests some of them are, in fact, uneducable. Rather than thundering on about what the university should do with its investments, it is directly within the power of students who agree with the UC resolution to forgo all federal student aid, as a step toward severing their own connection to the country they find so monstrous. But moral rectitude is always much easier on someone else’s dime. If the University of California were to establish its own, independent republic, at least it would open up another cushy ambassadorial spot to be sold to the highest Obama donor. But how would it defend itself from aggressive acts by a United States that might want to reclaim its sovereign territory? Soon enough, splinter groups of UC students would surely be protesting the unacceptable measures undertaken by the Free Republic of UC to protect its own territorial integrity. The main event at UC was the Israel divestment resolution (technically from companies doing business in Israel), which is part of the ongoing effort to delegitimize the Jewish state for the offense of being a pro-Western country struggling to survive in a Middle Eastern pit of vipers. It is always curious that the world’s lone Jewish state is singled out for obloquy on campuses. At least the additional UC resolution including the United States provides some cover in the form of non-Jewish states. Regardless, the UC action raises the question, as writer William Jacobson asked, Can the United States divest from the University of California? It might be the only socially responsible thing to do. (Daily Corinthian columnist Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.)

Prayer for today Almighty God, I would learn that while thou art a forgiving Lord, nature has no mercy on them that break her laws. Forgive me for all my neglect, and help me to see the way in which thou hast through mercy led me. Give me the power to endure and the strength to resist temptation. May I seek to understand thy laws, that I may not fail through ignorance. Amen.

A verse to share “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” — 1 Peter 1:14-16

The ultimate enemy of ISIS The president’s request for the authorization to use military force against the Islamic State has landed in a Congress as divided as the country. That division was mirrored in the disparate receptions Obama’s resolution received from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. To the Times, Obama’s AUMF is “alarmingly broad. It does not limit the battlefield to Syria and Iraq.” Moreover, Obama “seeks permission to attack ‘associated persons or forces.’” This would give the White House “virtually unrestricted power to engage in attacks around the globe as long as it can justify a connection, however tenuous, to the Islamic State.” To the Journal, Obama’s resolution ties America down the way the Lilliputians tied down Gulliver. It authorizes war on ISIS for only three years. It would prevent another U.S. army from being sent to Iraq or Syria. But the country seems nowhere near this hawkish. Viewing nightly on cable news the hardships endured by the Wounded Warriors of our two latest and longest wars has cooled the arbor for new crusades. About the character of the Islamic State, there is

no disagreement. North of Syria, along 500 miles of border, sits a TurkPatrick ish army of Buchanan half a million with 3,000 Columnist tanks that could cross over and annihilate ISIS in a month. Former Secretary of State James Baker suggests that the U.S. offer air, logistics and intelligence support, if the Turks will go in and snuff out ISIS. But not only have the Turks not done so, for a time they looked the other way as jihadists crossed their border to join ISIS. If the Islamic State, as Ankara’s inaction testifies, is not viewed as a threat to Turkey’s vital interests, how can it be a threat to ours? There are reports that the Saudis and the Gulf Arabs would be more willing to participate in a war on ISIS if we would first effect the ouster of Bashar Assad. Everyone in the Middle East, it appears, wants the United States to fight their wars for them. But as they look out for their interests first, it is time we started looking out for ours first. Foremost among those interests would be to avoid another $1 trillion war, with

thousands of U.S. dead and tens of thousands of wounded, and a situation, after a decade of fighting, as exists today in Afghanistan and Iraq, where those we leave behind in power cannot hold their own against the enemies we defeated for them. Why should Americans have to recapture Mosul for Baghdad? And why do these “democrats” we install in power seem to perform so poorly? Under Saddam, Iraq fought an eight-year war against a nation three times as large and populous, Iran. Yet, Saddam’s army did not run away as the Iraqi army we trained and equipped ran away from Anbar. What did Saddam Hussein have to motivate men that we do not? What is it that makes some people in the Middle East volunteer and fight to the death, while others refuse to fight or run away from battle? For, as the Journal writes, “The Associated Press reported Tuesday that U.S. intelligence officials now say foreign fighters are joining Islamic State ‘in unprecedented numbers,’ including 3,400 from western nations out of 20,000 from around the world.” Why is this? The Islamic State has plugged into the most pow-

