Sheriff Receives Death Threat from Mexican Mafia
The Mexican Mafia has reportedly given a "green-light" to take out Pinal County, Arizona sheriff Paul Babeu.

Obama’s Amnesty not the Answer
President Obama’s focus on improving border security and enforcement as part of an amnesty package glosses over the fact that in 1986, aggressive enforcement was also linked to amnesty. However, politicians were too weak to enforce the law, and the problem got even worse. There is nothing to indicate that the results would be any different in 2010, as the Obama Administration has rolled back several effective enforcement efforts including random workplace enforcement raids. The right answer is to secure the border while instituting a strong enforcement system that will discourage illegal immigration, while at the same time making legal avenues of immigration more efficient and better able to serve the needs of the economy. These steps, coupled with efforts to work with Mexico to reform its own economy and fight the drug cartels are good first steps for ensuring that the system works for all Americans.

Kansas leaders reject Obama's call for amnesty
Rep. Todd Tiahrt: "We must reclaim these jobs through policies that crack down on illegal immigration and do a better job enforcing our current immigration laws—not grant amnesty to illegal immigrants."

Illegal immigration costs U.S. $113 billion a year
The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a staggering $113 billion a year — an average of $1,117 for every “native-headed” household in America according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

2010 AFP Legislative Score Cards Are Here!
Now that the 2010 Legislative session is adjourned, AFP-Kansas has gone back and taken a look at how each and every legislator voted on certain key issues. Don't rely on their campaign brochures, check for yourself to see how your legislator voted on taxes, spending and other issues.

Kansas Chamber of Commerce Endorsements
The Kansas Chamber PAC has released its endorsements for the 2010 elections to the Kansas Legislature. "We are proud to endorse a group of candidates who demonstrate a pro-jobs approach to stimulating the Kansas economy and the personal leadership to form strong public policy," said Kansas Chamber Interim President and CEO Kent Beisner. "These individuals are committed to reducing government spending and growing jobs in Kansas."

Barack Obama: The great jobs killer
Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics. It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

Government Intervention in BP Spill
Heritage Foundation’s Jack Spencer discusses the degree to which the government should intrude on internal BP management of the oil spill.

Tiahrt poll indicates closer Kansas Senate contest
A new poll shows Todd Tiahrt gaining ground on Jerry Moran in the contest for the Republican Party nomination for the United States Senate from Kansas. Tiahrt also picked up an endorsement from radio talk show host and Fox News personality Sean Hannity. Hannity said “Sarah Palin endorsed him; Mark Levin endorsed him. A great protector of our Constitution, if you are out in Kansas, you’ve got to pay attention to Todd Tiahrt. He is pro-family, pro-Second Amendment. This is the kind of commonsense conservative we need in the US Senate. He’s never voted for a tax increase; He fought to end wasteful spending coming out of Washington. That’s the kind of guy we’re looking for.”

Kansans support Brownback, repeal of health care
Republican gubernatorial candidate Sam Brownback has a large lead over Democrat Tom Holland, and if it were up to Kansas voters, the national health care bill would be repealed.

Kobach Endorsements Generate Campaign Energy
Kris Kobach, candidate for Kansas Secretary of State, continues?to energize his campaign by getting powerful endorsements from?across the country. Major political figures such as former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former United States Senator and actor Fred Thompson have given their full support to Kobach in?the heated race for Secretary of State. Kobach has also been endorsed by Congressman and Presidential Candidate Tom?Tancredo; John Fund of The Wall Street Journal who wrote the bestseller, “Stealing Elections, How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy”; syndicated columnist and author, Star Parker; author Michelle Malkin; Phyllis Schafly, president of Eagle Forum, and others.

VA head blasts administration over HIV Exposures
The Democratic chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee lambasted the Obama administration over its handling of an incident at a St. Louis VA center in which more than 1,800 veterans were told they may have been exposed to HIV.

