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when I was living there in my teens, and they never returned. Some of my most vivid family memories re-garding work consist of suffering the humiliation of my uncle being flown to Mexico to train his factory “replacement,” with the threat of no severance pay if he objected.

When you take a man’s craft away from him, no numeric of fast food, retail, or administrative work po-sitions can ever replace that feeling of seeing something of value that you created move down the line and into America’s homes. As we’ve heard it said a thou-sand times: “Not everything valuable is numeric, and not everything numeric is valuable.”

Our economy had sold us out, and not just in terms of income or the American dream. The corporate and elite classes of America took the craft away from the men and women who built the Jeeps of Butler County that beat Hitler in World War II. Their new “jobs” weren’t jobs at all; we were the vic-tims of job fabrication.

When Trump descended from his golden tower in New York City, I expected a much different presiden-tial announcement. Maybe something witty about how the other side doesn’t un-derstand “real” economics, or perhaps a Ronald Reagan quote from a “gotcha” de-bate moment.

I was prepared for an-other in a long line of Republican gaffes about women’s anatomical health, another canned attempt at communicating political ideology, or at the very least something reminiscent of the dehydrated Florida poli-tician that I had on YouTube repeat not so long ago.

In place of that, I was shocked to find a Trump openly criticizing the eco-nomic policies that have led to America’s economic de-cline. He spoke of jobs being lost to China and Mexico, and asked one of the most biting economic questions I’ve ever heard in my life: “When was the last time you saw a Chevy car in Tokyo?”

Somehow, up in a mul-timillion-dollar New York tower overlooking what seemed like the whole world, Trump heard that our jobs had been fabricat-ed – and he sounded like the only one who had heard.

So we heard him out. And when he unloaded a mouthful of rage on his political opponents about the issue, it left many of them speechless. And it left many of his Rust Belt critics speechless, too.

I don’t know a soul back home who would stand 100 percent behind every single comment Trump has made – but I know many that still trust him despite his gaffes.

We’ve all had that mean-spirited co-worker or boss who had the sole saving grace of being amazingly skilled at their job. That

is Trump. You may hate him for his thin skin and explosive “tweet-punches,” but I knew that from the vantage point of my home-town, considering the other candidates, we had no other choice.

With no other boxer to bet on in America’s most dislikable election, and as a last-ditch message of des-peration to the political es-tablishment that had sold us out for years, we simply had to believe that Trump could rise to the occasion for us.

A Cultural MutationHypocrisy was as rank

as always in this political cycle, but the sources of it were most surprising. Some in the media criticized Trump’s tendency to rate women numerically. This is quite easy to criticize, until we ask ourselves why over 7 million Americans watch women rated numerically every year in our very own swimsuit-laden Miss Amer-ica pageants.

Should we really be out-raged at one and OK with the other?

Ironically, it was not priests and holy men that were castigating Trump’s comments, but a hypocriti-cal media that had done or reported on the exact same things they accused Trump of doing.

Rust Belt America had al-ready been bruised from the last self-righteous political campaign victory in 2012, which played it neutral on moral issues, but ended up trying to legislate men into children’s bathrooms by 2016.

Hometown Americans understood this hypocri-sy and, unlike the “ten-der” millennial generation, didn’t seem to mind a little rough talk. Upon reflection, the American people knew that they had said worse things, or viewed worse things, felt worse things, and even heard the same things from other political leaders (think President Richard Nixon).

The final straw for home-town Americans was Clin-ton herself – shiftlessly avoiding any hard com-mitment to a policy, and attempting to mount a cul-tural attack against a man who is enormously versed in pop culture.

Criticizing Trump’s use of celebrities turned out to be a catastrophic and costly move for Clinton. Her ac-cusations of sexism against Trump followed by her com-plete, open-armed endorse-ment of Miley Cyrus and the hardly-PC Jay-Z revealed her selective moralism.

Those paying attention saw that Clinton’s posture of indignation was simply that: a posture.

In the end, my once go-to party had morphed into a party of unrecognizably veiled actors, much like the Hypokrinesthai—ancient actors wearing masks, from whom we derive the En-glish word “hypocrite.” But whereas those once-famous masked actors would play one character, only to pull back the mask to reveal the real hero underneath, this Democratic “hero” was much different.

