WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing the extent to which parents can opt their children out of public school instruction in which LGBT-themed books are read as part of the curriculum.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday morning in the case of Mahmoud, Tamer, et al. v. Taylor, Thomas W., et al. The case centers on whether public school parents in Montgomery County, Maryland — the state's largest school district — have a constitutional right under the First Amendment to exempt their children from lessons that feature LGBT ideology.

Eric Baxter of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty argued the case on behalf of a diverse coalition of Christian, Muslim and Jewish parents, saying in his opening arguments that "petitioners deserve complete preliminary relief" from the school district because it won't allow them to opt their children out of such instruction. Click here to read more.

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DENTON COUNTY, TX - Tributes poured in for Denton County Precinct 3 Commissioner Bobbie Mitchell and her husband, Fred, as more details emerged Tuesday about a stabbing that police say led to the arrest of the couple’s grandson Monday morning at their home in Lewisville.

Fred Mitchell, 75, died from his wounds soon after the incident, police said, while Bobbie Mitchell, 76, is expected to recover after undergoing surgery.

The couple’s 23-year-old grandson, Mitchell Reinacher, is suspected of stabbing his grandparents and is facing charges of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Police have not said what might have led to the deadly attack but an arrest-warrant affidavit for Reinacher provided some details of the chaos and violence at the Mitchell residence early Monday. Click here to read more.

 

ST. PAUL, MN — A group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill in the Minnesota House of Representatives that would classify mRNA vaccines and products as "weapons of mass destruction" and criminalize their manufacture, distribution, and possession.

"It's a shot across the bow of the biotechnology industry, which has taken advantage of its unique liability protections and the fear generated by emergency to fast-track novel gene-altering treatments which are not fully understood," Rep. Walter Hudson (Albertville), one of the bill's authors, told Patch.

"These treatments were coerced under threat of lost employment and social censure, rather than offered under the longstanding ethical norm of informed consent."

Hudson said the bill "would need significant amendment to become law" but described its "bold opening position" as an effort to "provoke productive conversation about these issues" and ultimately "arrive at a reasonable legislative response." Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former White House Chief Medical Adviser and a prominent figure during the COVID-19 pandemic, has seen a significant increase in his wealth since retiring from government service, according to the government watchdog group Open the Books.

"He was the highest-paid bureaucrat when he was working for the federal government, he was making $480,000 as his final salary. He’s actually doing even better post-retirement," said Rachel O’Brien, Public Policy Editor at Open the Books.

Open the Books obtained Fauci’s financial disclosure, revealing that his household earned more than $3.5 million in 2023. This included multiple six-figure deposits, though the sources of these deposits were not detailed in the documents. Fauci reportedly had several paid speaking engagements and sold his memoir to a subsidiary of Penguin Random House for approximately $5 million. Click here to read more.

 

HOOVER, Ala. - Nearly two years after faking her own disappearance, Carlee Russell has paid less than $1,000 in restitution to the City of Hoover.

A Jefferson County judge appeared satisfied with Russell as she briefly stood before him in court Tuesday for a probationary review, during which it was reported that she had paid roughly $500 so far to Hoover in $50 monthly installments.

That judge also confirmed Russell has successfully completed her supervised probation.

Russell has been ordered to pay nearly $18,000 to the city for expenses related to the two-day search for her.

While Russell is said to be making restitution payments to the city of hoover in a timely manner, prosecutors say the amount of time it’s taking is frustrating.

An attorney for Russell told reporters following the court appearance that it’s been difficult for her client to find work due to the widespread media attention of her disappearance. Click here to read more.

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LANSING, Mich - Michigan governmental agencies will spend more than $150,000 to hold a conference on climate-related policies in April. The policies likely to be discussed will, however, have little effect on the climate, according to a university-based scientist.

Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy will hold its 2025 Healthy Climate Conference on April 22-23 at the Huntington Place in Detroit. The department’s plans call for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

Speakers will discuss the transition to electric vehicles, how to decarbonize cities, clean the electric grid, and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to a website for the conference.

All of these things would increase the cost of electricity while hurting reliability, Michigan Capitol Confidential has reported.

Grand Rapids the state’s second-largest city, urges residents to drive less, use less energy, and switch to driving electric vehicles. Other cities enacting climate change policies include East Lansing, Jackson, Muskegon, Sterling Heights and Warren.

 

LANSING, MICH - As Michigan continues to grapple with declining literacy rates, the state House took up House Bill 4156, a proposal aimed at reintroducing phonics-based reading instruction in public schools.

