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Caught in act: 2 face burglary charge BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The Corinth Police Department charged two burglary suspects who were caught in the act of breaking into a home. The arrest was the result of surveillance in the West Corinth area after a report of a prior burglary. The department charged Joshua Matthew Crump, 25, of Rienzi, with two counts of burglary of a dwelling and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Jarvis D. Bell, 31, of West 4th Street, Corinth,

was charged with burglary of a dwelling and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Bond was set at $50,000 for each. The charges were filed Monday. On Wednesday of last week, a Norman Road resident returned home to find the house had been burglarized. Detective Capt. Ralph Dance said neighbors reported seeing a white Chevrolet Impala parked in the driveway earlier in the day. The police department conducted surveillance the next day, and a vehicle fitting the descrip-

tion was spotted in the West Corinth area. Occupied by two men, the vehicle stopped in front of a residence where detectives saw the men kick in the door. The suspects exited the residence with guns and other stolen items and left in the vehicle. Detectives followed and at some point the men fled on foot, with Detective Fred Serio apprehending Bell and Chuck Hinds capturing Crump as he came out of the woods near Fulton Drive. A loaded gun was found on the back seat of the suspects’

vehicle, and one of the men apparently dropped a handgun as he fled on foot, said Dance. All of the items from the second burglary were recovered in the vehicle along with a piece of jewelry from the Norman Road burglary. Dance said the department wants to hear from anyone who may have information about jewelry or other items taken in the Norman Road burglary. The department is looking at the possibility that the two men have been involved in other burglary cases. “This was some great police

work by Detectives Heather Glass, Dale Green and Fred Serio to set up surveillance and catch these guys,” said Dance. In an unrelated case, the department charged Roger Prather, 36, of County Road 245, with uttering a forgery. He is accused of passing a fraudulent computer-generated check at a cigarette store on Oct. 9 and was arrested on Thursday. To report information in the burglary cases, contact CPD at 286-3377 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-773-tips or crimestoppersms.com.

Internet scam targets the area BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

An Internet scam in which the perpetrators pose as the FBI in an attempt to extort money is cropping up in the Corinth area. Detective Capt. Ralph Dance said the Corinth Police Department has received three complaints in the past week about what the FBI calls the Reveton “ransomware” virus, which locks the user’s computer and accuses them of illegal activity. At least one person in Corinth has sent money and became a

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The walk-through drama “Unexpected” will be presented tonight at First Baptist Church in Selmer. Cast members Heather Ashe (left) and Kevin Binger rehearse a scene. The drama is from 6-9 p.m. tonight and Saturday and Sunday from 4-9 p.m. An Oct. 31 presentation is slated for 6-9 p.m.

Church offers drama ‘Unexpected’ BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

SELMER, Tenn. — Life is filled with unexpected situations. First Baptist Church of Selmer wants individuals to think about those unforeseen happenings during its Judgement House drama of “Unexpected.” The walk-through drama opens the door for church members and volunteers to share the gospel during the four nights.

“We pray the Lord changes someone's life,” said church deacon Jackie Suggs to a group of volunteers prior to a dress rehearsal. “You are presenting the gospel to everyone who comes through here and you can make a difference.” “Unexpected” follows the life of the Taylor family. “They are a normal American family where the kids are involved in everything,” said drama director Connie Redmon.

Their life is turned upside down when teenaged Lauren is texting while driving. While the Taylor family has stopped at a local cafe following football practice, the teenager crashes into the building and kills Carol (mother) and Abby (her daughter). “The family has no idea this is about to happen,” said Redmon. Please see DRAMA | 2A

victim of the scam. “The FBI will not ask you for money,” said Dance. “They will come and get you.” Dance said the local reports indicate that the user gets a pop-up window purportedly from the FBI telling them that the computer will be locked and that a $200 Green Dot MoneyPak card must be sent in order to pay a fine and unlock the computer. It may threaten criminal charges if payment is not made. Please see SCAM | 2A

After-school snackpack program seeks support BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com

Members of Pinecrest Baptist Church need the community’s help to continue in their mission to provide food for some of Alcorn County’s most vulnerable residents. The Pincrest Weekend Snackpacks for Kids Charity will host a Yard and Bake Sale at the church on Saturday as part of the Make A Difference Day Campaign for community service. The fundraiser will begin at 6 a.m. and continue until noon.

