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TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas Libertarians were stopped from holding a fundraiser at a nudist camp in southwest Shawnee County, when sheriff's deputies blocked people from entering. Shawnee County deputies said they were merely enforcing a court order when they stopped people from accessing Lake Edun on Friday. Last year, Shawnee County District Judge Terry Bullock issued a court order banning "commercial or recreational activities" on the property unless the owners get a permit for such events - something the county refuses to provide. But Rob Hodgkinson, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Kansas, said a political party fundraiser isn't a...

I am telling you guys, Dr. Jerome Corsi (co-author of "Unfit for Command" and "Minutemen") is NOT going to let this issue die. We owe it to OURSELVES to start paying attention. Mexican Trucks with cheap Mexican truck drivers will mean THE END of the American Patriot Trucker as we know it. (incidentally I come from a family of truck drivers so it also personal for me). Our own transport companies will set up mexican companies and run operations out of Mexico in order to "cut costs". Those "cuts" are OUR jobs! Sound familiar??? Please Read this. Please keep this...

Plans to open a customs facility that would clear trucks for export to Mexico passed a government hurdle earlier this week, a spokesman for Sen. Kit Bond said Wednesday. The facility, which U.S. and Mexican officials hope to open in Kansas City this year, would be the first customs house run by a foreign country inside U.S. boundaries. While negotiations over the plans continue, neither government would confirm the proposal had been rubber-stamped and forwarded to the State Department.

THE NEW WORLD DISORDERMexican customs to be stationed in Kansas CityNew 'inland port' in heartland part of international plan that bypasses unions Posted: June 20, 20068:21 p.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com A Mexican customs office is being built in the U.S. heartland as part of a newly designed "inland port" facility that links with a Mexican seaport, an official in Kansas City confirms. Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council wrote to author and WND columnist Jerome Corsi to correct some details of a column on the subject, but she affirmed that a key purpose of the Kansas City...

Kansas City is planning to allow the Mexican government to open a Mexican customs office in conjunction with the Kansas City SmartPort. This will be the first foreign customs facility allowed to operate on U.S. soil. City leaders voted last month to give the facility an innocuous name to hide its true identity as an arm of the Mexican government, staffed by Mexican officials. In fact, Kansas City is so enthusiastic about the opportunity, the cost of building the $3 million dollar facility for Mexico will be paid for by Kansas City taxpayers, not by the Mexican government. The current...

Perhaps nowhere in America has the transition from a church focused on social engagement and lay empowerment to one more concerned with Catholic identity and evangelization been more dramatic, or in some ways more wrenching, than in the Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., diocese since the appointment of Bishop Robert Finn.Finn has brought the diocese, for decades a model of the former category of church practice, to a screeching halt and sent it veering off in a new direction, leaving nationally heralded education programs and high-profile lay leaders and women religious with long experience abandoned and dismayed.The competing tensions in the...

Angry over illegal immigration they say depresses wages and displaces American workers, hundreds of people called for stricter border enforcement during a rally Monday evening at Mill Creek Park. The rally came in response to two recent Kansas City rallies at which thousands of people called for undocumented immigrants to be given a path to citizenship. “The open border crowd says they don’t want a 700-mile wall” built on the U.S.-Mexico border, law professor Kris Kobach told the crowd of at least 700. “I don’t want that either. I want a 2,000-mile wall.” The crowd erupted in cheers, whistles and...

The rally went well today. I am surprised there isn't a thread yet. I've got a number of pictures and most of Kris Kobach's speech on wmv. If anyone has a website to host the photos, freepmail me and I will forward the pics.

If you are fed up with the illegal protests and defiance and violation of US laws, there is a counter protest this Monday at Mill Creek Park, on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. It will take place at 5-6:30pm. Details on KMBZ.COM

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An out-of-town couple visiting a sick child encountered an unruly mob following the St. Patrick's Day parade. KMBC's Chris Nagus reported that two cars with two different couples were on the way to Children's Mercy Hospital when another car cut between them. One of the drivers asked the cutting driver not to block them. Then, things got out of control when a mob came out of nowhere, Nagus reported. "Just a whole bunch of people rushed the car. I was thinking 20 girls; my husband said more like 30," said Michelle Essig, who was driving to...

