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A volunteer with a program that provides food to the hungry and homeless in Dayton, Ohio, was handcuffed for his work, and although he was later released without charges, the city's agenda has prompted a lawsuit over its restrictions on charity.

It is the Pacific Legal Foundation that has brought the federal complaint against Dayton to challenge a city ordinance that bans, unconstitutionally, the public distribution of food without a permit.

It happened during a food distribution event last April when "a homeless man walked up to volunteer Mitchell West asking for food."

It happened while a police officer who had just ordered the handout closed down was present.

"Despite the officer watching, Mitchell chose compassion over compliance and handed the man a burrito. The officer responded by handcuffing and arresting Mitchell, detaining him for more than 30 minutes—over what amounts to a misdemeanor," the legal team announced.

The program is run by Nourish Our Neighbors, a charity that now has sued Dayton.

"Nourish Our Neighbors offers a wide range of services, including haircuts, education, housing, and food assistance. At its core, however, is its food program, which is a crucial community resource considered illegal by the city. Volunteers serve nearly 150 people per month, collect trash before and after all food service, and leave the area cleaner than they found it," the foundation reported.

The city demands a permit, costing $50 per event, and a $250 security deposit for some, a demand that "would undercut Nourish Our Neighbors' ability to serve those most in need."

The legal team noted: "Even more telling is the law's arbitrariness—no permit is required to hand out cake and ice cream for a birthday party at the same location."

The courts, the Pacific Justice Foundation confirmed, "have ruled that food sharing is expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. Furthermore, the ordinance unfairly discriminates among similar activities and violates the fundamental right to engage in charitable acts."

The Neighbors program was started by McKahla Moran back in 2022 to help "alleviate hardships."

Free food is a primary component.

"When city code enforcement put a volunteer in handcuffs, the chilling message became crystal clear: In Dayton, charity can be a crime," the legal team warned.

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JERUSALEM – Authorities in the United Arab Emirates made a shocking discovery Sunday after they found the lifeless remains of a Chabad movement emissary, who had been missing – feared abducted – since Thursday.

Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a dual Israeli-Moldovan citizen, who was a relative, through his wife of Rabbi Gavriel Holzberg, the Chabad emissary who was murdered, along with his wife, Rivka, in the Mumbai terrorist atrocity in 2008, was feared missing after he failed to appear at a number of scheduled meetings he had during the day.

After a prolonged period of failure to reach Kogan, his wife, also named Rivka, and who is a U.S. citizen, spoke to the Chabad house security officer, who promptly alerted the Abu Dhabi authorities. Information was also shared with the Israeli authorities, and the story about the hunt for the missing rabbi – and the palpable fears for his safety – caught the internet alight.

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The United Kingdom has, in many ways, gone over the edge.

It is demanding that it can control thoughts, such as silent prayer, in abortion business "no-go" zones where some people aren't allowed because of their beliefs.

It has worked toward a strict set of guidelines that would require people to make only affirmative statements about some extremely damaging lifestyle choices, because anything negative is "hate."

And now it is having police investigate 9-year-olds for saying someone smells like fish.

It's according to the Daily Mail that one student, put by officers in a bull's-eye, actually was alleged to have called a fellow primary school student a "retard."

Two schoolgirls found themselves under investigation for saying another student smelled "like fish."

These all are being compiled in formal police records as "non-crime hate incidents."

The government says such incidents are "clearly motivated by intentional hostility" and are recorded when "there is a genuine risk of significant escalation."

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A stunner being reported by the Christian Institute in the United Kingdom is that there may have been more than 400 possible criminal violations of the euthanasia law in Ontario, Canada, that have not been reported to police.

The report said Dirk Huyer, chief of the coroner's office in the province, responsible for flagging violations, has identified 428 "compliance problems" over just five years, including 178 in 2023 alone. But not one has been referred for police investigation.

Canada long has been at the forefront of allowing for and providing for the "voluntary" suicides by people who get their doctors' help.

The nation has reached the point that there have been instances in which people with serious medical needs are denied treatment, but instead have been recommended for euthanasia.