Narco-Sub Discovered
A 100-foot, twin-screw diesel submarine seized at a jungle shipyard in Ecuador marks a quantum, if anticipated, leap in drug-smuggling evasion technology, the top U.S. counter-drug official for the region said. "It is the first fully functional, completely submersible submarine for transoceanic voyages that we have ever found," said Jay Bergman, Andean regional director for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Mexico's Drug War Heats up Near Arizona Border
Very few residents dare to drive on one of the roads out of this watering-hole for migrants, fearing they will be stopped at gunpoint. They worry they will be told to turn around after their gas tanks are drained or, worse, be kidnapped or killed. A shootout that left 21 people dead and six wounded on the road last week is the most gruesome sign that a relatively tranquil pocket of northern Mexico is quickly turning into a hotbed of drug-fueled violence on Arizona's doorstep. The violence in recent months is grist for supporters of the state's tough new law against illegal immigration, who are eager to portray the border as a lawless battlefield of smugglers both of drugs and humans. Nogales, the main city in the region, which shares a border with the Arizona city of the same name, has had 131 murders so far this year, nearly surpassing 135 for all of 2009, according to a tally by the newspaper Diario de Sonora. That includes two heads found Thursday stuffed side by side between the bars of a cemetery fence.

Money, Deficits, and the Devil: A Cautionary Tale
But perhaps the biggest lesson from Goethe’s Faust is that self-deception is intrinsic to all foolish acts. Whenever governments choose comforting economic illusions over difficult economic truths, then, like Mephistopheles, they will employ dubious means such as state-engineered inflation or public-sector indebtedness to make ill-conceived economic policies seem less burdensome to those who will in the long term eventually have to pay the price.

SF mayor bans sugar-added drinks from city vending machines
Coca-Cola is out, and soy milk is now part of San Francisco’s official city policy. Under an executive order from Mayor Gavin Newsom, Coke, Pepsi and Fanta Orange are no longer allowed in vending machines. Newsom’s directive includes non-diet sodas, sports drinks and artificially sweetened water. Juice must be 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice with no added sweeteners. There should be “ample choices” of water, “soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non dairy milk,” says the directive.

Join Today: Kansas City’s Neuhaus Society
Father Richard John Neuhaus’s work will be remembered and debated for decades. As a Lutheran pastor, he was one of the first civil-rights activists to identify the pro-life cause with the moral truths for which he and others had marched in Selma; he set the terms of the contemporary American church-state debate and added a new phrase to our public vocabulary with his 1984 bestseller, “The Naked Public Square.” As a Convert and then Catholic priest, he helped define new patterns of theological dialogue between Catholics and evangelicals, and between Christians and Jews. The journal he launched in the early 1990s, First Things, quickly became, under his leadership and inspiration, the most important vehicle for exploring the tangled web of religion and society in the English-speaking world.

Federalist #2: Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence by John Jay
WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident.…………..

Planned Parenthood: $1.3B Tax Money Missing
A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008. Planned Parenthood had received $2.02 billion in federal grants from 2002 through 2008 but the nation's largest abortion-industry player only reported spending $657.1 million of the taxpayer funds.

Planned Parenthood Uses 4th for Military Abortions
Planned Parenthood belittled the July 4th traditions in an action alert to say they're not as important as abortions. The action alert stated that more than 100,000 women who are active service members, spouses, dependents of military personnel and reside on military bases don't have access to abortion – even though most live near big cities that have abortion centers.

Fr. Corapi Tells it Like it is on Independence Day
"The inevitable consequence of abusing freedom is losing freedom. Soon, if we do not alter our present course, the United States will no longer be the home of the brave and the land of the free. Loss of personal freedoms, one at a time, is already well underway. One day we shall awake from our moral slumber and find that we have become slaves".

Baptist Sues Church for Performing Gay Ceremony
For Yvonne Moore, when her Southern Baptist congregation performed a homosexual "commitment ceremony," it wasn't just anti-Biblical - it was a personal betrayal.

Woman Kills Wrong Embryos with Morning-After Pill
In a disastrous chain of events, a set of wanted embryos quickly became unwanted after an artificially impregnated women was informed by her fertility clinic that they had accidentally implanted the embryos of another woman by the same name.

How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain
Pornography is a visual pheromone, a powerful, $100 billion per year brain drug that is changing human sexuality by “inhibiting orientation” and “disrupting pre-mating communication between the sexes by permeating the atmosphere,” especially through the internet.

