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Colorado's years-long campaign to discriminate against and suppress Christians has added another chapter.
And it's in court again, in the state's deliberate discrimination against Christian preschools.
In this case, now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Catholic Archdiocese in Denver, a group of Catholic preschools, and a Catholic family are asking for a ruling that stops the state from excluding them from a state program generally available to all others, except them.
It is the state's "universal" preschool program that was set up by Democrats in the legislature and Democrat homosexual Gov. Jared Polis to exclude schools of faith from benefits that otherwise are generally available.
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently upheld the state's exclusion, punishing faith-based schools and the families they serve for operating according to their religious beliefs," according to Becket, which is representing the Catholics in the case.
"The court even praised Colorado's discriminatory regime as a 'model' and an 'example' for other states to follow. With Becket's help, Catholic parents and preschools are asking the Supreme Court to ensure that Colorado makes good on its promise of universal preschool."
Colorado's long history of anti-Christian activism dates back more than a decade already. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop has been in the courts for that long for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.
That's despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.
Same thing happened with the state's demand a web designer give up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. It lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether the allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients. And the state recently attempted to impose its transgender beliefs on a Christian children's camp.
"Colorado is picking winners and losers based on the content of their religious beliefs," said Nick Reaves, senior counsel at Becket. "That sort of religious discrimination flies in the face of our nation's traditions and decades of Supreme Court rulings. We're asking the Court to step in and make sure 'universal' preschool really is universal."
Becket explained, "Families who send their kids to Catholic preschools in the Archdiocese of Denver expect them to receive a high-quality education and to be part of a faith-centered Catholic community. That's exactly what these preschools offer, supporting parents with the religious and educational upbringing of their children by providing excellent intellectual, moral, and spiritual formation."
However, when the state launched its universal preschool program, offering families 15 hours of free preschool per week at the private or public schools of their choice, the Democrats built in discrimination based on religious belief.
The Catholic schools were targeted because they ask families who enroll children to be supportive of their Catholic faith.
"Our preschools exist to help parents who want an education rooted in the Catholic faith for their children," said archdiocese spokesman Scott Elmer.
"All we ask is for the ability to offer families who choose a Catholic education the same access to free preschool services that's available at thousands of other preschools across Colorado."
Plaintiffs Dan and Lisa Sheley now are forced to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket each year for benefits provided to other families by the state at no cost.
Becket warned, "The state's discriminatory rules have had their predictable effect: Since UPK began, enrollment at Catholic preschools has swiftly declined, while two Catholic preschools have shuttered their doors, including one that predominantly served low-income and minority families."
Becket even pointed out the ill intent from the state: "Colorado admits that it looks the other way when nonreligious schools have admissions policies that violate state law."
Further the 10th Circuit decision "defies the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Carson, Espinoza, and Trinity Lutheran, which held that states cannot exclude religious schools from public benefits because of their religious exercise."
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President Donald Trump has included in his Oval Office goals to fight the terror-like antics of Antifa.
That's a loose organization of leftists and extremists who have rioted across the United States in opposition to his enforcement of American law.
His actions already included designating the schemes and the schemers as domestic terrorists.
It was just weeks ago, the president said, "I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices."
He noted Antifa "is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that calls for the overthrow of the U.S. government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law—using illegal means, including violence and terrorism, to accomplish these goals."
Trump's order at the time instructed the federal government to "investigate, disrupt, and dismantle all illegal operations conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa."
He also targeted the "funding" schemes."
"Antifa engages in coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws, with the goal of achieving policy objectives by coercion and intimidation – this is domestic terrorism," the White House said. "Antifa has engaged in armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violently assaulted ICE and other law enforcement officers, and engages in routine doxing of political figures and activists, threatening public safety."
Now a report from Fox News confirms that campaign against terror is going global.
"The State Department will designate four Antifa-linked groups operating in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) — putting them among the likes of ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah — Fox News Digital has learned," the report said.
It apparently is the first time the U.S. government has applied foreign terrorist designations to Antifa-linked groups, the report said.
The four Antifa-aligned cells designated are from Germany, Italy and Greece, and are accused of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings and other politically motivated attacks.
