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A fight to keep alive a scheme of warrantless searches in the state of Pennsylvania has hit a block, with a ruling from a judge against authorities' demand that the case be dismissed.
"If government officials want to invade your private property and start snooping around, they need to get a warrant based on probable cause that some violation is taking place," said Joshua Windham, a lawyer for the Institute for Justice.
"The fact that these warrantless intrusions were authorized by a statute makes the problem worse, not better. We look forward to proving that the statute cannot constitutionally be applied to Tim's private property."
The fight is over a Pennsylvania statute that officers of the state Waterways Conservation do not need a warrant to invade and search private property.
The government sought to dismiss the case pending in Susquehanna County by Tim Thomas.
Officers twice have relied on the statute to search his private property, but the ruling means Thomas' challenge to the state's apparent Fourth Amendment violations can continue.
"These invasions of privacy should never have happened, and my hope is that we can set some precedent that helps ensure they won't happen to anybody else," he said.
The fight, between Thomas and officer Ty Moon, began in May 2023, when Moon came onto Tim's lake cabin property and began banging on the door while Tim's late wife, Stephanie, was home alone. Scared, Stephanie did not answer the door, so Moon proceeded to walk to the back of the property where he photographed their boat, cabin and vehicle all without a warrant, the IJ reported.
"The next day, while Tim was pulled over on the side of the road picking flowers for Stephanie, Moon pulled up behind them and said he'd 'been chasing' them and that he would 'get to the bottom of things.' Four days later, Tim received a citation in the mail for evading the officer and fishing without a license, which wasn't true. When Tim appealed, the charges were dismissed."
Weeks later, Moon returned, walking directly onto the property past multiple no trespassing signs, beside a bathroom window while Stephanie was bathing, and began confiscating Tim's fishing rods.
"When Tim confronted Moon, he cited him for fishing with too many rods. When the case went to court, Tim was found not guilty," the report said.
The IJ explained, "The Fourth Amendment protects 'houses,' and also what courts call the 'curtilage' of the home (basically private yards). In the opinion, Judge Joseph Saporito Jr. had 'no difficulty' holding that, 'Based on the allegations of the complaint, it is simply beyond cavil that WCO Moon entered onto the curtilage of the Thomases' home, without a warrant or consent.'"
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CANCELED!
That's the word for a just-released launch of a comic book series called "Red Hood" that saw its first issue release on Wednesday.
It's because the writer, a "transgender-identifying" individual working for DC Comics, launched into celebration on learning of the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk that same day.
A report at Daily Wire explained it was the "Red Hood" project written by Gretchen Felker-Martin with artwork by Jeff Spokes that had just released issue 1 on Wednesday.
Then came Kirk's murder, and Felker-Martin's social media statements, since removed, who said, "Thoughts and prayers you Nazi b—-." And "Hope the bullet's okay after touching Charlie Kirk."
"'The job market is grim, but there's a silver lining: Gavin Newsom needs a new co-host for his podcast,' Felker-Martin wrote in a third post, referencing a time Kirk and Newsom filmed a podcast episode together," according to the Daily Wire.
The next two planned installments of "Red Hood" now have been dropped, and DC Comics is offering retailers reimbursement for any unsold copies of the first, the report said.
DC said it affirms, "the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints. Posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC's standards of conduct."
Felker-Martin's reputation for advocating violence already had been established.
"Referring to anti-trans activist J.K. Rowling, Felker-Martin previously wrote on Bluesky, 'I hope someone splits her skull.'" And in 2022, Felker-Martin released a story about burning Rowling alive.
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Decarlos Brown, the man federally charged with murdering 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte commuter train Aug. 22, is now speaking about the horrific slaughter, claiming the government implanted "materials" inside his body to make him butcher the Ukraine refugee.
In a phone interview circulating online, Brown blames "The material. Put it like that. The material using my body. It's that. You know, that's not me.
"I'm talking about just for no reason. But since they did that, since they did that, now they got to investigate the material my body exposed to. Since they want to do all that, now they got to investigate."
The interviewer asks Brown: "She's from the Ukraine … and you know they got a war … so I'm just trying to understand, out of all people, why her?"
"I don't have nothing," Brown responded. "They just lashed out on them. That's what happened.
"They lashed out on her. Well I was working out … Whoever was working the material, they lashed out on her."
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for a "quick" trial for Brown as well as the death penalty for the "ANIMAL."
"The ANIMAL who so violently killed the beautiful young lady from Ukraine, who came to America searching for peace and safety, should be given a 'Quick' (there is no doubt!) Trial, and only awarded THE DEATH PENALTY," Trump said on Truth Social.
