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Kingfisher Educational Foundation’s Duck Race has become an annual event in Kingfisher’s extended July 4 activities.
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Among the many homes displaying exceptional landscaping in Kingfisher, Kathryn Stewart Forston was pleasantly surprised to discover her home on West Fay Avenue was selected to receive the June Silver Spade award.
Read moreThe local branch of NBC Oklahoma submitted the winning bid for the second round of building bonds on the new seventh and eighth grade building for Kingfisher Public Schools.
Read moreA number of new hires and a handful of resignations were accepted last Tuesday by the Kingfisher Board of Education.
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But again, even most of our conservative leaders and institutions seem oblivious. School districts in America are talking about revising their curricula to cover transgender issues from grade school on. Now, I went to an English boys’ school, and we were expected to pick up sexuality on our own time. In those days people would have looked puzzled if you had said, “We’re going to have to cancel geography or Latin, because we need to put gay studies in there.” These days, instead of going off behind the bike shed during recess to learn about sex, kids need to sneak behind the bike shed to do a little bit of closeted geography or closeted Latin. It’s completely backwards. And yet what do we hear from most conservative politicians? That it would be nice to offer people a tax cut!
Read more[Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal and co-host of The Right Side of History podcast. He is also the author of the book “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.”]
Read moreI have a friend who’s been married three times and he’s getting ready to say “I do” for a fourth. I say, why bother? I am reminded of the words of the great southern comedic writer Lewis Grizzard who said that instead of marriage just find a woman you don’t like and give her a house. Bolstering his argument is this statistic: in 1940 one in six marriages ended in divorce. Today it’s one in every two! Amongst the millennial generation being married is now considered an “alternative lifestyle” and instead of “man and wife” the proper terminology is now “persons living cooperatively.” And they don’t even have to be of the opposite sex! This makes me wonder, is traditional marriage becoming an outmoded institution?
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