erful currents of the Middle East. It is anti-American, anti-Zionist, anti-West, Islamic and militantly Islamist. It promises to overthrow the old order of Sykes-Picot, to tear up the artificial borders the West imposed on the Arabs, and to produce a new unity, a new dispensation where the Quran is law and Allah rules and all Sunnis are united in one home whence all infidels – Jews, Shia, Christians – have been driven out. Hateful as it is, ISIS has a vision. Hezbollah, Iran, Assad, the Houthi rebels, all Shiites, understand this. They know they are in a fight to the death. And they fight. But it is the Sunni Arabs, the royals on the Arabian Peninsula and the sheiks on the Gulf, to whom this should be a fire bell in the night. For ISIS is out to dethrone these perceived royal puppets of a detested America and to reclaim rightful custody of Mecca and Medina. The Shiites are already in the field. The Sunni are going to have to fight and win this war against ISIS, or lose it all. (Daily Corinthian columnist Pat Buchanan is an American conservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster.)

Obama’s quest for a grand bargain “We will extend a hand if you are unwilling to unclench your fist,” President Obama proclaimed in his inaugural address in January 2009. He characterized those to whom this was addressed in negative terms, but the implication was that this president, unlike his predecessor, would be willing to negotiate with and make concessions to unfriendly nations. It is a promise he has striven to keep, with Russia initially and Cuba more recently, but most of all to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The hand has been extended, more than once. But has the fist come unclenched? That question has become increasingly uncomfortable and pressing as negotiations over nuclear weapons drag on. In a 9,000-word article in Mosaic magazine, former Bush staffer Michael Doran makes a powerful case that the answer is no — and that “a grand bargain with Iran” has been and remains the central goal of Obama’s foreign policy. Obama assumes, Doran argues, that Iran and the U.S. are natural allies with common interests and that George W. Bush’s obduracy was the main obstacle to rapprochement. Bush had largely ignored the

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December 2006 recommendations of the BakerHamilton commission, including Michael engagement Barone with Iran, and ordered Columnist a surge of troops in Iraq instead. Obama has abandoned Iraq and pursued Iran. Thus Obama turned a cold shoulder to Iran’s prodemocracy Green Revolution movement in June 2009. He proposed to let Iran keep its nuclear infrastructure and transfer uranium to Russia, a deal nixed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He signed sanctions against Iran only reluctantly in the face of near-unanimous support in Congress. Early in 2013 he established secret back-channel negotiations with Iran. Months later he promised to relieve sanctions but accepted Iran’s right to enrich uranium and to keep it stockpiled, enriched to 5 percent. This year, Obama has spoken out against a bill, supported by large congressional majorities, that would re-impose sanctions if the U.S. and Iran don’t reach agreement on

nuclear talks by June – the third deadline after failing to reach agreement in July and November 2014. This seems to defy logic: If, as Obama concedes, sanctions brought Iran to the bargaining table, sanctions should move them toward agreement. But Obama’s position makes sense if you accept Doran’s argument that Obama’s overriding purpose is a regional alliance with Iran. In the American Interest, Walter Russell Mead sets out a case for such an alliance. Iran’s population is educated and pro-American. An extended hand can encourage Iranian leaders to be more moderate. A likely alternative is an ugly war. But, as Mead notes, there are weaknesses to such arguments. Even a friendly Iran would be hawkish on oil prices and hostile to Israel. Its untrammeled regional influence would reduce American leverage. America’s current Arab allies, after all, aren’t determined to destroy Israel. Iran’s mullahs, as Benjamin Netanyahu will presumably remind Congress next month, have been and are. Obama’s show of displeasure over the Netanyahu speech seems driven by concern that it may upset

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his plan for a grand bargain with Iran. Obama may be comparing his outreach to Iran with Richard Nixon’s to China. But Nixon and Henry Kissinger were careful not to give China carte blanche to dominate its neighborhood. There may be a certain American naivete at work here. Just as George W. Bush thought Iraqis were yearning for American-style democracy and capitalism, so Obama seems to be assuming that Iran seeks to be an American-style power, prosperous and generous-minded. But everything we know about the Iranian leaders tells us that their goals are sharply different from ours – and remain so even after the election of a president who remembers hearing as a child the call of the muezzin. References to common backgrounds appeal to American voters. But they don’t seem likely to soften the hearts of Iranian dictators. (Daily Corinthian columnist Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics.)

