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In Brief A military judge acquitted U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Man- ning, a Crescent native, of the most serious charge against him – aiding the enemy – for giving classified secrets to WikiLeaks. Army Col. Denise Lind, announced the verdict Tues- day, acquitting Manning, 25, of the most serious of 21 counts, while finding him guilty of five espionage counts, five theft charges, a computer fraud and other military infractions. Had he been convicted of aiding the enemy, Manning would have faced a life sen- tence without the possibility of parole. The verdict came after an eight-week trial in which gov- ernment prosecutors sought to Manning found not guilty of aiding enemy Kingfisher County Depart- ment of Human Services is conducting its annual school supply drive to make sure ev- ery student starts the school year off on the same foot. DHS workers are volun- teering their time from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday to collect school supply donations in front of the Kingfisher WalMart. In addition, donations of new supplies or cash will be accepted at the DHS office during regular business hours. Families who meet the in- come guidelines for public as- sistance, whether or not they actually receive assistance at this time, can apply to receive school supplies for their chil- dren. Monday is the deadline for applications to be submitted at the DHS office. DHS school supply drive Fifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420 16 Pages Wednesday July 31, 2013 No. 29 of the 125th Year Kingfisher City Commis- sion will decide whether to approve a permit authorizing a new bar to open at the loca- tion of the former Deb’s Sports Bar on West Broadway Av- enue in a special meeting at noon Wednesday. Randy Matthews has ap- plied for a Conditional Use Permit to open a bar in the same building as the former Sports Bar, which has been closed for a period of time. City Manager Dave Slezickey said the permit is required under the city’s zon- ing ordinances because the property is located in the flood district and was recently sold after the existing business closed. The city’s planning and zoning commission voted last Thursday to recommend the permit be approved, he said. Zoning item on city agenda Pfc. Bradley Manning END OF AN ERA — Nearly four years after it was sold at auction, the 50-year-old former Kingfisher Regional Hospital Building on South Ninth Street is being demolished by its current owners. The 33,000 square-foot facility was purchased in 2009 for $126,000 by local brothers Mike and Billy Matthews in 2009 after the hospital moved to its new location south of town. In a recent phone conversation with the Times and Free Press, owner Mike Matthews declined to disclose his plans for the property once the building is cleared. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo] Old KRH comes down; new in transition New CEO search is on; Mercy lease in progress Nancy Schmid Kingfisher Re- gional Hospital is searching for a new CEO even as work continues to finalize an oper- ating lease agree- ment with Mercy. After two and a half years at the helm of KRH, Nancy Schmid re- signed to accept a similar position at a California hos- pital last month. Schmid serves as chief executive officer of Healdsburg District Hospi- tal, a 38-bed general and surgical tax- payer-supported facility in Healdsburg, Calif., a city of about 11,500. Schmid served as Kingfisher CEO since March 29, 2010. Mercy, which manages KRH, be- gan a nationwide search for Schmid’s replacement, and is considering ap- plicants from both inside and out- side its healthcare system. “Working with the board of direc- tors at Kingfisher Regional Hospital, Mercy will identify the best candidate to serve Kingfisher and its surround- ing communities as the hospital’s ad- ministrator,” Cindy Carmichael, Mercy vice president of strategic develop- Kingfisher Regional Hospital and local medical providers were given high marks by 187 people who re- sponded to a community health needs survey. Results of the survey were dis- cussed at a meeting Monday of a volunteer steering committee con- ducting a local health assessment on behalf of KRH. The assessment, required every three years under the Affordable Healthcare Act, is directed by the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health and OSU Cooperative Extension Service. Lara Brooks, OSU Extension asso- ciate, and Corie Kaiser, director of Survey shows most respondents satisfied with hospital, doctors STEERING COMMITTEE members working on a community health assessment listen to a presentation on results of a local health needs survey. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo] the state rural health office, said 113 online surveys and 74 paper surveys were submitted, which they described as “a good response rate.” Among those surveyed, 148 indi- cated that they had utilized hospital services in the last year, with 75.7 percent of that number utilizing KRH services. The average utilization rate for local hospitals among surveys con- ducted statewide is 58.8 percent. Local respondents who utilized a hospital other than KRH listed the following reasons: availability of spe- cialty care (42.6 percent), physician referral (27.7 percent), quality of care (14.9 percent) and convenient loca- tion (10.6 percent). Among those who had utilized KRH recently, 83.4 percent were sat- isfied with the services, while 13.8 percent were dissatisfied. Radiology (28.3 percent), labora- tory (23.5 percent), emergency room (20.6 percent) and physician services (12.9 percent) were listed as the most frequently utilized services at KRH. Only 5.9 percent of respondents listed inpatient services. A total of 137 respondents (73.3 percent) indicated they had utilized a Kingfisher area primary care doctor [See Assessment Page 9] [See Hospital Page 9] [See Brad Manning Page 9] Another round of thunderstorms Tuesday night dropped substantial moisture across the county again, rais- ing the July rainfall total to almost 12 inches and the year-to-date total to over 36 inches – above the average annual rainfall for Kingfisher. Meanwhile, electrical crews worked through the night restoring power after lightning strikes caused a number of outages. Local Weather Observer Steve Loftis recorded 2.55 inches of rain from the overnight rain at 7 a.m. Tuesday. He said that moisture brought the July total in Kingfisher to 11.96 inches. Average annual rainfall for Kingfisher County in July (1971-2000) is 2.22 inches. Average rainfall for the year is 32.95 inches. Loftis said rainfall totals up to three inches were reported unofficially east of Kingfisher from Tuesday night’s rain The recent rains have benefited summer crops and pastures and filled ponds to overflowing countywide. Tuesday night’s rain came on top of over four inches of rain late last week. Loftis, who also serves as county emergency management director, said he had received no reports of flooding or other damage. Loud thunder and bright lightning displays were reported countywide. Rainfall reports from around the area included: Kingfisher – 2.55 inches at the offi- cial rain gauge. Mike Rosen reported 2.2 inches at his residence on Shafenberg Road east of Kingfisher and 2.5 inches at Wheeler Brothers Elevator in northwest Kingfisher. Okarche – 2.1 to 2.3 inches in the area, according Jack Andrews at Plains Partners Elevator; Brenda Slater re- ported 2.1 inches, southeast of Okarche; Okarche Grain and Feed, eight miles west of Okarche, 1.5 inches. Dover – Debbie Benson reported 2.2 inches at her residence, and Robin Johnston measured 1.6 inches at her residence northwest of Do- ver and Jack Witt reported 1.9 inches at his residence, also northwest of Dover. Cashion – Cashion Grain and Feed reported 1.6 inches. Loyal – Mike Lamer at J&M Oil reported1 to 1.2 inches of rain in Loyal with reports of two inches plus west of Loyal. Hennessey – Plains Partners El- evator reported 2.5 to three inches in the vicinity. Tuesday storm brings rain, power outages ANOTHER SIGN that school and football season are close at hand is the start of Kingfisher High School’s marching band practice. Members of the Pride gathered for band camp this week to learn marching fundamentals and begin working on this year’s halftime routine. Director Dakota Horn is looking for another winning season, aiming for his third consecutive trip to state contest. Most county students start back to school Aug. 14. Watch for complete school calendars, enrollment schedules, new teacher information, school supply lists and more in our annual Back-to-School Edition, to be published as a special section in Sunday’s paper. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo] Crazy Days! Bargain hunters, start your engines. Kingfisher’s annual Crazy Days sales start at 8 a.m. Saturday at participating local merchants. Plus garage sales are scheduled all over town. See page 2 for details and participating merchant ads on pages 3 and 5.
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In Brief
A military judge acquittedU.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Man-ning, a Crescent native, of themost serious charge againsthim – aiding the enemy – forgiving classified secrets toWikiLeaks.
Army Col. Denise Lind,announced the verdict Tues-day, acquitting Manning, 25,of the most serious of 21 counts,while finding him guilty of fiveespionage counts, five theftcharges, a computer fraud andother military infractions.
Had he been convicted ofaiding the enemy, Manningwould have faced a life sen-tence without the possibilityof parole.
The verdict came after aneight-week trial in which gov-ernment prosecutors sought to
Manning foundnot guilty ofaiding enemy
Kingfisher County Depart-ment of Human Services isconducting its annual schoolsupply drive to make sure ev-ery student starts the schoolyear off on the same foot.