“This is an effort to garner support for the program that is providing weekend food for needy children in all six of our local schools,” said Snackpack Charity founder and Pinecrest member R.M. Brooks. The 2012-13 school year began with the Snackpacks for Kids Charity providing nutritious weekend snackpacks for 211 local children. This effort requires a monetary commitment of $795 each week, the efforts of volunteers to fill and Please see PROGRAM | 2A

Corinth Music Club offers morning concert BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com

A local club is building bridges through music. The Corinth Music Club will present a Mid-Morning Concert Series featuring sacred music on Thursday from 11-11:30 a.m. at First United Methodist Church. The event is free and open to the public. “Children and adults benefit when they are exposed to music study and performance,” said club president Donna Janzen. “The concert will be a peaceful and beautiful location for the audience to hear an excellent variety for music.”

The concert, with the theme of Building Bridges Through Music, will feature a variety of sacred music played by club members. Some of the members scheduled to perform are Cindy Mathis, a harp rendition of “Amazing Grace” and “Be Thou My Vision;” Bobbi Campbell, a featured flute soloist of “Morning Has Broken” and “Praise to the Lord;” Marianne Taylor will play a dramatic Dino piano arrangement of “Beneath the Cross;” and Peggy McCord and Janet Gray will each perform four works on the organ. Please see CONCERT | 5A

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Corinth Music Club member Sara Ellington will be part of Mid-Morning Concert Series throughout the year. The club will present a sacred music event Thursday morning at First United Methodist Church.

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The storyline then follows the decisions of both Carol and Abby after the crash. One will be doomed to hell while the other spends eternity with Jesus in heaven. “Carol does all these great things, but she doesn't go to heaven,” added Redmon. Abby assured her place with Jesus when she ac-

cepted Him. “Unexpected” is slated for tonight from 6-9 p.m. at the 310 West Court Avenue church. Performances are also scheduled for October 27-28 from 4-9 p.m. and on October 31 from 6-9 p.m. “Our church has been so wonderful in stepping up to the plate,” said the director. “We have a multi-talented group who uses their talents to serve

the Lord.” The drama is not recommended for children under the age of 10. Counselors will be available for those wanting to talk to someone following the drama. (Those interested in attending can make reservations by calling the church office at 731-6455326. Walk-ups are also welcome to the free drama.)

legal online activity. According to information from the FBI, it is described as “drive-by malware” because it can install itself when users visit a compromised website rather than through the opening of a file or attachment. Once infected, the computer immediately locks and the message appears. The Reveton virus, used by hackers in conjunction with Citadel malware — a software delivery platform that can disseminate various kinds of computer

viruses — first came to the attention of the FBI in 2011. Since that time, the virus has become more widespread in the United States and internationally. Some variants of Reveton can turn on computer webcams and display the victim’s picture on the frozen screen, according to the FBI. The average computer user will not be easily able to remove the malware, according to the FBI, but instructions can be found on the Internet.

in grades PreK through 4. The average poverty level, based on US Food Service Free Meal eligibility status, is generally 60 percent of the total enrollment,” Brooks explained. “Therefore, many families struggle to meet their children’s nutritional needs.” Each week volunteers fill snackpacks with 15 items, including fruits, juices, water, breakfast and lunch foods and healthy snacks — all ready to eat or easilyprepared by a child. Approximately 20 adults

gather each Friday during the school year to fill the packs. Then two men travel to all the elementary schools in Corinth and Alcorn County to deliver them. At the end of the school day, a member of the school staff distributes the snackpacks to the children they have identified as eligible to receive the food. Due to the continually increasing number of children receiving snackpacks and the ever-rising cost of the food items