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Teen pulled from apartment fire dies KNOXVILLE, Tenn. â€” Fire officials say a teenager pulled from a burning apartment building in Knoxville has died. Fire officials told WBIR-TV that 17-yearold Martin Francisco died Sunday after suffering injuries in the blaze Saturday evening. Crews who responded to the fire said smoke was billowing from a ground floor unit when they arrived. Firefighters had to break into the apartment, where they found the teen unconscious near the door. The cause of the blaze is under investigation. Â

â€˜Itâ€™s My Partyâ€™ singer Gore dies NEW YORK â€” Singersongwriter Lesley Gore, who topped the charts in 1963 with her epic song of teenage angst, â€œItâ€™s My Party,â€? and followed it up with the hits â€œJudyâ€™s Turn to Cryâ€? and â€œYou Donâ€™t Own Me,â€? died Monday. She was 68. Gore died of cancer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, according to her partner of 33 years, Lois Sasson. â€œShe was a wonderful human being â€” caring, giving, a great feminist, great woman, great human being, great humanitarian,â€? Sasson, a jewelry designer, told The Associated Press. Gore was discovered by Quincy Jones as a teenager and signed to Mercury Records. Goreâ€™s other hits include â€œSheâ€™s A Fool,â€? â€˜â€˜Thatâ€™s the Way Boys Areâ€? and â€œMaybe I Know.â€? She co-wrote with her brother, Michael, the Academy Award-nominated â€œOut Here On My Ownâ€? from the film â€œFame.â€? She also played Catwomanâ€™s sidekick in the cult TV comedy â€œBatman.â€? In the 1990s, Gore co-wrote â€œMy Secret Loveâ€? for Allison Andersâ€™ film â€œGrace of My Heart,â€? released in 1996. A couple of years later, she appeared in â€œSmokey Joeâ€™s Cafeâ€? on Broadway. Gore had been working on a stage version of her life when she died. In 2005, she released â€œEver Since,â€? her first album in 30 years, but was sure to revisit older hits in front of fans. In addition to Sasson, Gore is survived by her brother and mother, Ronnie. Â

Dulles flights return to normal WASHINGTON â€” A spokesman for Washingtonâ€™s airports says all arriving and depart-

ing flights at Dulles International have returned to normal. Chris Paolino said the Federal Aviation Administration flight tower returned to full capacity around 6:30 a.m. Monday. A number of flights were diverted from the airport in Northern Virginia after a water pipe in the tower burst around 10:30 Sunday evening, triggering an alarm and evacuation. The incident caused some flights to be diverted from Dulles. Paolino did not comment on the number of flights that had been sent elsewhere. Single-digit temperatures and frigid winds gripped the Washington area over the weekend. Dulles International is the nationâ€™s 23rd busiest airport. It served nearly 10.6 million passengers during 2013, the latest year those statistics were available from the Federal Aviation Administration. Â

Browning-resistant apples win approval WASHINGTON -- Donâ€™t expect to see them too soon, but they could be coming to your local grocery store â€” two types of apples genetically modified to resist turning brown after theyâ€™re bruised or sliced. The development could boost sales of apples for snacks, salads and other uses. Arctic Golden and Arctic Granny Smith are being developed by a Canadian company, Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. of Summerland, British Columbia. The Agriculture Department gave its OK on Friday â€” saying the apples arenâ€™t likely to pose a plant pest risk and or have â€œa significant impact on the human environment.â€? The first Arctic apples are expected to be available in late 2016 in small, test-market quantities. It takes apple trees several years to produce significant quantities, so it will take time before the geneticallymodified apples are widely distributed. â€œWe canâ€™t wait until theyâ€™re available for consumers,â€? said the companyâ€™s president and founder, Neal Carter. Apples brown quickly after they are cut open and exposed to air. The browning-resistant varieties are considered especially desirable for use as pre-sliced apples, in fruit salad and salad bars, and in the manufacturing of juice. The company said it is working on developing other browningresistant apple varieties as well. The nonprofit Center for Food Safety questioned whether

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browning-resistance will mask apples that no longer are fresh. The Environmental Working Group said the governmentâ€™s decision to allow marketing of the apples shows the need for mandatory, clearlabeling of genetically modified foods. The Food and Drug Administration is not required to approve genetically engineered crops for consumption, but most companies will go through a voluntary safety review process with the FDA before they put them on the market. In November, the department also approved commercial planting of a bruising-resistant potato. Â