DHS workers are volun-teering their time from 10 a.m.to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to6 p.m. Sunday to collect schoolsupply donations in front ofthe Kingfisher WalMart.
In addition, donations ofnew supplies or cash will beaccepted at the DHS officeduring regular business hours.
Families who meet the in-come guidelines for public as-sistance, whether or not theyactually receive assistance atthis time, can apply to receiveschool supplies for their chil-dren.
Monday is the deadline forapplications to be submittedat the DHS office.
DHS schoolsupply drive
Fifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420
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WednesdayJuly 31, 2013
No. 29 of the125th Year
Kingfisher City Commis-sion will decide whether toapprove a permit authorizinga new bar to open at the loca-tion of the former Deb’s SportsBar on West Broadway Av-enue in a special meeting atnoon Wednesday.
Randy Matthews has ap-plied for a Conditional UsePermit to open a bar in thesame building as the formerSports Bar, which has beenclosed for a period of time.
City Manager DaveSlezickey said the permit isrequired under the city’s zon-ing ordinances because theproperty is located in the flooddistrict and was recently soldafter the existing businessclosed.
The city’s planning andzoning commission voted lastThursday to recommend thepermit be approved, he said.
Zoning itemon city agenda
Pfc. Bradley Manning
END OF AN ERA — Nearly four years after it was sold at auction, the 50-year-old former Kingfisher Regional Hospital Building on South NinthStreet is being demolished by its current owners. The 33,000 square-foot facility was purchased in 2009 for $126,000 by local brothers Mike and BillyMatthews in 2009 after the hospital moved to its new location south of town. In a recent phone conversation with the Times and Free Press, ownerMike Matthews declined to disclose his plans for the property once the building is cleared. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]
Old KRH comes down; new in transitionNew CEOsearch is on;Mercy leasein progress
Nancy Schmid
Kingfisher Re-gional Hospital issearching for anew CEO even aswork continues tofinalize an oper-ating lease agree-ment with Mercy.
After two anda half years at thehelm of KRH,Nancy Schmid re-signed to accept asimilar position at a California hos-pital last month.
Schmid serves as chief executiveofficer of Healdsburg District Hospi-tal, a 38-bed general and surgical tax-payer-supported facility inHealdsburg, Calif., a city of about11,500.
Schmid served as Kingfisher CEOsince March 29, 2010.
Mercy, which manages KRH, be-gan a nationwide search for Schmid’sreplacement, and is considering ap-plicants from both inside and out-side its healthcare system.
“Working with the board of direc-tors at Kingfisher Regional Hospital,Mercy will identify the best candidateto serve Kingfisher and its surround-ing communities as the hospital’s ad-ministrator,” Cindy Carmichael, Mercyvice president of strategic develop-
Kingfisher Regional Hospital andlocal medical providers were givenhigh marks by 187 people who re-sponded to a community health needssurvey.
Results of the survey were dis-cussed at a meeting Monday of avolunteer steering committee con-ducting a local health assessment onbehalf of KRH.
The assessment, required everythree years under the AffordableHealthcare Act, is directed by theOklahoma Office of Rural Health andOSU Cooperative Extension Service.
Lara Brooks, OSU Extension asso-ciate, and Corie Kaiser, director of
Survey shows most respondentssatisfied with hospital, doctors
STEERING COMMITTEE members working on a community health assessment listen to a presentation onresults of a local health needs survey. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]
the state rural health office, said 113online surveys and 74 paper surveyswere submitted, which they describedas “a good response rate.”
Among those surveyed, 148 indi-cated that they had utilized hospitalservices in the last year, with 75.7percent of that number utilizing KRHservices.
The average utilization rate forlocal hospitals among surveys con-ducted statewide is 58.8 percent.
Local respondents who utilized ahospital other than KRH listed thefollowing reasons: availability of spe-cialty care (42.6 percent), physicianreferral (27.7 percent), quality of care
(14.9 percent) and convenient loca-tion (10.6 percent).
Among those who had utilizedKRH recently, 83.4 percent were sat-isfied with the services, while 13.8percent were dissatisfied.
Radiology (28.3 percent), labora-tory (23.5 percent), emergency room(20.6 percent) and physician services(12.9 percent) were listed as the mostfrequently utilized services at KRH.
Only 5.9 percent of respondentslisted inpatient services.