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“This is apparently a growing problem,” he said. The pop-up typically says, “Attention! Your PC is blocked due to at least one of the reasons specified below.” It states that the user’s Internet address was identified by the FBI or the Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section as having been associated with child pornography sites or other il-

distribute the packs and many prayers from ministry members, Brooks explained. The charity began as a church ministry to provide nutritious, ready-toeat snack foods to children identified by their classroom teachers as “in need.” Since its initiation in 2011, Pinecrest volunteers have filled more than 4,500 snackpacks at a cost of $3.92 per bag. “The area’s local schools serve approximately 2,500 children

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Deaths Ward Byrd

Funeral services for Henry Ward Byrd II, 88, are set for 11 a.m. today at Memorial Funeral Home with Dr. Prentiss Gordon officiating. Burial will follow in the Box Chapel Cemetery. Mr. Ward died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at his residence. He was born Jan. 29, 1924, in Alcorn County to the late Henry Ward Byrd Sr. and Ophelia Whitehurst Byrd. He was a graduate of Farmington High School and Lamberth University. He received a bachelor of science in Education and a master’s and PhD in Vocational Technology. He retired from education after 42 years of service, having worked in many positions throughout the area. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church. In 2002, he moved back to his home place. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Edwin Byrd. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Ruth Morris Byrd of Corinth; sons Larry (Sherry) Byrd of Savannah, Tenn., and Sid (Debbie) Byrd of Jackson, Tenn; a daughter, Rhonda Wallin of Adamsville, Tenn.; grandchildren Jason (Jenny) Byrd, Cameron Byrd, Jacob Cole Byrd and his father, Bryan Wallin; a sister-in-law, Wilma Byrd; nephews Mike (Judy) Byrd and Neal Byrd; and a host of other family and friends. Pallbearers are Mike Byrd, Neal Byrd, Christopher Byrd, Justin Byrd, David Bass, Lane Fowler, Sid Whitehurst and Danny Boatman. Honorary pallbearers are Farmington neighbors. Visitation is from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. For on-line condolences: www.memorialcorinth.com.

Mark Carmack

Funeral services for Mark Anthony Carmack, 37, of Collierville, Tenn., will be held at 11 a.m. today at Holly Baptist Church with burial at Holly Cemetery. Mr. Carmack died Monday,

Oct. 22, 2012, at Germantown Methodist Hospital. Born Sept. 19, 1975, he was pastor and a member of Peterson Lake Baptist Church in Collierville, Tenn. He loved singing in his quarter, Servants Heart, and spent most of his time with his church family. He loved people and a lot of people loved him. Carmack He served the Lord his whole life and was going back to college to get his doctorate in ministry. Survivors include his parents, Lynn Spencer Carmack and Dennis Carmack of Collierville, Tenn.; a brother, Joshua Carmack (Clara) of Collierville, Tenn.; nieces Savannah Carmack and Lillie Carmack; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, other relatives and a host of friends. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Arnie and Julius Spencer, and his paternal grandparents, Howard R. Carmack and Mavene George Carmack. Pallbearers are Heath Wilbanks, Jason Spencer, Clay Taylor, Brad Taylor, Jeff Holloway, Earl Hill, Jimmy Azbill and Dwayne Conlee. Pastor Gary Watkins and Pastor Loyd Shelton will officiate the service. Visitation is from 10 a.m. until service time at the church. Magnolia Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Doretha Phillips

Funeral service for Doretha Faye “Dodre” Phillips, 73, are set for 1 p.m. Thursday at McPeters Funeral Home with burial in the Dogwood cemetery. Mrs. Phillips died Sunday, October 21, 2012, at her residence. She was born April 7, 1939, in Bessemer, Ala. She was a homemaker and a member of the Papaw Hollar Bap-

