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Teton County, Wyoming, is one of America's enclaves for the elite.
Figures from 2019 confirm that residents there had the highest average incomes per capita of any county in the U.S., at $252,000.
Property owners include Bill Gates, of Microsoft billions.
As of the fourth quarter of 2021, the median home price in the county, meaning half of the homes were priced higher, was $1,060,093.
Nevertheless, homeowners there don't like a county governmental "shakedown" any more than people in other locations.
A report from the Pacific Legal Foundation reveals homeowners Trey and Shelby Scharp are suing in federal court over "excessive and unlawful permit fees the county demanded before allowing them to build a home."
The foundation explained, "Their lawsuit argues that Teton County's 'workforce housing' fees only increase the cost of housing for homeowners, are completely unrelated to their permit, and violate well-established Supreme Court precedents prohibiting governments from extorting money from property owners."
Austin Waisanen, a lawyer for the foundation, explained, "The Scharp family was required to pay a 'workforce housing' fee, despite being told they could not build rental housing on their property. These fees don't make housing cheaper for anyone; they just drive up costs to create housing,"
He continued, "The Constitution is clear that governments cannot compel homebuilders to pay excessive fees for problems they do not create."
The "workforce housing" fee assessed against the Scharps was $25,000, the report said.
While the fee is intended to "help" the workforce in the county that includes Jackson Hole, the county also blocked the Scharps from including a rental unit on their property, a plan that "would have directly helped address worker housing."
Defendants named are the county's board of commissioners.
The court filing, in U.S. district court in Wyoming, explains, "When a local government imposes a condition on land use permits that requires the payment of money or the dedication of real property—what the law terms an 'exaction'—it must make an individualized determination that the condition is related both in nature and extent to the impact of the proposed land use. … Local governments bear the burden of showing that an exaction bears an 'essential nexus' and 'rough proportionality' to the public impacts of a proposed land use. Together, the nexus and proportionality tests ensure that an exaction is necessary to mitigate a proposed land use's impact, and that the scale of an exaction is no larger than necessary. An exaction which lacks either an essential nexus or proportionality is unlawful, and nothing more than an 'out-and-out plan of extortion.'"
The legal filing charges that the Scharps' construction of new home "does not have any negative impact on housing affordability in Teton County."
It added, "Basic principles of economics show that building a new home increases the supply of available housing and therefore mitigates—not aggravates—housing affordability in Teton County."
Ironically, the family ran into trouble with the county because they planned a 3,700 square foot home with options to rent out an existing cabin on the property, as well as the basement of the new construction.
The county vetoed their plans for providing "too much" rental space.
The case seeks a court ruling that the county standards violate the doctrine of unconstitutional conditions and a judgment that their rights were violated by the process. They also seek economic damages and an injunction against the county's fee scheme.
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For years, the United States has been told of a critical labor shortage, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, which necessitated expanded foreign hiring. U.S. policymakers, corporations and academic institutions have promoted the narrative that India possessed a surplus of skilled talent essential to meet projected labor shortages in the United States. This claim, that America lacked sufficient STEM professionals and technical workers, served as the foundation and justification for expanding visa programs, outsourcing high-value jobs and embedding long-term foreign labor pipelines into the U.S. economy.
This narrative reshaped U.S. immigration and economic policy, positioning India as both a partner and a labor supplier. Under the banner of cooperation, American companies invested heavily in Indian operations, while visa programs such as H-1B, STEM OPT and L-1 became the backbone of a pipeline that now delivers hundreds of thousands of Indian workers into U.S. companies annually. India remains the top recipient of these work authorizations. Not only is the India government spending considerable amounts lobbying for more visas they are joined by the same companies expanding operations offshore, deepening dependence on foreign labor while reducing opportunities for Americans.
What has received far less attention is the full scope of this arrangement utilizing the U.S. visas and the documented strategy that underpins it. According to India's own national planning documents, this is not merely an outcome of globalization or educational exchange, it is a deliberate economic program designed to export surplus labor to high-wage markets like the United States.