Fifty-seven of the Republicans who voted on the measure backed the bill, calling phonics a time-tested method to improve literacy.

However, 43 of the Democratic legislators who voted opposed the bill, including: Reps. Joey Andrews, Noah Arbit, Kelly Breen, Julie Brixie, Brenda Carter, Tyrone Carter, Jennifer Conlin, Emily Dievendorf, Kimberly Edwards, Alabas Farhat, John Fitzgerald, Morgan Foreman, Peter Herzberg, Kara Hope, Jason Hoskins, Matt Koleszar, Tullio Liberati, Matt Longjohn, Sharon MacDonell, Jasper Martus, Mike McFall, Donavan McKinney, Denise Mentzer, Reggie Miller, Tonya Myers Phillips, Cynthia Neeley, Amos O’Neal, Laurie Pohutsky, Natalie Price, Ranjeev Puri, Carrie Rheingans, Julie Rogers, Phil Skaggs, Will Snyder, Joe Tate, Penelope Tsernoglou, Dylan Wegela, Jimmie Wilson Jr., Angela Witwer, Stephen Wooden, Mai Xiong, and Stephanie Young all voted “no” on HB 4156. Click here to read more.

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PHOENIX, AZ - Our communities are the building blocks of society. Whether neighbors, churches, family, or the family we create from our friends, our communities shape who we are. They also serve as core support systems. It is through these connections that we know what it means to be human.

For 25-year-old Austin Davis, his love for his community is the driving force behind everything he does. Austin has spent the past five years running Arizona Hugs, a group that provides meals and support for Tempe’s homeless population. He didn’t wake up one morning and decide on a whim to get into charity work; his call to serve arose organically as he built personal relationships with the homeless community. While attending Arizona State University, Austin would skate to class and around town, which is how he got to know the folks he lovingly refers to as his “homies.”

Much of the homeless population lived in an area of town known as the river bottom, which most people avoid. But Austin was always welcome and soon became a regular fixture down there. When the community showed Austin that they trusted him, he told them, “I want to show that same trust right back at you.” Above all, Austin wanted to impart a sense of community. As he says, “The best way for someone to get off drugs or work through their trauma is to create a stable, safe environment where their basic needs are met, and they feel safe enough to trust the people around them.” Click here to read more.

 

VIRGNIA BEACH, VA - The budget chair of a beleaguered $4 billion school system spent years pulling off a premeditated con to steal two airplanes worth $1.5 million, a new lawsuit filing alleges.

Kyle McDaniel, a member of Virginia’s Fairfax County School Board, was accused by his private-sector employer of using corporate credit cards to spend $150,000 on personal expenses, strip clubs, and his school board campaign, according to a lawsuit first reported by The Daily Wire earlier this month.

Now, that employer, Blue Label Aviation, added in court documents obtained by The Daily Wire that it has since discovered that McDaniel’s alleged fraud was significantly worse. It outlined methodical, years-long financial fraud that raises questions about how the all-Democrat school board could continue to let McDaniel oversee the finances of one of America’s largest school systems.

FCPS this month resorted to enlisting children to beg for more money, telling them the school system is in a financial crisis, has already cut all non-essential services, and that if the county doesn’t steer unprecedented amounts of money to the schools, children will suffer. It gave them an activist “toolkit” to pressure the leaders who disburse funding to the school system. Click here to read more.

 

SEATTLE — Current and former Seattle police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” political rally on Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol are asking the nation’s highest court to keep their identities anonymous in public court records.

Using “John Doe” pseudonyms, they sued over whether the investigation into their activities should be made public. The Washington State Supreme Court ruled in February that they can be identified and that they haven’t shown that public release of their names violates their right to privacy. The state supreme court denied reconsideration earlier this month and lawyers for the four officers submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that the names remain protected during their legal challenge.

Four officers who attended events in the nation’s capital on the day of an insurrection claimed they are protected under the state’s public records law. They say they did nothing wrong and that revealing their names would violate their privacy.

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 events, the Seattle Police Department ordered an investigation into whether any of its officers who traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the rally had violated any laws or department policies. Click here to read more.

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I asked ChatGPT if it were satan, what would it do to destroy young minds?

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that uses a powerful language model to understand and generate human-like text. You can ask it questions, have it write articles, explain complex topics, create scripts, brainstorm ideas, or even simulate conversations.

Take a look at what ChatGPT told me:

 

Many people would argue everything that was stated in the ChatGPT answer is exactly what is happening right now in society in the United States and beyond.

This is also almost exactly what radio legend Paul Harvey said back in 1965.

What is your take on this?