KCMO Morning Show Blog

In a remarkable week for Missouri's judicial system - the state's Supreme Court managed to embolden unions when fighting our elected legislators for "their fair share" of our tax money.

Meanwhile, Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce financially assaults small business owners, and placates pedophiles - in the same week! Read all three astounding rulings.

http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/128187.html

http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/129721.html

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_149204309.html

Want some more evidence that the minimum wage hike doesn't work? Click on the link.

Here's One of dozens of reasons the new immigration bill is a disaster

...but at least Missouri's Senators know the bill is a bad idea.

Here's our interview with Missouri Senator Clare McCaskill:

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...and a discussion with Missouri Representative Sam Graves:

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Labels: Claire McCaskill, guests, immigration, minimum wage, Sam Graves, show audio

If you haven't made the trip - this is the weekend to do it. The Liberty Memorial is putting on a fantastic presentation to honor our nation's best and brightest this Memorial Day. Nearly 80,000 people have walked through this beautiful facility since it's opening last December.

Interim director of the Liberty Memorial, Mark Cox and President of the Permanent Memorial Day Committee Jack Calegari stopped by the studio to fill us in.

If you missed our interview with Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, tune in tomorrow morning at 5:30 for a rebroadcast. Also tomorrow, our last two pairs of Brigade tickets for Saturday's home game at Kemper Arena.

To clarify Senator John McCain's stance on illegal immigration, we spoke with his policy advisor, Doug Holtz.

Listen all this week for your chance to win tickets to a Kansas City Brigade Arena Football game! (And there's no shortage of opportunities for you to get some, either) We have a very special giveaway lined up for Father's Day, so keep listening for information.

Colonel Bob Patrick spoke with Chris about the Veterans History Project. The Veterans History Project, part of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center, is a national initiative mandated by Congress in 2000 to collect oral histories, letters, photographs and other documents, which chronicle the stories of America’s veterans and home-front workers from WWI through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. For more information, please click here.

For your listening pleasure today, we have our interview with Mitt Romney: MittRomney.mp3

Recently declared Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson made an appearance on our show last month:
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Our conversation with Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders about improvements at the K:

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Labels: 2008 presidential candidates, 2008 presidential election, guests, John McCain, Mitt Romney, show audio

We were there on December 2nd, broadcasting live from the exceptional World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial on opening day, and we've been big fans ever since. The number of visitors has exploded since then, and we still recommend that you visit it as well. What better time than Memorial Day Weekend?

If you care at all about presidential politics, you need to hear our interview with Congressman Tom Tancredo, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination:

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Michael Beschloss is an expert on presidential history, and he's fantastic! His book is brand new and Chris is loving it: Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989. You can hear all about it by clicking on the magic words...

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Labels: 2008 presidential candidates, 2008 presidential election, books, guests, show audio, Tom Tancredo

Tag Romney, son of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, spoke with us about his father's campaign. The magic is just a click away:
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Tom Bevan is Executive Editor of RealClearPolitics.com. He joined us to discuss last night's Republican presidential debate.

Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention spoke with us about the death of Jerry Falwell and the legacy he left behind.

Tune in tomorrow at 8:30 to hear Tom Tancredo explain why he should be your Republican candidate for president.

Michael Beschloss will be appearing at the Kansas City Literary Festival this weekend. He is an expert on US presidential history and author of "Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989" He will tell you all about it at 7:30 tomorrow on the KCMO Morning Show!

Labels: 2008 presidential candidates, books, guests, Mitt Romney, show audio

We celebrated the official announcement of Kay Cronkite (hyphen) Waldo (hyphen) Barnes' run for Congress. Let the countdown to a legitimate question from the press begin! Day one? None to be asked.

Tune in to KCMO Talk Radio 710 beginning at 8PM as we and our partners at Fox News bring you the second installment of the 10-candidate race for the Republican nomination.

Don't miss our exclusive interview with Tag Romney, the eldest son and campaign advisor to Governor Mitt Romney tomorrow morning at 6:15AM!

Thursday Congressman Tom Tancredo will join us to discuss his candidacy for President.