The designation is significant as it now requires U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of FTOs and SDGTs and ban entry of the group's members into the U.S.
Further, those organizations and their members now can be prosecuted criminally in the U.S., as well as those who offer support to them.
One group is Antifa Ost, whose left-wing members are linked to attacks during 2018-2023 in Germany.
"The International Revolutionary Front, also known as the Informal Anarchist Federation, is an Italy-based coalition of groups that endorse revolutionary armed conflict against the state," the report said.
Two other groups are based in Greece, the Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense.
All are suspected of attacking innocent people, government operations and industry.
"The anarchists, Marxists, and violent extremists of Antifa have waged a terror campaign in the United States and across the Western world for decades, carrying out bombings, beatings, shootings, and riots in service of their extreme agenda," an official confirmed.
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Students at a Rhode Island high school have responded to one of their teacher's vitriol against slain civil-rights leader Charlie Kirk by starting a chapter of Turning Point USA in his honor.
Fox News reports on the controversy at Barrington High School and spoke to Brayden Ryan, vice president of the new Turning Point USA chapter.
"What inspired me personally to start this Turning Point chapter was the teacher at our school said after Charlie Kirk's death. He made a TikTok about how he has no remorse over him and how he was a hateful person," Ryan said Tuesday.
Kirk was assassinated Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University. Shortly afterward, social studies teacher Benjamin Fillo posted a video saying that Kirk "hated the LGBTQ community" and "hated women's rights." Fillo said that Kirk "thought he proved how tough he was with his words. … What a piece of garbage. Look what happens. … Bye, Charlie!"
Fillo currently is on administrative leave over the incident. Here is his video:
Ryan told Fox News: "I feel like we should give space to other students, a free and safe space to other students, other conservative students, to speak their own personal values, such as their religious beliefs and their political beliefs."
Caleb Kaplan, president of the Turning Point USA chapter, says part of the opposition the new club has received includes a petition drive to reinstate Fillo.
"I'm not going to name any names out of respect, but they have been campaigning or making petitions to get the teacher that we spoke about back in a position," Kaplan said.
"We don't reward hate with hate," added the high-school freshman. "All we do is we push harder and we try to recruit more people to join."
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Kathy Hochul, the Democrat governor in New York, now is being challenged for her office by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican, who has described Hochul as the "worst governor in America."
Hochul's leftist performances long have been standard issue, even to the point of supporting Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed "democrat socialist" with communist agenda points, for New York City mayor.
Stefanik explained, "New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation, with the highest taxes, the highest energy bills, the highest utility bills."
Now the Daily Mail is revealing the potential source of some of Hochul's far-left ideologies: A former top aide who is suspected of being an undeclared agent for the Chinese Communist Party.
That accusation is about Linda Sun, 41, who caught the attention of authorities when she bought a $3.6 million mansion, $1.9 million condo in Hawaii and a 2024 Ferrari Roma, a $240,000 car, on a salary of only about $145,000, the report said.
Federal prosecutors have said she used her position to influence Hochul, and earlier ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to take actions that Beijing desired.
Prosecutors explained during her trial that she was getting millions of dollars from side deals arranged on China's controlling party.
Citing the Wall Street Journal, the report said she and husband Chris Hu used cash to purchase the Long Island mansion, the condo and the car.
"She made frequent visits back to China and even celebrated the Communist Party's 70th year in power at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing," the report said.
They are also accused of generating $2.3 million in kickbacks on personal-protection equipment imports during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the formal charges against her fall under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
She has denied any responsibility.
The department of Justice charged Sun violated rules and protocols for the New York governor's office in order to provide benefits to China and the CCP.
"Sun secretly provided a Chinese diplomat access to a state conference call, prosecutors alleged. The couple is accused of pulling $15.8 million into the US through Hu's lobster export business and personally profiting from a PPE vendor that Sun set up as a government supplier," the report said.
Chinese cash allegedly was moved through the husband's businesses. He also faces a list of charges and has pleaded not guilty.
Sun held posts in the Cuomo administration starting in 2012, and was appointed deputy chief of staff for Hochul in 2021.