The Democratic Party did not yield a heroic pro-tagonist this election cycle, but a cultural mutation, con-stantly in flux and fearful of definition. To many lifelong Democratic voters, Clinton was morally unrecogniz-able. In political terms, she was the epitome of luke-warm – which, if anything, meant she would not stand up for hometown America.

Given all these factors, many like myself from small-town, Rust Belt America could no longer afford to take the establishment’s candidate by faith. Trump saw the true state of our hometowns, our fake jobs, and the hypocritical elite, and was willing to break every political norm in the book to address these criti-cal issues.

So we voted for Trump. And he won—big league.

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threaten the established or-der as much as statewide or national reform. And once one takes root, the renewed proof of the freedom concept will be unstoppable in its ripple effects.

After all, the Soviet Union fell in large part because of the example set by West Ber-lin. China became the eco-nomic powerhouse it is today in large part by replicating most of the economic policies of Hong Kong. It started in a few special economic zones in four cities and later grew to encompass most of the country. The United States itself was a similar example to the world once. These and other examples demonstrate that deep reform in a small area can deliver results that are so obviously successful that the most powerful in-terests, adverse cultures, and ideologies get swept aside in the rush to replicate the success.

Passage of the Prosperity States Compact would allow communities in Oklahoma and sister states to become beacons of freedom and prosperity, showing the way to restore first the states and then the nation to their founding principles—from the grassroots up, rather than the top down.

Don’t Oklahomans – and Americans – deserve that chance?

Nick Dranias is the pres-ident and executive director of the Compact for America Educational Foundation. He is a constitutional scholar and policy innovator, and is the au-thor of more than 50 published articles about law and public policy. He has appeared as a constitutional scholar on Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and many more media outlets.

Prosperity[Continued From Page 4A]

Kincaid suggests Trump and his administrative lead-ers read Chapter 15, which offers a series of measures, including impeachment, to stop tyrannical judges.

A lawyer, as well as a con-servative activist, Schlafly who died recently proposed the following:

• Reform Senate rules to prevent liberals from pre-venting up or down votes on judicial nominees. (Check, done.)

• Curbing the power of judicial supremacists by leg-islating exceptions to court jurisdictions;

• Prohibiting the spend-ing of federal money to en-force obnoxious decisions handed down by judicial supremacists;

• Impeaching federal judges who issue rulings that have no basis in the constitution;

• Prohibiting federal courts from relying on for-eign laws, administrative rules, or court decisions.

The quest ion now remains does President Trump have the backbone to fight anti-American ac-tivist judges in the courts in order to drain that swamp.

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Jon’s Ramblin’sJust stuff

I’m gonna do it different this one time, no politics, no liberal left. We spent all morning sorting cattle, I’m sore in places I’ve forgotten I had places, so if I mess up please forgive and bear with me.

Plastic, I hate plastic, everything is packed in plas-tic. You buy tools, they are packed in plastic, you need fifty dollars worth of tools to open them. You want to open one of the funky little packs of spreader jelly, you about need help, anyway I do, the way my fingers work, and don’t work. Toothpaste, the old toothpaste tubes were made of soft metal, probably aluminum, as you squeezed out the toothpaste you could roll the tube be-hind it with a plastic when you squeeze some out it goes back to the bottom. The plastic bags that all the stores put your purchases in, blow all over the coun-try I’ve seen them in trees, on bushes and hanging on fences and the list goes on and on. A little hint, before I let plastic go, milk in plastic containers, when you get it home, put it in glass jars. It will last a lot longer, also, if you can get milk in paper containers it will last twice as long, kind of makes you wonder if plastic might not be good for you. I could tell you things about that you wouldn’t believe.

What’s the deal with hair? A lot of men are shav-ing their heads. Somebody once said, “Bald is beauti-ful.” Not to me. Somebody said a man that’s bald in front is sexy, a man that’s bald in back is a thinking man, a man bald all over just thinks he sexy! And beards, a neat well trimmed beard looks nice, see men with anywhere from four to five days growth or two to three weeks, they look like bums. I’m done.