India's youth strategy: a pipeline, not a partnership
India's government has long framed its young population not as a domestic challenge, but as a global opportunity to exploit. Through its central policy think tank, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), Indian leadership developed a comprehensive strategy to export its workforce as a competitive asset to the world. This strategy was formalized in two key policy blueprints India's Three-Year Action Agenda (2017–2020) and the Three-Year Action Plan which identified labor mobility as a national economic priority. India projected that by 2020, it would have the world's youngest population and by 2030, the largest working-age population at 962 million. Indian policymakers described this shift as a "demographic dividend" and positioned the surplus workforce as a solution to "reduce global skill shortages," particularly in aging Western nations.
India positioned its youth population as a solution to global labor shortages, promoting it as a workforce resource for aging nations like the United States, where the average worker age is 40. With a national average age of just 29 by 2020, India declared itself the world's youngest country and sought to leverage that demographic position into global labor market influence. Indian planning documents openly describe a vision to become the "global hub for skilled workforce" a role not designed to meet internal needs, but to supply talent to foreign economies.
This demographic ambition closely parallels hiring trends in the United States, especially in the tech sector. According to a 2023 report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, workers aged 25 to 39 now make up over 40.8% of the U.S. tech workforce, compared to 33.1% across the broader U.S. labor force. As younger workers dominate, older American professionals are being pushed out. Nearly 20% of discrimination complaints in the tech industry are now age-related, according to the EEOC, with many older Americans alleging exclusion and retaliation based on age.
India has capitalized on this shift. By using programs like H-1B, L-1, H-4 EAD and STEM OPT, India has not only supplied cheaper labor, but has strategically leveraged its youth to displace older American workers. As UC Davis professor Norm Matloff has documented, age is a central issue in the H-1B program. The majority of H-1B visa holders are under the age of 30 and employers benefit from hiring younger workers who are not only paid less, but also reduce long-term benefit and healthcare costs. Legally, this practice is enabled through the Department of Labor's four-tier wage structure, which assigns wage levels based on experience. In practice, that means younger workers often from India are slotted into lower wage tiers, creating a system that bypasses older, experienced Americans through a lawful proxy for age-based preference.
This alignment between India's demographic strategy and America's legal framework has created a pipeline where India's youngest workers are fast-tracked into high-value U.S. jobs, while older American professionals are systematically sidelined.
India's message to the global economy has remained consistent: Western countries face labor shortages and India has a surplus workforce ready to fill them. But beneath this message lies a far-reaching plan, supported by national skilling schemes, credentialing programs and government-to-government agreements. These policies are not designed to benefit American workers. They are designed to shift labor value jobs, wages and long-term opportunity away from the United States and toward India.
What began as a demographic talking point has evolved into a comprehensive labor export model. The results are playing out across America's economy today. And they are not the result of partnership. They are the product of strategy.
According to U.S. trade data, the majority of American services sold to foreign consumers are no longer being exported directly from the U.S., but are now delivered through foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational enterprises, totaling over $2.1 trillion in services in 2022 alone. That figure represents real offshoring, jobs, technologies and capital being delivered from India within the United States. Meanwhile, U.S. imports of services from foreign MNEs, many with ties to Indian outsourcing giants, totaled over $1.5 trillion, showing just how embedded foreign labor supply chains have become in America's service economy.
India's skill gap: Exporting engineers it admitted were unemployable
The strategy was further formalized under the National Skill Development Mission, launched in 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who declared his ambition to "make India the Skill Capital of the World." The mission's objectives were clear: create institutional convergence, accelerate training and fast-track overseas employment placements. One major component of this mission was overseas employment, which was established to channel millions of Indian workers into international labor markets through coordinated government and industry efforts.
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) acknowledged that only 2.3% of India's workforce had received formal skill training. This figure stands in stark contrast to 52% in the United States, 68% in the United Kingdom and over 90% in South Korea. In addition to this low training penetration, the Indian government raised concerns over the quality of its education infrastructure. Even acknowledging that a significant portion of engineering graduates lacked the necessary skills to actually be employed as engineers.