Another Blind Side
Four months into the pregnancy, La’Shay Ester found herself estranged from an already broken family, struggling to juggle school and a full-time job, and in need of some serious help. That’s when the school nurse, Kathleen Hook, stepped in. the Hook family offered La’Shay a place to live. They eventually became her legal guardians. And that’s made all the difference in the world for La’Shay.

Minister Speaks Against NAACP Support of Prop 19
"California NAACP President Alice Huffman is selling out the very people that the NAACP has a history of protecting. She has been bought and paid for by the highest bidder, in this case it is George Soros," Bishop Ron Allen says.

Gilligan's Island: The Seven Deadly Sins
Did you ever wonder what the hidden meaning was behind a bunch of people who go on a three hour tour and get stranded on an island? Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of Gilligan's Island, said he patterned the ’seven stranded castaways’ after the seven deadly sins but he didn't admit it until years later in his book about the show.

Caitlin Jane's Music Video- Unborn
Music Video Highlights Humanity of Unborn

KDHE rekindles public debate over coal plant
Kansas Health and Environment officials have opened the public comment and hearing process for an air quality permit for a new southwest Kansas power plant. Joining the Sierra Club in its opposition to the plant is Earthjustice, a group of environmentalists.

Gospel of St. Matthew 8:18-22

18 Then Jesus, seeing the great crowds encircling him, gave orders to go across the sea.?19 And one scribe, approaching, said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you will go.”?20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to rest his head.”?21 Then another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”?22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and allow the dead to bury their dead.”

Harrison Hickman spoke to the 1989 conference of the National Abortion Rights Action League, "Nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about the fetus in much different terms than they did fifteen years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have an easy answer for."

Father Frank Pavone states in the documentary, ‘BloodMoney’, “Our culture speaks about ‘choice’ but abortion is about despair and the feeling that there is ‘no choice’ ”. The introduction of the sonogram has been the greatest tool for pregnancy clinics to help women choose life. A mother who sees her baby increases the bonding experience and gives the mother a clear understanding that this is a distinct human being. The pregnancy clinics find that 60 percent of women on average who have all ready chosen abortion will change their mind upon seeing the sonogram. The pregnancy center continues to help women find pre-natal care, support, counseling, monetary and material assistance. Most pregnancy centers that do not perform abortions receive no assistance from the government. The clinics rely solely on the financial support, resources and volunteerism of compassionate and generous people who want to help women who have nowhere else to turn.

Our daughter has felt the call to help expectant women in difficult circumstances since she was sixteen and is now twenty-one. She will graduate next year with a degree in counseling and has had the great privilege of working at the Wyandotte Pregnancy Clinic. Recently, she wrote about a personal experience that had happened at the clinic: “A client had circled the word ‘abortion’ as the plans for her baby and indicated that she was only six or seven weeks along. Previously, the client had been pregnant at age 16 and had delivered a stillborn baby. She was convinced that an abortion would not be as emotional as that experience. The staff said prayers for this mother who clearly had her mind made up. During the sonogram, the staff could see that the baby was much older at 17 weeks gestation. They were looking at a fully developed baby boy, kicking and waving the whole time. Miraculously, the baby gave the ”peace sign” and a sonogram picture was taken for the client to take home. The next day, the clinic received a phone call from this client who has decided to choose life for her unborn baby. Our daughter said that she is in awe of the Providence of God and the difference a sonogram makes. She is sure that this story and many others like it would end very differently if it weren’t for the sonogram.

The Kansas Federalist would like to invite you to make a difference and save a life. Please support a new documentary, “BloodMoney: The Business of Abortion”. This documentary has never been shown in the Kansas City area. Proceeds will help fund a new Mobile Sonogram Unit for the Wyandotte Pregnancy Clinic which will enable women all over the metro area to experience ‘the gift of life’ in 3D.

BloodMoney: The Business of Abortion
Sunday, July 18
2:00 pm
Bishop Miege Auditorium
Adults: $10
Students: $5 Reception to follow

Proceeds to Benefit Wyandotte Pregnancy Clinic’s Mobile Sonogram Unit
Film Narrated by Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Also featured in the film:
Rev. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
Rev. Thomas Euteneuer, Human Life International
Rev. Clenard Childress Jr., Black Genocide
Norma McCorvey, Roe v. Wade
Carol Everett, former independent abortion clinic owner
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist
www.BloodMoneyFilm.com