A total of 137 respondents (73.3percent) indicated they had utilized aKingfisher area primary care doctor
[See Assessment Page 9] [See Hospital Page 9]
[See Brad Manning Page 9]
Another round of thunderstormsTuesday night dropped substantialmoisture across the county again, rais-ing the July rainfall total to almost 12inches and the year-to-date total toover 36 inches – above the averageannual rainfall for Kingfisher.
Meanwhile, electrical crewsworked through the night restoringpower after lightning strikes causeda number of outages.
Local Weather Observer Steve Loftisrecorded 2.55 inches of rain from theovernight rain at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
He said that moisture brought theJuly total in Kingfisher to 11.96 inches.
Average annual rainfall for KingfisherCounty in July (1971-2000) is 2.22inches. Average rainfall for the yearis 32.95 inches.
Loftis said rainfall totals up to threeinches were reported unofficially eastof Kingfisher from Tuesday night’s rain
The recent rains have benefitedsummer crops and pastures and filledponds to overflowing countywide.
Tuesday night’s rain came on top ofover four inches of rain late last week.
Loftis, who also serves as countyemergency management director,said he had received no reports offlooding or other damage.
Loud thunder and bright lightningdisplays were reported countywide.
Rainfall reports from around thearea included:
Kingfisher – 2.55 inches at the offi-cial rain gauge. Mike Rosen reported2.2 inches at his residence onShafenberg Road east of Kingfisherand 2.5 inches at Wheeler BrothersElevator in northwest Kingfisher.
Okarche – 2.1 to 2.3 inches in thearea, according Jack Andrews at PlainsPartners Elevator; Brenda Slater re-ported 2.1 inches, southeast of Okarche;Okarche Grain and Feed, eight mileswest of Okarche, 1.5 inches.
Dover – Debbie Benson reported2.2 inches at her residence, andRobin Johnston measured 1.6 inchesat her residence northwest of Do-ver and Jack Witt reported 1.9 inchesat his residence, also northwest ofDover.
Cashion – Cashion Grain and Feedreported 1.6 inches.
Loyal – Mike Lamer at J&M Oilreported1 to 1.2 inches of rain in Loyalwith reports of two inches plus westof Loyal.
Hennessey – Plains Partners El-evator reported 2.5 to three inches inthe vicinity.
Tuesday storm brings rain, power outages
ANOTHER SIGN that schooland football season are close athand is the start of KingfisherHigh School’s marching bandpractice. Members of the Pridegathered for band camp thisweek to learn marchingfundamentals and beginworking on this year’s halftimeroutine. Director Dakota Horn islooking for another winningseason, aiming for his thirdconsecutive trip to state contest.Most county students start backto school Aug. 14. Watch forcomplete school calendars,enrollment schedules, newteacher information, schoolsupply lists and more in ourannual Back-to-School Edition,to be published as a specialsection in Sunday’s paper.[TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]
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CYNDI ICE, KHS science teacher, recently attended anOSU workshop to learn new methods of research usingthe cosmic ray muon detector the school received last yearthrough a grant. [Photo Provided]
Workshop teaches enriched studywith cosmic ray muon detector
Last fall, through the workof Kingfisher High School sci-ence teacher, Cyndi Ice, KHSbecame one of 358 highschools throughout the U.S.to receive a cosmic ray muondetector.
The electronic equipment,valued at $6,000 was providedto the school through a grantadministered byOSU and OU.The detector allows studentsto collect data on local cosmicray activity. The raw data,which includes time, date,GPS and local weather infor-mation, is then uploaded tobecome part of an interna-tional database utilized byphysicists worldwide.
Student involvement inparticle research is encour-aged through CERN, the Eu-ropean organization fornuclear research in Geneva,Switzerland, which is consid-ered the international centerfor physics research.
Selected teachers fromaround the state, who havecosmic ray detectors in theirclassroom, were required toattend a week-long workshopat OSU.
The workshop was heldJuly 22-26 in the High EnergyPhysics Research Departmentwith the main goal being toassist high school teachers inpreparing students for col-lege, citizenship and careersas described in the new Com-mon Core State Standards.
“We learned how to con-struct circuit boards that areactually developed at OSUand used in the optical linksresearch and development forthe next pixel system in theupgraded CERN, ATLAS de-tector located in Geneva, Swit-zerland,” said Ice.