"There can be no other option!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP."
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Israel has struck at Hamas chiefs who were assembling in Doha, Qatar, in the next step in a campaign by the premier democracy in the Middle East to take war to the terrorists who attacked and slaughtered about 1,200 Israeli civilians in an act of war on Oct. 7.
Smoke was seen from several points in Qatar, and the Israel Defense Forces confirmed it accomplished a "precise strike" against Hamas.
The IDF confirm before the strike, "measures were taken in order to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and additional intelligence."
Social media confirmed the attacks, but offered few verified details.
The Washington Examiner said, "The IDF did not say who the target was or whether it had confirmation that the target was killed in the strike. It's unclear if there were any civilian casualties as well."
But the IDF said, "The leadership members who were attacked had led the terrorist organization's activities for years and are directly responsible for carrying out the October 7 massacre and managing the war against the State of Israel."
Qatar houses Hamas leadership outside the Gaza Strip.
An adviser to the Qatari prime minister and spokesman for foreign affairs said, "The State of Qatar strongly condemns the cowardly Israeli attack that targeted residential buildings housing several members of the Political Bureau of Hamas in the Qatari capital, Doha. This criminal assault constitutes a blatant violation of all international laws and norms, and poses a serious threat to the security and safety of Qataris and residents in Qatar."
Qatar has been acting was one mediator between Israel and Hamas, along with the United States and Egypt.
Previously, Israel targeted Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, in July 2024. He was one of the officials who lived in Qatar but was targeted when he traveled to Iran.
Israel now is debating its actions against Gaza City, among the remaining areas in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip it has yet to control.
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A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania accuses a government official of weaponizing a township's requirements against a mechanic with whom he'd had an argument over work on his car.
"A powerful politician's personal vendetta is not a legitimate reason for the government to shut down a business," said lawyer Ari Bargil, of the Institute for Justice.
"It is clear that the only reason Gene received a cease-and-desist order was because of Supervisor Klusaritz's personal beef with him. That's not just unfair, it's unconstitutional."
The fight involves North Whitehall small business owners Gene and Debbie Weierbach who are challenging the constitutionality of the township's zoning.
It comes after "Township Supervisor Dennis Klusaritz weaponized the zoning code to order officials to investigate the Weierbachs' decades-old business following a dispute between Klusaritz and Gene regarding repairs to one of Klusaritz's cars," the IJ said.
Weierbach has run his auto repairs on his 16 acres for more than 20 years. He lives there with his wife and adult son, who has severe autism.
"Working on cars is my passion, and being able to do so from my own home ensures I can be there for my son when he needs me," he said.
It was in 2021 that Klusaritz became a customer at Gene's garage. Over the next two years, he regularly brought Gene three different vehicles to work on, including an old BMW with mechanical and wiring issues. In 2023, the two had a dispute over Gene's work on the BMW, the IJ explained.
Supervisor Klusaritz accused Gene of incompetence and overcharging him, and in response, Gene politely asked Klusaritz to take his business elsewhere. Shortly after the dispute, Klusaritz asked the township to investigate Gene's business.
The result was a cease-and-desist letter.
The Weierbachs fought back, and the township zoning hearing board then granted him a variance, but the township, led by Weierbach appealed, resulting in the variance being withdrawn.
The new escalation challenges the zoning code's ban on auto repair shops. And they've also appealed the variance rejection in state court.
"A beloved business that causes no harm to the community should not be shuttered because a government official doesn't like where it's located," said IJ lawyer Daniel Woislaw. "Zoning laws are meant to protect against real nuisances, not to give bureaucrats arbitrary authority to shut good businesses down."
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A video released by Accuracy in Media shows a school official in Ohio, where lawmakers overrode Gov. Mike DeWine's veto to adopt a law that men posing as women cannot compete in women's sports at the high school or college level, suggest parents skirt the law by simply calling their son their daughter, and not saying anything more.
See it:
The video is the result of a hidden-camera project that "exposes Ohio school officials coaching undercover journalists on how to skirt state law banning boys from competing in girls' sports."
A report at RedState explained, "Meet Tamette Duckworth, the assistant athletic director at Princeton City High School in the Cincinnati area. Duckworth is the boys' volleyball coach for the school. However, an undercover journalist with Accuracy in Media sat down with Duckworth and fed her a story about being concerned about her transgender 'daughter' wanting to compete on the girls' team and use the women's facilities. The recording revealed that Duckworth basically directed this parent on how they could bypass Ohio's laws, 'discreetly.'"
The discussion revolves around the parents simply enrolling their son as a girl, but not saying anything more.
