Iran begins to purge opposition after elections
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday defended his weekend election victory while security forces cracked down on opposition leaders and demonstrators, who staged a second day of violent protests across the capital and in other Iranian cities.

Ex-Mossad chief 'really worried' about Obama’s Policies
President Obama's "learning curve" regarding his policies toward Iran might buy Tehran enough time to produce nuclear weapons, Shabtai Shavit, former chief of the Mossad intelligence agency, warned in an exclusive WND interview today. "I do know that Obama is taking a very long learning curve experience in order to reach a conclusion about whether his thinking of diplomacy with Iran was right or wrong. I am really worried there will be a heavy price for us," Shavit said.

Democrat House Health-Care Proposal Adds $600 Billion in Taxes
Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.

Hospitals oppose Obama's Medicare, Medicaid cuts
President Barack Obama said Saturday he wants to help pay for his health care overhaul by slowing Medicare and Medicaid spending, but hospitals, medical technicians and others are resisting. "Payment cuts are not reform," Rich Umbdenstock, president of the American Hospital Association, said even before Obama's plan was announced. His group is urging hospitals with large proportions of low-income patients "to push back on proposed cuts."

Biden tells Time that the Stimulus isn’t working
Biden tells’ "Meet the Press" that "everyone guessed wrong" on the impact of the stimulus, economy was worse off than anyone thought. Biden also backed away from the estimate that the funds could create or save 3.5 million jobs, instead promises 600,000 by the end of the summer.

Lawmakers’ Charity Scams Taxpayers
Two New York politicians—a mother and daughter—took Caribbean trips and received campaign cash from a family-operated nonprofit that they each steered large amounts of taxpayer funds to. The Bronx Democrats, state Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo and her Bronx city councilwoman daughter Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, have for years steered tens of thousands of public dollars to the charity (South Bronx Community Corp—SBCC) which supposedly helps the needy and employs several members of the Arroyo clan. This week federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging the assemblywoman’s grandson (Richard Izquierdo Arroyo), the charity’s president, with stealing tens of thousands of dollars and using the money to go on lavish shopping sprees, fly his lawmaker aunt and grandma to the Caribbean and to contribute money to his grandma’s political campaign.

Kids attend prom from 'sexual hell'
Family advocates are outraged by a prom held at Boston City Hall that was open to children apparently as young as 12 featuring crossdressers, homosexual heavy petting, suspected drug use and a leather-clad doorman who teaches sexual bondage classes. Children from middle schools and high schools across Massachusetts on May 9 attended a Youth Pride Day event ending with a prom inside of Boston City Hall sponsored by the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Youth, or BAGLY, a group seated on the Massachusetts Commission for GLBT Youth. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino issued a proclamation welcoming homosexual and transgender youth to the celebration.

Cantor: Obama’s Like ‘Putin’s Russia’
The No. 2 Republican in the House on Thursday compared President Barack Obama's plans for the auto industry to the policies of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, saying the White House has stripped credit holders of rights and given them to Democratic allies.

N.Y. stem cell board approves payments for women's eggs
New York’s Empire State Stem Cell Board (ESSCB) decided on Thursday to commit funds to pay women to have their eggs harvested for embryo research. A member of the panel’s ethics board charged that the move was a “gross exploitation” of poor women and did not take into account the procedure’s health risks.

Darwin-loving museum shooter hates Bible, Christians
James von Brunn, the man who allegedly shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., was a Darwin-lover who hated the Bible and Christians, and defies media efforts to classify him as a stereotypical "right-winger," according to reports. The Moonbattery blog revealed von Brunn advocated the socialist policies espoused by Adolf Hitler and used Darwinian theory to support his anti-Semitism.

Government now after even Pocket Knives
Second Amendment supporters are warning Americans about what they call an “unwarranted knife grab by Customs agents.”? ?On May 21, the Customs and Border Protection Agency proposed revoking earlier rulings that said “assisted-opening knives” – including pocket knives – are not switchblades. ? ?The proposed new rule would expand the definition of “switchblade” to include knives that are opened with one hand as well as old-fashioned slip-joint knives, even the type of folding knives that Boy Scouts typically carry. ?The Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) are joining forces with a group called Knife Rights to support Americans' right to own and carry the knives of their choice." ? ?“The Second Amendment doesn't say ‘Firearms,’ it says ‘Arms,’ and knives are clearly covered,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.? ?CCRKBA says one-hand-opening and assisted-opening knives represent the majority of most knife-makers’ product lines. “These are the knives Americans take with them to work and to play everyday,” CCRKBA said in a news release.