The report noted Huyer at a 2024 conference confirmed the 428 compliance issues, such as a refusal to consult with a medic with expertise in a patient's physical ailment.

It was the Macdonald–Laurier Institute, a public policy think tank, that said, "It has been distressing to learn that some authorities, well aware of non-compliance with the law, did not publicly report them."

In Canada, the law is called MAID, for medical assistance in dying.

University of Toronto law professor Trudo Lemmens said in the report, "Any violation of the MAID law, considering that it's a criminal law, should be reported to the police and to the College — as a matter of principle — and should certainly be investigated by an independent prosecutor."

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Child sex abuse has run rampant under the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

There's the entire industry that involves trafficking minors into America across the Democrat regime's open borders, and subjecting them to sex abuse.

Then there's the abuse that is part and parcel of the transgender ideology, where LGBT activists and some doctors line up to recommend, and do, surgical body mutilations on kids.

Now one component of the fight is impacting Apple, one of the nation's biggest companies, a company supported by the millions of smart phone and laptop customers it has.

It's a fight over the corporate decision there to remove a software function that was designed to "identify child sex abuse material."

It's the Alliance Defending Freedom that is calling on the SEC, through a letter, to deny Apple's attempt to exclude a shareholder resolution aimed at providing transparency into the decision to eliminate that option.

The software function was intended to identify child sex abuse materials – images – without actually having copies of those images downloaded.

The letter explains shareholders want Apple to explain its decision to discontinue its scanning system, "NeuraHash," which Verge.com said lets the company "check for exact matches of known child-abuse imagery without possessing any of the images or gleaning any information about non-matching pictures."

The ADF said the resolution was filed by the American Family Association and that organization has explained that "Apple's ineffective efforts to prevent child sex abuse material on its platforms have resulted in the company landing on the National Center for Sexual Exploitation's 'Dirty Dozen' list for the past two years."

Apple, instead of allowing shareholders to vote, wants the SEC to censor the request from its proxy ballot.

ADF lawyers want it to remain.

The ADF noted Apple got a score of just 5%, out of 100%, ADF's 2024 Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index.

"Major corporations like Apple shouldn't be hiding from shareholders, especially when it comes to serious issues like guarding against child sex abuse material," said ADF spokesman Jeremy Tedesco. "There is simply no excuse for Apple to avoid this important topic. Apple needs to rebuild trust with its shareholders and clients, but that can't happen unless it answers basic questions about removing its own safeguard against child sex abuse material."

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Some of the most successful people in business who head some of the most powerful financial institutions in the world are being called out over their continued business with one of the biggest adversaries facing the U.S.

During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Hudson Institute senior fellow and Atlas Organization founder Jonathan D.T. Ward called out U.S. executives for their disregard of China's human rights violations while they attended a business summit in Hong Kong this week.

"The city of Hong Kong, which is fully under PRC [People's Republic of China] control, is cracking down," Ward said. "To see Wall Street executives sort of proceeding with business as usual, I mean, they have to ultimately get on the right side of history, of human rights, and of U.S. national security."

The summit is currently taking place with U.S. executives while pro-democracy activist and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is on trial. Lai was accused by the Chinese government of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and publish "seditious" material.

The Chinese government is blaming Lai, who is a British citizen, for the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests that broke out in 2019, and since 2020, Lai has been held in solitary confinement.

The U.S. executives attending the Hong Kong summit include Marc Rowan, Apollo Global Management CEO; Jonathan Gray, president of Blackstone; David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs Banking; and Jane Fraser, president of Citigroup.

Ward stated China is funding U.S. adversaries and is using Hong Kong to further push its agenda.

"There was a really important report this week published by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission that had this to say about Hong Kong – it has a growing role as the central sanctions evasion hub, and transshipment center for illicit finance and technology to Russia, Iran, and North Korea."

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There are multiple ways the nation could get relief from the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris extremism of electric vehicles.

The Democrat regime in Washington has insisted on destroying what it can of America's fossil fuels industry and instead pushes consumers to rely on electricity for everything, despite the fact Americans simply don't want and don't trust electric vehicles – and the nation's grid never could support widespread demand those cars would impose.