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Natchez hospital plan awaits state comment NATCHEZ â€” The Natchez Hospital Company is awaiting a staff recommendation from the Mississippi Department of Health to approve or disapprove its application to make millions of dollars in renovations to Natchez Regional Medical Center. The Natchez Democrat reports the company applied in December for certificates of need to reopen the cardiac catheterization lab and expand the hospitalâ€™s emergency room, labor and delivery suites and fourth floor patient areas. Natchez Hospital Company was formed last fall when Natchez Community Hospitalâ€™s parent company purchased Natchez Regional Medical Center. Certificates of need are a state mandated process intended to restrain health care costs and allow coordinated planning of new services and construction while reducing duplication of services. Â

Armstrong loses $10 million ruling AUSTIN, Texas â€” An arbitration panel ordered Lance Armstrong and Tailwind Sports Corp. to pay $10 million in a fraud dispute with a promotions company for what it called an â€œunparalleled pageant of international perjury, fraud and conspiracyâ€? that covered up his use of performance-enhancing drugs. Dallas-based SCA Promotions announced the 2-1 decision against the former cyclist when its lawyers said Monday they had asked Texasâ€™ 116th Civil District Court in Dallas to confirm the arbitration ruling, dated Feb. 4. The panel included a neutral chairman, who ruled in favor of SCA, and one person selected by each side. Tim Herman, a lawyer for Armstrong, insisted the ruling is contrary to Texas law and predicted it will be overturned by a judge. SCA paid Armstrong and Tailwind, the since-dissolved team management company, about $12 million in bonuses during Armstrongâ€™s career, when he won seven Tour de France titles. Those victories were stripped after Armstrong and his U.S. Postal Service teams were found to have used banned performance-enhancing drugs.

Belhaven awaits opening of village JACKSON â€” Construction of a $7 million residence hall that began in September at Belhaven University is nearing completion, and students are looking foward to its availability in August. The three-story, Ushaped building will house 132 students, both men and women, in apartment-style units. Each unit will include four bedrooms, two full baths, a kitchen and a living room. The rooms will be furnished and include a television and a washer and dryer. This past year, Belhavenâ€™s enrollment was up 15 percent, which Kevin Russell, vice president for University Advancement, said is a continuing trend. â€œWe have been needing and wanting a new residence hall for a while,â€? Russell said. â€œSo with a very generous gift from the (Robbie and Dudley) Hugheses, we have been able to make that a reality much quicker.â€?

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Festivals follow the end of Carnival GULFPORT â€” South Mississippiâ€™s Mardi Gras parades wind down today. The Mystic Krewe of

the Seahorse is kicking off this weekâ€™s parades at 6 p.m. Monday in Bay St. Louis. The Wiggins and Stone County Chamber Mardi Gras parade will also begin at 6 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday, the Bay St. Louis Krewe of Diamonds Mardi Gras parade rolls out at 1 p.m. Also on Tuesday, the Gulf Coast Carnival Association Mardi Gras parade begins at 1 p.m. in Biloxi on Main Street. The Krewe of Gemini Mardi Gras parade closes out the season in Gulfport today. The parade begins at 5:30 p.m. on 19th Street. Â

Coroner identifies man killed in wreck OCEAN SPRINGS â€” A 34-year-old Ocean Springs man died in a one-vehicle accident on Interstate 10 in Jackson County. Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Benjamin Seibert says a Ford Explorer traveling westbound on I-10 about 3 p.m. Sunday hit the median, causing the vehicle to flip several times before it came to rest in the eastbound lane of the interstate near mile marker 55. Jackson County Deputy Coroner Jason Moody tells The Sun Herald the driver, Charles Lamb, died at the scene. Moody says another occupant, an unidentified 4-year-old girl, escaped uninjured and was transported to Ocean Springs Hospital as a precaution. The accident remains under investigation.

