An 11-year-old’s ride to a fishing spot in Oviedo, Florida, ended with police stopping him, fingerprinting him, towing his electric dirt bike, and ordering him to appear in court.

Cade Kirchner, a sixth grader, was riding toward a nearby pond with his fishing pole on Labor Day, September 7.

His father, Chris Kirchner, said Cade was about 300 feet from home and traveling on the road’s shoulder.

The family says the bike was limited to 20 miles per hour. FOX 35 Orlando reported that police classified it as a motorcycle under Florida law.

They say the 4,500-watt machine has pegs instead of pedals, so Florida law classifies it as a motorcycle, not an e-bike, meaning it needs registration, insurance, a motorcycle endorsement, and a licensed adult rider.

The citation was issued under Florida Statute 320.02 for an unregistered vehicle, which requires a court appearance.

Because Cade had no driver’s license, they put his fingerprint on the ticket to satisfy ID rules. The bike was towed because it “is not legally allowed on the roadway.”

Oviedo Mayor Megan Sladek called Cade a “good kid” but said officers’ hands were tied by state definitions. Police added they could have piled on more citations and chose only one.

“The State of Florida regulates motorcycle use, and the definition of what counts as a motorcycle and what counts as an e-bike,” Mayor Sladek said.

“Even if it has two wheels, if it doesn’t have pedals, the State of Florida will classify that as a motorcycle and not as an e-bike.”

Body-camera footage shows an officer warning Cade that he had to appear in court or “they’re going to put out a warrant.”

The hearing is scheduled for a school day, meaning the sixth grader will have to miss class. ClickOrlando reported that his father plans to ask prosecutors to dismiss the case.

According to the news outlet, Cade got his e-bike after raising $900 through his summer business selling squirrel tables.

Video via Fox35 Orlando:

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Rebecca Kutler is the president of MSNOW, the cable ‘news’ network formerly known as MSNBC.

She did an interview with Wired two weeks ago, but people are paying attention to it now because some clips have started circulating on social media.

In one amazingly ridiculous segment, Kutler claims that the network has a broad range of views, and as proof of this, she holds up Michael Steele, the former chairman of the RNC.

Steele is a Trump-hating Republican who has embraced the far left and now holds opinions that are no different than Rachel Maddow.

Transcript via Wired:

I would say that, for the average person, if you ask them, “Fox News, MS NOW, who do those networks reach?” I would say Fox News reaches Republicans, and that’s who has it on TV, that’s who’s going to that website. I would say MS NOW reaches progressives, Democrats, left-leaning people. Is that a stated goal for you, or do you want that tent to be bigger?

Is the audience for MS NOW different from the audience for Fox? Of course it is. There’s probably a small amount of overlap, but not a lot, and that’s OK.

For example, when I think forward to election night, I gotta say, I think there’s nowhere I’d rather hang out on election night than at our table with Rachel and Nicolle [Wallace] and Lawrence and Chris [Hayes] and Michael [Steele] and everyone.

What we try to do is be smart, respect our audience, and be a fun place, and a place where, again, Michael Steele is a big part of our election night. He was chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Right.

We have a broad range of views, but I think they all fall under that pro-democracy banner.

Watch the clip:

MSNOW President Rebecca Kutler claims that her network has a “broad range of views” because they have Michael Steele on the network.

That’s rich. Steele’s politics are now indistinguishable from Maddow’s.

“But I think they all fall under that pro-democracy banner.”… pic.twitter.com/mCjDpXpP3L

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 24, 2026

MSNOW does not have a wide range of views. There is not a single pro-Trump voice on the entire network.

Here’s Michael Steele praising Tim Walz in 2025. He is no different than anyone else on this far left network.

MSNBC’s Michael Steele praises Tim Walz’ town hall tour as exactly what Dems need to be doing —repeats Walz’ bizarre, incoherent attack on Elon:

“My mama always warned me about those South African nepo-babies. And here we are.”

The Dem approval rating of 29% is WAY too high. pic.twitter.com/KWk4fhD5Dn

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 16, 2025

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Nithya Raman, the Democratic Socialist running for mayor of Los Angeles, is moving ahead in some polls, because apparently leftist voters are not quite finished completely destroying the city.

Spencer Pratt could have actually solved many of the city’s problems, but the left couldn’t have that so they made sure he was bumped off the ballot with a wave of late-return mail-in ballots.

Now Pratt has a warning for the city.

FOX News reports:

A new poll indicates socialist Los Angeles Council member Nithya Raman has opened up a double-digit lead over Democratic Mayor Karen Bass with six weeks to go until Election Day.

Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), stands at 39% support among likely Los Angeles voters in the race for mayor, with Bass at 28%, according to a University of California Berkeley Institute of Government Studies/Los Angeles Times poll released on Wednesday.