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tist Church. She had a love of music, playing the guitar, banjo and piano. She also enjoyed quilting, crocheting, drawing, painting, gardening and being in the outdoors. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ivy Judson and Sarah Lida Harris; her brothers Sonny Harris, Ned Harris and Archie Harris; and a sister, Sue Davenport. Survivors include her husband of 56 years, Kenneth Phillips; daughters Cindy (Rusty) Null of Pickwick, Tenn., Stephanie (Scott) Howell of Corinth and Suzanne (Bill) Smith of Montana; sisters Ivy June Bells of Roanoke, Va., and Lollie (Foy) Henry of Barstow, Calif.; a brother, Doug E. (Becky) Harris of Cleveland, Tenn.; grandchildren Brandon (Mary) Phillips, Jamie Purvis, Mark King, Felicity Howell and Olivia Howell; and great-grandchildren Deliah Phillips and Landon King. Bro. Shannon Phillips will officiate the service. Visitation is today from 5 until 8 p.m. For on-line condolences: mcpetersfuneraldirectors.com

Leonard Phillips

Funeral services for Leonard Phillips, 90, of Corinth, are set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Magnolia Funeral Home Chapel of Memories with military honors and burial at Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery. Mr. Phillips, beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend, was called to his heavenly home on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at The Landmark in Booneville. Born May 2, 1922, he was a retired route salesman for many years. He was a member and deacon of Shiloh Baptist Church and a U.S. Navy Veteran of World War II who served aboard the USS Nitro ammunition supply ship in the European and Pacific Theaters. He loved his family and friends and enjoyed fishing and working in the garden and sharing his harvest with others. He always believed in helping other people. He

loved God, family and country and served them all well. Survivors include his loving wife of 71 years, Willard Lucille Box Phillips of Booneville; a son, Leonard J. Phillips Jr. (Mary) of Springfield, Mo.; two daughters, Patsy Havard (Larry) of Lacey’s Spring, Ala., and Pam Anders (James) of Horn Lake; two brothers, John Thomas Phillips (Dorothy) of Corinth and Joe Lee Phillips (Barbara) of Burnsville; one sister, Bertha Williams of Burnsville; six grandchildren, Phillips Terry Brockman, Marti Fellers (Darell), Mason Phillips (Lora), Megan Christian (Jeremy), Jeremy Rose and Jamie Rose; 14 great-grandchildren; two great-greatgrandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends. Pallbearers will be the Military Honor Guard. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or The Gideons. Bro. Philip Cagle will officiate the service. Visitation is Thursday from noon until service time. For on-line condolences: magnoliafuneralhome.net

Billy Weaver

Funeral services for Billy Wayne Weaver, 76, are set for 3 p.m. today at Bethlehem Baptist Church. Mr. Weaver died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center. Born Nov. 22, 1935, he was retired from Refreshments, Inc., with 25 years of service in the maintenance department. He graduated from Alcorn Agricultural High School. He was

in the Army and a member of the National Guard. He was a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church and enjoyed farming, gardening and, most of all, spending time with his grandchildren. Survivors include his wife of 56 years, Jureleen Nelson Weaver of Walnut; Weaver a son, William Weaver (Alicia) of Walnut; two grandchildren, Cody Weaver and Callie Weaver; two brothersin-law, Travis Nelson (Pat) of Corinth, and J.W. Nelson (Joy) of Walnut; two sistersin-law, Edith Bass of Corinth and Eva Whirley of Burnsville; special friends Ralph and Sherlene Collier, Mike and Pam Mauldin, Turner and Joyce Garrett, and Kevin Box; and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, W.A. Weaver and Callie Smith Weaver; two brothers, Roy Weaver (Anita) and Lewis Weaver; three sisters, Dessie Null, Della Prince and Oble Weaver; and three brothers-in-law, Ray Bass, Lester Whirley and R.J. Prince; and two nephews, Bobby Null and Danny Prince. Pallbearers are Donnie Prince, Ronnie Prince, Chris Weaver, Gabe Null, Jeff Weaver and Jody Weaver. Honorary pallbearers are Bob Horne and Kenneth Null. Bro. Trent Nethery and Bro. Floyd Lamb will officiate the service. Visitation is from 10 a.m. until service time at the church. Magnolia Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. For on-line condolences: magnoliafuneralhome.net