Legislative Policy Forum When: Monday, March 20, 2006 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Where: Electric Cooperatives Building 1 Cooperative Way Arkansas Who: Jennifer Crawley (501) 372-7301 Legislative Candidate Reception When: Monday, March 20, 2006 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Where: Little Rock Club 400 W Capitol Ave # 2435 Arkansas Who: Jennifer Crawley (501) 372-7301 http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_mar06nl13&JServSessionIdr010=8mn39cqen1.app6a Immigration Conference Coming to Kansas City The Impact of Illegal Immigration on State and Local Governments Source: Immigration Report FAIR’s highly successful series of regional immigration reform conferences is coming to Missouri. State and local law enforcement, and elected officials from across the region...

KANSAS CITY, MO. -- Shipping U-S vehicles and electronics to Mexico may become much cheaper and faster next year. That's when the first Mexican customs facility in the U-S is expected to open in the Midwest. It's nearly one-thousand miles to the border from Kansas City. But the area will soon start building an inland port to whisk thousands of trucks through export inspections and back onto the North American Free Trade Agreement corridor. The three (M) million dollar facility is expected to be approved by the U-S and Mexican governments by year's end. Chris Gutierrez with nonprofit Kansas City...

<p>Everyone is welcome. If you think you might attend, give us a heads-up on this thread.</p>

Lifechain.net, a pro-life activist group will have a protest in Kansas City. Several college groups are participating. SOUTH KANSAS CITY - 95th St from State Line Rd to Wornall Rd, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.; Please call if you plan to attend Mary Ernstmann 816-353-4113

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- The interest in the story over Shuma the service dog continues to be overwhelming. Last Thursday, KCTV5 News told you about a hurricane evacuee from Mississippi who wants his dog back. After fleeing the storm, John Wyrick gave his dog to Lynn Nevills of Independence, because his temporary housing arrangement would not allow pets. Wyrick said he made a mistake and wants Shuma the German Shepherd back, but Nevills refuses. Several KCTV5 viewers have offered her money, as much as one thousand dollars if she will just return the dog. But, Shuma is still in Independence with...

KC Sports Legend Hank Stram DiesStram Led The Chiefs To 2 Super Bowl Appearances KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Hank Stram, a legend in Kansas City sports history, died Monday in New Orleans following a lengthy illness. He was 81. Stram led the Chiefs to their only two Super Bowl appearances: In Super Bowl I the Chiefs lost to the Green Bay Packers, and in Super Bowl IV in 1970, the Chiefs defeated the Minnesota Vikings. "It was all about the team. Winning was -- that's the name of the game in sports -- and it was team and winning...

Principal Dan Doerhoff of East Lynne School in Kansas City, Mo., decided a fitting punishment for an unnamed fourth- grade girl in lieu of suspension was to make her pick up rocks along the road in front of the school for three days. Alone. Teachers thought the girl's punishment was too harsh and dangerous, and during their free periods several went out to help her and watch after her. The mini revolt was led by teacher Christa Price, so Doerhoff not only ordered Price fired for "failing to support the administration," he refused to do the final sign-off on her...

Sunflower Republican Women's Club and Federalist Society Are proud to present David Horowitz Founder of Center for theStudy of Popular Culture And Frontpagemag.com (Restoration Weekend) October 11, 2005 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. U.M.K.C. (Either Pearson Hall or White Recital Hall) Kansas City, MO Former attendees of Zenith Boosters Club "Ronald Reagan Award for Excellence" will remember David Horowitz's inspiring presentation Of the Left, Hollywood, Media Elite, and Liberals. David was one of the founders of the NEW LEFT, founded in the 1960s. He really knows the Left, Progressives and Liberals from the inside out, because he was one of them....

What does it take for an award-receiving talk show host to empty a room full of radio industry leaders and supporters? Air America host and alleged comedian Al Franken managed to do just that over the weekend, with a long and rambling speech that had both liberals and conservatives, bolting from the facility.

Today, May 24, at 5:00 a.m. Central Time (12 noon Rome time), Bishop Boland’s resignation was officially accepted by the Holy Father. As of this day Bishop Robert Finn is the bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Please now include his name in the Eucharistic Prayer as our bishop. A Mass with Bishop Boland to celebrate his twelve years as our shepherd is scheduled at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday June 23 at 7:00 p.m. All are invited to this celebration. Please extend an invitation to your parishioners through your bulletins. You may find the...