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WednesdayJune 25, 2014

No. 19 of the 126th Year

Fifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420

Barrick hiredas city officer

Kingfisher High School graduate Justin Barrick has gone to work as Kingfisher’s new municipal building offi-cial (code enforcement offi-cer and building inspector).

Barrick, the son of Ross and Lou Barrick of King-fisher, holds a bachelor of business administration de-gree in management from the University of Central Oklahoma.

He served as assistant golf pro and bag room man-ager at Twin Hills Country Club in Oklahoma City for five years and most recently worked as event manager at the Oklahoma State Fair-grounds, coordinating large events such as the state fair, circuses, rodeos and gun shows.

Barrick’s responsibilities in Kingfisher will include enforcing the city’s health and safety codes, inspecting new construction, enforcing zoning ordinances and issu-ing building permits.

“We look forward to hav-ing Justin as a member of our team. The inspector and code enforcement position is a difficult duty but essential for safety and welfare of the community,” City Manager Dave Slezickey said. “I feel that Justin will be able to

Busy schoolmeeting set

Kingfisher ’s board of education will face a busy agenda Thursday in its final meeting of the fiscal year.

The board is expected to fill several positions as the agenda lists high school art, high school counselor’s assistant, high school librar-ian, middle school science, middle school special edu-cation, fourth grade, para-professional, AmeriCorps aide, part-time summer maintenance and Gilmour custodian as positions to be discussed in executive session.

The board will also han-dle encumbrances in the general fund, co-op fund, building fund and child nu-trition fund in both the 2013-14 and 2014-15 fiscal years.

Board members will also vote to close the petty cash accounts at the various schools and administration building, as well as the refund account for lost text-books, and transfer those funds into the general activ-ity fund.

Also, the accounts for the classes of 2013 and 2014 will be closed and that money will be transferred into the high school student fund. A new sub-account for the class of 2019 will be opened as well.

The board will vote on [See School Page 15]

NEW OFFICE — Newfield Exploration representa-tives on hand for the opening of its Okarche office include (above, from left): Todd Smith, senior safety specialist; Ed Haas, production manager; Gary Pum-mel, production foreman; Jason Young, lease oper-ator; Clay Gaspar, vice president Mid-Continent; Wayne Bower, lease operator; Tracy Nichols, human resources; Keith Morris, lease operator; Dean War-en, well work foreman; Larry Simmons, production superintendent; Gary Packer, COO; Sam McAllister, Engineering intern; Christopher Walker, lease oper-ator; Chad Wing, operations lead, and Craig Hunt, Mid-Continent production operations manager. At left, Gaspar, Haas, Packer, Simmons, Hunt and Wing officially cut the ribbon. [Photos Courtesy Cindy Hassler]

Newfield Exploration adminis-trators, personnel and government representatives gathered Monday to dedicate the company’s new 12,000 square-foot Okarche FieldOffice for its Mid-Continent division, part of a $250 million capital investment in Kingfisher and Canadian counties.

Clay Gaspar, vice president of Mid-Continent, said the building “represents an anchor” for the com-pany and reflects “how confident we are in the ultimate development of this area.”

Headquartered in The Wood-lands, Texas, with corporate offices in Houston and Tulsa, the oil and gas company has constructed similar field offices in Lindsay and Coalgate.

Gaspar said Newfield initially came into western Oklahoma “chas-ing the Woodford shale play” when a core sample showed the possibility of another resource play (a large mineral deposit with low develop-ment risk) west and northwest of Oklaho-ma City.

“ O u r e a r l i e s t thoughts were: Is it commercial? Can we make it work? And, if it works, where else do we need to lease and how much do we need to lease to lock up a sizable po-sition?” Gaspar said.