Today, we previewed this evening's debate with Jim Vandehei, Executive Editor of the Politico.com

Representative Brian Yates joined us and said legalized ticket scalping is likely to come to Missouri. Elements of the bill were removed before passage once Representatives Yates and Trent Skaggs reviewed some of the specifics. Read more...

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Frank Gaffney Jr. shared his thoughts and updated the status of the three kidnapped American soldiers in Iraq.

U.S. News and World Report senior writer and author of Our First Revolution, Michael Barone shared the contents of a little known piece of history that he says laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

Labels: 2008 presidential candidates, 2008 presidential election, guests, Kay Barnes, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo

Today former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich joined us to discuss his new book, "Pearl Harbor" and the upcoming presidential election. You can visit his website at www.newt.org.
Click here to our interview:

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Labels: books, guests, Newt Gingrich, show audio

Sean Hannity (Heard on 710 KCMO weekdays from 2-5pm) spoke with satellite radio morning show hosts Quinn and Rose about Kathleen Sebelius' comments and the controversy surrounding them. Hear that interview here:
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May 13th through May 19th is National Police Week. We spoke to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Chairman Craig Floyd about how we can honor our fallen officers. KCPD Chief James Corwin joined the interview as we saluted the heroic actions of our KCPD officers. You can take this opportunity to honor the police by donating to the National Law Enforcement Museum at www.lawenforcementmuseum.org (or call 866-446-NLEM.)

Yesterday we spoke with Dan Matthews, Vice President of PETA. He wrote the book, "Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir"Click here to listen to the contradictions fly:

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Click here to listen to today's edition of "Fridays with Funk:"

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Labels: animal rights, books, guests, Kathleen Sebelius, Mark Funkhouser, PETA, show audio

Thankfully the Democrats aren't exploiting the Greensburg tornado tragedy for political gain! It's great when Democrats don't...

• Make stupid mistakes in the rush to politicize, like Barak Obama
• Post it on their blogs, like Nancy Pelosi
• Talk about it on the Senate floor, like Harry Reid and Bob Byrd

Kathleen Sebelius started the ball rolling with these comments:

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Tony Snow had this to say about her complaints:

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To make sure we hadn't misinterpreted her statement, we
analysed the audio:

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We spoke with Christopher Hitchens about his book, "God is Not Great" and discussed his take on George Tenet's book.

Danny O'Neil, President and CEO of The Roasterie told our listeners about The Entrepreneurial Exchange and their upcoming "E-Day" event. Register at www.fortheentrepreneur.com

Listen tomorrow to hear our exclusive interview with Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas!

Labels: Barak Obama, Bob Byrd, books, George Tenet, guests, Harry Reid, Kathleen Sebelius, Nancy Pelosi, Pat Roberts, show audio

We just uncovered this story, sent to us by Greg. Below is the text of his email.

Mr. Stigall,

Attached is a report from the Defense Press Service
regarding the National Guard response to the recent tornado.
I heard your editorial regarding Gov. Sebelius' comments
on the National Guard's reduced response capabilities and
thought that you would be interested in the actual
numbers, specifically; "Currently, the Kansas National Guard
has 88 percent of its forces available, 60 percent of its
Army Guard dual-use equipment on hand, and more than
85 percent of its Air Guard equipment on hand,
said Randal Noller, public affairs officer for the
National Guard Bureau. Under the Emergency Management
Assistance Compact, which is a national partnership
agreement that allows state-to-state assistance during
governor or federally declared emergencies, Kansas has more
than 400,000 Guardsmen available to it, he pointed out.
However, Kansas has not yet requested assistance
from other states."

The problem of "stay-behind" equipment, a program in
which National Guard equipment was deployed to Iraq and
Afghanistan with mobilized National Guard units then stayed
in theater for follow on forces when National Guard
units returned home, is a concern to the National Guard. This
contributes to only having 60% of the Army dual use equipment on hand,
and is being addressed in Congress. In this aspect of the governor's
concerns I agree. The National Guard needs to be equipped as fully as
possible at the lowest level to support the state and its citizens.

