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obligation of politicians in the United States to make sure that all those people do not remain poor. Obviously, somebody has that obligation, because it is a biblical obligation, the gov-ernor tells us. What will he do about this?

But how does the government of Kleptocristan intend make the people of Kleptocristan more productive? The problem is this: they are not productive. They do not produce anything of value that is worth $10.65 an hour. There is nothing that any politician can do that would make them this productive. There is nothing the governor of Illinois can do to make them this productive.

The problem is not just all those inefficient, unproductive workers in Kleptocritan. The problem is the inefficient, unpro-ductive workers in Illinois. There is nothing that the politicians in Illinois can do to make these people more productive. Well, maybe there is something: they could rescind 90% of the legis-lation that has ever been passed by the legislature and signed into law in the state of Illinois. That would certainly help make the citizens of Illinois more productive. But that is not what the legislature of Illinois is planning to do.

Will the governor of Illinois go on record as saying that the state of Illinois ought to send money abroad to people who live in nations in which somebody who works 40 hours a week is not making $10.65 an hour? If a biblical principle tells us that nobody who works 40 hours a week should be in poverty, then somebody has to be in charge of enforcing this principle by law. The obvious people who have this moral obligation, if this principle is true, are all those people who live in nations in which working people are so productive, compared to people outside the geographical boundaries, that they make $10.65 an hour. They have have a moral responsibility to make certain that nobody who lives outside their geographical boundaries is in poverty if he works 40 hours a week. I mean, this is a biblical principle! So, if the legislature of Illinois has a moral obligation to pass a minimum-wage law, because people are in poverty work 40 hours a week, then the legislature has a similar obligation to pass a law that make certain that nobody outside of Illinois is in poverty if he works 40 hours a week.

If the governor says this suggestion is ridiculous, then he needs to explain why it is ridiculous. Why is it that somebody who works 40 hours a week is not paid $10.65 an hour inside the boundaries of Illinois? The reason is exactly the same as the reason why somebody in a foreign nation that is called a Third World country is not paid $10.65 an hour. The reason is this: his output is not worth $10.65 an hour. If the customers who purchase his output do not believe that it is worth paying enough for this output to let him be paid $10.65 an hour, then there is nothing that the legislature of Illinois can do to assure him, and others like him, that he will earn $10.65 an hour after the minimum-wage law is passed.

In a free market economy, poverty is as poverty does. Pov-erty earns what poverty is worth. People are paid what paying customers say they are worth. Legislators in the state capital of Illinois cannot guarantee that everybody whose output is not worth $10.65 an hour will receive $10.65 an hour. They can only guarantee that people who are worth $10.65 an hour are paid $10.65 an hour. But the legislature of Illinois does not have to pass a law in order to achieve this outcome. The free market will achieve this all by itself.

What the legislature of Illinois can do, and apparently is about to do, is to make it illegal for businesses to employ poor people whose output is not worth $10.65 an hour. So, the employers will not employ these people. The employers will stop hiring such people, and they will fire those people already on the payroll who do not meet the output standards required to pay them $10.65 an hour.

There is nothing in the Bible that indicates that the civil government has an obligation to achieve the impossible. If it is impossible for a civil government to pass a law that will make every employee a member of the middle class, simply because the government is incapable of making people suf-ficiently productive to enter the middle class, then anything that the government does in an attempt to make everyone a member of the middle class will backfire. It will increase the number of people who are poor. This is because employers will not hire them.

A minimum-wage law is, above all, a law that says that somebody who is willing to work for less than the minimum wage will not be allowed to do so, because the legislature has made such a transaction illegal. It restricts employers from making offers to employ people at less than the minimum wage. So, those people whose output is not sufficient to war-rant paying them the minimum wage will find that they must either move outside the jurisdiction of the legislature, or seek employment in the black market, or go on welfare.