Without much fanfare last Novem-ber, Newfield leased about 70,000 acres in this area for $500-

Newfield opens Okarche Field OfficeCompany plans $250 million local investment

[See Office Page 16]

REVISED TURBINE MAP — APEX Clean Energy provided this revised map to the Kingfish-er Times and Free Press repre-senting its proposed agreement with the city of Kingfisher for a turbine-free zone around the city. The red oval represents the com-pany’s original offer of a three-mile buffer zone around the city limits (orange shaded area) and the Shafenburg residential area to the east (pink shading). The area was enlarged over the course of several meetings with city officials, as indicated by the purple and green lines. The map originally was presented to the Kingfisher City Commission at its June meeting, but incorrectly showed that the Okarche no-tur-bine zone (gray shaded area at the bottom) intersected with the proposed Kingfisher zone. When the error was pointed out, Apex issued a new map extending the southwest boundary line to meet Okarche’s no-turbine area. “It was always our intention to avoid placing turbines in that area,” Apex spokesperson Dahvi Wilson said.

The county’s small grain harvest is rapidly coming to a close.

Local elevator operators said Tuesday that harvesting operations were almost completed while Hen-nessey area producers need three or four good days to finish.

Locally heavy rains early Monday – up to 3.5 inches – halted harvesting in the southern portion of the county.

However, the rain, which filled lo-cal ponds and boosted grass growth, was welcomed by most.

Drought conditions early in the year had put ponds at precariously low levels for those who need them for cattle.

Cattle herds in the area were showing the effect of the June rain, growing slick and fat on lush pas-tures.

Kingfisher received 2.29 inches of rain in a hard, driving rain Monday, bringing the month’s total to 5.98 inches and the total for the year to 10.07 inches, below the historical

average for this point n the year, but much improved compared to the first five months of 2014.

Rainfall amounts reported else-where in the county included:

Okarche – almost 1.5 inches, ac-cording to Jack Andrews at Plains Partners Elevator.

1.25 inches were recorded at Okarche Grain and Feed, eight miles west of Okarche. Jason Petty, northwest of Okarche, reported three inches of rain and Jim Grellner,

regional manager for Shawnee Mills elevators, reported hearing amounts up to 3.5 inches in southwest sections of the county.

Hennessey – .98 inch at the Harold Ebers residence, east of Hennessey.

Dover – Jack Witt received 1.4 inches at his residence, northwest of

Dover and 1.7 inches across Turkey Creek, west of his residence. Jeremy Ingle, northeast of Dover, reported .75 inch.

Legal challenges have forced a delay in opening bids on the Lacey School Building, which had been offered for sale by the Hennessey School District, which took in the Lacey district when the school closed in 1968.

At a meeting last week the Hen-nessey school board voted to take the following action: Cease all efforts to sell the property for a period not to exceed 90 days and authorize Supt. Joe McCully to change the locks on the property and prohibit use of the building during that time.

The board expects a local group to seek a declaratory judgment au-thorizing the school to donate the property to the community group.

If the court rules the school district has the authority to give the property to the community, non-profit organi-zation, it will transfer the property by a quit claim deed.

If the court finds the school cannot donate the property, the school will hold the sealed bids submitted ear-lier and open them at the end of the 90-day-period and sell the property.

McCully and the school board indicated earlier that its main interest is to rid the school of the liability in-volved in ownership of the property.

Members of a group called Lacey Community Center, Inc. have threat-ened to file suit to block the sale by sealed bid, citing agreements made when the school closed.

Five bids on the property have remained sealed until the legal issues are settled.

The building that remains of the school, a cafeteria and 1.7 acres of land, is used as a meeting place by residents of the Lacey area.

Some 50 residents have joined the organization.

Steven Bugg, an Oklahoma City attorney and graduate of Hennessey High School (class of 1974) has been retained by the Lacey group to rep-resent it.

McCulley told representatives at a recent school board meeting that the school would like to give the property to the group but the law apparently prohibits it.

Hennessey’s five school board members agreed with McCulley about getting rid of the property to relieve the school district of liability.

Bugg said a law written in 1968 doesn’t allow Hennessey to sell or lease the property without a vote of residents of the former district if the property has been used within the last 90 days. Since the Lacey district no longer operates a school, there is a question whether district electors exist as a legal entity.

Bugg proposed a solution that he believes will meet legal require-ments.

The Lacey School came up for discussion in the March Hennessey

Rain slows harvest completion; still welcome

[See Rain Page 16]

Legal challenge delays Lacey bid opening

[See Lacey Page 16]

Justin Barrick

[See Barrick Page 16]

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What makes a shore wind?

