17+ hour, 7+ min ago (419+ words) A church in Bryan, Ohio recently notched a win that religious liberty advocates believe will set a new precedent after the city attempted to shut down the church using fire codes. Gardner claimed, also referring to sentiments shared by Attorney General Dave Yost, that, in this case, Bryan, Ohio was seeking to use "petty tools of government to shut down a disfavored ministry" in the form of fire codes. The Daily Signal also reached out to Yost's office for further comment on the case. A press release from First Liberty detailed how Bryan, Ohio has gone after Dad's Place and Avell, using "multiple criminal and civil proceedings, including 18 criminal zoning charges, middle-of-the-night fire inspections, and both criminal and civil fire code prosecutions." The press release also noted that this is "while city officials demand the church install an expensive fire…...

17+ hour, 28+ min ago (248+ words) Mr. President, a US Army surgeon and lieutenant colonel, Dr. Terrance Lee Lakin, once requested of his chain of command to authenticate his orders as legitimate and legal to redeploy to a combat theater of operations and was soon after court-martialed for failing to show up for his unit's deployment after he received no confirmation. Dr. Lakin was sentenced to Ft. Leavenworth military prison. He was dishonorably discharged from service when he was very close to a lifetime of benefits. He was stripped of his rank. His good name has been sullied because he inquired of his chain of command whether Obama was a legal and legitimate commander-in-chief. At Dr. Lakin's court-martial, his defense team was NOT permitted to enter into evidence the cut-and-paste forgery of a birth certificate that Obama had published ON THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE! I…...

20+ hour, 59+ min ago (155+ words) The information sharing extends far beyond first-hand observations through a group chat. According to the A.P., the sheriff's deputy in Schott's case testified that federal agents "watch travel patterns on the highway" and "have a lot of toys over there on the federal side."" "I assume for every one person like me, who's actually standing up, there's a thousand people who just don't have the means or the time or, you know, they just leave frustrated and angry. They don't have the ability to move forward and hold anyone accountable," Schott told the A.P. "I think there's thousands of people getting treated this way." NEXT: What Would Bill Buckley Do? Matthew Petti | 11.24.2025 1:04 PM Autumn Billings | 11.24.2025 12:37 PM Stephanie Slade | From the January 2026 issue Liz Wolfe | 11.24.2025 9:30 AM J.D. Tuccille | 11.24.2025 7:00 AM...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago (954+ words) A single mother is challenging a custody order that prohibits her from taking her 12-year-old daughter to a Calvary Chapel church in Maine after a lower court accepted the claim that the denomination is a "cult," granting the girl's father the power to determine which religious activities she's allowed to attend. In combating the December 2024 custody order, the mother, Emily Bickford, is receiving legal assistance from the Liberty Counsel, a Christian legal group that has helped bring the mother's case before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. "Calvary Chapel is not a cult. This custody order banning Emily Bickford from taking her child to a Christian church because of its biblical teachings violates the First Amendment," Liberty Counsel founder and Chairman Mat Staver said in a statement shared with The Christian Post. "The breadth of this court order is breathtaking because…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago (208+ words) An 'outrageous' order is being challenged in Maine. Maine judge's anti-Christian custody dispute order challenged An 'outrageous' order is being challenged in Maine. Emily Bickford has been ordered by a judge to avoid anything to do with church, the Bible, or the Christian faith when it comes to her daughter, Ava. "This is an outrageous order that prohibits a mother, a fit parent, from taking her child to any church, religious organization, religious event, including Christmas celebrations or Easter, and she has to disassociate and cannot have any connection or association with anyone who is associated with Calvary Chapel in Portland, Maine," Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel chairman, told AFN. "She can't read the Bible. She can't be exposed to any religious philosophy or religious literature or videos." Judicial Renewal floats name of experienced attorney to fill opening on appeals court…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago (968+ words) A single mother is challenging a custody order that prohibits her from taking her 12-year-old daughter to a Calvary Chapel church in Maine after a lower court accepted the claim that the denomination is a "cult," granting the girl's father the power to determine which religious activities she's allowed to attend." In combating the December 2024 custody order, the mother, Emily Bickford, is receiving legal assistance from the Liberty Counsel, a Christian legal group that has helped bring the mother's case before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. "Calvary Chapel is not a cult. This custody order banning Emily Bickford from taking her child to a Christian church because of its biblical teachings violates the First Amendment," Liberty Counsel founder and Chairman Mat Staver said in a statement"shared with The Christian Post." "The breadth of this court order is breathtaking because…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago (703+ words) The EU is working at full speed to complete its online surveillance-and-informant network. By the end of the year, all EU member states are required to present so-called "Trusted Flaggers" -- institutions tasked with identifying "problematic" content -- to Brussels for accreditation. Politicians from Germany's Christian Democratic Union appear especially eager. Out with nuclear power, end coal-fired electricity -- NRW must become "green." And W'st celebrates the coming economic collapse, soon to crown himself the king of debt, presiding over his own Rust Belt and mass unemployment. This disaster will secure him a special place in the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. To give his convictions material force, W'st pushed early for the use of so-called "Trusted Flaggers" -- institutions that scan online content for political cleanliness. His favorite: So Done GmbH, a private software outfit that has not yet received official flagger status but…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago (386+ words) In 2009, Thunder Bay police searched a rural Ontario home for an illegal .22-caliber handgun. They didn't find the gun, but they did uncover cash hidden throughout the property: C$15,000 stuffed into a floor vent, C$9,750 tucked in a garage suitcase, and about C$1.2 million sealed in a Rubbermaid tub buried beneath the garage floor, according to the New York Times. The tenant, Marcel Breton, was charged with possessing proceeds of crime, but he successfully challenged the search warrant and was acquitted. That left the courts to decide whether the money should be returned or forfeited'never a tough call for a government that treats unclaimed cash like its natural habitat. They also agreed with expert evidence that the bundles were "consistent with the cash being proceeds of crime," and noted that the dominance of $20 bills and the presence of two bricks…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago (227+ words) Don't you want to live in a crime-free utopia? Wouldn't allowing the government to track our every move solve all our problems? Local authorities seem to think so, and they have the perfect tool to usher in mass surveillance in your city: Flock cameras. According to Flock's own website, they cover 49 states, over 5,000 communities, partner with more than 4,800 law enforcement agencies, and read upwards of 20 billion license plates per month. Law enforcement agencies are one of the primary users of these devices stated to reduce crime. Cities, businesses, and even HOAs are also deploying them in residential areas. While Arizona is home to some of the most Flock-saturated cities in the country, the problem stretches far beyond our borders. In Norfolk, Va., for example, 176 Flock cameras blanket the city. In a recent lawsuit, two Norfolk residents discovered their locations had…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago (917+ words) By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas officials asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to revive a voting map designed to boost the number of Republicans elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state and help President Donald Trump's party keep control of Congress in next year's midterm elections. State officials asked the justices to halt a lower court's ruling that blocked the map approved in August by the Texas legislature, with Trump's support, that redrew the boundaries of several U.S. House of Representatives districts in the state. The lower court concluded that the map likely was racially discriminatory in violation of U.S. constitutional protections. In its filing, Texas said the lower court made multiple legal errors and is causing chaos during the candidate filing period for next year's congressional elections, while it defended the legislature's action. "This summer,…...