Probably they will go on welfare. They will figure that it’s better to get something for nothing (welfare) than getting nothing for nothing (unemployment without pay). They are, in short, a lot smarter than those members of Illinois legislature who vote for a minimum-wage law. Those politicians really do believe that you can get something for nothing. You can get paid for output that you do not have the ability to produce.

The legislators in the state of Illinois who vote for such legislation ought to call their legislation the Texas Employers’ Act. It is surely a subsidy to Texas employers. Employers in Texas say: “Y’all come!”

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the legislator accepted nearly $100,000 in bribes, plane trips, gourmet meals and golf games in exchange for political fa-vors. He also is accused of pay-ing his daughter $39,000 for a phony office job and paying $40,000 in “consulting” fees for a campaign website that didn’t exist.

– California state Demo-cratic Sen. Roderick Wright, ly-ing liar: Also on paid leave, the entrenched Los Angeles-area politician is now fighting his January conviction on felony perjury, false declaration of candidacy and fraudulent vot-ing charges. Wright claimed to live in a rented room in an Inglewood home within his district, but the jury found his true residence was outside the district in upscale Baldwin Hills. The jury found he lied on candidacy declarations and voter registration documents and fraudulently voted in five elections.

– New York state Democrat-ic Assemblyman Bill Scarbor-ough, shady jet-setter: The FBI and state authorities raided his home and offices as part of a probe into his travel voucher practices. He blamed a “tab-loid hit job” by the New York Post over questionable per diem claims totaling $60,000.

– Illinois state Democratic House Rep. Keith Farnham, child porn probe suspect: After sponsoring two bills to increase penalties for child porn possession, Farnham was the subject of state and federal raids last week on his home ... for possession of child porn. Over the weekend, he resigned his seat citing “serious health issues.” There’s a euphemism.

Remember: Nancy Pelosi famously promised to “drain the moral swamp” and end the “culture of corruption.” She cast herself and her min-ions as America’s political clean-up crew. But once again, the culture of corruption boomerang has swung back around to smack Democrats in their smug mugs. The cynical Swamp Drainers just hope you forget it all by election time. Don’t.

Malkin is the author of “Cul-ture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkin-blog@gmail.com.

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An offensive explosion to start the game helped Kingfisher baseball coach Stan Blundell reach a milestone last week.

The Jackets scored six runs in the first inning in an eventual 7-4 home win over Blackwell last Thursday night to give Blundell his 100th career win.

Six consecutive Jacket batters reached base and scored in the bot-tom half of the first frame, capped by Chayden Clayton’s two-run single.

That proved to be enough for a trio of pitchers, who combined to limit the Maroons to just four runs despite out-hitting KHS 11-5.

Tanner Rutledge took care of the first three innings as he gave up four runs on seven hits. Rutledge struck out four and walked one as he picked up the win.

Trey Woods pitched a scoreless three-inning stretch in relief in which

he gave up three hits and struck out six.Nick Smith closed out the game as he

pitched a single inning to get the save. Smith struck out two batters.

Smith also provided some power with his bat as he belted a solo home run in the fifth inning for Kingfisher’s only other run.

He finished 2-for-3 and scored twice.Clayton finished with three RBIs

while Brady Ballard brought home a pair of runs. Sam Walter was 1-for-2 with an RBI and run scored.

Runs were nearly non-existent for KHS as it dropped a pair of games Saturday in Guthrie.

The Jackets were set back 10-0 in five innings by the host Bluejays, then beaten 2-1 by Chandler.

Smith had the team’s only hit against Guthrie, which dealt Walter the loss on the mound.

Walter pitched three innings and

gave up six runs, four of which were earned. He surrendered five hits and four walks while striking out one.

Rutledge pitched one inning of relief and gave up four runs, though none was earned. The runs came off just one Guthrie hit.

The Jackets managed six hits against Chandler, but could only scratch out a single run. That came in the fourth in-ning when Matt Hopkins drove home Smith with a single.

Smith pitched all seven innings and gave up just five hits while striking out nine. One of the Lions runs was earned.