NASA celebrates Gay Pride Month
The Acting Administrator of NASA and the Equal Opportunity Programs Office at Goddard Space Flight Center have encouraged agency employees to take part in “LGBT Pride Month.” Next mission to Uranus!

Obama Pork: $50M for Fish Food
The United States is about to spend $50 million in stimulus money on fish food to help fish farmers who have been struggling since feed prices jumped 50 percent last year.

Sin Francisco to impose fines for tossing food scraps
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 to pass the nation's toughest recycling law for the city of San Francisco. Those who do not properly separate their garbage, including composting food scraps, will be fined $100.

Global Warming Update: June's chill is one for the records
The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O'Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.

New Miss California: Marriage between man, woman
Tami Farrell, the newly crowned beauty queen who is replacing the ousted Carrie Prejean as Miss California, apparently holds the same view as her predecessor, Carrie Prejean, and President Obama that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Learn the truth about ‘Angels & Demons’
The Catholic League (USA) and Catholic Secular Forum (India) have joined forces in calling for a ban of the Catholic-bashing Dan Brown flick Angels and Demons due out in May. In the article that follows, Joseph Dias, general secretary of CSF rips apart the lies found within Brown’s book of the same name - Angels and Demons.

The Day Baseball Great Rick Monday Saved America!
In 1976, a sense of ennui had gripped the nation. In a year-long bicentennial celebration, many wondered if the economic stagnation that had lasted all decade meant that America’s best years were in the rear-view mirror. The commercialized bicentennial festivities felt forced and false. It seemed that pride in our country had dissipated into cynicism and retreat. The unprompted, extemporaneous response to Monday’s heroics is the often untold story of that day. Over 40,000 baseball fans saw Monday risk his career by grabbing what could easily have been a fireball to rescue the American flag from a couple of liberals, and suddenly it recalled the real patriotism and passion for America that had been missing in 1976. At first in isolated pockets but soon sweeping around the stands like The Wave would later do, Americans stood up and sang “God Bless America” — not prompted by the stadium organist but fueled by love of country. For my money, it’s the single best moment in sports. God bless Rick Monday, and God bless America.

This week TKF will focus on Obama’s illegal termination of an Inspector General:

Obama fires watchdog who barked at his crony
Former Inspector General Gerald Walpin filed two reports exposing gross misappropriation of federal AmeriCorps funds by a prominent Barack Obama supporter and was shortly thereafter fired by the White House, circumstances he told WND are likely linked and others have called an outright illegal action by the administration. Independent, federal inspectors general are supposed to be granted special protection from political interference – thanks in part to a law co-sponsored by the then-Senator Barack Obama – to ensure that they are free to investigate waste and fraud uninfluenced by political cronyism. But after Walpin dared to push for action against the St. HOPE Academy program – run by Obama supporter and former NBA star Kevin Johnson – which had misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal AmeriCorps funds, he nonetheless found himself fired by the White House under circumstances that have led some to wonder if Obama has violated his own co-sponsored law in retaliation.

Obama Fires AmeriCorps Inspector-General
The president didn't offer any more explanation, but White House Counsel Gregory Craig, in a letter to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, cited the U.S. attorney's criticism of Walpin to an integrity committee for inspectors general.? ?"We are aware of the circumstances leading to that referral and of Mr. Walpin's conduct throughout his tenure and can assure you that the president's decision was carefully considered," Craig wrote.? ?Grassley had written Obama a letter pointing to a law requiring that Congress be given the reasons an IG is fired. He cited a Senate report saying the requirement is designed to ensure that inspectors general are not removed for political reasons. Grassley said Walpin had identified millions of dollars in AmeriCorps funds that were wasted or misspent and "it appears he has been doing a good job."

Rally for Fair Tax
Lawmakers, radio talk-show hosts and other advocates called for state and federal income taxes to be replaced with an increased sales tax during a Saturday rally in mid-Missouri. Supporters of scrapping the income tax call the new taxation system a “fair tax” and contend that doing away with income taxes would spur economic growth and increase personal freedoms.

Medical Board Should Revoke Licenses of Tiller Abortion Associates
A Kansas pro-life group says the state medical board should move ahead with efforts to revoke the medical licenses of abortion practitioners who were colleagues of slain late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller. Kansans for Life says three Tiller colleagues may have violations that the board should examine.