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Winter storm slams South Bitter cold freezes Northeast Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Snow swirled sideways in Kentucky and the typically bustling state capital of Frankfort came to frozen halt Monday as a storm walloped parts of the South, which unlike the Northeast, had been mostly spared this winter. That all changed with a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain across the region, making roads treacherous and knocking out power to thousands of people. Luckily, the storm arrived on a holiday, Presidents Day, when many schools and businesses were already closed and the morning commute was not as busy. Officials also made certain roads were prepared this year after Southern cities — most notably Atlanta — were caught off guard a year ago when a winter storm stranded thousands of people on interstates overnight. Raleigh suffered a similar fate last year. Still, some weren’t quite ready for the winter blast. RL Doss said he had already used his 1987 GMC Suburban — which can haul up to three-quarters of a ton with ropes and chains — to rescue several people and their cars on the hills surrounding Frankfort. Cars were fishtailing and sliding off the slick roads. “I look at it this way. Everybody is trying to get out, to get their last bit of food and stuff, getting home from work and people leaving for work and stuff, and it happens,” he said, shivering in a pair of tan overalls pulled over a hooded sweat shirt. And the truck, he said, glancing back at the burgundy behemoth, “I like to see what the truck can do and what it can’t do. I push it to its limits.” In the Northeast, which has been slammed by seemingly endless snow, the white stuff had stopped falling but the temperatures

were bitterly cold. New York City came close to breaking a 127-year-old record when the temperature in Central Park hit 3 degrees, just above the 1-degree record set in 1888, said Jeffrey Tongue, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh said the latest snow storm left one person dead, apparently due to a heart attack while shoveling snow. A partial roof collapse at an eightbuilding apartment complex in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, left 500 to 700 people looking for warmth. In New Jersey, a 66-year-old woman who had been drinking at a benefit was found dead in the snow, just two doors from her home. Firefighters working to extinguish a blaze in Philadelphia left behind a building coated in icicles. No one was hurt. The winter storm was headed toward the Carolinas on Monday night and then expected to crawl along the East Coast toward the MidAtlantic and Northeast. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear urged people to stay home if possible. The state was expecting anywhere from anywhere from 6 to 15 inches of snow by Monday evening. Road crews struggled to make progress as the dry, powdery snow quickly piled up thanks to the frigid temperatures over the weekend that kept the ground and roads cold. Arkansas, where temperatures plummeted from the 70s on Saturday to highs in the 30s a day later, had nearly 30,000 people without power at the peak of the storm. Roads were slushy and traffic was moving slowly in Tennessee. Justyn Jackson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville, said the last bad winter storm in the city was 2010 when up to 4 inches of snow fell.

Life will end on earth Why do people live as if they will never die - knowing they will die? We read of a partial answer in James 4:13-17. “Go to now, ye that say, to day as tomorrow we will go into such a city, and contunue there as a year and buy and sell, and get going. Whereas we know now what shall be on tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For what we ought to say, if the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” Man has the tendency to disregard and forget what he considers as unimportant. Those who believe in the existence of God at least have Him somewhere in the back of their minds. Some have trouble moving God into the front. It is the day of remembrance of God with which some have trouble. There are several things James 4:13-17, points out that would help us to remember. First, we do not know what tomorrow holds. We think, plan, organize, get busy. We often plan and live as if we have forever, even though we know we do not. Second, at the most, we have only a short time on earth. Indeed, life is like a vapor - quickly vanishes. Job reminds us, “Oh remember that my life is a wind of breath,” - Job 7:7 The psalmist reminds us, we may live 70 or 80 years, we are soon cut off, and we ﬂy away” - Psalms 90:10. Life passes so quickly, so we need to remind ourself - are we prepared to go? Third, James reminds us not only to remember God, but to learn - obey his will. When one obeys God changes must be made. When obeying the Gospel one changes his master - from Satan to Christ. Our faith in Christ leads us to repent - confess our faith in Christ and be baptized for the remission of sin. Read Acts 2:14-41. We must consider Christ in our decisions could be evil. Our time on earth, in reality, is in God’s hands, but the decision on how to use our time is in our hands. We need to be ready when the Lord returns. Are you ready? The time to prepare is now. Read Acts 9.

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Deaths Doyle Johnson

Funeral services for Doyle Manuel Johnson, 77, are set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Oakland Baptist Church in Corinth with burial with military honors at Shiloh Presbyterian Church Cemetery in McKenzie, Tenn. Visitation is today from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the church. Mr. Johnson died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Guys, Tenn. Born Oct. 27, 1937, in Huntingdon, Tenn., he was a maintenance technician for Aqua Glass in Adamsville, Tenn. He attended Oakland Baptist Church in Corinth. He enjoyed playing the guitar, watching western movies, fishing, water skiing,

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IUKA — Jimmy Dean Monroe, 52, died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, in Madison County, Ill. Cutshall Funeral Home of Iuka will have the arrangements.