Dylan Blundell, Rutledge, Smith, Walter, Trey Borelli and Hopkins had one hit apiece.

The losses dropped KHS to 6-5 entering this week. They’re currently ranked 18th in Class 4A by coaches.

Three Kingfisher County players and one coach were honored last Friday when the Oklahoma Girls Basket-ball Coaches Association an-nounced its All-State teams.

Morgan Vogt and Madi Grellner of Okarche and Tay-lor Mendell of Lomega were given the distinction of being All-State selections.

They’ll represent the Small West at the annual OGBCA All-State games May 31 at Westmoore High School. The Small West selec-tions will take on the Small East squad as part of a trio of games that day.

Kingfisher girls’ coach Chris Combs will also be a part of the day as he’ll be one of two coaches for the Middle West team. He’ll join Chisholm’s Terry Middleton on the bench against the Middle East squad.

Vogt, who earlier last week was chosen as the MVP of the Three Rivers Confer-ence, averaged 22 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game.

She finished her career with 2,102 career points and has signed to play at South-western Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

Grellner averaged 13 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.9 steals a contest.

She made a team-high 76 3-pointers as a senior.

Together they helped Okarche to a 29-2 record and the Class B state champion-ship. That came one year after the Lady Warriors won the Class A state crown.

Vogt was named the MVP of both state tournaments.

Grellner and Vogt played in three state championship games in their careers.

Mendell averaged 20.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.7 as-sists and three steals for the Lady Raiders.

Lomega finished with a 24-5 mark and reached the Class B state semifinals.

Mendell scored 1,846 points in her career, one that included a state title in 2012 and a runner-up finish in 2013.

Brady Liles dominated the field last Friday to claim the second high school golf title of his career.

The Kingfisher High School sophomore fired a 2-over-par 74 at Cimarron Trails Golf Course to win the Perkins-Tryon Invitational.

Liles’ round included three birdies as he helped KHS to a third-place finish in the team standings.

KHS shot a 369 overall.“He played splendidly,”

coach Chris Combs said. “He was really in control of his golf ball all day.”

Regan Henderson shot a 97 while Tyler Woods and Chris Johnson each shot a 99.

Drew Shults came in with a 110.

The Jackets take part in the El Reno Invitational at Crimson Creek on Thursday before returning home next Wednesday for the Kingfish-er Invitational.

Blundell picks up 100th career winJackets beat Blackwell for milestone victory

KHS baseball coach Stan Blundell

KINGFISHER’S BRADY LILES, shown here in action last year, won the Perkins-Tryon tournament last week, the second title of his career. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

Liles claims Perkins titleJackets shoot 369, place 3rd as a team

Trey Woods cooled off the red-hot Hennessey bats just enough Monday afternoon to help Kingfisher snap a long Eagles’ winning streak.

Woods pitched 6 1/3 in-nings of five-hit ball to help lift Kingfisher to a 6-4 win

at Hennessey in high school baseball action.

The loss snapped Hen-nessey’s seven-game win streak as it dropped the Eagles to 10-2. KHS, mean-while, stopped a two-game skid and moved to 7-5.

Woods gave up all four runs, three of them earned, but the Jackets never trailed.

KHS posted two runs in the second, three in the third and got its final run in the fifth despite just getting five hits. No Jacket run was

earned as the Eagles com-mitted six errors.

Trey Borelli and Woods put KHS on the board with run-scoring singles in the first inning.

The Jackets pushed their lead to 5-1 in the top of the third when Hennessey com-mitted three of its errors. One run scored on an error, another on a passed ball and

Borelli was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded for another.

Woods added an RBI fielder’s choice in the fifth, giving he and Borelli two RBIs each.

Dayton Wymore and Matthew Mills had an RBI each for Hennessey while Tabor Johns picked up two with his third-inning dou-

ble.However, the Eagles nev-

er fully solved Woods, who struck out seven and walked two. Nick Smith got the save when he struck out the only two batters he faced in the seventh inning.