A shore wind or land wind is just the opposite from the well-known sea breeze. The sea breeze develops during the day because the sun doesn’t heat the water as fast as it heats the land; the land breeze forms near sunrise, after the earth has cooled through the night faster than the water.

But the land or shore breeze is usually not as pronounced as the sea breeze, and doesn’t form unless the earth cools considerably during the night.

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By Trisha GedonFor more than a dozen

years, Oklahoma State Uni-versity has offered a grape management course to those individuals who have an established vineyard, or to those who are just getting into the industry.

Due to the popularity of the course, grape growers in the area now have a chance to expand their knowledge by attending the second in a series of educational oppor-tunities called the Advanced Viticulture and Enology Training workshops.

Slated July 11 from 1-5 p.m. at the Cimarron Val-ley Research Station near Perkins, the workshop will feature Justin Scheiner, vi-ticulturist from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. He will present information regarding fruit ripening is-sues in the vineyard, as well as a question and answer session.

In his role as an extension specialist, Scheiner provides educational programming and technical support for grape growers in the Gulf Coast Region and North Tex-as. His research focuses on

best management practices for vineyards in areas affect-ed by Pierce’s Disease.

The workshop is free, but participants are asked to register by calling Stephanie Larimer at 405-744-5404, or via email at stephanie.larim-er@okstate.edu.

Becky Carroll, OSU Co-operative Extension assistant specialist, fruit crops and pecans, said the grape indus-try has seen some ups and downs over the last several years.

“There are various issues and concerns in the grape industry, including the econ-omy and even the weather,” Carroll said. “Although we aren’t seeing the rapid growth in wineries and acreage of grapes planted compared to a number of years ago, we’re seeing steady improvements in grape growing and wine making expertise. Oklaho-ma currently has about 600 acres dedicated to the grape industry.”

Because of these im-provements, Carroll said she is excited to see these ad-vanced workshops available to grape growers. She said this new workshop will pick

up where the grape manage-ment course ended.

“We don’t have a great many advanced training op-portunities in the state, but thanks to a grant from the Department of Commerce Viticulture and Enology Fund, we are now able to offer grape growers an op-portunity to enhance their knowledge. We have been able to network with special-ists from other institutions and industry professionals who will share new and up-to-date educational pro-grams for these more ad-vanced growers,” she said. “In addition, the workshop will provide them with better tools to manage their busi-ness, and thereby help to en-sure the industry’s sustained profitability and enhance the consistence and quality of Oklahoma wines.”

A website has been estab-lished at www.grapes.ok-state.edu/advanced-viticul-ture-workshops for people to go to for more information and presentations from prior workshops

Other advanced work-shops will take place at a later date.

Advanced viticulture and enology training workshop slated July 11

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Relatives of the late Will and Sally Jones held a family reunion on Saturday, June 21, at the Oaks Country Club in Edmond.

Richard and AJ Jones host-ed the event.

Family members provid-ed a potluck dinner after a prayer by Paul York.

Those attending were Paul and Jerry York of Wich-ita, Kan.; Michael and Jill Gandy, Josh and Emma of Coppell, Texas; Jean Jones of Duncan; Tom Mason of Moore; Denise and Zachery Jones and Trish Baldwin of Oklahoma City; Richard and AJ Jones, David and Michelle Mason and Katelyn Nelson, and Chance and Stefanie Jones, Garrett and Alaina of Edmond.

Also, John and Tenessa Pinkerton, Wyatt, Austin and Maelyn, and Abbie Jones of Okarche; Madeline Redwine, LaVenia Boutwell, Madell Henderson, Tom and Myra Jones, Sue Parks, Charles and Judy Pannell, Wade Pannell, Carlie Pendergraft, Bart and Stacy Jones and Reggie Red-wine of Kingfisher.

The next reunion will be held at the Oaks Country Club in Edmond in June 2015.