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Obama loses debates within overall debate BY DICK MORRIS AND EILEEN MCGANN There were at least four separate debates going on Monday night when the candidates met for the last of their presidential matchups. The foreign policy debate: This was the contest that was advertised. It largely featured agreement between the candidates. If anyone had hoped that a Mitt Romney presidency would represent a sharp break with President Obama’s policies on Iran, Iraq, Libya or Russia, they were disappointed. Only on China was there a real difference of opinion. Romney’s tougher stand on Beijing will win him points in the Midwest. Particularly during the first third of the debate, Romney appeared shaky, weak and unsure of his ground. He got better as the evening progressed and was strong in his attacks on Obama’s apology tour, but at first he was weaker than we have seen him be in the other debates. Romney missed the chance to go after Obama on Libya. The last thing the Republican nominee wants is a foreign policy issue in the last two weeks of the campaign when he is winning so handily on the economy. The economic debate: Wisely, Romney took the debate back onto domestic policy by using it to remind voters of his economic agenda. About one-third of the time was devoted to the economy. And, on that issue, Romney was the overwhelming winner. Obama’s defense of his own policies and record, and his attack on Romney’s plans, was weak and even feeble. Since the economy is the major issue -- and Romney now owns it -- the political impact of the debate will focus on the discussion of what would, in other times, be a domestic concern. Romney vs. Bush: The modern Democratic Party was founded during the last decade by those who came to dislike George W. Bush with an unseemly intensity. To these voters, more women than men, Bush-43 seemed like a latter day cowboy, shooting from the hip and posturing that he wanted Osama bin Laden “dead or alive.” The Bush machismo left female voters alienated and the ongoing war in Iraq sapped their patience in particular. So a big part of Obama’s campaign to keep women voters has centered on a critique linking Romney to the Bush agenda and style. But Mitt was having none of it on Monday night. Repeatedly, he invoked the need for world peace. Where he might have excoriated China, he said that its leaders wanted a world that is “open and free.” Really? I hadn’t noticed. He swore off war in Iran -- unless as a last resort -- and made clear that boots on the ground or even a no fly zone were not options he would consider in Syria. Nobody could depict Romney as a war-monger after this debate. The likeability debate: Here, Romney made up for any ground he lost on the foreign policy issues. The contrast between the surly, nasty, petulant, impolite and intrusive president and the restrained dignity of his opponent was telling. Voters -- particularly women -- would have to come away from the contest liking Romney a lot more than they liked Obama. Gone was the loft and majesty of Obama’s 2008 campaign and in its place was a petty politician, running scared, sounding desperate and using every chance he had to score partisan points. When Romney invoked his bipartisan work in Massachusetts, the contrast was vivid. One the one side was cooperation and on the other gridlock. And when Romney warned that, “attacking me is not a plan for the future,” the contrast was telling. In the past three weeks, Romney has not only gained vote share but has increased his personal favorability to the point where it now exceeds the president’s. Anyone watching the third debate would rather have Romney over for dinner than Obama. And who would want to have a beer with that peevish, nit-picker of a president? The net effect of the debate will be to help propel Romney to even higher vote shares. He was presidential, dignified and personable. He has used the debates to resurrect a languishing candidacy and make it into a presidential juggernaut. (Political consultants Dick Morris and Eileen McGann are syndicated newspaper columnists.)