Dylan Payne and Tanner Rutledge had a hit and each scored a run for KHS. Jake Snider scored twice.

Woods, Borelli help KHS halt Hennessey win streak

OGBCA ALL-STATE - A quartet of local players and coaches will represent Kingfisher County at the annual OGBCA All-State basketball games. Players making the Small West team include Okarche’s Morgan Vogt (top left) and Madi Grellner (top right) and Lomega’s Taylor Men-dell (left). Kingfisher girls’ coach Chris Combs (right) will join Chisholm’s Terry Middleton as one of the coaches for the Middle West squad. The games will be played May 31 at Westmoore High School. [Photos Provided]

OGBCA All-StateVogt, Grellner, Mendell

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The Kingfisher girls’ soc-cer team salvaged a win last weekend at the Bethany Tour-nament to improve to 3-2 on the young season.

KHS beat Harding Char-ter Prep 3-2 on Saturday, snapping a skid of one-goal losses in the tournament on Thursday.

Those losses were 3-2 to Oklahoma Christian School and 1-0 to Putnam City West.

“These were intense matches,” KHS head coach Fay Barnett said. “We had trouble finishing and the 25 mile-per-hour winds were definitely a factor.”

The Lady Jackets bounced back Saturday for a one-win goal of their own.

“We held out for the win, but we still have some minor details to work out before district games begin,” Barnett said.

KHS traveled to McLoud Tuesday and Woodward on

Thursday before hosting Dou-glass next Tuesday in its first District 4A-3 match.

Other teams in the dis-trict include Santa Fe South, Crooked Oak, Mount St. Mary, Southeast, Harding Charter Prep and McLoud.

The Lady Jackets opened their season with two straight wins as they beat Del City 4-1 and Community Christian 3-2.

•••The KHS boys soccer team

put together a pair of wins to cap its play last weekend at the Bethany Tournament.

After opening the season with three consecutive losses, including a 3-0 setback to Put-nam City West last Thursday to begin tournament play, the Jackets turned it around.

KHS got a 1-0 win over Oklahoma Christian School later Thursday night, then beat Cache 2-1 on penalty kicks Saturday.

The Jackets trailed in the final minute of regulation be-fore Preston Eminger netted a corner kick sent into the box by Damen Fuller.

In the shootout, Emmanuel Torrez, Alex Franco, Sergio Maciel and Chris Parker each scored on their kicks while Garrett Yost denied Cache on three of its four penalty shots.

“This was the best game the Jackets have played,” coach Fay Barnett said. “We had a tremendous defensive stand down to the final seconds of the match.”

Barnett also commended Yost, saying he is “one of the best goalkeepers in the state.”

“The guys still have some offensive fine tuning to do in district play, which we will address this week.”

Like the KHS girls, the boys travel to McLoud and Woodward this week before hosting Douglass in their 4A-3 opener next Tuesday.

Soccer season in full swing

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PROTECT OUR HOMES AND OUR TOWNS!

What you may not know: Property Values WILL decrease. Evidence all over the country shows industrial wind turbines can

decrease property value by 28%-40% within 3 miles of wind turbines. Health effects felt up to 3 miles. Tachycardia, headache, tinnitus, stress & anxiety, etc. Schools may NOT get the money they are promised. Tax holds and depreciation on the turbines

make it difficult and deceiving to determine just what they will receive. Homes, schools, and businesses will be subject to shadow flicker, stray voltage, and infrasound.

Fortunately, in this day and age we have the resource of the internet for information. Please get informed on the effects of wind turbines and see what is happening all over our country and even the world. We can learn from what has happened in other areas and protect ourselves. A few good websites are: www.wind-watch.org , www.windaction.org , www.betterplan.squarespace.com For an example of shadow flicker, please visit www.youtube.com and search for “shadow flicker”

Picture from www.theforestvoice.org

We invite you to come learn about your new neighbors and what YOU can do to protect yourself!