Jones family reunion held

CHORAL CAMP HELD – Southwestern Oklahoma State University recently hosted its 41st annual cho-ral camp for students in grades six through 12. The students were divided into choirs during the June 15-19 camp on the SWOSU campus in Weatherford. The camp concluded with a concert featuring all 47 students. Among those attending the camp were, from left, Katrina Graham and Emily Skala, both of Kingfisher Public Schools. [Photo Provided]

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Fire runs•at 2:20 p.m. June 11,

medical assist;•at 7:17 p.m. June 12, three

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•at 1:25 p.m. June 16, medical assist;

•at 6:25 p.m. June 16, medical assist;

•at 10:36 p.m. June 16, 509 W. Broadway, Kingfisher, false alarm;

•at 9:34 p.m. June 17, medical assist;

•at 9:58 a.m. June 18, med-ical assist;

•at 2:34 p.m. June 18, medical assist;

•at 9:29 p.m. June 19, medical assist;

•at 2:15 p.m. June 20, medical assist;

•at 4:15 p.m. June 20, med-ical assist;

•at 6:17 p.m. June 20, med-ical assist;

•at 9:21 a.m. June 21, med-ical assist;

•at 2:21 p.m. June 21, 2 1/2 miles west of Kingfisher on 780 Rd., car fire;

•at 9:20 a.m. June 23, med-ical assist.

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Tenney is the insurgent challenger in the June 24 primary to unseat Hanna, who is the third most liberal GOP member of the House. Hanna is also a member of the left-wing “Republican Main Street Partnership” — the pro-bailout, pro-debt, pro-amnesty, anti-drilling group infested with lobby-ists and fronted by Beltway barnacle turned Tea Par-ty-bashing lobbyist Steve LaTourette.

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Hanna, by contrast, has the backing of deep-pock-eted D.C. special interests that have thrown nearly $1.5 million into the race. The “American Unity” super PAC, funded by billionaire gay marriage supporter Paul Singer, has kicked in more than a half-million dollars on gay marriage crusader Hanna’s behalf. The group also has shoveled $125,000 to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads, whose opera-tives are waging war against conservative tea party pri-mary challengers across the country. The “American Unity” super PAC’s ads ab-surdly slam Tenney as “not a conservative” and fudge the facts to falsely accuse her of supporting tax hikes.

Another blatant lie: ty-ing Tenney to Democratic corruptocrat Sheldon Silver, whom Tenney was the first state legislator to call on to resign after his tax-subsi-dized payoffs to cover up sexual harassment claims were exposed.

A similar attack cam-paign by something called the “Patriot Prosperity PAC” parroted the patently false claims that Tenney supports tax hikes and called her “out of touch.”

But it’s liberal incumbent Hanna and his D.C. backers who are the elitists out of touch not only with GOP voters, but also with main-stream Americans. Hanna is a soft-on-borders, U.S. Chamber of Commerce-sup-ported pol pushing amnesty and massive increases in foreign tech visas.

Tenney, by contrast, op-poses amnesty, expansions of illegal alien benefits, and the cheap-labor tech visa racket. “Millions of Amer-icans are out of work, and politicians in Washington, like my opponent, want to bring in millions more to take high-paying, high-tech jobs we desperately need here and for our American citizens,” Tenney says. “We can and will reform our system without rewarding law-breaking, encouraging more illegal immigration, or displacing hardworking Americans from jobs.”

Tenney has a proven record of defying special

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4 Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Kingfisher (Okla.) Times & Free Press

By Ted Buswell“It seems to me shallow

and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achieve-ments.” – Walt Disney

Most of us born here af-ter 1930 were undoubtedly influenced in some way by Disney’s contributions to the world of animated cartoon characters. This writer still has in a drawer somewhere a rubber toy Mickey Mouse that provided hours of in-nocent amusement for him over 75 years ago. And the cartoons at the movie theater and in the comic books and funny papers provided not only humor for laughs, but also occasionally healthy moral suggestion. There were usually good moral lessons subtly included in the laughable behaviors of the cartoon character that ef-fectively held our attention. And have you ever noticed that we still often gain wis-dom and new understand-ing of things when tempered with humorous stimulation?

Just as Disney attributes his outstanding lifetime successes to the many oth-er people who influenced, encouraged and assisted him along the way, we all should consider the impact of others around us on our own achievements, howev-er great or small. And we should not lose sight of the fact that such influence is received beginning in the earliest days of life and con-tinues to the last. And it is then little wonder that in the end we may be aptly judged by the company we keep and endeavors we engage in throughout life. And are there not many examples we

can cite among the folks we are acquainted with or know about that bear out such ra-tionale here cited?

