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4 Sunday, March 3, 2013 Kingfisher (Okla.) Times & Free PressVIEWfrom behind theplow(A column of editorial opinion by Gary Reid)School violence? Defend with a staplerAn Ohio police department has suggested alternatives touns for school personnel to fend off armed attackers.Among the suggestions were staplers and letter openers.Here’s another suggestion – shoes, as in throwing one’shoes at an attacker.That’s supposed to be the height of incivility in the Muslimorld.Maybe if school personnel really wanted to emphasize theirnger, they could leave their socks in the shoes they throw.Why would any legitimate law enforcement person suggestarding off an armed attacker with anything less than a gun,hich is about as small as a stapler, and much more effective.Any reasonable person knows that only an equally armedndividual is going to have much of a deterrent effect on suchn individual.Speaking of armed defense, isn’t it too bad that at least onef the two fellows on the University of Alabama campus whoere attacked by three freshman members of the UA nationalhampion football team in the thugs’ knockout game wasn’trmed.That could have made a much different story about thosehree and another team member who attempted to use a creditard stolen from one of the victims .Alabama might be out recruiting some replacement footallplayers if one of the victims had been armed.The whole scenario is disgusting for Alabama and collegeootball as a whole.Here’s how Colin Flaherty of World Net Daily described theuscaloosa incident:COLLEGE FOOTBALL STARS AND THE KNOCKOUTAMEArrests made after victim found ‘drenched in blood’(Editor’s note: Colin Flaherty has done more reporting than anyther journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocktingblack-on-white crime, violence and abuse. WND features theseeports to counterbalance the virtual blackout by the rest of the mediaue to their concerns that reporting such incidents would be inflamatoryor even racist. WND considers it racist not to report racialbuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims.It was just another Knockout Game except for one thing: Thessailants in this black mob were all members of Alabama’sational championship football team.The rules for the Knockout Game are simple: First, start withcrowd of black people. Then, find a white person. Beat himntil he is unconscious. Or until your arms and legs get tired.epeat as desired. Some people keep score. Others yell “KnockutGame” and laugh.Victims report hundreds of examples of it around the counryover the last three years.This version took place – twice – late one Sunday nightecently on the campus of the University of Alabama. Samuelergens was returning to his dorm when three black men askedf they could borrow a lighter.That is the last thing he remembers before waking up onhezx sidewalk, bloody, with head injuries and bruises.His friend Chris Burks told the campus paper: “His left sidef his face was gigantic. The jacket he was wearing and hiseadphones were completely drenched in blood, the bottomalf of his face was completely covered in blood; he wasleeding badly from his lip. He had clearly been badly beaten.”An hour later, the three members of the Crimson Tidellegedly did it again. Both men were beaten unconscious withexcessive force:” punched and kicked about the body andace, say police reports.Both students were robbed as well: One losing a backpackith an Apple MacBook computer, the other his wallet.Police arrested Tyler Hayes, Eddie Williams, Dennis Pettwayn connection with the beating, and Brent Calloway for using aebit card stolen during the robbery.All four are freshman and were among the most heavilyecruited high school seniors in the country. Three had exteniveplaying time this year, Williams was a redshirt. Callowayas a previous arrest for possession of marijuana in the fall of011 while he was a redshirt freshman.Three of the players confessed to the involvement in theeating and robbery. But Calloway is taking a harder line onwitter: “first it wasn’t a credit card and 2. I wasn’t even awakeuring the robbery you don’t kno what happened so dont trye dude,” he said using the moniker @HoneyBear#21.All four have been suspended from the team.Parents and high school coaches were shocked: Greg Seibertoached the 6-foot-2-inch, 285 pound Pettway at Pensacolaatholic High School. He told al.com:“There are times that in the maturation process we thoughte would be a little more vocal, a little more bringing peoplelong with him. He’s got a little bit of immaturity in him thatould lead him – if he’s around people that have some domiantpersonalities – into situations that are negative. About 95ercent of the time, he was OK. There’s 5 percent where heould talk too much in class or be late or something like that.othing that ever rose to the level of what we’re dealing withoday.”One of the four was arrested the day before for carrying aoaded pistol without a permit. Eddie Williams was arguingver charges for gas at a local convenience store and wasacting erratic” when the attendant called police and theyound the weapon. He was charged and released after postingThe Kingfisher Times & Free PressAll I know is what Iread in the papers.–Will RogersBarry ReidPublisher, AdvertisingChristine ReidNews EditorRobin JohnstonAdvertising Director[See View, Page 5](USPS No. 295-420)Published Every Sunday and Wednesdayby Kingfisher Newspapers, Inc. at323 N. Main, Kingfisher, OK 73750Periodicals Postage Paid at Kingfisher,OK 73750POSTMASTER: Send address changesto:Kingfisher Times and Free Press, P.O.Box 209, Kingfisher, OK 73750MemberGary Reid, Publisher EmeritusNewskfrtimes@pldi.netAdvertisingkfrtimesads@pldi.netSubscriptions/Legalskfrnews@pldi.netBrenda Slater .................................... Office ManagerDebbie Benson ......................................... NewswriterJeremy A. Ingle ..................... 