Please join us Thursday, April 3rd @ 6:30 pm Interbank, 320 N Main St in Kingfisher

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Industrial wind turbines nearly 500’ tall are threatening ourhomes and the towns of Okarche & Kingfisher. Apex plans to cover this area with hundreds of industrial wind turbines

For more info you can contact Randy or Jamie Briscoe 405-375-3090

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owaa@outlook.com Check out our facebook page for more info.

or Steve Wittrock 405-641-4930

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Located in a portable building across from Front-line Ministries, This Too Shall Pass has food, clothing and other items on the prem-ises and additional mer-chandise in storage nearby.

If she doesn’t have an item on hand that is request-ed to fi ll a need, she goes on a mission to fi nd it.

“I’m a great garage saler,” she laughed. “I love looking for bargains and making deals.”

She also uses social me-dia to send out requests for needed items and generally receives a quick response.

“For a county our size, we have a lot of need. I didn’t re-ally realize how much until I started this ministry,” she

said. “But we also have a lot of generous people who are willing to help out. My job is to fi nd those resources.”

As the ministry progress-es, Martinez intends to offer fresh fruits and vegetables and fresh meat, in addition to nonperishable items, she said.

Currently, she accepts donations from the commu-nity, but also is working on obtaining 501(c)(3) nonprof-it status, which will make her ministry eligible for shipments from the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

Martinez also is working with other area churches and local resources to make her ministry part of the existing network of services to keep needy families from falling

through the cracks. The church dedicated her

building with a prayer ser-vice on the grounds Sunday, in preparation for Tuesday’s grand opening.

Martinez said she was at fi rst resistant to the idea of holding the grand opening on the anniversary of her daughter’s death, but then decided that it would be a fi tting memorial to the per-son who is the inspiration behind her ministry.

“I’m a private person and prefer to help people behind the scenes, so if you had told me a year ago that I would have this very public minis-try, I never would have be-lieved it,” she said. “But now it just seems like this is what I need to be doing. I think

April would be proud.”This Too Shall Pass is

open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.

$12,405.50.Kingfisher –$25,166.63

and $63,067.22.Okarche – $2,240.92 and

$16,425.92Watonga – $8,872.29 and

$6,893.45.Kingfisher County –

$28,108.09 and $33,290. 57.

ted bids on a Livescan elec-tronic fi ngerprinting system for the sheriff’s office and action was tabled to allow Sheriff Dennis Banther time to inspect them.

The bidders included: Sa-fran Morphograk of Ana-heim, Calif., at $27,375 with a $4,454 annual maintenance fee; Crossmatch Technolo-gies of Palm Beach, Florida, $29,948.11; Mentalix of Plano, Texas, $23,200, and Identifi -cation Systems Technology of Aubrey, Texas, $27,888.11.

The systems will connect instantly with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to reveal any criminal cases for an individual being fi n-gerprinted.

Commissioners also ap-proved a payment to Roberts Land Services of $4,300 for ac-quisition of parcels 1, 2, 9 and 10 on the Rice Road and bridge project south of Kingfisher and two permits for pipelines to cross county roads for the following:

Hamilton Investments, wa-ter line four miles south and two miles west of Hennessey (District 2), and, Newfield starting four miles west and four miles north of Kingfi sher (involves Districts 1 and 3).

discussed the importance of setting goals and how it is not an easy challenge to do something no one has ever done before,” Gilmour Librarian Lesley Redwine said.

He challenged the Gilm-our and Heritage students to each get a sponsor who will donate 1 cent per basket up to 1,000 baskets.

That money will go back to the classroom to help pur-chase supplies for the fall.

Liles returned to King-fi sher and became pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in January 2011.

Prior to then he spent time as the assistant high school girls basketball coach in Watonga and taught in Sterling, Colo., and the Put-nam City school district.

He also served as youth minister at the Church of the Nazarene in Kingfi sher in 1984-85 when he graduated from college.

The carnival, sponsored by the Parent Teacher Orga-nization of both elementary schools, is open to the public from 5-7 p.m. Friday at the APB.

