Krauthammer Rips Cap-And-Trade
Krauthammer rips Cap-And-Trade and calls it the most insane bill he has ever seen. Congress is out of control folks!

Unions’ Health Benefits May Avoid Tax Under Proposal
The U.S. Senate proposal to impose taxes for the first time on “gold-plated” health plans may bypass generous employee benefits negotiated by unions. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), the chief congressional advocate of taxing some employer-provided benefits to help pay for an overhaul of the U.S. health system, says any change should exempt perks secured in existing collective- bargaining agreements, which can be in place for as long as five years.

'Is it permitted to eat the flesh of American soldiers?'
The Al-Falluja jihadist forum has featured a new discussion – on the slaughter and eating of U.S. soldiers, according to officials with the Middle East Media Research Institute.

Climate bill targets hot tubs and light bulbs
The Democrat-led House pressed Thursday for enough votes to pass landmark legislation that would combat global warming by forcing U.S. companies to reduce their carbon-dioxide emissions, expanding expensive renewable-energy sources and trimming consumers' choices on new light bulbs and hot tubs.

Sin taxes can feed immorality
Yet the temptation to impose sin taxes is one that should be resisted for economic and moral reasons. Rather than increasing revenue, the sin tax can reduce it. Rather than discouraging what are regarded as morally questionable behaviors, the sin tax can make them more appealing. Rather than reducing what are perceived to be internal costs of the sin, the sin tax can increase them and expand them to society. Whatever economic or social benefits one can dream up from the sin tax, Americans must realize that the decision to tax must be weighed against the social benefits for reducing the behavior by slow and deliberate persuasion and voluntary action. When it comes to public policy, the preferred method of discouraging sin should fall to the family, church and schools, among other institutions. That would leave government officials more time to focus on the sins they can really do something about -- their own.

Study Finds Adult Stem Cells, Not Embryonic, Best Suited for Repairing Muscle
A new study involving researchers from Maryland and Indiana finds that adult stem cells, not embryonic, are best suited for damaged and diseased muscle. The new research, published in the medial journal Nature, involved experiments in mice.

California school district votes to let students leave campus for abortions
The Modesto City School Board on Monday voted to allow junior high and high school students to leave campus during the school day for “confidential medical services,” such as abortions, without the consent or knowledge of their parents.

Congressman’s wife cops plea to federal bribery charges
Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond. The one count of conspiring to commit bribery is punishable for up to five years in prison. Rep. Conyers on the same day as his wife’s plea dropped all Congressional inquiries into the ACORN scandals that are occurring across the Nation.

Russians Close All Casinos
The government is shutting down every last legal casino and slot-machine parlor across the land, under an antivice plan promoted by Vladimir V. Putin that as recently as a few months ago was widely perceived as far-fetched. But the result will be hundreds of thousands of people thrown out of work.

Chavez Threatens Actions in Honduras
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put troops on alert after a coup in Honduras and said he would respond militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was kidnapped or killed. Chavez said Honduran soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army's coup against his leftist ally, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

Amtrak Inspector General: Europe’s Trains Lose Billions
The report found that European countries provide both on-budget and off-budget support to the railroads. Off-budget support, including things like pensions, debt service, and past capital investments, won’t be found in any of the railroads’ annual financial reports. When counted, however, Germany’s state-owned railroad lost an average of $23 billion per year in the past decade, while France’s lost $10 billion.

Palin Responds To Sen. Kerry Joke: "Why The Long Face?"
Speaking to a group of servicemen in Kosovo, Gov. Sarah Palin responded to a crack made by Sen. John Kerry earlier this week. Sen. Kerry joked he wished Palin went missing along with Sanford. "He looked quite frustrated and he looked so sad," she said. "I just wanted to reach out to the TV and say 'John Kerry, why the long face?'," she concluded.

Sissy Remark Sparks Ticket by Police
O’Brien is alleged to have used “decisive or offensive words which were likely to provoke a violent reaction on the part of an ordinary person, to wit he called (the alleged victim) a sissy.” Looks like the Sissy’s to me are the Maine police!