As a general rule it all starts with family and per-haps early on extends to the neighborhood into which we arrive. And in recent history public education in public schools introduce broad influence to children after the age of about 6 years. And for 12 or so years they are exposed to contact and influence of many teachers and other children of var-ious backgrounds to form young adults at graduation at the end. But even then the nature of the individual var-ies greatly within the flock and individual identities remain somewhat unique from one to another. But as Disney said, the accomplish-ments and achievements of each one is resultant of the contributions of the many hands and hearts and minds of those associations from mother’s knees to gradua-tion from the institutions of learning. There is little won-der that no two among the throngs are exactly alike. But there does seem to be a nat-ural gathering of those most similar in many respects. Is that where arises the for-mations of “gangs” we hear about in recent times?

In most recent years we have witnessed many changes in families and educational institutions. As it has been historically many changes have been for the good and some have brought negative returns over time. And there is no doubt that such trends will continue as long as mankind is the motivator and the ar-chitect of such alterations. In our United States of America we have adopted methods for implementing changes in many aspects of our lives

and education is among them. At the time of this writing candidates for sev-eral public offices are vying for election. Who we elect for legislative offices will work to maintain or change laws and regulations in many areas of our lives. And there is little doubt that the public will find cause for praise or criticism of their actions in days ahead. And a person will be elected to fill the seat of State Superintendent of Education. That office will be important in adjustments of the rules governing public education in the state which is currently under heavy crit-icism for a variety of reasons. Free elections are the most important instrument the public at large has in main-taining the independence and freedom hard won by our ancestors by armed rev-olution 230 some years ago.

We hear a lot of pub-lic complaints these days about the loss of local con-trol and individual rights and responsibilities. And the complexity of life now compared to what it was a couple of centuries ago can be credited with much of the problem. Can it be that we each need to consider that as Walt Disney suggested we must get together and work collectively to achieve our goals? It seems to have worked in times past in mat-ters of great importance, and perhaps it will again. And although leadership always emerges within the group (any group) the group seems ever to outweigh the lone individual in a cause.

Well, I’m not Mickey Mouse, but if Donald Duck will get behind me, I think we can get someone to come out as we would prefer and we’ll give them credit for it all.

To whom do the elected ones really owe success or failure?

In earlier times in this nation, the federal government wasn’t given much thought by the ordinary person.

The federal government, which was far away, didn’t affect his life a great deal.

Advancements in technology – computers, the internet and assorted snooping devices – have brought the federal government right into people’s living rooms.

Many new laws and programs have been enacted over the years to “help” people.

The Environmental Protection Agency was created to protect people’s health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations passed by Congress.

President Richard Nixon proposed the agency. It began operating Dec. 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order, later ratified after committee hearings in the U.S. House and Senate.

It has evolved into an attack arm of the federal govern-ment ... against businesses and indidual property rights.

The current head of the agency, who is appointed by the president and approved by Congress, is Gina McCarthy.

The EPA recently handed down new regulations that will make coal, our most abundant and economical fuel, virtually illegal for producing electricity in the U.S.

According to the EPA, burning coal produces too much carbon dioxide, for a healthy planet.

Never mind that America’s carbon emissions are only a minuscule portion of the planet’s. Other nations are building coal-fired electrical generating at an unprecedented pace and buying U.S. coal to fuel them. One of the EPA’s major uses at this point is to provide propaganda for the left-wing element intent on destroying the nation’s economy and people’s freedoms in the process.

President Obama is a committed user of “climate change” as a political whip.

He loves to berate climate change “deniers.”In a recent address (teleprompter-abetted) at the Uni-

versity of California-Irvine, Obama used the occasion for another grandstanding opportunity to rail against members of Congress who opposed his radical regime as “folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence about climate change,”

He claimed they are a “fairly serious threat to everybody’s future.”

The president was attacking elected representatives of American citizens who he attempted to portray as people who intend to harm the nation.

It was threatening language.If the president’s evidence is so strong why are there many

scientists (not supported by government grants and other funding) who see the whole global warming (now Climate Change since so much fraud has been turned up in the Global Warming Camp) as a scam.

Much of the evidence coming out against global warming is being censored.