Experts recently told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump could make one change that would negate Biden's work: To determine that regulatory agencies do not have the legal authority to push the electrification of vehicles.

"The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could decide that the EPA has no authority under the Clean Air Act to mandate – to force – the electrification of the U.S. automobile fleet," Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the DCNF.

The EVs come with their problems for consumers: Heavy vehicles that can be dangerous in minor crashes, intense fires from burning batteries when accidents happen, poor travel range, especially in cold weather, and stupendous battery replacement costs after a few years.

But now a report in the Washington Examiner confirms that automobile companies are "revving up" to ask the Trump administration to hang on to Biden's rules and regulations.

"According to a report from the New York Times, the Biden administration's actions to boost domestic EV manufacturing may have already set the auto industry past the point of no return," the report said. "Following Biden's initiatives, automakers have already invested billions of dollars in transitioning to electric vehicles. If Trump were to scrap the initiative, major automakers fear they could be undercut by smaller manufacturers producing cheaper, internal combustion engine cars."

So, the report said, "Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis are lobbying to keep the mandates."

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Option during registration for 'male,' 'female' or 'self-described': 'It is inappropriate to ask this question of young children and I have instructed that it is removed as swiftly as possible'

Parents are scolding schools across the United Kingdom for demanding they provide the "gender identity" of their 3-year-olds who are enrolling in primary classes.

And some government officials are admitting the process wasn't well thought out.

It is the Christian Institute that confirmed the primary school applications used by more than 100 local authorities over recent years demands parents select "man/boy/male" or "woman/girl/female" or a third option to "self-describe."

This agenda "has no place on the form with regard to 3-year-olds on any level," charged one concerned mother.

The report explained the form in use was "supplied by an external provider, but has been used for more than 550,000 students."

"I immediately investigated as the council does not want or need a question about gender identity on our school admissions form," admitted Martin Tell, the chief of the Buckinghamshire Council, explaining his actions when he found out.

"It is inappropriate to ask this question of young children and I have instructed that it is removed as swiftly as possible," he said.

Some immediately warned of the harm that could befall children.

"We must call out the public authorities who enable this, highlighting that they are actively promoting an ideology that results in irreversible harm for vulnerable children and adults," charged Caroline Ffiske, of Conservatives for Women.

The ideology of transgenderism also has run rampant in the United States under the White House leadership of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who made it, along with abortion, a top goal for their administration.

The institute noted Maya Forstater, of woman's rights charity Sex Matters, explained, "Projecting the adult beliefs and concepts of transactive onto children is not only ludicrous but also harmful."

She continued, "Many parents will have been shocked by this question and will be concerned about the nonsense that may be taught to their child at school based on the admissions form alone."

The report noted another mother also voiced her objections to school officials, "We are telling small children something false – you get to choose your gender – and we are forcing a very dangerous ideology onto very young children, with no discussion with parents."

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A historic counterrevolution in public education is occurring in Texas. In an 8-7 vote, with three Republican members voting no, the Texas State Board of Education approved a new reading/language arts curriculum that jettisons Marxist ideology and returns to the traditional model that was highly successful in educating our ancestors and founders. Dubbed Bluebonnet Learning, the printed curriculum for grades K-5 is integrated with history, science, literature, art, culture, and religion as a foundational tool for history and literature.

For decades a quiet American revolution has been waged with education as a primary change agent. Public schools gradually dumbed down the curricula, normalized radical sex, discredited the family, banned all religious expression that supposedly violates the principle of "separation of church and state," discredited our founders, discouraged the teaching of American history,y and discredited American culture. The result has been ignorant, violent, and mentally destabilized students who loathe America and support socialism.

The communist attack on public education has had a devastating effect on academic achievement. From colonials who were the most literate people in the world, today our workforce is the dumbest in the industrialized world. In Texas, 19% of adults are lacking in literacy skills, placing the state at 46th out of 50. Nationally, 21% of Americans are lacking in literacy skills. The low literacy rate has impacted personal lives and income while annually costing our national economy $2.2 trillion.