Dr. Satya Nandi gave a lec-ture on how to get students
interested in physics and pre-pare them for college. Dr.Flera Rizatdonova and Dr.Alexander Khanov talkedabout the current conditionsat CERN and working withdata from CERN to intereststudents.
Dr. Satya Nandi and Dr.Kaladi Babu talked on the el-ementary particle theorygroup which focused on pro-posing tests for the theorieswithin and beyond the stan-dard model as they look atunification of forces withinthe context of super-symme-try, compactification of extradimensions and string theory.
Nandi is the director of theOklahoma Cosortium ofUniversitities for High EnergyExperimental and Theoreti-cal Physics.
Dr. Rizatdinova and Dr.Khanov lead an experimental
high energy group at OSU.The group is involved in twomajor experiments, atFermilab, United States andATLAS at the Large HadronCollider, CERN.
The main interests of thegroup are top quark physicsand search for a Higgs boson.Members of the group de-velop tracking algorithms andexperimental methods toidentify jets originated fromb-quarks. The group is alsoinvolved in the optical linksresearch and development forthe next pixel system in theupgraded ATLAS detector.
This will be the second yearfor KHS to have a cosmic raydetector and the High EnergyParticle Detection group. Cur-rent group members includeMicah and Daniel Tautkus,Dawson Leftingwell, DaltonPalmer and Harrison Powell.
Dairy farmers in Okla-homa partnered with theOklahoma Blood Institute tohelp others in need at “Give aPint, Get a Pint” blood drive.
The blood drive was heldat Okarche High School onJune 27. It was sponsored byOklahoma dairy farmers,Hiland Dairy and the O.B.I.and was promoted by theOklahoma Holstein Associa-tion to help build and main-tain the blood supply.
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President Obama said last week he was going to make animportant economic speech.
What a laugh.Well, maybe it would be funny if his intransigent resistance
to common sense and sensible efforts to improve economicconditions weren’t so detrimental.
Read Bob Livingston’s review of Obama’s economic plansin the column at the right side of this page for a sensibleassessment of Obama’s speech(es). They’re all the same
What was laughable was the president calling his numerousscandal problems “phony,” claiming they were made up by hisopponents to thwart his heroic efforts to do “good.”
It’s funny how they keep popping up, almost daily,SEAL Slaughter pops up again
One of them happened some two years ago when the NavySEAL team 6, which killed Bin Laden, was shot down andkilled in an operation in Afghanistan while flying in an under-equipped helicopter.
Family members of the slain team remain stunned by theevent and the administration’s callous efforts to sweep it underthe rug.
These things continue to nag the president and he’s gettingpretty tired of it. If he says something isn’t so, shouldn’t that begood enough?
His supporters say “leave him alone.”A Navy SEAL’s father, Charles Strange, father of SEAL
Michael Strange told radio talk show host Michael Savage thatin June 2011 on at least three separate occasions his son grabbedhim by his arm and told him he had prepared his will.
Michael Strange told his father that “something’s going onwith the team. Somebody’s leaking things out. Something’sgoing on.”
“Your son knew he was being sent to his death?” Savageasked.
“They knew,” Strange replied. “They knew something wasup. Everyone of them.”
“After Vice President Joe Biden revealed that SEAL Team 6carried out the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in May2011, Strange said the members of his son’s team gave startlingindications to their families they were about to meet theirdeath.
Strange was one of 38 troops killed Aug. 6, 2011, when theirChinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in Afghani-stan.
Families of the SEALs have asked why their sons were notusing special operations aircraft with specialized defensesdesigned to fly commandos deep behind enemy lines on theflight to aid troops pinned down by the Taliban.
A mother of one of the men said the team was hindered bypolitically correct rules of engagement that prohibited theirfiring on potential targets unless they could see a weapon.
It’s strange the White House is so eager to get its hands onsecrets leaker, Edward Snowden, when it has been so free withclassified information itself.
Regarding economics problems and the continuing highunemployment rates, Obama could only find it in his heart toaccuse Republicans of stalling his plans with “phony scandal”accusations. Actually, his economic speeches are just reruns ofpast campaign speeches, attempting to blame others for hisunending string of failures.