This week TKF will focus on the new movie, The Stoning of Soraya, which focuses on the Muslim treatment of women:

The Stoning of Soraya: Muslim women to not matter here
Soraya’s husband Ali has tired of Soraya after having four children with her, and wants to marry the 14-year-old daughter of one of his prisoners. He can’t afford two wives, so he demands a divorce from Soraya, who refuses for economic reasons. Instead, Ali conspires with the local mullah a fraud who has to keep Ali from exposing him to frame Soraya for infidelity. Soraya notes in the film, “voices of women do not matter here.” The Stoning of Soraya M will send a much more powerful message all around the world and it will haunt you for a very long time, especially the execution sequence, which had most of the audience tonight in sobs. Starring Jim Caviezel of “The Passion.”

TKF Focus: Actor Jim Caviezel
James Patrick Caviezel, Jr. (pronounced /k?'vi?z?l/; born September 26, 1968) is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Jim Caviezel. He is perhaps best known for playing the part of Jesus Christ in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ as well as Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo and Private Witt in The Thin Red Line. His current project is The Stoning of Soraya. Caviezel is a devout Roman Catholic and has been a featured public speaker at religious venues since the release of The Passion. On March 19, 2005 he was the main speaker at the first Catholic Men's Conference in Boston. Caviezel stated that he chose to speak at the conference only because he liked Boston Archbishop, Sean Cardinal O'Malley. His wife Kerri Browitt Caviezel, also a devout Roman Catholic, is a teacher and an accomplished flautist. The two are active in their Conejo Valley, California parish. Kerri supports a charity for single mothers and also volunteers with their church's Detention Ministry at a camp for incarcerated youth in Malibu, California.

Kansas’ regents universities all raise tuition
Students attending Kansas’ six regents universities will see tuition increases ranging as high as 8.5 percent after votes Thursday by the Board of Regents. At the University of Kansas, which last month said it planned to raise tuition by 4 percent, most students instead will pay 6 percent more. Time to get a new Governor and appoint conservative Regents members.

Nixon slashes state spending by $430 million
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday cut or restricted state spending by $430 million in an effort to balance expenses against recession-shrunk revenues. The cuts eliminate 200 jobs and throw into limbo several state construction projects. Plummeting state revenues in the current year and an uncertain outlook for the future forced the reductions, Nixon said. “Just as Missouri families are required to tighten their belts, so, too, must state government,” Nixon, a Democrat, said at a news conference.

Missouri State gives Condoms out in their “Freshman Welcome Pack”
Missouri State University is distancing itself from an advertising supplement mailed to about 4,000 college-age students in the Springfield area. The school has received several dozen complaints from parents who called or wrote officials to say they found the mailing — a student welcome pack — offensive. The packet contained a newsletter with ads for places to eat, shop and go out in the area. Among other items, it also included a condom and advertising for a store specializing in erotica. The packet came in a manila envelop with Missouri State University emblazoned on the front and back.

Incredible! Missouri gives ACORN $450K
The state of Missouri agreed Thursday to pay $450,000 to a community organizing group to help settle a voter registration lawsuit filed last year. The money will pay lawyers hired by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, in its suit against the Missouri Department of Social Services.

Drive-by shooting in KCK kills Child
A 7-year-old girl shot to death early Friday became the second child to be murdered in Kansas City, Kan., this week. Police identified Laraya Wilson as the latest homicide victim. Police said she was pronounced dead in the 2600 block of North 13th Street. She was one of five people shot when a gunman or gunmen fired into a house shortly after midnight.

Another Murder in KCK
Police are investigating this morning after finding a man shot dead in Kansas City, Kan. The man was found about 4:30 a.m. on the 2300 block of North 18th Street, police said.