The foundation of this strategy was laid in India's National Skill Development Policy which formalized the use of short-term, modular training programs to issue credentials on a mass scale. Tools such as Recognition of Prior Learning enabled individuals to receive government certifications based on informal work experience rather than formal education or rigorous testing. U.S. employers and agencies later interpreted these credentials as equivalent to legitimate degrees or skill qualifications.
Private Skill Knowledge Providers were authorized to operate with limited oversight, creating a decentralized, loosely regulated skilling ecosystem. Certifications issued through public-private training centers were bundled into portfolios marketed as academic equivalencies and served as the basis for international employment pipelines including the H-1B visa, STEM OPT and employment-based green cards.
Through these mechanisms, India engineered a labor export system that no longer relied on educational excellence, but on credential scalability. With the support of U.S. companies and minimal scrutiny from immigration authorities, these certifications became tools of economic migration into the highest-value jobs in the American economy. The NSDC and MSDE, operating with government mandate, coordinated directly with foreign employers and international partners to match Indian trainees with overseas placements.
This model reveals a critical truth often obscured by policy rhetoric: India never possessed a truly skilled workforce on a global standard. What it had and continues to have is a massive, underemployed population largely lacking formal education, technical training, or industry-ready credentials. Rather than address this deficit through structural reform, India developed a credentialing system designed to convert informal labor into exportable assets.
Indian government documents repeatedly acknowledge that large portions of the population consumed more of the country's GDP than they contributed, placing strain on national productivity. Utilizing their "demographic dividend," India repositioned their surplus labor as a global commodity. Their ambition to become the "global talent hub" was never grounded in skill excellence,it was built on repackaging unemployment as opportunity and offloading the economic burden onto the United States labor market.
America's immigration system repurposed: Visas, investments and the erosion of U.S. technology jobs
Let the following models illustrate the measurable success of India's labor export strategy. They show a clear pattern: as India steadily increased its share of U.S. employment-based visas, particularly the very visa programs its government lobbies for most aggressively, such as H-1B, L-1, H-4 EAD and STEM OPT, American industries began shifting in parallel. Beginning in 2009, India's share of these visa categories steadily grew, eventually dominating them. At the same time, U.S.-based multinational companies significantly scaled up operations in India, increased foreign direct investment and expanded offshore hiring, particularly through Indian multinational firms contracted to deliver outsourced labor services.
Nonimmigrant Visa Issuances by Visa Class and by Nationality
Changes in Host Country Employment for U.S. Multinational Enterprises,
This correlation is not coincidental. As visa approvals for Indian nationals surged, so too did the number of American jobs relocated overseas. These trends were accompanied by rising employment in India, rapid expansion of Indian outsourcing firms and increasing dependency on offshore labor models. Meanwhile, U.S. workers faced mounting job insecurity, wage stagnation and waves of layoffs, particularly in the tech and engineering sectors most impacted by these shifts.
These practices have contributed to a quiet displacement of American professionals. While framed as meeting demand, the pipeline has come to dominate sectors like IT, engineering, pharmaceuticals and consulting, fields where wage depression, age discrimination and outsourcing have grown alongside foreign labor market access. American workers find themselves navigating an employment system increasingly built around imported labor, foreign certification networks and bilateral workforce agreements that few voters or legislators have ever seen.
India's vision to become the world's "Skill Capital" is not rhetorical. It is a multi-agency operation backed by state policy, foreign investment and diplomatic engagement. Its goals are clearly stated and its implementation is ongoing. What remains to be seen is whether the United States will continue to treat this as partnership, or begin to recognize it as a strategic labor realignment with serious consequences for Americans.
From policy to profit: The results of India's engineered labor takeover
The evidence is now clear. India's labor export strategy, marketed under the guise of cooperation and global talent sharing, was never simply about filling gaps or meeting temporary needs. It was a deliberate, long-term campaign to embed Indian labor into the foundation of the U.S. workforce through policy influence, credential manipulation and immigration program domination. And now, the outcomes of that campaign are no longer theoretical, they are measurable.