She later was fired.
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As significant progress was being made toward ending the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump issued a scathing warning Monday to some air-traffic controllers, while praising others.
"All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!!" Trump exclaimed in a lengthy message on Truth Social. "Anyone who doesn't will be substantially 'docked.'"
"For those Air Traffic Controllers who were GREAT PATRIOTS, and didn't take ANY TIME OFF for the 'Democrat Shutdown Hoax,' I will be recommending a BONUS of $10,000 per person for distinguished service to our Country.
"For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn't step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK that was only meant to hurt our Country. You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record.
"If you want to leave service in the near future, please do not hesitate to do so, with NO payment or severance of any kind! You will be quickly replaced by true Patriots, who will do a better job on the Brand New State of the Art Equipment, the best in the World, that we are in the process of ordering. The last 'Administration' wasted Billions of Dollars trying to fix antiquated 'junk.' They had no idea what they were doing!
Again, to our great American Patriots, GOD BLESS YOU – I won't be able to send your money fast enough! To all others, REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"
As WorldNetDaily reported, forty days into the longest government shutdown in history, eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus bucked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to support a deal that will end the government shutdown.
Lawmakers voted 60 to 40 to advance a House-passed clean continuing resolution Sunday night that had previously failed to clear the Senate's 60-vote threshold 14 times. Though the deal marks a crucial breakthrough to reopen the government, the process is expected to take several days due to likely opposition from a number of senators to expedite a vote on final passage.
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In a stunning revelation of the warped thinking behind the transgender agenda, a Maine select board member publicly has accused parents who oppose boys in locker roomss and showers with their young daughters of having "pedophilic tendencies."
The wild and perhaps injurious claim came from Leslie Trentalange who spoke remotely to a school board meeting in Kennebunk.
Listen:
A report at the Maine Wire said Trentalange, the Kennebunk Select Board's vice chair and a liaison to the RSU 21 school board, immediately was the subject of complaints to the select board, as chairman Miriam Whitehouse confirmed it has gotten demands that Trentalange quit or be removed.
Whitehouse confirmed the remarks "were not a reflection of her role on the board, nor did she intend to speak for the select board."
"I understand that members of the public sometimes do not see us separately from our official select board roles, but we do not give up our rights as citizens when we decide to serve on the select board," she added.
But resident Melissa McCue-McGrath told the board in a letter, "Accusing her constituents of being sex offenders is one of the worst charges someone can make."
She pointed out, "Even prisoners go after pedophiles in jail. This is a dangerous assertion."
The district recently was in headlines when a teacher "expressed a hope that the assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk would 'rest in hell,'" the report said.
Federal Title IX antidiscrimination standards require schools to designate sports and private spaces by biological sex, although state officials in Maine repeatedly have affirmed opening up girls showers to boys at will.
Under its "Corruption Chronicles" category, Judicial Watch wrote such a wild claim "is shocking even for an attention-seeking liberal politician."
The report said, "The Maine public official who blasted concerned parents is also sticking to her highly offensive words, refusing to apologize for calling them pedophiles because they want to protect their children."
Trentalange's rant included, "Their obsession with what private parts are sitting in between the legs of our students is nothing less than creepy and should absolutely be raising eyebrows in and around our school district. … Their obsession with genitalia points not to caring for the students in this district, but perhaps to an underlying guilt for their own pedophilic tendencies. There is a registry for that."
School board chair Matthew Stratford attempted to interrupt Trentalange's tirade, according to the local news report and video of the meeting, and called her comments "inappropriate," the report said.
But she kept talking.
"The unhinged lawmaker insisted she did not think her comments were inappropriate and that she stood by them.," the report said.
The select board's code of conduct, the report confirms, "includes a provision that states 'discussions should be conducted in a professional manner with all participants treating each other with civility and respect.'"
The report continued, "Accusing parents of being pedophiles for trying to shield their girls from the detriments of the transgender revolution does not seem to demonstrate integrity required under the town's code for elected officials."
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A church congregant, who for now remains a lawyer, is facing a long list of criminal counts for allegedly pulling a fake grenade out of his pocket and threatening pro-life activists with it.
