Kingfisher Oklahoma

Dover had no answer for Cooper Wieden and Jasper Carter and that spelled the Longhorns’ fourth loss of the season. The Waukomis duo combined for 46 points as the Chiefs beat the Longhorns 65-50 Tuesday night in Dover. The pair scored 18 points as Waukomis got out to a 26-12 lead.

A balanced attack and some sharp outside shooting gave Kingfi sher’s freshman boys basketball team a solid win in its season opener. The Jackets erased an early seven-point defi cit to dominate the middle two quarters and cruise last Monday to a 59-43 victory over Blanchard at the APB.

VIEW from behind the plow - - Our son, Michael, brought us by a copy of a booklet, “Canadian River Hunt,” about a hunting trip taken by Gen. Phil Sheridan of Civil War and frontier fame and some of his friends in this area of Oklahoma in the late 1800s. Psst.

[Ed. Note: Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council.]The turkeys may be gone, but some liberals are back to carving up something else: free speech. Now that it’s December, the left wants to make it clear that Santa Claus isn’t the only thing coming to town—so is censorship.

It’s the Pitts I have a friend who worked for a livestock newspaper for 40 years who has newspaper ink clogging up his veins.

[Ed. Note: James Jay Carafano, a leading authority in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.

There’s a saying going around that the United States government violated all the treaties with the tribes. The government, on the advice of some do-gooders, tried to destroy the Indians and their heritage. The tribes are trying to turn this around, teaching the native language and opening museums.

For every Oklahoma school that achieved a higher grade on this year’s Oklahoma School Report Card, more than two schools saw their state letter grade fall.

[Michaela Dodge specializes in missile defense, nuclear weapons modernization and arms control as policy analyst for defense and strategic policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies.

Appreciates columns Having been a reader of this newspaper for some time, I wanted to take this opportunity to express my appreciation on at least two columns that appear regularly. One, I am a big fan of Lee Pitts and I look forward to reading his column every time it appears.