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Reeves sees Medicaid as a top issue STARKVILLE — For all intents and purposes, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves has held the office of lieutenant governor for more than a year now despite the fact that he didn’t take office officially until January of this year. But after defeating fellow Republican Billy Hewes in the contested 2011 GOP primary, Reeves cruised to formally win the election without a Democratic opponent. That fact gave Reeves extra months to assemble his legislative “go” team and put a staff in place. Today, after putting a successful first session under his belt in 2012, Reeves now faces his second regular session with a host of difficult issues on the Legislature’s agenda. What will Mississippi – the poorest state in the union – do with the question of Medicaid expansion? To accept the Medicaid expansion called for in the Obama health care reforms would expose Mississippi taxpayers to the possibility of being left “holding the bag” should a future Congress reshuffle the deck in terms of what the feds pay

for Medicaid in combination with the state. Yet to fail to expand Medicaid asSid Salter could sign tens of Columnist thousands in Mississippi to struggle without the resources they need to have adequate health care. What about charter schools? What about higher education finance? What about funding corrections? Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn - his counterpart in the House – have spent much of their first year in office overseeing an orderly transition from the political anomaly of the administration of former Gov. Haley Barbour to the more traditional administration of Gov. Phil Bryant. For Reeves and for Gunn, it’s been about overseeing a reassertion of the historical power of the Mississippi Legislature as established in the 1890 Constitution. In less than a year, Mississippi has essentially made the shift to the old paradigms

of a strong lieutenant governor and a strong House speaker and a more “traditional” governor more in keeping with the scant powers afforded a governor by the 1890 Constitution. Bryant has been savvy in the battles he has chosen with lawmakers, but his strength has remained in the House – where he got his start in statewide politics as a Rankin County lawmaker. Yet it was Reeves that got the most acclaim – and blame – when the state failed to pass a bond bill in 2012 for the first time in recent memory. Conservatives hailed the move as a shift away from business as usual in state government while those entities who depended on the bond bill’s revenues groused. Last week, during a visit to Mississippi State University to meet with student and professional groups, Reeves seemed relaxed, focused and ready to get down to business in the 2013 regular session. Like most lawmakers, Reeves seemed to laser in on the Medicaid issue as the toughest matter facing law-

makers. Historically, public health care and public education at all levels have been the government functions that took the lion’s share of the debate and the money when lawmakers gather. As a numbers guy, Reeves knows that fundamental changes in Medicaid finance dictated by the Obama health care reforms – with or without Medicaid expansion in Mississippi – could fundamentally change Mississippi’s Medicaid program and how Mississippi funds the state’s portion of Medicaid. While he declined comment on the matter, it’s clear the state is at a crossroads on the future of Medicaid funding moving forward. That fact, and the fact that the legislative and executive branches of state government continue to adjust to the new paradigms of a strong Legislature, should make the state’s health care industry pay close attention well beyond the outcome of the presidential election. (Sid Salter is a syndicated columnist. Contact him at 601-507-8004 or sidsalter@sidsalter.com.)

Obama, Libya and a bunch of lies It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was “offended” by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man not deceived the public about? Remember his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his first term in office? This was followed by the first trillion dollar deficit ever, under any President of the United States -- followed by trillion dollar deficits in every year of the Obama administration. Remember his pledge to have a “transparent” government that would post its legislative proposals on the Internet several days before Congress was to vote on them, so that everybody would know what was happening? This was followed by an ObamaCare bill so huge and passed so fast that even members of Congress did not have time to read it. Remember his claims that previous administrations had arrogantly interfered in the internal affairs of other nations -- and then his demands that Israel stop building settlements and give away land outside its 1967 borders, as a precondition to peace talks with the Palestinians, on whom there were no precondi-

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tions? As for what happened in Libya, the Obama administration Thomas says that Sowell there is an “investigaColumnist tion” under way. An “ongoing investigation” sounds so much better than “stonewalling” to get past election day. But you can bet the rent money that this “investigation” will not be completed before election day. And whatever the investigation says after the election will be irrelevant. The events unfolding in Benghazi on the tragic night of September 11th were being relayed to the State Department as the attacks were going on, “in real time,” as they say. So the idea that the Obama administration now has to carry out a time-consuming “investigation” to find out what those events were, when the information was immediately available at the time, is a little much. The full story of what happened in Libya, down to the last detail, may never be known. But, as someone once said, you don’t need to eat a whole egg to know that it is rotten. And you don’t