India has successfully positioned itself as a global destination for job creation, not just by generating domestic employment, but by absorbing jobs that were once part of the American economy. The same multinational corporations that lobbied for more work visas, citing talent shortages, have simultaneously offshored entire departments to India, facilitated by both U.S. and Indian MNEs. These corporations built offices, training centers and R&D hubs across Indian cities while scaling back hiring at home.
India's domination of the U.S. immigration system was not the end goal. It was the vehicle. What followed was a transfer of opportunity, wage growth and middle-class economic security from the United States to India. The result is an American labor market now structurally dependent on foreign-supplied labor and an Indian economy strengthened by the very visa programs and corporate relationships that were originally promoted as mutually beneficial.
The numbers don't lie. India has not only produced more jobs for its own people, but it has done so by systematically capturing and redirecting jobs, investment and workforce opportunity once meant for Americans. This is not the result of chance, but of strategy. And unless the U.S. confronts the scope of this manipulation and reclaims control of its labor and immigration systems, the trajectory will continue, more American jobs lost, more foreign systems embedded and a generation of U.S. workers left behind.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday "nuked" a reporter who came with an assumption, asked Leavitt to respond and was corrected, then doubled down.
It was Yamiche Alcindor of NBC, formerly of PBS, which is involved in its own scandal at the congressional level now facing defunding demands from members who object to the institution taking tax money and then delivering leftist and biased reporting.
Alcindor cited footage of white crosses representing white farmers murdered in the white genocide being allowed by the government in South Africa, and referenced the "burial sites." It was part of a video President Trump showed during an Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Wednesday.
Trump talked about the footage when confronting Ramaphosa about alleged genocide of white farmers in South Africa.
One item also documented in the video was widespread South African chants of "kill the farmer."
The crosses actually represent the lives of white farmers whose land was confiscated by the government and then who were murdered in racial violence.
Alcinder said President Donald Trump described how the image showed a thousand burial sites.
"We know that that's not true and the video wasn't showing that," she said, adding that Trump said the video "was showing a burial site, and it is unsubstantiated that that's true."
Leavitt explained multiple times that the image shows crosses representing the white farmers who have been murdered.
"Crosses are representing their lives, and the fact they are now dead, and their government did nothing about it," she said.
Alcindor immediately change course, suddenly asking, "Who at the White House" is responsible for protocols to prevent "unsubstantiated information" from being used.
Leavitt explained that one of the reporting organizations at the briefing, the AP, actually used the image and described it this way: "Each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed."
Leavitt concluded that it was a "ridiculous" line of questioning.
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), tasked with protecting the American workforce, has increasingly outsourced its core operations, including the development of its immigration systems, to private contractors who employ foreign workers on H-1B visas.
But the problem runs deeper than outsourcing.
The online system known as the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) is now central to processing H-1B Visas for nonimmigrant workers in specialty occupations, as well as the Permanent Employment Certification (PERM) process that enables foreign workers, including H-1B holders, to obtain green cards and remain in the U.S. through employer sponsorship.
While this platform serves as the gatekeeper for employment-based visas, it has quietly been outsourced to private contractors, many of whom actively hire H-1B visa workers themselves. In other words, foreign workers are now engineering and overseeing the same system that governs their own visa approvals.
This raises a fundamental conflict of interest. How can a system that exists to protect the interests of American labor be entrusted to contractors who profit from importing foreign labor? And how can Americans trust that the system hasn't been quietly optimized to favor those it was meant to regulate?
Let that sink in.
This is not a hypothetical issue. Industry experts, along with data published by the Department of Labor (DOL), confirm that many of the DOL's core systems, as well as those of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are being developed by firms that depend on imported labor. This situation provides foreign workers not only access to America's immigration gatekeeping infrastructure but also valuable insights into how the system functions, who is applying and how to enhance their chances of approval.
And it shows.
