This week’s patriotic cookouts found celebrants facing higher prices…again. Independence Day and weekend get-together meals cost $71.22 for 10 guests this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2024 annual market basket ...
Read More »Kansas, Missouri Independence Day Event Guide
Independence Day is the one holiday families can enjoy professional fireworks displays more safely and less expensively than doing it themselves. A number of free or inexpensive events are planned on both ...
Read More »Jim Caviezel tackles evil of child trafficking in “Sound of Freedom”
Americans declared their freedom from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. On the same day this year, the new movie “Sound of Freedom” opens in theaters with a powerful message about child ...
Read More »Help homeless veterans on Independence Day
No veteran should have to suffer homelessness, but the good news is that the number of veterans experiencing homelessness is declining. A point-in-time survey by the Department of Veterans Affairs reports that ...
Read More »Navy Week comes to Kansas City June 28-July 4
The U.S. Navy is making a “port call” in Kansas City for Navy Week, the first in the city since 2015, will take place June 28 – July 4. It concludes with ...
Read More »Former NFL coach Tony Dungy responds to critics of America and CNN
Tony Dungy encourages Americans to work to improve the United States while also celebrating the blessings they enjoy. He’s also leading the way as Christians push back against a hostile media. “Over ...
Read More »YouTube pressured to remove 3-hour antisemitic speech by Louis Farrakhan
A public campaign has been launched to persuade YouTube to remove a video of the notoriously antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s July 4 speech. In the speech, the Nation of ...
Read More »Inner city pastors seek solutions as murders spike
Pastors in the inner city continue to pray against violence as the murder toll climbs in Kansas City. Two more people were shot and killed over the July 4 weekend as the ...
Read More »Media hated Trump Mount Rushmore Speech while public applauded
President Trump’s Independence Day speech was met with cheers from the right and derision from the left. Media critics are wondering if news outlets actually watched the speech before commenting on it. ...
Read More »Weekend shootings shock nation, including Missouri
It was a virtual blood bath in many cities across the U.S. as Fourth of July weekend shootings shocked the public. That was the case in Kansas City, Kansas City and Columbia, ...
Read More »Trail Life USA promotes ‘healing wave’ for July 4 weekend
Leaders of the Christian youth organization Trail Life USA are challenging Americans to help create a “healing wave” through July 4 weekend cookouts. “Jesus taught us to love one another,” CEO Mark ...
Read More »America began in a covenant with God
Covenants are viewed as the most sacred and binding of deals – an oath that’s never to be broken. America’s earliest settlers made a covenant with God to serve and proclaim Him ...
Read More »America to see most patriotic July 4th parade ever
America will see an Independence Day parade and celebration unlike any in recent memory. President Donald Trump is increasing efforts to acknowledge the military branches which are responsible for the freedoms the ...
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