"If somebody did find out, the … especially if I said somebody named KAREN … I'm sorry, I shouldn't be saying this," Duckworth said.
Accuracy in Media explained that Duckworth advised the student "stay quiet and never reveal he is a boy."
"Across multiple districts, we've uncovered officials encouraging parents to use updated birth certificates to conceal a child's biological sex from other administrators, students, and parents. This reckless disregard for the law undermines fairness and endangers girls' safety," the organization explained.
RedState noted, "It is one thing for private citizens who do not agree with these laws to thumb their noses at the system. It is a whole other matter when a school or college administrator chooses to do the same."
The report continued, "This is disturbing on a number of levels. First, you have an assistant athletic director who is supposed to be protecting the safety of all students and athletes and looking out for their best interests, who is basically throwing those interests out the window for a particular cause. One wonders what would prompt her to do so. Second, school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis did a deeper dive into this coach and discovered she earns over $100,000 a year. She certainly gets paid well to be a traitor to her sex. Third, Duckworth's biography appears to show a woman who excels at her job, because her boys' team has won trophies and commendations. So, what gives? As an achieving woman, why would Duckworth counsel a parent on how to bypass the rights of girls and women and work to undercut their achievements? Has she counseled any other parents in this manner?"
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Besides the harm the transgender ideology does to individuals, leaving boys being less than boys and girls less than girls after "treatment," the lost families and lives, the multiple mass killers that have come from that lifestyle, there is a "threat" to public safety, and "as such, it should be outlawed and eradicated from public life."
That's according to an article by John Daniel Davidson, a book author and writer whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, the New York Post and more.
He's now the senior editor at the Federalist, and has delivered an expert opinion on the leftist agenda being pursued across America, despite the opposition from President Donald Trump.
"We don't have to tolerate a demonic ideology that destroys lives, tears families apart, and keeps producing mass shooters," he concluded.
The comments follow by just days the most recent of a long list of trans-identifying individuals who have turned into mass killers, the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis.
"It should be obvious by now that transgenderism — the entire industrial complex of medical interventions, legal actions, social affirmation, and political rhetoric now attached to what was once called gender dysphoria — is a serious threat to public safety," he wrote.
Individuals are not his target, he said.
"But the gender ideology that affirms them in their delusion should be. Men and women suffering from this cruel delusion should have our compassion, and every effort should be made to bring them back to the reality of their biological sex. Public policy, however, should focus on the ideology of transgenderism and those who perpetrate it. We should treat it the way we treated radical Islamism after 9/11, or communism in the 1950s. It should be understood as a dangerous threat, and anyone advocating or working to advance it should be treated as a criminal and an enemy of the people."
Elon Musk recently noted the "relentless propaganda" in the issue.
And on social media, the Libs of TikTok turned blunt, with "Doctors who m*tilated and castrated kids deserve LIFE IN PRISON. Straight up evil."
Davidson explained, those in the medical community promoting "gender-affirming care" should have their medical licenses revoked "and face criminal prosecution."
There should be no difference in the prosecutions of those to provide such "treatments" to adults, or children.
"We would never consent to a physician being allowed to indulge an adult patient's disordered desire to have a healthy limb amputated or a functioning organ removed simply because they 'identified' as someone without that limb or organ," he explained.
"We recognize there is something deeply pathological about wanting a healthy limb chopped off or a functioning organ removed. We recognize, too, that any physician who agreed to do such a thing isn't fit to practice medicine and should be barred from doing so.
"The normalization of transgenderism harms a great many people — especially children, who don't have the ability to protect themselves from it the way adults do," he said.
Parents who "facilitate" such treatments for their children "should be treated as child abusers and dealt with accordingly."
"Same goes for teachers, coaches, and any other adult who has regular contact with and responsibility for minors," he said.
At the federal level, the president could tell the Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services to write rules barring those body mutilations, then investigate and prosecute medical facilities and doctors that provide such.
Politicians on the trans bandwagon should see their locales defunded by the federal government, he said.
"As far as possible, the entire demonic system should be swept away — and we shouldn't have to wait for the next trans mass shooting to say so," he said.
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Rosie O'Donnell is now apologizing for falsely claiming last week's shooter at the Catholic school in Minneapolis was a "Republican, MAGA person" and "white supremacist."
Her original video in the wake of the horror at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School that killed two children and wounded 18 others has the actress stating: "Saw about the Minnesota shooting, and it brought me right back to Columbine in 1999 when I just could not get it through my head that students in America were shooting each other in schools," she asserted on TikTok.
"This was a church inside a Catholic school. And what do you know? This was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person, what do you know? White supremacist."
Now the fierce critic of President Donald Trump is admitting she "messed up" and did not do her "due diligence."