KCK police involved in fatal shooting
Kansas City, Kan., police Saturday night shot and killed an unidentified suspect who turned a car on an officer. Authorities said they responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle at 10th Street and Armstrong Avenue shortly after 6 p.m., according to a prepared statement released by the police department about a half hour ago

Women killed in Drive-by shooting in Wichita
A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed early this morning as she was riding in a car near Harry and Southeast Boulevard. Wichita police said the woman had been riding with friends west on Harry at about 3:30 a.m., when a car pulled along side of theirs and shot at the car, hitting the woman.

Kansas Man Arrested in Cole Camp Mass Murder
Authorities said one man has been charged in connection with the shooting deaths of three people in rural Missouri earlier this month. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Robert Blurton, 45, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and arrested at his home in Garnett, Kan., early Saturday without incident. The bodies of 15-year-old Taron Luetjen and her grandparents — Donnie Luetjen and Sharon Luetjen — were found June 9 at their home in Cole Camp, a community of about 1,000 people about 115 miles southeast of Kansas City. He said robbery was a possible motive.

Pro-Life Office attacked in Wichita
An abortion advocate attacked the national headquarters of the pro-life group Operation Rescue on Friday. The attack, which came weeks after the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, saw someone attempt to disabled the pro-life organization's security system.

Kansas Supremes Narrow Car Searches
The Kansas Supreme Court struck down a law allowing police to search for evidence of any crime in a traffic stop, rather than only evidence to support the crime for which the stop was made. The court's unanimous ruling Friday has the effect of narrowing the scope of a search that can be made without a warrant when a driver is stopped. The ruling is from a 2006 Emporia case where drug paraphernalia was found in a vehicle. The court said it was compelled to strike down the law because of an April ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that put new limits on the ability of police to search a vehicle immediately after an arrest.

"The president and Democrats in Congress claim this spending binge is necessary to put Americans back to work. Unemployment has soared above 9 percent. And now the president admits that unemployment will soon reach double digits. So where are the jobs, Mr. President?”

- House Republican leader John Boehner

From Proverbs 16:16
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.

Gospel according to St. Matthew 8:5-17

5 And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him, 6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grieviously tormented. 7 And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him. 8 And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. 9 For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Come, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 10 And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed him: Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. 11 And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven: 12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13 And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And the servant was healed at the same hour. 14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying, and sick of a fever: 15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and ministered to them. 16 And when evening was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word: and all that were sick he healed: 17 That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.

Cap and Trade, Dennis and Jacko

On Friday as every television station in America continued to cover nothing but the death of Michael Jackson, Kansas 3rd District Congressman Dennis Moore voted along with all the other liberals in Congress and passed 219-212, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, aka the Waxman-Markey bill, or also called the Cap-And-Trade Act.

Most Democrats voted for the bill—211 in all—but 44 Dems voted against. Almost all Republicans opposed the bill—168—but eight Republicans broke ranks to support the measure.

It’s clear that cap-and-trade will be one of the most expensive government interventions in American Energy since our Country was founded. But in reality the bill amounts to nothing more than an Energy Tax. The bottom line is that cap and trade works by raising the cost of energy high enough so that individuals and businesses are forced to use less of it.

Utility companies such as electric utilities, oil refiners, natural gas producers, and some manufacturers that produce energy on site will be forced to pass the costs on to us. Naturally, then the consumer’s costs go up.

Our Kansas farming sector will be particularly hard-hit with higher gasoline and diesel fuel costs, electricity costs, and natural gas-derived fertilizer costs. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as well as the Heritage Foundation is anticipating a 28% decrease in farm business revenues in 2012 and some estimates are over 50%.

Kansas will get the brunt of it all. With Waxman-Markey, Kansas’ farmers are at a global disadvantage. Farmers in competitive countries will have no comparable energy-price raising measures in place, which means we lose the battle of competition. It’s supply and demand and simple economics. Kansas will lose and lose big and one of our own congressmen is responsible.

While we watch the news about Jacko on Friday, Dennis Moore helped ruin Kansas’ economic future with another liberal vote. It’s despicable, it’s un-American and it reflects a vote from a Washingtonian and not a Kansan!

Click on the link and thank Dennis Moore for taking Kansas from a fruitful plain to a barren desert!