It was recently revealed that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency was “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data fabicated by computer models to give the impression that the Earth is warming up much more than is justified.

This comes from Steven Goddard’s blog Real Science.Obama goes so far as to claim that “climate change” is al-

ready being felt – through storms, as if there have not always been weather disturbances.

He told the California graduates and others in the captive audience that he was allocating new funds for communities recovering from natural disasters.

Obama is using this as a pretext to give away public money to allies in local governments.

Obama has made climate change a top issue for his second term, announcing new restrictions on power plants that burn coal, rules that will reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030 – and hike electrical bills to about double for Americans.

The middle income and poor residents will be affected adversely by these rules – proportionately much more than the wealthy.

Does Obama care? The answer seems obvious.

Department of Education helpful?

The U.S. Department of Education was created and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and began oper-ating in May, 1980.

A previous Department of Education was created in 1967 but was demoted to an office in 1968.

We well remember a county superintendent attempting to allay concerns about the federal intrusion by saying its contribution would have no bearing on local schools.

U.S. government once a near nonentity; ‘the good old days’

By Walter E. WilliamsMany view America’s ed-

ucation as a failure, but in at least one important way, it’s been a success — a success in dumbing down the nation so that we fall easy prey to char-latans, hustlers and quacks. You say, “Williams, that’s insulting! Explain yourself.” OK, let’s start with a ques-tion or two.

Are you for or against global warming, later re-named climate change and more recently renamed cli-mate disruption? Environ-mentalists have renamed it because they don’t want to look silly in the face of cool-ing temperatures. About 650 million years ago, the Earth was frozen from pole to pole, a period scientists call Snowball Earth. The Earth is no longer frozen from pole to pole. There must have been global warming, and it can-not be blamed on humans. Throughout the Earth’s his-tory, we’ve had both ice ages and higher temperatures when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today. There’s one im-mutable fact about climate. It changes, and mankind can’t do anything about it. Only idiocy would conclude that mankind’s capacity to change the climate is more powerful than the forces of nature.

During Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, his slogans were about hope and change. At the time, I asked people whether they were for or against change. Most often, I received a blank stare, whereupon I reminded them that change is a fact of life. Nonetheless, when candidate Obama uttered “hope and change,” it was received with thun-derous applause. There was

also thunderous applause when Obama promised, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Only a deranged environmental wacko and duped people could believe that a non-god can change ocean depths.

Americans fall easy prey to charlatans of all stripes because of the education establishment’s success in dumbing down the nation. Nowhere has this dumbing down been more successful than it has in creating a his-torical amnesia. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote in “The Disuniting of America”: “History is to the nation ... as memory is to the individual. As an individual deprived of memory be-comes disoriented and lost, not knowing where he has been or where he is going, so a nation denied a conception of its past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

The National Assessment of Educational Progress tests students in grades four, eight and 12 on several broad subject areas every few years. Just 20 percent of fourth-graders, 17 percent of eighth-graders and 12 percent of 12th-graders were at grade-level proficiency in American history in the 2010 exams. Because students don’t learn American his-tory, they learn little about our founding principles and they fail to learn why America is an exceptional nation. But that’s a part of the progressive/liberal agenda. If Americans knew and un-derstood our founding prin-ciples and values, special in-terest groups and politicians couldn’t run roughshod over our liberties.

But it’s not just K-12 students who are ignorant of our history. In a 1990 survey — and there’s been no improvement since — al-most half of college seniors couldn’t locate the Civil War within the correct half-cen-tury. More recently, 60 per-cent of American adults couldn’t name the president who ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb, and over 20 percent didn’t know where — or even wheth-er — the atomic bomb had been used. The same people didn’t know who America’s enemies were during World War II (Germany, Japan and Italy). In a civics survey, more American teenagers were able to name The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe and Curly) than the three branch-es of the federal government (executive, legislative and judicial). A third of the peo-ple who were asked the ori-gin of the statement “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” responded by saying it’s from our Bill of Rights, when it’s actually from “The Communist Manifesto.”

I’d say that the education establishment has been suc-cessful beyond its wildest dreams in reducing Amer-icans’ ability to think and therefore causing them to have little knowledge of or love for our founding prin-ciples.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and car-toonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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