Inmate accused of leading fraud scheme from prison
A 26-year-old Hutchinson man who prosecutors say led a $3 million mortgage fraud scheme was in prison when the crimes allegedly occurred. Eric M. Rabicoff is accused of devising a scheme in 2006 to defraud lenders by recruiting people to pretend to buy homes and submit false information to get loans. Kansas Department of Corrections records show Rabicoff was in the El Dorado Correctional Facility in 2006. Rabicoff was one of 10 people indicted in the alleged scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Thursday. The government is seeking the forfeiture of more than $3 million in proceeds from the crimes.

Important Message from the Kansas Attorney General! DTV Transition Underway!
The Kansas Attorney General’s Office reminds consumers that to continue receiving signals on Friday, televisions must be hooked up to a converter box that turns digital signals into a signal their television can understand. The government is offering $40 vouchers — two per household — to offset the cost of the change. Incredible!

Kansas Meadowlark: Biden in OP
The Kansas Meadowlark reported live from the Biden OP visit and gives his perspective.

JCCC gives health benefits to domestic partners
For the first time in its history, Johnson County Community College is extending health benefits to domestic partners as well as legal spouses. College officials said the application deadline for claiming these benefits ended recently and seven employees signed up their domestic partners. Five of the seven were same-sex partners. That’s a benefit that employees at the state’s six universities don’t get.

Police Shooting in KCMO
Kansas City police today identified the man who was shot during a police altercation Saturday night near 37th Street and Jackson Avenue as Alfran Gant, 26, of Kansas City. Gant was killed about 9:45 p.m. after police pulled over the vehicle he was riding in and he aimed a gun at them, authorities said. The four officers involved in the shooting were placed on routine administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation, said Officer Darin Snapp, a police spokesman.

Pedophile gets 3 Life Terms
A Kansas City, Kan., man has been sentenced to three consecutive life terms for molesting children. The Kansas City Star says Wyandotte County Judge Dexter Burdette ordered Friday that 42-year-old Vernie Burns have no chance of parole for 40 years. The Wyandotte County district attorney's office said Burns was accused of molesting three victims in their home in Kansas City, Kan. He was convicted in November of two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Burns had been convicted previously in Missouri for molesting an 8-year-old child.

“It’s the right step to make and I hope other schools follow suit,”

- Jeff Anderson, President of JCCC Faculty Association, speaking on JCCC granting benefits to Domestic Partners

From Proverbs 16:14
The king's wrath is like messengers of death, but a wise man can pacify it.

Gospel according to St. Mark 14:12-16,22-26

12 Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go, and prepare for thee to eat the pasch? 13 And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith to them: Go ye into the city; and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water, follow him; 14 And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the master of the house, The master saith, Where is my refectory, where I may eat the pasch with my disciples? 15 And he will show you a large dining room furnished; and there prepare ye for us. 16 And his disciples went their way, and came into the city; and they found as he had told them, and they prepared the pasch. 22 And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke, and gave to them, and said: Take ye. This is my body. 23 And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank of it. 24 And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many. 25 Amen I say to you, that I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God. 26 And when they had said an hymn, they went forth to the mount of Olives.

Dear David Letterman

Will you teach your son to talk about women and girls the way you talk about Sarah Palin and her daughters?

You called the married 45-year-old mother, grandmother and Alaska governor a "slutty flight attendant" on your national TV talk show because she happens to be a tall, beautiful and dynamic public figure who doesn't look, walk or talk the way you think she should.

You joked on national television about Palin's teenage daughter "getting knocked up" by professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez or solicited by the prostitute-addicted former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer because it's acceptable in your social and professional circles to sneer at the children of politicians you despise.

You admitted that your attacks on Palin's family were in "poor taste," but cackled while acknowledging your sophomoric judgment.

You expressed moral indignation at being misconstrued, yet you purposely omitted the name of the daughter you were mocking.

Fourteen-year-old Willow Palin was the daughter who accompanied Gov. Palin on her trip this week, not 18-year-old Bristol Palin, whom you now claim was the target of your feckless smear -- a smear you still insist is perfectly defensible. Look at yourself, Dave. Look at how lame your excuse-making was on your Wednesday night show:

"These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. I mean, look at my record. It has never happened. I don't think it's funny. I would never think it was funny. I wouldn't put it in a joke..."

Tell us, great comic genius, how tacking on four years to the target daughter makes it funny? We unenlightened dim bulbs who live outside of Manhattan's boundaries don't get the joke. Will you be able to explain it to your son?