There you have it; the president says the scandals – from gunrunning to Mexico to Benghazi – are phony, so it must be true.Right?
He or his minions won’t discuss the details of his actions;just call them “phony.”
The president takes the majority of Americans for idiots. Ishe right? He got elected twice.
Weiner’s still running for mayorSpeaking of arrested development … former U.S. Rep.
Anthony Weiner, who was caught “sexting” with and sendingnude photos to college girls and who subsequently resigned indisgrace, is now among the leaders for Democrat nominationfor mayor of New York.
He has been at it again – and caught again, but he may justwin the job, anyway.
His wife, Huma Abedin, a Muslim, is standing by his side inthe campaign, excusing him for his misdeeds,
The question arises: Could Huma be following the tactics offormer boss and mentor, former Secretary of State HillaryClinton, who stood up for Bill during his public display as alying philanderer with the hopes better political days andappointments ahead?
The dumbest Detroit excuse, yetThe left is zealously trying to turn the tables on the Detroit
fiscal mess.No, it wasn’t caused by gross mismanagement by terminal
liberalism. Rather, according to the left, it was caused becausethere just wasn’t enough big government.
Watch for Detroit to try to get a federal bailout.John Hayward, senior editor of Human Daily Events, says
Detroit is not the only example of terminal liberalism and addsthe state of Illinois is not far behind.
He adds:Very little is expected of Illinois government - or any other
bloated left-wing government, including the federal system.It’s interesting how the growth of government corresponds
(See View, Page 5)
President’s economic speeches really notfunny when it comes down to lives
By Walter E. WilliamsIf we put ourselves into the
shoes of racists who seek tosabotage black upward mo-bility, we couldn’t develop amore effective agenda thanthat followed by civil rightsorganizations, black politi-cians, academics, liberals andthe news media. Let’s look atit.
First, weaken the blackfamily, but don’t blame it onindividual choices. You haveto preach that today’s weakblack family is a legacy of sla-very, Jim Crow and racism.The truth is that black female-headed households were just18 percent of households in1950, as opposed to about 68percent today. In fact, from1890 to 1940, the black mar-riage rate was slightly higherthan that of whites. Even dur-ing slavery, when marriagewas forbidden for blacks,most black children lived inbiological two-parent fami-lies. In New York City, in 1925,85 percent of black house-holds were two-parent house-holds. A study of 1880 familystructure in Philadelphiashows that three-quarters ofblack families were two-par-ent households.
During the 1960s, devas-tating nonsense emerged, ex-emplified by a Johns HopkinsUniversity sociology profes-sor who argued, “It has yet tobe shown that the absence ofa father was directly respon-sible for any of the supposeddeficiencies of brokenhomes.” The real issue, hewent on to say, “is not the lackof male presence but the lackof male income.” That sug-gests marriage and father-hood can be replaced by awelfare check.
The poverty rate amongblacks is 36 percent. Mostblack poverty is found in fe-
male-headed households. Thepoverty rate among blackmarried couples has been insingle digits since 1994 and isabout 8 percent today. Theblack illegitimacy rate is 75
percent, andin some cit-ies, it’s 90percent. Butif that’s alegacy of sla-very, it musth a v eskipped sev-eral genera-tions, be-cause in the1940s, un-
wed births hovered around14 percent.
Along with the decline ofthe black family comes anti-social behavior, manifestedby high crime rates. Each year,roughly 7,000 blacks are mur-dered. Ninety-four percent ofthe time, the murderer is an-other black person. Accord-ing to the Bureau of JusticeStatistics, between 1976 and2011, there were 279,384 blackmurder victims. Using the 94percent figure means that262,621 were murdered byother blacks. Though blacksare 13 percent of the nation’spopulation, they account formore than 50 percent of ho-micide victims. Nationally,the black homicide victimiza-tion rate is six times that ofwhites, and in some cities, it’s22 times that of whites. I’dlike for the president, the civilrights establishment, whiteliberals and the news media,who spent massive resourcesprotesting the GeorgeZimmerman trial’s verdict, totell the nation whether theybelieve that the major mur-der problem blacks face ismurder by whites. There areno such protests against thethousands of black murders.