"I know a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days," O'Donnell began.
"I didn't go online and haven't seen them 'til today, but you are right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect."
"I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard M.O. and had standard, you know, feelings of … you know, NRA loving kind of gun people," O'Donnell continued.
"Anyway, the truth is, I messed up, and when you mess up, you fess up. I'm sorry, this is my apology video, and I hope it's enough."
In reality, the shooter has been identified as Robert Westman, a transgender who legally changed his name to Robin Westman in 2017 with the support of his mother.
He was not a Trump-supporting MAGA person, as one of the messages on the magazine of his gun stated, "Kill Donald Trump."
O'Donnell is now living in Ireland, having fled the U.S. due to her loathing of President Trump.
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A coalition of business owners and others is calling on the city council in Philadelphia to back away from its planned curfew scheme – a move that would, in fact, order businesses to shut down just when their customers are needing services and products.
It is the Institute for Justice that is working with those owners and other grassroots activists to call to abandon the change, which apparently was intended to address the city's surging crime problem.
Chef José Luis, owner of Alta Cocina Food Truck in Juniata and Alta Cocina Restaurant in West Kensington, and Mitesh Patel, owner of The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Kensington, teamed up with IJ to take the action.
"Crime is a serious issue and the city must act to address it, but this ordinance as it is currently constructed would do little to combat crime while having a serious negative impact on Philly's small businesses," said Jennifer McDonald, of the IJ, "We're calling on city officials to recall this ordinance, get feedback from communities that will be impacted, and come up with a new proposal that won't harm honest businesspeople."
The curfew plan was created in June and insists that there is an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew on businesses that sell goods to customers in the 7th, 8th, and parts of the 1st city council districts.
Exempted are restaurants with liquor licenses, gas stations, or those serving exclusively from a drive-thru window. However, convenience stores, takeout restaurants, mobile vendors, and others would be forced to close during these hours, under the threat of $1,000 fines.
Luis explained those hours are the time period when his business makes "a little money."
Philadelphia already has more narrowly targeted curfews in place elsewhere in the city. This bill would expand the city's existing business curfew coverage by more than 500%. It would also deprive the 13% of the city's workforce who work nighttime jobs of the ability to pick up food, coffee, medication and other essentials after they get off work, the IJ documented.
Police officials there already have warned the curfew likely would result "in inconsistent or uneven enforcement."
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A lawsuit has prompted officials in Asheville, North Carolina, to abandon their race requirements for city commission appointments.
A report from the Pacific Legal Foundation said the city council has voted to eliminate "race-based membership preferences" for its Human Relations Commission.
The change is part of a settlement of a lawsuit over the disputed practice.
"Government has a constitutional duty to treat all people equally under the law," said Andrew Quinio, an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation who represents the residents. "Asheville should treat its citizens based on their character, qualifications, and achievements, not on characteristics they cannot control like race or ethnicity."
It was John Miall, a lifelong resident of the city who spent nearly 30 years working for the city including as its director of risk management, who had applied to serve on the Human Relations Commission of Asheville in 2023.
He was passed over because he was the wrong race.
Eventually, following the filing of the lawsuit, the city did appoint him to the board, but five other qualified residents – Robyn Hite, David Shaw, Willa Grant, Danie Johnson, and David Evans – faced the same discrimination for the same reason.
The case charged that the city was in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
Under the consent decree, filed Friday, Asheville must ensure equal opportunity on the commission by administering appointments without regard to race, ethnicity, color, or national origin. The city must also publicly state that appointment to the commission is open to all qualified applicants regardless of race.
The PLF documented that Miall had retired from the city government in 2006 but continued to work as a private sector consultant. He already had been chairman of Asheville's Civil Service Board and a candidate for city council and mayor.
The Human Relations Commission was created in 2018, and Miall "felt his decades of municipal experience and a boundless desire to serve his community would be a natural fit for the commission. Nevertheless, when John applied for one of the vacant seats in early 2023, the city council rejected his application—because of his race," PLF reported.
The original commission board was set up with quotas for the 15 members, including specific requirements for those who are "African Americans, Latinx, LGBTQ members, 'professionals with influence,' youth members, a representative from each of the city's geographical areas, public housing residents, and individuals with disabilities."
The board later was cut to nine members, and while the city ended the "quotas," it inserted "race-based membership preferences."
The PLF explained in bringing the complaint, "No government commission or committee should use an individual's race or ethnicity to determine who gets the opportunity to serve their public. Treating people according to immutable characteristics like race violates the very notion of equality before the law. People should be treated as individuals, not as members of a group they did not choose."