Liles will be working on his new world record from 5-6 p.m.

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Gambill will fi ght for rural Western Oklahoma’s way of life at the state capitol.

“To be successful, the state needs to generate eco-nomic activity and educate our future work force,” he said. “I’ll work for a stron-ger Oklahoma and a more prosperous rural economy.”

Elk City’s Tom Ivester currently holds the Dis-trict 26 seat, but he has announced he will not seek re-election this November.

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Letter to the editorWind turbines

While we fully respect everyone’s right to do what they wish with their own property, at the same time we’re fully against govern-ment regulations for our land use.

Respect for neighbors should be a guiding factor in making a decision that will not only affect your neigh-bor but the community in general.

I would never sign a con-tract that would jeopardize any neighbor for any reason, and I can name a few they would not appreciate.

Immediate loss of prop-erty value forever. Twen-ty-eight percent to 40 percent decrease in property value depending on how close turbines are to you. In some cases completely unsellable, trying to sell your house or farm after they are here will be much more diffi cult.

Health issues both mental and physical (ask Calumet area residents what it has done to some of them).

Loss of usable farm land- turning into an industrial area.

Continuous red blinking-lights shadow and flicker affect. And the noise of the constant hum of turbines.

How do we know this? From real stories and real peo-ple’s personal experiences.

The revenue generated by wind turbines is minimal at best in contrast to oil and gas production. Wind turbines generate $100-$1,000 per month (when operational). With the current boom in horizontal drilling in our area a possible $720,000 for the very fi rst check from a royalty payment.

Property damages from wind turbines is minimal with a large amounts of land that is totally controlled by a wind turbine contract (long connecting road between each turbine as well as re-quiring permission to plant a tree or build a structure on your own property.) Com-pared to $25,000 to $35,000 for oil lease damages with a short road.

Rumor has it that the oil play has shut down in the Calumet wind turbine area. Why?

If we think they will not encroach on our city areas, think again. The new route of the wind turbines was originally four miles from the Town of Okarche, it now has wind turbines just ½ mile from Okarche city limits. Piedmont was successful in moving wind turbines far-ther from their city as well. That in turn forced more turbines to be placed in the Okarche and Kingfi sher ar-eas, 227 at last count.

Not only will wind tur-bines be south and east of the city of Kingfi sher, they are now leasing west of us as well. Just a matter of time un-til Kingfi sher is surrounded.

When traveling around the state and people ask where we are from, we say King-fisher, the overwhelming response is “Oh, Kingfi sher, it is such a pretty town, always so clean and well kept.”

I think the residents of our beautiful town would like to continue to swell with pride, knowing our city will remain just that…….. a beautiful and quaint small town in Western Oklahoma.

Randy and Jamie Briscoe

The Oklahoma Blood In-stitute (OBI) and Dover High School will hold a blood drive from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 15. Anyone who is healthy and 16 years* or older is urged to attend and donate.

Each donor will receive a “Feel Bold” T-shirt, free health screenings and do-nor rewards points. Blood donors can choose to forgo the T-shirt. Then, funds des-ignated for this item will be contributed to Global Blood Fund, a nonprofi t that supports struggling blood centers abroad.

Donors with OBI provide every drop of blood needed by patients in Mercy Hospi-tal Kingfi sher and some 140 other medical facilities across

the state. One in every seven people entering a hospital will need blood. There is no substitute for human blood, and it has a limited time for use. That is why some 600 donors are needed each day, according to OBI.

Of those eligible to donate blood in the U.S., only about 10 percent actually do. Each donation can save as many as three lives. Donations can be made every 56 days.

Appointment to donate are not required but can be made by calling 877-340-8777 or visiting obi.org.

*16 year olds must weigh at least 125 pounds and provide signed parental permission, 17 year olds must weigh at least 125 pounds, 18+ year olds must weigh at least 110 pounds.

Dover High School to hold blood drive