God Bless America.Jon Cochran Sr.

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Kingfisher baseball ad-vanced to the regional tour-nament for the 11th straight year Thursday with a pair of dominant wins at home.

The Jackets defeated Sulphur 10-0 in five innings and then 10-1 to claim a Class 4A bi-district champi-onship at Homier Field.

Matt Hopkins tossed a one hitter in the opener be-fore Austin Neal threw five solid innings in the night-cap as the Jackets improved to 25-7.

KHS plays in a regional beginning Thursday that will also include Heritage Hall, Newcastle and the winner of Friday’s decisive game between Bridge Creek and Chickasha, which con-cluded after press time.

The Jackets scored eight runs in the first two innings off Sulphur starter Daniel Robledo, including a six-run outburst in the second inning that was highlighted by a three-run double off Neal’s bat.

One run was all KHS needed as Hopkins dom-inated the Bulldogs’ bats. The lone hit he surren-dered was a one-out single in the fifth inning and no Sulphur player got beyond second base.

Hopkins struck out sev-en batters and only walked one as he lowered his mi-nuscule ERA to 0.93.

Sam Walter joined Neal in gathering two hits for the KHS offense. Walter scored twice while Neal added a run to his three RBIs.

Cole Crosswhite drove in a pair of runs while Zach Goodwin scored twice.

The offense was more sluggish early on in the second contest as KHS and Sulphur were tied at 1-1 en-tering the fifth inning.

MATT HOPKINS threw five innings of one-hit ball in Kingfisher’s district win Thursday against Sulphur. [Photo by KHS Photography]

Walter picked up a one-out single, advanced to third on a pair of wild pitches, then forced Bull-dog catcher Justin Petti-fer to drop a would-be tag when sliding into home plate.

That ignited the King-fisher offense as the Jackets tacked on two more runs in the fifth then blew it open with a five-run sixth.

Crosswhite had three RBIs and also scored three times for the Jackets. Wal-ter and Goodwin scored two times apiece while Neal drove in three runs

yet again.After a slow start on

the mound that saw Neal surrender a run, three hits and two walks in the first two innings, the junior left-hander settled in.

He didn’t surrender a hit over the next three frames and finished with four strikeouts. Hopkins handled the next 1 2/3 in-nings before Walter got a strikeout to end the game.

The regional tourna-ment will be played at Her-itage Hall, which won the Class 3A title in 2015 and the 4A crown last year. The

The Kingfisher girls golf team was unable to punch its ticket to state, but one senior did.

Jordan Phillips advanced to the Class 3A state tournament with last week’s round of 97 at the Brent Bruel Golf Course in Purcell.

Her round came during the region-al tournament.

KHS shot 442 as a team, which finished just out of the top-six team scores that advanced to state.

Phillips’ score was good enough for fourth place among the individuals from non-qualifying teams. The top-six individuals (plus ties) are allowed to move on.

Phillips tees off at 9 a.m. Wednes-

day, May 3, at Cherokee Springs Golf Course in Tahlequah.

The state tournament is a two-day, 36-hole event.

Marlow won the regional with a 362, four strokes better than Purcell.

Also advancing were Lone Grove (367), Chisholm (410), Comanche (416) and Bethel (433).

Phillips advances to state golf

bracket, including times, will be set after the fourth bi-district was completed Friday (visit www.kingfish-erpress.net for more up-to-date bracket).

KHS is attempting to reach the state tournament for the first time since 2009.

HOP TO ITSenior ace sets the pace in KHS district title wins

Both Kingfisher County baseball teams entered Fri-day with the state tourna-ment still within reach, but also one game from elimi-nation.

Okarche and Cashion went 1-1 in their respective Class A regional tourna-ment games on Thursday, sending them to Friday’s consolation bracket.

Cashion won its opener by throttling Seiling 16-1 in Binger-Oney, but was dealt a 7-0 defeat by the

Okarche, Cashion baseball teams alive after first day of regional; Lady Warriors fall 1 win shy of state

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There’s a myth that tornadoes won’t cross over bodies of water, so the city limits of Kingfisher, virtually surrounded by two creeks, would never be directly hit by a twister.

