Category: Current Events

On August 19, 2025, Shana Gaviola, a mother of four from Clovis, California, will face trial in federal court for alleged violations of 18 U.S.C. § 2262(a)(2), a statute enacted under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Prosecutors allege that she orchestrated the forcible transport of her 16-year-old child across state lines to a religious…

Second Circuit rules Vermont Principals’ Association showed hostility toward school’s religious beliefs On September 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and ordered the reinstatement of Mid Vermont Christian School into the Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA) after the school was expelled for forfeiting a girls’ basketball…

September 23, 2025. Portland, Oregon. The courthouse reeked of bureaucracy and Lysol, like a mausoleum for ideas. Three judges sat high above the wreckage of a pandemic America, staring down at the case of Sherry Detwiler who was once a privacy officer at Mid-Columbia Medical Center, now a casualty in the war between conscience and…

How a Kelowna custodian, with the help of his lawyer Karen Scott, reshaped Canadian workplace human rights In 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a unanimous decision in Central Okanagan School District No. 23 v. Renaud, restoring school custodian Larry “Steve” Renaud to his job and establishing a robust framework for the duty to…

The whole thing blew open on September 22, 2025, when the Supreme Court handed Donald Trump the power to gut the Federal Trade Commission with nothing more than a flick of his wrist. Trump v. Slaughter. The case name alone sounds like a lost pulp novel from a drugstore rack, but it is real, and…

By our anonymous Gonzo journalist who has his own issues. The banner looked like it had been painted in blood. “RAPTURE DAY – SEPTEMBER 23, 2025.” It stretched across the front of a sagging striped tent in a gravel lot off the highway, the kind of place where county fairs once promised Ferris wheels and…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s official state motto, “With God, all things are possible,” is once again under scrutiny as a new petition calls for its removal, reviving debates that have followed the phrase since its adoption more than six decades ago. The motto was added to Ohio law in 1959 after 10-year-old Cincinnati schoolboy Jimmy…

“I forgive him.” — Erika Kirk, speaking of her husband’s accused killer On September 21, 2025, more than sixty thousand people filled State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona with thousands listening in a second stadium nearby and millions watching on television and online. They came to grieve Charlie Kirk — activist, founder of Turning Point…

On September 11, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed what California law has long required: public schools, including charter schools, must remain secular. In Woolard v. Thurmond (No. 24-4291), parents sought to use state-funded charter school independent study programs to obtain religious curricula. The panel of Judges Andrew Hurwitz, Eric…

By Michael Peabody – The sanctuary at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks was packed. Every seat was filled, every wall lined. Those who couldn’t get inside stood outside in silence, listening through speakers. It was not just a memorial. It was a moment of transfer. “I’m running out of tears,” said Pastor Rob McCoy,…