A foreign-run website called PERMtimeline.com is now publishing real-time case data, status changes and analytics on Permanent Employment Certification (PERM) filings, information that is not available to the American public through any official government source. The site openly admits it uses DOL's internal query systems to feed its dashboard. That raises a serious question: How are they getting access to this data and who inside the system is enabling it?
"Welcome to PERM Timeline! We are dedicated to providing the most current processing time information for PERM applications (Form ETA-9089). As immigrants ourselves, we deeply understand the uncertainty and stress associated with this process.
"Our platform utilizes the Department of Labor's query system to deliver accurate and timely data on PERM applications submitted after June 2023… This enhancement ensures that you receive the most reliable information to navigate your PERM application process with greater certainty and confidence."
The Department of Labor intends to provide Americans with "transparency" by making these applications available through their Performance Data. However, it is important to note, as stated in the Department's data disclosure statements and confirmed by users, that the information released for public review is only accessible after a final determination has been made on each application, covering only a portion of submissions.
For instance, the case disclosure files encompass determinations issued between October 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024, while the PERM Timeline includes application data as early as April 30, 2025. To address any concerns regarding the authenticity of the data, it has been verified for accuracy and authentication by the Department of Justice.
Recent changes within the FLAG system only deepen these concerns. In a February 2025 update to the FLAG platform, the agency introduced a rule allowing employers to quietly withdraw a case even after requesting review, so long as it hasn't been forwarded to BALCA (the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals). Once that happens, the case disappears. It is scrubbed from oversight, hidden from future audits and never made public.
This change allows employers to quietly erase evidence of failed labor certification attempts, shielding potential misuse of the system from public accountability. It makes it significantly harder for oversight bodies and American job seekers to monitor abuse, track trends, or understand the true scope of visa-based hiring.
At the same time, key data detailed on the Permanent Employment Certification (PERM) Form 9089, that was once made public by the DOL has been removed.
In its revised disclosure datasets, the DOL has removed key fields that previously allowed policymakers, oversight bodies and the public to monitor employer compliance with labor certification rules. These changes are not minor. They obscure core indicators of potential fraud, bad-faith recruitment and systemic discrimination against U.S. workers.
This disparity raises serious questions. Who is enabling access to internal DOL data? Are foreign workers within DOL-contracted firms providing preferential insights to immigrant communities or immigration-focused platforms? And why has the federal agency responsible for labor protections chosen opacity over transparency?
Why this matters
These details were essential for analyzing whether employers were inflating job criteria to eliminate American applicants and tailor job descriptions around pre-selected foreign candidates. Without this data, watchdog groups and analysts can no longer investigate whether job requirements were structured to evade fair recruitment standards.
In short, Americans are locked out, while foreign nationals, through H-1B-staffed contractors and immigrant-run platforms, have front-row seats, insider access and algorithmic control over America's labor pipeline.
This isn't just a technical issue. It's a national betrayal.
When the system designed to protect American labor is built and run by those who benefit from its exploitation, there is no oversight, only surrender. This is no longer just a question of technology. It is a question of sovereignty, accountability and whether the federal government is still acting in the best interest of its own citizens. A system built on secrecy, developed by foreign labor and designed without public oversight is not a secure system. It is a compromised one.
Congress, state attorneys general and the American public must demand an immediate return of full labor data transparency, a forensic audit of FLAG system access and a formal investigation into contractor practices and data handling.
Stay tuned for more updates on the Department of Labor as we continue our investigation.
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From the early church hymns, sung a cappella or perhaps accompanied by cymbals and flutes, past Gregorian chant, through the thundering pipe organ chords of J.S. Bach, to the 1960s guitars and electric pianos and then the current orchestrations backing up Christian church worship leaders, there have been a lot of changes musically.
Not so much in the lyrics, as the message from "How Great Thou Art," through "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" to "Bless the Lord, O my soul, O my soul, Worship His holy name" all have revolved around worship.
Until now:
Now, one church has unleashed a new "inspirational" chorus with the words: "God bless the Christian, God bless the atheist, God bless the Muslim, God bless the rest of us. We've got no idea What we're doing."