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Audrey Moore, 31, died Saturday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Selmer, Tenn. Arrangements are pending with Patterson Memorial Chapel.

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IUKA — A private memorial service will be held at a later date for Thomas E. Lambert, 73. Mr. Lambert died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, at Magnolia Regional Health Center. Survivors include one son, Tom Lambert Jr. (Nancy) of Iuka; a stepson, Johnny Sanchez of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; a stepdaughter, Tanicka Gonzalez of Corinth; three brothers, Petey Lambert (Doris) of Burnsville; Jesse Leon Lambert (Sandy) of Iuka and Ronnie Lam-

flying, riding motorcycles, watching football, going to the Dinner Bell to eat catfish, helping in the church and spending time with his family. Survivors inJohnson clude a daughter, Regina Dunaway of Guys, Tenn; two grandchildren, Amanda Brooke Johnson and Amber Louise Johnson, both of Selmer, Tenn.; a brother, Kenneth Dewayne Johnson and wife Florence of Huntingdon, Tenn.; a brother-in-law, Gary Bunch; and a

sister-in-law, Shelia Curtis. Mr. Johnson was preceded in death by his parents, Willis Manuel and Maurine Taylor Johnson; his wife, Sandra Kay Bunch; a son, Joel Manuel Johnson; a son-inlaw, Robert Andrew Dunaway; a brother, Fredrick Johnson; and a sister, Phyllis Johnson. He married Sandra Kay Bunch on Oct. 21, 1967, and she preceded him in death on June 20, 2003, after 35 years of marriage. Bro. Randy Bostick will officiate the service under the direction of Shackelford Funeral Directors of Selmer. Memorial contributions may be made to Magnolia Hospice of Corinth.

bert (Trisha) of Iuka; one sister, Loretta Kroening (Bill) of Iuka; 15 grandchildren; and several greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Tommy H. and Mary Lambert; two daughters, Nena Lambert and Sarah Largent; and a brother, Scotty Lambert. Cutshall Funeral Home of Iuka is in charge of arrangements.

brother, Thomas Dilworth; nine grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lenora Damron, Alex Dilworth, Cleve Nance, Beatrice Nance, Sula Dilworth, Alexander Dilworth, Edgar Dilworth and Veron Dilworth.

Evelyn Patterson

A private funeral service for Evelyn Patterson, 67, of Corinth, is set for noon Wednesday at Patterson Memorial Chapel with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Patterson died Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, at Hospice House in Tupelo. She was born June, 8, 1948, and was retired from the police department. She was a member of City Road CME Church. Survivors include her children, Frankie Denise Patterson, James Frank Patterson, Billy Jermar Patterson and Anthony Dilworth; her

Natalie Pignataro

Natalie Nannette “Nan” Pignataro of Benton, Ky., died on Saturday, February 14, 2015, at Sanctuary Hospice in Tupelo. Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. today at McPeters Funeral Directors of Corinth. There will be no funeral service. She was born in Corinth on April 4, 1967, to Barbara Parsons Rowsey and the late Connie Rowsey. Survivors include her daughter, Jessica Pignataro; one son, Joseph McClelland; her mother and stepfather, Barbara and James Lazzaro; one grandson, Jordan Pignataro; one brother, Joseph Goodin; and one sister, Gretta Saylors (Keith).

Democrats seek relief from health law penalties Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance. Three senior House members strongly urged the administration Monday to grant a special sign-up opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will be facing fines under the law for the first time this year. The three are Michigan’s Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, and Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, and Lloyd Doggett of Texas.

All worked to help steer Obama’s law through rancorous congressional debates from 2009-2010. The lawmakers say they are concerned that many of their constituents will find out about the penalties after it’s already too late for them to sign up for coverage, since open enrollment ended Sunday. That means they could wind up uninsured for another year, only to owe substantially higher fines in 2016. The fines are collected through the income tax system. “For the many families who may now be about to pay a penalty, there should be an opportunity to avoid both further penalties and to obtain affordable health insur-