need to know every detail of the events before, during and after the attacks to know that the story put out by the Obama administration was a fraud. The administration’s initial story that what happened in Benghazi began as a protest against an anti-Islamic video in America was a very convenient theory. The most obvious alternative explanation would have been devastating to Barack Obama’s much heralded attempts to mollify and pacify Islamic nations in the Middle East. To have helped overthrow pro-Western governments in Egypt and Libya, only to bring anti-Western Islamic extremists to power would have been revealed as a foreign policy disaster of the first magnitude. To have been celebrating President Obama’s supposedly heroic role in the killing of Osama bin Laden, with the implication that Al Qaeda was crippled, would have been revealed as a farce. Osama bin Laden was by no means the first man to plan a surprise attack on America and later be killed. Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto planned the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II, and he was later tracked down and shot

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down in a plane that was carrying him. Nobody tried to depict President Franklin D. Roosevelt as some kind of hero for having simply authorized the killing of Yamamoto. In that case, the only hero who was publicized was the man who shot down the plane that Yamamoto was in. Yet the killing of Osama bin Laden has been depicted as some kind of act of courage by President Obama. After bin Laden was located, why would any President not give the goahead to get him? That took no courage at all. It would have been far more dangerous politically for Obama not to have given the go-ahead. Moreover, Obama hedged his bets by authorizing the admiral in charge of the operation to proceed only under various conditions. This meant that success would be credited to Obama and failure could be blamed on the admiral -- who would join George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton and other scapegoats for Obama’s failures. (Daily Corinthian columnist Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.)

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Joyce Morrow

Joyce Devers Morrow died Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center. Visitation is today from 5 until 9 p.m. at Wheeler Grove Baptist Church. Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Ruth Allison

SELMER, Tenn. â€” Funeral services for Ruth M. Allison, 86, were held Oct. 17 at Shackelford Funeral Directors in Selmer with burial at Mars Hill Cemetery in Adamsville. Mrs. Allison died Oct. 15, 2012, in Selmer. Born Aug. 21, 1926, she was a member of Good Hope Baptist Church in Adamsville, Tenn. Survivors include two sons, Ray Allison (Pam) of Bethel Springs, Tenn., and Neal Allison of Selmer; a daughter, Ruth A. Johnson (Gary) of Corinth; a brother, Wilson Matlock (Genell) of Bethel Springs, Tenn.; five grandchildren, Michael Johnson (Amy), Brian Johnson (Emily), Andy Allison (Sarah), Mark Allison, and Kelly Jones and com-

panion Brian Ferguson; and eight great-grandchildren. S h e was preceded in death by her parents, Edgar Clevel a n d a n d J e n Allison nie Ann H a r din Matlock; her husband, William T. Allison; two sisters, Tressie Griswell and Mildred Griswell; and five brothers, John, H.T., J.R., J.C. and Harold Matlock. Raybon Richardson officiated the service.

Betty Wade

RAMER, Tenn. â€” Funeral services for Betty Lou Holland Burns Wade, 93, are set for 1 p.m. Thursday at St. Rest Missionary Baptist Church with burial at Adams Chapel Community Cemetery. Mrs. Wade died Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at her home. Born July 27, 1919, she was a homemaker and a mem-

ber of Adams Chapel CME Church. Survivors include one sister, Gertrude H a r t and Leroy Holland; children: B e t tie Sue Burns, Wade Bessie Jarrett, Sallye Anthony and Rheba Campbell (James), Leroy Burns, Elbert Burns and John Robert Burns (Mary), all of Ramer, and Sherman Burns (Lucille) of Detroit; 31 grandchildren; 71 greatgrandchildren; and 38 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Otah Burns and Johnny Wade; one son, Robert Lee Burns; and her parents, Oliver and Sallye Holland. Bro. Will Luster Jr. will officiate the service. Visitation is 6 to 8 p.m. today at Patterson Memorial Chapel.

JACKSON â€” Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice William Joel Blass died Tuesday, four days after his 95th birthday, a spokeswoman for the court said.

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