The report at End Times Headlines explains it reveals "a dangerous drift into progressive praise."
The tune apparently comes out of The Well Church in Gilbert, Arizona, the report said.
"The song's catch phrase is 'We've Got No Idea What We're Doing,' and while the theme itself may be unintentionally honest, what follows is a troubling snapshot of what happens when worship untethers itself from biblical truth," the report said.
Lyrics:
God bless the Christian
God bless the atheist
God bless the Muslim
God bless the rest of us
We've got no idea
What we're doing
Let all our friends in
And all our enemies
All of our children
All of our families
We've got no idea
What we're doing
We've tried to find you
Throughout the centuries
Different religions in
Different countries
We've got no idea
What we're doing
The report commented, "Let's be clear. The Christian faith is not a foggy attempt to guess at God's nature. It is the glorious revelation of God in Christ, who said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me' (John 14:6)."
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Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean island residence library has been invaded and recorded on video, and O'Keefe Media Group is releasing those images.
The newest shows a library "full of bizarre statues, unusual objects and even cryptic messages left by Epstein," according to the Gateway Pundit.
Evidence suggests crimes committed by the convicted sex offender, who died in a New York jail while awaiting further court hearings on new charges, happened at the structures on the private Little St. James island in the Caribbean.
OMG's James O'Keefe pointed out on a chalkboard were the words "Power," "Deception," "Mirror in Face" and "Dank Brain," and he explained, ""Handwriting analysis reveals strong similarities between these markings and the note recovered from Epstein's prison cell, prior to his death."
An earlier video release disclosed images from Epstein's kitchen, including a disturbing image in a photograph of a nude infant sitting in a sink.
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A school district and a foundation launched by a late Hollywood director have been ordered to pay millions of dollars to students and their families for forcing their pagan religious beliefs on students.
It is the Chicago Board of Education and the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace that must pay $2.6 million after students, including a Christian and a Muslim, were forced to take part in a "ceremony" that participants charge invoked Hindu deities.
A report in the Washington Stand said the ruling came from a federal judge who confirmed 773 former Chicago students will be affected by the ruling.
Chicago school officials had agreed to pay $170,000 to the leftist foundation to "provide Quiet Time Program services."
It happened at the Daniel Hale Williams Prep School of Medicine and Gage Park High School during 2018.
"The contract states the program would consist of 'two restful 15-minute periods providing a counterbalance to the hyper-stimulating tension of urban culture. The key component of Quiet Time is an evidenced-based stress reduction and cognitive development technique known as Transcendental Meditation."
One plaintiff, Kaya Hudgins, confirmed she was forced into what school officials claimed was "quiet time," but in reality was a worship of a "Hindu 'Puja.'"
It included religious paraphernalia and chanting of mantras citing Hindu gods.
She told the Washington Stand, "I was just a teenager when I was pressured into a program I didn't understand and wasn't allowed to question. No student should ever be forced into a religious practice against their will — especially not in a public school. This settlement is a step toward accountability and a reminder that our constitutional rights don't stop at the classroom door."
The terms of the agreement required students who chose not to "meditate" to be allowed to read or rest.
But Hudgins, a Muslim at the time, explained school officials refused.
"Her case became a class action lawsuit open to every single student in the troubled Chicago Public Schools system herded into the 'Quiet Time' program from Fall 2015 through Spring 2019, and who turned 18 on or after January 13, 2021," the report said.
Lawyer John Mauck fought the case and told the Washington Stand, "We hope this settlement will deter those who exploit young people and that it will encourage the Chicago Board of Education to be wary of harming students by allowing wolves to prey on the sheep they are obligated to protect."
A ruling in a previous court case awarded $150,000 in legal fees to Mariyah Green, a Christian who made the same claims.
The report noted, "The Biden-Harris administration encouraged public schools to carry out non-Christian religious practices such as Transcendental Meditation as a way to promote equity. A report promulgated by the Biden-Harris administration in December 2023 titled 'Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Schools' states, 'Classroom-based mindfulness education' should include '[e]xperiential practice of mindful breathing, meditation, and mindful movement, such as yoga,' as well as holding class 'discussion[s] about how to practice mindfulness in everyday situations.'"