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“It’s not a matter of ‘if’ it will happen, but when,” Loftis told Kingfisher Lions Club members.

Loftis was the guest speaker at a recent meeting of the civic group.

He brought with him two weather radios to be awarded to members and also provided each with an “Emergency Go-Kit Pass-port” that would contain all the information one would need in an emergency.

It is distributed by the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

Loftis told Lions Club members the importance of having an evacuation plan for tornadoes, especially now that storm season is upon us.

“Have a meeting place

(for afterwards) if you have to leave the house,” Loftis said. “You need to have a plan for everyone in the home.”

He said it’s important to carry information that’s contained in the “pass-port.”

“There are a lot of times you can’t get back to your home for days or weeks after a tornado,” he said.

He also carries with him necessities for emergencies that includes water, snacks, portable radio, flashlight and a blanket.

Loftis said he’s in con-stant training for his job, including recertification from the National Weather Service and use of its radar every 18 months.

He said he only puts out alerts on social media that come directly from the NWS.

“I don’t put out forecasts by local stations,” he said. “Those can change so much from day to day. Usually, I don’t put it out until the day of and only then when it comes from the National Weather Service.”

KINGFISHER CITY-COUNTY Emergency Management Direc-tor Steve Loftis, right, with Lions Club member John Storm, who is holding and “Emergency Go-Kit Passport” that Loftis distributed to club members. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photos]

Planning a must during storm season, Loftis tells Lions

When storms are ap-proaching, Loftis said he and three volunteers “spot” for Kingfisher County only.

“We don’t chase, we

spot,” he said. “And we’ll be up and ready to alert our citizens from when a storm starts until it’s over.”

Blane Hauser, a senior at Kingfisher High School, paged for House Majority Leader Mike Sanders, R-Kingfisher, April 10-13 at the state capitol. House pages run mes-sages to legislators while they are in the chamber debating policy and voting on measures. Pages also participate in a mock session, in which they learn legislative pro-cedure and how to write legislation. “Blane did a terrific job this week,” said Sanders. “I appreciate him being willing to serve his state and learn more about the legislative process.” Hauser is the son of Doug and Karen Hauser. [Photo provided]

Hauser pages for Sanders at capitol

Dover School activities for May 1-6 include:

Monday - Ringwood Track meet for fourth, fifth and sixth grades; Senior Tea at Dover Christian Church; senior boys’ lunch

Tuesday - Math Masters trip (skating in Enid); FFA State Convention

Wednesday - Elementary Science Fair, high school gym lobby

Thursday - AR reward trips (pre-k and kindergar-ten to Leonardo’s in Enid and first-sixth grades to Dodgers baseball game in OKC)

Friday - No school.

Lomega Schools sched-ule for May 1-6 include:

Monday - FFA ban-quet, 7 p.m.; OHP for 10th-12th grades, 10:30 a.m.; Pennies for Patients ends; Spelling Bee, first-sixth grades

Tuesday - Pre-k en-rollment, 9 to 10:45 a.m.; FFA State Convention; mystery trip for fourth and fifth grades

Wednesday - FFA State Convention; Elks ban-quet, 7:30 p.m.; Wednes-day Night Kids, 5:30 p.m.; YAC, noon; third grade

Cimarron Electric Safety Program, 10:30 a.m.

Thursday - Raider Roundup, Mrs. Gerber; AR party at Clinton Wa-ter Park, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for first-sixth grades

Friday - Juniors dec-orate for prom; Tourna-ment of Champions; pre-k through sixth grades per-form at Kingfisher nurs-ing homes; registration deadline for ACT; state track

Saturday - Prom, 7 p.m.; state track.

Lomega weekly school schedule

Dover weekly school schedule

The University of Cen-tral Oklahoma will celebrate the achievements of approx-imately 1,643 graduates during the Spring 2017 commencement ceremonies May 5-6 in UCO’s Hamilton Fieldhouse.

UCO planning Spring commencement ceremoniesFormer Oklahoma Gov.

George Nigh, who also served as UCO’s president from 1992-97, will address graduates at the 3 p.m. cer-

emony on Friday, May 5. UCO President Don Betz will offer comments at each

[See UCO Page 9A]

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