There’s an organizationcalled NeighborhoodScout.Using 2011 population datafrom the U.S. Census Bureau,2011 crime statistics from theFBI and information from17,000 local law enforcementagencies in the country, itcame up with a report titled“Top 25 Most DangerousNeighborhoods in America.”( h t t p : / / t i n y u r l . c o m /cdqrev4) They include neigh-borhoods in Detroit, Chicago,Houston, St. Louis and othermajor cities. What’s commonto all 25 neighborhoods is thattheir makeup is described as“Black” or “Mostly Black.”The high crime rates have sev-eral outcomes that are not inthe best interests of the over-whelmingly law-abidingpeople in these neighbor-hoods. There can’t be mucheconomic development.Property has a lower value,but worst of all, people can’tlive with the kind of personalsecurity that most Americansenjoy.
Disgustingly, black politi-cians, civil rights leaders, lib-erals and the president aretalking nonsense about “hav-ing a conversation aboutrace.” That’s beyond useless.Tell me how a conversationwith white people is going tostop black predators frompreying on blacks. How issuch a conversation going toeliminate the 75 percent ille-gitimacy rate? What will sucha conversation do about thebreakdown of the black fam-ily (though “breakdown” isnot the correct word, as thefamily doesn’t form in the firstplace)? Only black people cansolve our problems.
Walter E. Williams is a pro-fessor of economics at GeorgeMason University
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Black self-sabotage
Obama attackson middle classBy Bob LivingstonPersonal Liberty Digest
Barack Obama, the un-documented usurper cur-rently defiling the people’sHouse, spoke for 67 minuteslast Wednesday outlining hislatest pivot – the 19th by somecounts – to jobs and theeconomy. He indicated withhis policy pronouncementsthat he intends to perpetuatethe current misery through theend of his term, and furtherdestroy the middle class.
Since February 2009, 9.5million people have droppedout of the workforce. AsCNSNews.com reports, thatmeans that 1.3 Americanshave dropped out of theworkforce for every job theregime claims it has created.
“We’ve created over 7.2million private sector jobs,”Presidential spokespuppet JayCarney claimed at a recentpress briefing. The regime’spropagandists in the main-stream media didn’t correctCarney on one importantpoint. Government does notcreate jobs without killing ajob or jobs somewhere else.
Government creates noth-ing but misery and heartache.For to “create” a job, govern-ment has to steal money fromsomeone in the private sector– either through inflation(money printing) or taxation– and give it to someone else.
Irrationally exuberant gov-ernment “stimulus” spendingbegan under George W.Bush’s regime as he sought to“save the free market system”by “abandon[ing] free marketprinciples.” But almost fiveyears and trillions of dollarslater, here’s what we have:
√ Almost 90 million Ameri-cans not working.
√ 15 million more Ameri-cans on food stamps todaythan in January 2009. That’stwo Americans on foodstamps for every job “created”by the regime.
√ Almost 11 million Ameri-cans receiving disability pay-ments — 1.6 million more thanin February 2009.(Americahas fallen to No. 27 in middle-class wealth.)
√ Real occupational wagesare down almost 3 percent.
√ Thanks to the threat ofObamacare, most new jobsbeing “created” are part-timejobs. America is becoming apart-time society.
In his speech, Obama de-cried the growing inequalitybetween the haves and have-nots.
“This growing inequality,it’s not just morally wrong,it’s bad economics,” he said.“Because when middle-classfamilies have less to spend,guess what? Businesses havefewer consumers. Whenwealth concentrates at thevery top, it can inflate unstablebubbles that threaten theeconomy. When the rungs onthe ladder of opportunitygrow farther and farther apart,it undermines the very essenceof America, that idea that ifyou work hard, you can makeit here.”
This statement demon-strates either Obama is pro-foundly ignorant of economictheory or he’s deliberatelymisrepresenting the businesscycle to Americans. But noneof his policy proposals – hepromised to invest billions ofdollars to build new infra-structure, improve education,create jobs programs and in-crease the minimum wagehave historically done any-thing to improve the economy.In fact, they have been shownto have deleterious effects.And all require a redistribu-tion of wealth to accomplish.
Americans are alreadyovertaxed. There is no moreblood to be squeezed from theturnip. That’s not to say thatObama won’t propose moretaxes to “pay” for his newpolicies.