A report at the Myrtle Beach, S.C., Sun News explained it is Richard Meredith Lovelace Jr. who is facing four counts of waving a hollowed-out hand grenade in front of pro-life protesters at St Anne's Episcopal Church.
The stunt was caught on Instagram.
After the threats, he shortly was handcuffed and arrested by police in Conway, and a day later he was released from the J. Reuben Long Detention Center on $15,000 bail.
The report said protesters with the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust organization had responded to the church because it calls itself an "inclusive and affirming" church, in support of abortion and various alternative sexual lifestyle ideologies.
"According to accounts from the Conway Police Department incident report, Lovelace exited the church and approached the protesters with his hands in his pockets before pulling out the grenade," the report said.
"I thought Mr. Lovelace was coming up to me to have a conversation, and when he came up, he pulled out of his pocket this hand grenade, and he said, 'I have a gift for you protesters,'" said Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust South Carolina team lead Jessica Newell. "And I was just so confused, and everybody was scared, and so we just called the police immediately to get that investigated."
Lovelace is on video telling activists that the grenade is "for y'all."
"The arrestee had the grenade held up in the air and was seen [waving] it around," police reported. "The arrestee immediately attempted to get rid of the grenade after presenting it to the protestors by going back inside of the church prior to the officers' arrival and handing it to another person."
His law office said his work was in banking law, business law, elder law, estates and real estate.
Newell confirmed, "After what happened, it did kind of freak everybody out, so we are continuing to reconvene with the team and seeing what the best next course of action would be, but we are asking the church to cut ties with Women and Gender Studies, and we told them that that's what it will take for us to stop protesting."
At Christian Newswire was a report the protest, on Sunday, was because members of the church were linked to the Palmetto State Abortion Fund via The Women and Gender Studies Program at Coastal Carolina University.
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When the Joe Biden administration spied on Republican senators, what information was collected?
Who authorized it?
What was the political ideology behind the scheme?
These questions are more are now the subject of a new Freedom of Information Act demand that insists on the release of "every record" related to the Democrats' spy-on-Republicans agenda.
"Backed by leading U.S. senators, the ACLJ is spearheading a historic effort to restore justice in American," explained the American Center for Law and justice. "Those senators standing alongside the ACLJ include Lindsey Graham (SC), Ted Cruz (TX), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Bill Hagerty (TN), and Tommy Tuberville (AL)."
All are supporting the demands, the ACLJ said.
The action is a result of some of the recent revelations about the scandalous behavior on the part of the Biden administration and its special counsel, Jack Smith, who now also is being investigated.
"The American people deserve answers. Every day it becomes clearer that this wasn't a legitimate investigation – it was a massive and politically motivated fishing expedition," the legal team explained.
"We recently learned that Smith abused his prosecutorial power to spy on at least eight sitting U.S. senators and hundreds of prominent conservatives and groups. He unconstitutionally subpoenaed the phone records of these senators, including some of the most vocal defenders of liberty and due process in Washington, in the Arctic Frost investigation he took over from the FBI," the ACLJ said by way of background.
"When the executive branch spies on the legislative branch, it not only threatens the constitutional separation of powers, but it also confirms that the Biden-Garland Justice Department was weaponizing the government and targeting political opponents under the guise of law enforcement. This is not oversight. It's overreach."
The organization said, "Those responsible for this unconstitutional attack on liberty must be held accountable. At the ACLJ, we've seen what happens when unchecked power is allowed to fester. We fought and won FOIA battles against the Biden DOJ. Now, we're going to do everything we can to help the Trump administration, along with the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, expose what Jack Smith did during Arctic Frost.
"If they can spy on sitting U.S. Senators, they will spy on you."
The scheme assembled by Democrats under Barack Obama and Joe Biden first tried to falsely link Trump to Russia, using made-up claims sponsored by Hillary Clinton. Then the Democrats launched a series of lawfare cases against Trump and other Republicans, and used Arctic Frost to spy on their constitutionally protected statements and comments.
It was FBI chiefs Kash Patel and Dan Bongino who confirmed that Smith "was tracking the private communication of 8 GOP U.S. senators."