The interesting data is that Kansas has 88% of its forces available.
There is not a breakdown between Army and Air, but I would suspect that,
based on the fact that the governor has not requested additional
National Guard forces from other states under the Emergency Management
Assistance Compact, there are enough forces to support the required missions.
This would negate her comment implying that National Guard deployments
have hindered the state's ability to respond. The National Guard Bureau
makes every effort to ensure that no states provide a preponderance of
their forces to overseas deployments, ensuring that the states have
adequate forces to meet emergency needs. Additionally, the plans and
operations sections at each state's headquarters know what National Guard
units from their state will be deployed. This gives the organization
enough time to plan around the deployed units in instances where they might
be used for emergencies. Given this, the governor's comments were
disingenuous and purely political in nature.


Chris' predictions came true within moments yesterday, as Kathleen
Sebelius hit the networks to gain politically from her state's
tornado-ravaged residents. Kansans must be proud of such courageous
leadership.  Here are her comments and appearances:

• NBC
• Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said the state's response will likely be hampered because much of the equipment usually positioned around the state to respond to emergencies is in Iraq. That includes things like tents, trucks and tractor-railers. "This is devastation beyond belief," Sebelius said Monday morning on NBC's "Today" show. "We've had serious tornadoes in Kansas, but to have a whole community wiped out at once is unbelievable."
• FOX News
• CBS
• MSNBC

Labels: Kathleen Sebelius

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius took a page from another Kathleen's playbook, and blamed Bush (and Iraq) for yet another natural disaster. Listen:
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We spoke with Alastair Wanklyn this morning about the victory of Pro-American French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy in France's recent elections.

If you missed the "Dave-a-palooza" this weekend, or just didn't get enough of it, here's our interview with the wildly popular Dave Ramsey:
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Here's another excellent piece by John Stossel, this time about gun laws
"Ms. Underestimated" John Stossel on gun control myths.


When John Edwards appeared on George Stephanoplous's show last night, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to show you this little gem:

Labels: France, guests, Gun Laws, Kathleen Sebelius

Today was the premiere of "Fridays with Funk." Catch it every Friday at 7:40 am. We spoke with the new Mayor about tonight's inaugural ball at Union Station. Click here to listen:

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As you know, the Dave Ramsey LIVE event on Saturday is sold out. However, if you want tickets...

Westside Family Church has 100 extra tickets available. If you are interested in purchasing from them, contact Niki Ezzell at 913-890-4243.

Dave joined us this morning and answered some of your financial questions. Don't forget to go to Borders(119th and Metcalf) tonight at 7pm to meet Dave and get your book signed!!!

Today we spoke with Alastair Wanklyn about France's upcoming presidential election. France is going to choose between a pro-American candidate and an anti-American socialist. We will have the results on Monday.

We had two guests join us to break down last night's Republican presidential debate:

• David Wasserman co-editor of the UVA center for Politics' "Crystal Ball"
• Jeff Roe, CEO of Axiom Strategies

Labels: 2008 presidential election, France, guests, Mark Funkhouser, show audio

We talked with Missouri Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields about this session’s high-profile legislation and what will or won’t be passed by the end of this session.

Tom Bevan of RealClearPolitics.com joined us to preview tonight’s Republican Presidential debate.

Legal Analyst Craig Mitnick shared the story of the $65 million pants lawsuit and what the outcome may be.

Don’t miss the premiere of “Fridays with Funk” tomorrow at 7:40am. New KCMO Mayor Mark Funkhouser will join us to talk about what’s going on in Kansas City, MO.

Tomorrow Dave Ramsey will join us on the KCMO Morning Show. From 7-9pm that evening he will be signing your copy of his book, "The Total Money Makeover" at the Borders at 119th and Metcalf. Chris Stigall will be out there, and Dave will be giving away $1,000 in debt reduction, so don't miss it!

Listen for Dave's special phrase today on KCMO Talk Radio 710 from 11-2pm, then tune into the KCMO Morning Show at 7:10 am on Friday for your chance to win two tickets to his sold out live event on Saturday, May 5th!

Labels: 2008 presidential election, books, guests, Mark Funkhouser

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