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Twice already officials in the state of Colorado have gone to the Supreme Court in their misplaced campaign to control the thoughts, beliefs, and religious expression of individuals in the state.
Twice they've lost, getting scolded for exhibiting "hostility" to Christianity.
And a third case yet is pending before the high court.
Colorado taxpayers already have been stung for millions of dollars in the failed ideology imposed on them by leftist leaders – a Democrat governor, Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that at one point wildly tried, and failed, to grab control of the entire 2024 presidential election by barring President Donald Trump from the ballot.
But that's not enough damage, those state officials have decided.
It is the Colorado Department of Early Childhood that now has changed policies so that a longtime Christian youth camp is being ordered to promote the anti-Christ mindset of transgenderism.
In direct violation to its religious beliefs and constitutionally protected religious rights.
"The government has no place telling religious summer camps that it's 'lights out' for upholding their religious beliefs about human sexuality," said ADF lawyer Andrea Dill. "Camp IdRaHaJe exists to present the truth of the Gospel to children who are building character and lifelong memories. But the Colorado government is putting its dangerous agenda—that is losing popularity across the globe—ahead of its kids. We are urging the court to allow IdRaHaJe to operate as it has for over 75 years: as a Christian summer camp that accepts all campers without fear of being punished for its beliefs."
The ADF announcement confirmed it has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Colorado on behalf of IdRaHaJe, which takes its name from the hymn, "I'd Rather Have Jesus."
The state policy change would, in fact, force all licensed resident camps in the state to believe and teach the fiction that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
Such transgender ideologies exploded under the promotions adopted by Joe Biden when he was in the White House.
President Donald Trump simply decided that the position of the U.S. government is that there are two sexes, male and female, and they don't change back and forth.
For those who follow the science, such ideology in fact is a myth, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
The camp has operated in the Bailey, Colorado, area, southwest of Denver, since 1948.
It has maintained a resident camp license since 1995.
But leftists inside the power structure in the state recently amended their rules, "requiring children's camps to allow campers to access bathing, dressing, and sleeping facilities designated to the opposite sex."
Camp officials asked for an exemption and were refused.
They serve children ages six to 17 and offer off-site backpacking and camping trips, as well as activities at the camp itself. Each year some 2,500 to 3,000 students attend the camp, whose mission is to "win souls to Jesus Christ through the spreading of the Gospel."
The camp is open to all, and parents are asked to agree to camp policies when they register their children.
The state's most recent catastrophe at the U.S. Supreme Court involved web designer Lorie Smith of 303 Creative.
She designs wedding websites, and had been ordered by the state to promote same-sex duos in her work, in violation of her deeply held Christian faith.
The Supreme Court scolded the state for its agenda to violate the First Amendment in the case.
And a statement from ADF explained in that case, "The government can't force Americans to say things they don't believe, and Colorado officials have paid and will continue to pay a high price when they violate this foundational freedom.
"For the past 12 years, Colorado has targeted people of faith and forced them to express messages that violate their conscience and that advance the government's preferred ideology. First Amendment protections are non-negotiable. Billions of people around the world believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman and that men and women are biologically distinct. No government has the right to silence individuals for expressing these ideas or to punish those who decline to express different views."
The state earlier was handed a Supreme Court scolding over its "hostility" to Christians when the justices decided the fight in favor of baker Jack Phillips, who also had been ordered by the state to promote same-sex weddings and such.
He, too, had declined to participate in the state's leftist beliefs and ideology because doing so would violate his Christian faith.
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President Donald Trump unleashed his disdain on a top network reporter Monday who asked him about Qatar gifting America with a $400 million 747 aircraft that may be used as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office.
"What do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you?" ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott asked Trump during a signing ceremony for an executive order designed to slash prices for prescription drugs. "Why not leave it behind?"