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ThomasJefferson (1743-1826)averred that “Laws and institutionsmust go hand in handwith the progress of the humanmind.” As we witness theperplexity of current affairs inour land today, one mightwonder about the quality ofprogress of our minds in thelast few decades, might wenot?Another subject for attentionin those years gone by atschool was study and discussionsof “current events” – remember?Those topics cameeasier as things like televisionand radio brought the news tous almost as it was happening.(These days instantaneous reportingis no big deal.) Someof us still recall the evening“fireside chats” PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt aired onthe radio. There would be littlecomparison of them to whatwe are today bombarded withby current problematic PresidentObama, but it was a startof progress perhaps. The twodid as a matter of fact havequite a bit in common politically,both being socialists atheart. World War II preventedfulfillment of Roosevelt’s“New Deal” conversion of thenation to socialism. And itlooks like similar remediesBy Walter E. WilliamsIn his State of the Unionaddress, President BarackObama proposed raising theminimum wage from $7.25 anhour to $9 an hour. That wouldbe almost a 25 percent increase.Let’s look at thepresident’s proposal, but beforedoing so, let’s ask someother economic questions.Are people responsive tochanges in price? For example,if the price of cars rose by 25percent, would people purchaseas many cars? Supposinghousing prices rose by 25percent, what would happento sales? Those are big-ticketitems, but what about smallerpriceditems? If a supermarketraised its prices by 25 percent,would people purchaseas much? It’s not rocket scienceto conclude that whenprices rise, people adjust theirbehavior by purchasing less.It’s almost childish to doso, but I’m going to ask questionsabout 25 percent pricechanges in the other way.What responses would peoplehave if the price of cars orhousing fell by 25 percent?What would happen to supermarketsales if prices fellby 25 percent? Again, itdoesn’t require deep thinkingto guess that people wouldpurchase more.This behavior in economicsis known as the first fundamentallaw of demand. Itholds that the higher the priceof something the less peoplewill take and that the lowerthe price the more people willtake. There are no known exceptionsto the law of demand.Any economist who couldprove a real-world exceptionwould probably be a candidatefor the Nobel MemorialPrize in Economic Sciencesand other honors.Dr. Alan Krueger, aneconomist, is chairman of theIs ours to but only reason why?might be required to preventObama’s apparent goals ofsuch establishment here today.Actually such remedies seemto be repetitive historicallyamong mankind throughoutthe ages. The mind of Man hasgained much knowledgethrough the ages of our development,but some things seemnever to change much.This week PresidentObama spoke at the unveilingof a statue of Rosa Parks at theCapitol Building in Washington,D.C. His speech was verygood and well received. Heacknowledged that if not forher and others at that time whostruggled for equal rights andthe end of racial segregation,he would never have been consideredfor the office he holds.There are still many among usthat personally rememberthose years in the middle 50’swhen freedom and justice describedin the Declaration ofIndependence and the Constitutionwere finally realized forall Americans. One day in 1955Rosa refused to give up herbus seat to a white man (aswas the unjust law at that time)and was ultimately arrested atthe request of the bus driver.A young 29-year-old manstood with her at the trial inher defense. His name wasMartin Luther King. Those ofus here at the time have manymemories about the situationthen. And hopefully all whowere guilty of the unjust treatmentof these fellow Americanshave atoned for such injusticeand one way or anotherhave gained their forgivenessin mutual respect for one another.We are indeed fortunateto have earned and gainedthe friendship of many of thosenow among us.Sadly, even with those trialsand tribulations 50 yearsHigher Minimum Wagespresident’s Council of EconomicAdvisers. I wonderwhether he advised the presidentthat though peoplesurely would be responsiveto 25 percentincreasesinthe pricesof othergoodsand services,t h e ywould notWilliamsbe responsiveto a 25percentwage increase.I’dbet the rent money that youcouldn’t get Krueger to answerthe following statementby saying either true or false:A 25 percent increase in theprice of labor would not affectemployment. If anything, hisevasive response would bethat found in a White Housememo, reported in The WallStreet Journal’s article titled“The Minority Youth UnemploymentAct” (Feb. 15),namely that “a range of economicstudies show that modestlyraising the minimumwage increases earnings andreduces poverty without measurablyreducing employment.”The WSJ article questionsthat statement: “Note theshifty adverbs, ‘modestly’ and‘measurably,’ which can paperover a lot of economicdamage.” My interpretationof the phrase “without measurablyreducing employment”is that only youngsters,mostly black youngsters,would be affected by an increase.University of California,Irvine economist DavidNeumark has examined morethan 100 major academic studieson the minimum wage. Hebehind us, today we all hereface new and growing problemsthat could once again divideour nation. Our governmentwas responsible in largemeasure for the problems ofcivil right resolution back then.And it is the government todaythat is the cause and perhapsthe possible cure for themajor problems now. The refusalof the branches of governmentestablished by theConstitution to work honestlytogether (Sequestration – separationand division of thoseinvolved) puts the nation in astate of possible revolt and rebellionto bring about solutionto the many problems thatshould have been on the tableopenly discussed and actedupon by our elected officials.The economic problems thathave grown out of hand underthe Obama administration forthe past four years are a majorproblem for us individuallyand collectively internationally.And another major boneof contention at this time is theinfringement on our SecondAmendment rights to own andbear arms. It should be obviousto any intelligent citizenthe cause of such concerns bythe government about gunownership. The primary reasonand justification for theamendment was to insure citizens’protection against unjustor tyrannical governanceby those in power. The AmericanRevolution in 1776 wasthe rationale and justificationfor the Constitution and itsamendments in the first place.And is it not true that historicallyhistory has frequentlyrepeated itself repeatedly?That’s not to say such conditionsare currently eitherprevalent or inevitable…butshould neither be ignored norforgotten.states that the White Houseclaim “grossly misstates theweight of the evidence.”About 85 percent of the studies“find a negative employmenteffect on low-skilledworkers.” A 1976 AmericanEconomic Association surveyfound that 90 percent of itsmembers agreed that increasingthe minimum wage raisesunemployment among youngand unskilled workers. A 1990survey found that 80 percentof economists agreed with thestatement that increases in theminimum wage cause unemploymentamong the youthand low-skilled. If you’relooking for a consensus inmost fields of study, examinethe introductory and intermediatecollege textbooks in thefield. Economics textbooksthat mention the minimumwage say that it increases unemploymentfor the leastskilled worker.As detailed in my recentbook “Race and Economics”(2012), during times of grossracial discrimination, blackunemployment was lowerthan white unemploymentand blacks were more activein the labor market. For example,in 1948, black teen unemploymentwas less thanwhite teen unemployment,and black teens were moreactive in the labor market.Today black teen unemploymentis about 40 percent; forwhites, it is about 20 percent.The minimum wage lawweighs heavily in this devastatingpicture. Supporters ofhigher minimum wages wantto index it to inflation so as toavoid its periodic examination.Walter E. Williams is a professorof economics at GeorgeMason University.COPYRIGHT 2013CREATORS.COMThe White HouseCourt Jesters ofSequesterBy Michelle MalkinTraffic alert: There’s a massiveclown car pileup in theBeltway. And with the WhiteHouse court jesters of sequesterbehind the wheel, no oneis safe. Fiscal sanity, of course,is the ultimate victim.President Obama has beenwarning America that if Congressallows mandatoryspending “cuts” of a piddlywiddly2 percent to go intoeffect this week, the sky willfall. The manufactured crisisof “sequestration” wasObama’sidea in thefirst place.But thathasn’tstoppedt h eChickenMalkinLittle inChief fromsurroundinghimselfwith every last teacher, seniorcitizen and emergencyresponder who will be catastrophicallyvictimized byhardhearted Republicans.Curses on those meanie Republicans!How dare they acquiesceto the very plan for“cuts” – or rather, negligiblereductions in the explosiverate of federal spendinggrowth – that Obama himselfHow low will the kick-thecanDemocrats go? Amongthe ridiculous claims the administrationis making: TheNational Drug IntelligenceCenter will lose $2 millionfrom its $20 million budget.That scary factoid appears inan ominous Office of Managementand Budget reportpurporting to calculate theSequester Disaster. So lock thedoors and hide the children,magazine’s Mike Riggs pointsout, the NDIC shut down inJune 2012, and some of itsresponsibilities were absorbedby the Drug EnforcementReady for more reckless,feckless farce? Department ofHomeland Security SecretaryJanet Napolitano playedHenny Penny during a panickedspeech at the BrookingsInstitution Tuesday. Shewarned that her agency’s“core critical mission areas”would be undermined by thesequester. To cynically underscorethe point, “waves” ofillegal aliens were releasedthis week from at least threedetention centers in Texas,Florida and Louisiana, accordingto the Fort Worth StarU.S. Immigration and CustomsEnforcement confirmedthe release of some illegalimmigrants Monday night,but would not say how manyor from which detention centers.The real punch line, as I’vereported relentlessly, is thatthe catch and release of criminalillegal aliens has been bipartisanstandard operatingprocedure for decades. Thepersistent deportation andremoval abyss allows hundredsof thousands of illegalaliens — many of them knownrepeat criminal offenders —to pass through the immigrationcourt system and thendisappear into the ether becausewe have no determinedwill to track them down andkick them all out of the country.While Napolitano shrieksabout decimation of the DHSworkforce, DHS workers tellme that the double-dippingof retired ICE brass – who getback on the payroll as “rehiredannuitants” – is rampant.While this open-bordersWhite House phonily gnashesits teeth over the sequester’seffect on national security, itstop officials are lobbying for amassive nationwide amnestythat would foster a tsunamiof increased illegal immigrationfor generations to come.The shamnesty beneficiarieswill be welcomed with openarms, discounted college tuition,home loans andObamacare. And as everyoutraged rank-and-file borderagent will tell you, DHS topofficials have instituted systemicnon-enforcement andsabotage of detention, deportationand removal functions.In another emetic performance,Obama parachutedinto a Virginia naval shipyardhatched?right?Wrong. As ReasonAdministration.Telegram.[See Malkin, Page 5]