Critics argue that Bluebonnet is too rigorous. With the dumbing down of academic content has come lowered public – including teacher – expectations for student achievement. Critics claim Bluebonnet's engaging stories in listening, spelling, and reading lessons are not age appropriate – 7 and 8-year-old children apparently should be reading about "puppies, kitties and birds." Compare this low level of expectation for public school students with private classical schools in Texas where children begin the study of Latin at age 6.

The problem of Texas illiteracy can be reversed by the rigorous lessons in Bluebonnet Learning. As Texas goes, so goes the nation. With 22 states already having expressed an interest in the free open source curriculum, America again can become a highly literate nation – critical if we are to Make America Great Again.

The most intense opposition to the new curriculum has been over the inclusion of religion. Critics charge that the lessons violate the "separation clause" of the Constitution, except that the phrase does not exist, only a ban on an official state-sponsored church.

Under U.S. law, public schools cannot endorse a specific religion or provide religious instruction, but they can teach religion in the context of history and other related subjects. Under Texas law, school districts must teach "religious literature, including the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on history and literature."

Opponents claim that lessons proselytize for Christianity and devote more time to it than to other faiths. They ignore that America's founding documents were Judeo-Christian. Do they believe that countries, where Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, or Islam are predominant, would allow Christianity to be included in their school curriculum?

Although critics claim the "Bible-infused" lessons are unconstitutional, they miss the point that the Bible is the most widely read book in the world with the English language and Western thought and culture infused with concepts, phrases, and allusions directly from the Bible.

Even Ivy League professors who tend leftward admit that, without some knowledge of the Bible as a foundational text, students are at a great disadvantage in comprehending Western and American literature. Learning to read is more complicated than whether phonics or whole language is employed. If students are to comprehend what they are reading, they must possess some background knowledge and context of the reading passage. People of all faiths daily use biblical references – see eye to eye, sour grapes, feet of clay, writing is on the wall, go the extra mile, to cast pearls before swine, straight and narrow, wolves in sheep's clothing, a house divided against itself cannot stand, salt of the earth, fall by the wayside, the blind leading the blind, flesh and blood, sign of the times and many others.

Although the fight over religious curriculum is supposed to be a constitutional violation, advocates of "religious freedom" are saying out loud what they fear most – that a conservative Christian movement is sweeping the nation. Texas was the first state to allow public schools to hire religious chaplains as school counselors. The Republican-controlled legislature has tried to require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments and likely will try again.

At the national level, the conservative Christian coalition will have power at the highest levels of all three branches of government. Alongside Trump in the White House, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, a Catholic, will elevate the traditionalist vision of family life. In Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson's political vision is through an evangelical lens. The Supreme Court, with Trump's three nominees, is expected to further strengthen religious rights.

To understand why revolutionaries for the overthrow of the U.S. have targeted education and religion, one must consider the vision of our founders. John Adams thought that education was vital for the preservation of rights and liberties. Thomas Jefferson held that the surest prevention of tyranny was to educate the masses. With Bluebonnet Learning, students will learn about our founding – that "all men are created equal," found in our Declaration of Independence, is related to the Magna Carta that was inspired by Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. They will learn why the Sermon on the Mount is the key building block of Western civilization.

John Adams said, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people." Through classroom activities and biblical stories about the Golden Rule, the Good Samaritan, and the Sermon on the Mount, students are taught moral values and positive character traits.

Those who clamor for the downfall of America have much to fear with Bluebonnet Learning and the rigorous traditional education it will restore to our public schools.

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Experts are sounding the alarm on China's increasingly aggressive trade deals in Latin America and South America as its ambition to become the world's largest economy has put the U.S. in a position where it must choose between the safety of Americans, and continued trade with China.

During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, American journalist, lawyer, political commentator, and writer Gordan Chang said China has used its influence to make deals with trading partners who used to be considered "America's backyard."

"A lot of Americans consider Latin America, South America, to be America's backyard. Well, it's really China's backyard. You know, China is South America's largest trading partner. If it weren't for Mexican trade with the U.S., China would be Latin America's biggest partner," Chang said.

Chang noted trade between the U.S. and South America could be improved if the U.S. is willing to enter into more free trade agreements with the region, and further stated this would help the U.S. decouple from China.