Trump instantly responded with an attack on Scott and her network, saying: "You're ABC Fake News right? Because only ABC – well, a few of you would. Let me tell you. You should be embarrassed asking that question.
"They're giving us a free jet. I could say no, no, no, don't give us … I want to pay you $1 billion or $400 million or whatever it is or I could say thank you very much."
He then discussed an anecdote concerning pro golfer Sam Snead.
"He had a motto, when they give you a putt, you say, thank you very much. You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole," Trump recounted.
"A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on putting it. And then they put it, they miss it, and their partner gets angry at them. You know what? Remember that Sam Snead, when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say, thank you very much."
Scott continued to press the matter, but was cut off by Trump as she asked: "Respectfully, sir, as a businessman, some people may look at this and say, have you ever been given a gift worth millions of dollars and then not …"
"It's not a gift to me," Trump replied. "It's a gift to the Department of Defense and you should know better because you've been embarrassed enough and so has your network. Your network is a disaster. ABC is a disaster."
Regarding the offer of the aircraft, Trump said: "I think it's a great gesture from Qatar. Appreciate it very much. I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer."
"I mean, I could be a stupid person and say, No, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane. But it was, I thought it was a great gesture."
"I think it was a gesture because of the fact that we help, have helped, and continue to, we will continue to all of those countries, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and others," he continued.
Democrats like Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) claim a Qatar Boeing 747-8 jet for Air Force One violates the Foreign Emoluments Clause. This ignores the deal's structure.
The jet is offered to the U.S. Air Force, not Trump personally, for official use.The White House and DOJ say this… pic.twitter.com/0KSrNETf2u
— Media Lies (@MediasLies) May 12, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked by ABC about the gift, to which he responded: "I'm not going to comment on it."
"I haven't seen all the details about it."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The leader of political opposition to Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro says Americans now have "a business opportunity of $1.7 trillion" in her country if the dictator is ousted from power, and she predicts communist regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua will soon fall once he's gone.
"We will turn Venezuela from the criminal hub of the Americas into energy hub of the Americas," Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.
"I'm talking about a business opportunity of $1.7 trillion. This is unique. … This is a win-win partnership when we are all free."
"I want to be very clear," continued Machado, who has been in hiding for nine months. "Maduro is weaker than ever, totally rejected by 90% of the people, internationally isolated and now with fractures within the regime."
Machado praised the leadership of U.S. President Donald Trump, and said: "Venezuela will be free. Venezuela will be a reliable partner of the U.S."
"We will kick out Iranian forces and agents, the Hezbollah that have turned Venezuela into a base, an operational base of the Iranian regime. And we will build a partnership to create a security shield for the Americas for the stability of the region and also for the national security of the U.S."
Regarding economic matters, Machado said: "Under Maduro, Venezeulans' oil and energy has collapsed. These companies operating in Venezuela are forced to partner with a criminal structure, with a drug cartel. They are giving to Maduro and that means giving money for the drug cartels for the operations and enforcing the criminal gangs like Tren de Aragua that are operating all across the continent."
"President Trump's position is the right one. We need to move forward cut these sources going to the criminals. … Remember Maduro is the head of the Tren de Aragua."
She predicted that once "Maduro's out, believe me, the Cuban and Nicaraguan regime will follow, and for the first time in history, we will have a continent free of communism and dictatorship. This is historic."
Machado described the harsh conditions living under Maduro's dictatorship, noting, "Minimum wages in Venezuela are $1.5 dollars a month. Our children go to school only twice a week.
"No journalist is able to speak. Young people have been put in prison just for putting a post on X or Instagram or of they have my picture in their phones. So that is why people leave. They're forced to leave to save their lives."
"Once we have free Venezuela, we will not only dismantle all those criminal gangs … we will turn Venezuela into open markets and greatest opportunities for all."
When asked if she and her cohorts were afraid, Machado replied, "Of course we are."
"We have more than 900 political prisoners right now that have been tortured, women that have been sexually assaulted. It's brutal but the fact is that we're moving forward. And the fact that we have this unwavering support from President Trump makes things move ahead."