Online commentary has suggested Smith was scheming to file more lawfare cases against Trump and Republicans had Kamala Harris won the White House, and accessing their communications records was a preliminary step in naming them in charges.
Harris, of course, lost by landslide proportions in the popular vote and the Electoral College.
Explained the ACLJ, "So not only was the Deep State going after President Trump, but it was going after conservative members of Congress. Such a shocking revelation should be the top headline on every mainstream media outlet. It should also put Congress on high alert that a Special Counsel was going after them."
ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow called the scenario out "outrage."
"I want everybody to put this into context. Could you imagine if it were a different situation and the DOJ under President Trump was spying on six Democratic senators? What would the reaction be? . . . Why in the world did Jack Smith try to get the phone records of a co-equal branch of government – senators and a member of the House of Representatives – for what purpose?"
He said, "This action by Jack Smith just typifies what was going on with the weaponization of the DOJ."
And since the records were accessed just before the 2024 election, "Obviously, Smith and the Biden DOJ were engaging in election interference."
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President Donald Trump has launched a new website called "Criminals" to expose the names, images and other information about "criminal aliens receiving taxpayer-funded Medicaid."
It's part of his efforts to secure American borders, expel criminal illegal aliens and build the American economy for the benefit of Americans and their businesses.
The website is here.
It's a project of the Trump White House which explained, "The Trump administration has intensified enforcement against criminal illegal aliens receiving taxpayer-funded Medicaid benefits, arresting hundreds of unauthorized individuals since taking office, including those with serious criminal records who exploited taxpayer-funded Medicaid illegally or through loopholes. This crackdown, driven by executive orders prioritizing public safety and fiscal responsibility, has led to the swift deportation of many individuals convicted of heinous acts, ensuring that precious resources meant for American citizens are no longer diverted to subsidize violent criminals.
"Compounding the crisis, Democrats have refused to pass a clean budget bill to end the shutdown unless Republicans concede to their demands for $1.5 trillion in new spending, including restorations to Medicaid expansions that would effectively extend coverage to over 1 million illegal aliens, funneling an additional $200 billion to such programs over the next decade at the expense of U.S. families."
On the page are highlighted "some of those criminals convicted of heinous crimes like murder, rape, burglary and assault."
What follows is a long page of images identifying suspects such as "illegal alien from Dominican Republic."
That particular suspect was involved in assault, harassment and robbery.
The Gateway Pundit explained how the website now has gone live and publishes "names, mugshots, and criminal charges of illegal immigrants receiving benefits from the federal health program."
"Some of those criminals were convicted of heinous offenses, including murder, rape, burglary, and assault," the report said.
While Democrats have claimed no illegals get Medicaid benefits, the evidence shows otherwise.
Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed, "We have found, after studying about $100 billion in spending, thousands and thousands of illegal uses of the EBT card. We have been moving people off of SNAP. We've got almost 700,000 people, I think, that we've moved off just since the President took office."
She continued, "We've arrested about 118 people. So this has been ongoing."
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Florida police have released borderline graphic video of when a sheriff's deputy was forced to take down a thug who had a knife and was threatening the life of a 7-year-old child.
The footage is from bodycam documentation of the confrontation between Antonio Gonzalez, of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, and the late Mario Comacho, 27, who died in the episode.
The video of the deputy confronting the suspect, who was reported to have a knife at the child's throat and was choking him, in a back room of a house in Brandon, Florida:
The sheriff's office later issued a statement about the incident.
Authorities said the confrontation happened on Sunday when deputies got a call about a domestic violence situation.
The caller said Camacho was armed with a knife and threatening the little boy.
"Once on scene, the suspect barricaded himself with his brother in a back bedroom. Deputies heard the child screaming for help and kicked down the door. Deputies encountered the suspect, who was holding a knife and refusing to let go of the child. The suspect was wearing a motorcycle helmet and two tactical vests with ballistic plates. After several commands to drop the knife, our deputy shot the suspect, rescuing the brother," authorities reported.
Camacho was pronounced dead at Brandon Regional Hospital.