The government/bankersystem is wide open, devalu-ing the dollar with the unlim-ited printing of money. This iseconomic war, pure andsimple; and Americans don’tseem to care one way or theother.
When the money printersprint bales of paper money,the dollars already in circula-tion become worth less. Any-body should understand thisdebauching of the currencytranslates to widespread im-poverishment. Those whohave now will soon be have-nots. No politician or govern-ment bureaucrat will reveal
(See Livingston, Page 5)
By Ted BuswellThe news lately reports
ongoing troubles overseaswith rebellion and revolt onmany fronts. In most casesthere are obvious connectionsto leadership or lack thereofat the core of the problems.And historically such turmoiland disruptive conflict usu-ally centers about demandson or for changes in those lead-ing the big parade. Leader-ship always centralizes powerand control over the group ofwhatever size. Such numbersmay be small as in an athleticteam or massive as in that of astate or nation. But wheneverpeople congregate togetherleadership emerges one wayor another and obtains thepower to control the actionsof the group to some extent.
When such leadership failsto provide for the main wantsor needs of the general popu-lation of the group, new lead-ers generally emerge from themembership to displace thosein charge and reform the or-ganization. As mankind hasgrown in number and spreadterritorially through the ages,such evolution of powers andchange occurred repeatedlyand continue to this day. Eventhough the people of our na-tion have abided togethersince our revolution of 1776we have occasionally seen re-volts against the establish-ment in forms of demonstra-tions and organized resistanceregarding a variety of causesand desires. The greatest suchconflict was the Civil War be-tween the confederacy ofsouthern states and the fed-eral government under thepresidency of Abraham Lin-coln. Fortunately the unionwas saved by the defeat of theconfederacy and has remainedstrong in its union ever since.
But even here imperfectionsof law and order arise betweenorganized governmental con-trol and differing views anddesires of groups of citizensover various matters of con-trol. Obviously leadership isstill the major factor on eitherside of such conflicts as it hasalways been.
Although we can be thank-ful to date that the growingdifferences of public opinionin the political arena here athome continue to be debatedand dealt with peacefully anddemocratically, they are grow-ing daily more taxing uponthe patience of many amongus. One of the most often heardcriticisms today about thegrowing problems here is thatour elected national leader,President Obama, is grosslylacking in appropriate leader-ship qualities and practices.Naturally there has never beena national leader that satisfiedthe wants and expectation ofall the population, but thispresident’s approval rating iscontinuing to decline everyweek since his last election.The numbers of citizens re-gretful of his re-election in2012 is growing. The disap-proval of his leadership is ap-plicable to both his perfor-mance here at home andabroad in foreign policies aswell. Hopefully the next leaderselected by public option in2016 will be able to correct thegrowing failures of politicalpranks since the victories ofWWII after the attack on PearlHarbor. The road will not besmooth or easy for those inofficial office on or after suchupcoming elections, but per-haps public wisdom will makefor better leaders to come.
And as has always beenthe case, healthy change al-ways begins (and perhaps
ends) with the population thatfollows the leadership of thosechosen to lead that carries thereal responsibility of successin the end. Everybody mustcarry their own legitimate loadin the satisfaction of needs ofthe group. When one fails tomeet his own responsibilityin the affair, it leaves a voidthat must be filled and accom-modated by others if healthyprogress is to be accom-plished. According to recentheadlines in the news, thereare millions of our Americanpeople reliant on the govern-ment for subsidies like “foodstamps” for instance. Such sta-tistics point out more than oneproblem in the operation. Al-though part of the problemcan be solved by governmentin the administrative and leg-islative branches, muchchange will also be requiredamong the citizenry presentlyon such welfare programs.And those drawing Social Se-curity and Medicare grow solarge by comparison withthose employed and contrib-uting to the fund, it is a pre-diction for bankruptcy in thatarea, too.
There seems to be strongagreement among economistsand finance managers that thecure of this failed economyinvolves lower taxes and re-duction in spending simulta-neously. And as is true withmany serious ailments, thecure is usually not withoutpain. Hopefully we will seethe emergence of new leaderswho can and will get us out ofthe hole we are in. Otherwisewe will see development hereof what we are seeing in otherfailing nations around theworld. If we “bite the bullet”now, maybe we won’t need toshoot so many at one anotherlater.
Who will be followed when the leader fails to lead?