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Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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ACROSS 1 Command from a bailiff 5 Circle calculation 9 They smell 14 Like Mini Coopers 15 Pond croaker 16 Swine squeals 17 Gave the onceover 18 Particularly welcome casino visitor 20 Alpine song 22 Ear-splitting 23 Court case that generates a media frenzy, say 30 Handsome god 32 Get really angry 33 Granada gold 34 Irritate 37 “CSI” facilities 38 Tee sizes, for short 39 “Nice job!” ... and, in another sense, a hint about the first words of 18-, 23-, 52- and 60Across 42 Geese formation 43 Leafy veggie baked for chips 45 Bitten by bees 46 Angled pipe fitting 47 Handsome god 50 __ Raiders: consumer advocates 52 Abe Lincoln nickname 55 Principal role 56 Diet food phrase 60 Irritate to the breaking point 66 Shredded 67 Construction beam fastener 68 Former South Korean leader Syngman __ 69 Golf club used for chipping 70 Blissful settings 71 Jedi guru 72 Small change DOWN 1 Do as directed 2 Toy with a spool 3 Deleted, with “out”

4 Louisiana music style 5 Olympics fig. 6 French monarch 7 One below birdie 8 Specialized, committee-wise 9 Bit of pasta 10 Frying liquid 11 NBC show since 1975, briefly 12 Barely manage, with “out” 13 Ukr. or Lith., once 19 Feels remorse over 21 Bochco legal series 24 Forearm bone 25 Some DVD players 26 Sinuous swimmer 27 Less cowardly 28 Insurgent group 29 ’50s fourwheeled flop 30 16th-century Spanish fleet 31 Hoi __: the masses 33 Heroic Schindler 35 Giants Hall of Famer Mel 36 Brewers Hall of Famer Robin

40 Pest in a swarm 41 Utah city near the Golden Spike 44 Photo blowup: Abbr. 48 Sea spots? 49 Blueprint detail, for short 51 Sexy 53 Cable Guy of comedy 54 The Gem State

57 Warning from a driver? 58 Elvis __ Presley 59 No-frills shelter 60 Hip-hop Dr. 61 Free (of) 62 “__ changed my mind” 63 Caracas’ country, to the IOC 64 Athens : omega :: London : __ 65 Assenting vote

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Brother-in-law asks how to tolerate ‘Mindy’ WIZARD OF ID

DILBERT

GARFIELD

FORT KNOX

PICKLES

Dear Annie: My wife’s sister is 21, lives with her parents and has extremely violent long-lasting outbursts that culminate in her being verbally and physically abusive. “Mindy” tells everyone she is suicidal, although she has never made any attempt to harm herself. She obviously has deep psychological issues, yet absolutely refuses treatment. At our last visit, I swore to myself that neither our young son nor I would be subjected to her outbursts again. Here’s the problem. Our son will be 2 years old soon, and we want to give him a birthday party. But if his grandparents come, it will be nearly impossible to keep Mindy from showing up. And I cannot imagine trying to explain to her why she isn’t invited. All of her behaviors will certainly occur, as they seem to be brought on in group settings where she is not the focus of attention. Annie, can her parents do anything to force her to get treatment? How do we handle family gatherings where we want my parents-in-law to come because we adore them, but we can’t tolerate Mindy? -- At a Loss Dear At a Loss: Your wife should speak to

Annie’s Mailbox her parents and explain that Mindy is not welcome around your son because she is unable or unwilling to control her abusive behavior. It is dangerous and frightening for a 2-year-old to be subjected to such outbursts. Mindy should be aware that she is responsible for her actions, and if she is out of control and feels suicidal, she should speak to a therapist who can help her. You cannot decide how your in-laws choose to deal with Mindy, but you can set the boundaries in your own home. Your son’s welfare comes first. Dear Annie: My mother gave me a set of wine glasses that she received on her wedding day almost 60 years ago. When my nephew married, I gave him these glasses as a wedding gift. After six months, the marriage was dissolved, and my nephew moved back in with his parents

(my brother and his wife). At that time, I asked my nephew to be sure to get the wine glasses in the divorce because I wanted them to stay in the family. That was 10 years ago. My nephew has since remarried. I have attended two dinners at my brother’s home where my sister-in-law served wine in these same glasses. Once, she even served a glass to my mother. I nearly freaked out. Did my nephew have the right to give those glasses to anyone he chose? Can I suggest that if he no longer wants them, I’d like them back so I can gift them to my niece? Or do I just forget about them? -- Wine-ing in Wisconsin Dear Wisconsin: When your mother gave you those glasses, did she put restrictions on what you could do with them? Apparently not. Yet you are doing that to your nephew. Heirloom items should stay in the family, and your nephew is respecting that by giving the glasses to his parents. Please make sure your brother understands that you would like them back should he ever decide to get rid of them.

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