The survey, which found that a third of Los Angeles voters remained undecided, grabbed headlines less than two weeks before mail-in ballots are sent out in the Nov. 3 election.

“It’s extraordinarily unusual to see this many undecided voters at this point in the race,” poll director Mark DiCamillio said in a statement…

“I told everyone that if you don’t vote for me, Raman will beat Bass. That’s why she entered the race 10 minutes before the clerk’s office closed. She knew I was gonna destroy Bass 1-on-1. Good luck LA,” Pratt posted on social media, as he pointed to the poll’s findings.

And in a separate post he claimed, “Raman is Karen’s karma. Stabbed in the back by the commie she campaigned for, took pictures with her family… the moment Nithya saw an opening, she knifed Karen. Good lesson to all you democrats: NEVER trust the DSA. Socialists have no morals. They’ll gut you, too.”

See Pratt’s tweets below:

I told everyone that if you don’t vote for me, Raman will beat Bass. That’s why she entered the race 10 minutes before the clerk’s office closed. She knew I was gonna destroy Bass 1-on-1. Good luck LA. pic.twitter.com/00aaxVDTgb

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 23, 2026

A lot of really incompetent advisors and political consultants are going to build generational wealth in the next 40 days as the unions panic spend every dollar they have. https://t.co/64sQm1qfa6

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 23, 2026

Raman is Karen’s karma. Stabbed in the back by the commie she campaigned for, took pictures with her family…the moment Nithya saw an opening, she knifed Karen. Good lesson to all you democrats: NEVER trust the DSA. Socialists have no morals. They’ll gut you, too. https://t.co/64sQm1qMZE pic.twitter.com/y1PTwVLPyz

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 23, 2026

Pratt was the one candidate who was talking about how to really solve the problems of homelessness, rampant open drug use, crime and more.

Now the city is going to lose no matter who wins the race for mayor.

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Do you remember Yakov Smirnoff? He was a breakout standup comedy star in the 1980s but he is still around.

He recently appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast and described his life under communism in the Soviet Union and how he and his family eventually escaped. Rogan seemed stunned by the story.

It’s amazing that there are people who have lived in the freedom of America for their whole lives yet are stupid enough to want to revive communism here. They’re just historically illiterate.

FOX News reports:

Smirnoff said the process of getting a visa to America was only possible because of a deal involving the Carter administration, Soviet emigration and U.S. grain.

“[Carter] wanted to see some human rights in the Soviet Union. And the Soviet leadership was — they were starving. They didn’t have food. So, they needed food from America. So, Jimmy Carter made a deal that we’re going to give you grain, and you allow people to get out, and that’s how we were kind of exchanged for some wheat, you know,” he said. “That’s how we got out.”

“Wow. Holy s—, man … you sometimes need to be reminded how fortunate you are,” Rogan said of Americans like himself. “You know, Americans in particular, we’re very, you know, it’s not our fault. You know, people become accustomed to where they live. … And they think this is normal, which is one of the reasons why this push towards communism amongst young people is so infuriating to me.”

“But the solution is not to make the government decide who gets what because they never decide the right way,” he warned.

“They do what people do,” Rogan warned of communist officials. “What people do when they have power is they enact total control over the population so that they can maintain power, and then they live in luxury. And then you wait in line for bread, and that’s how it is all over the f—ing world.

“And if you step out of line, they shoot you. That’s where communism goes. So, what we need is, like, a more, a more moral and ethical version of capitalism.”

This video is cued to start at the 10:06 mark:

Isn’t it fascinating that all of the people who escaped communism to come to America don’t want to go back?

Why don’t leftists get this?

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In July, the Gateway Pundit reported on a proposed Muslim school for boys that was causing a huge stir on Long Island. Residents of the town of Bay Shore did not like the idea of a school in this location because it’s a residential area. Also, the proposed school was going to be a boarding school.

The facility used to be a Catholic seminary.

Now the town has approved the creation of the school with one catch. No boarding. It will be a day school.

The New York Post reports:

Long Island town OKs all-boys Muslim school — but 120 students can’t stay overnight

A controversial all-boys Muslim school that sparked massive backlash over plans to house 120 teens next door to a senior living community will no longer be allowed to board its students.

The town of Islip’s zoning board on Tuesday reversed a previous decision to allow The United American Muslim Association’s new school in Bay Shore to house the boys in a dormitory on campus — after being grilled by residents for five-straight hours in a July meeting, a spokesperson for the board told The Post.

“The Zoning Board of Appeals voted 3-1 to reverse the Building Division’s interpretation and determined that the proposed boarding component… is not a permitted accessory use to the parochial school under the Town’s zoning code,” the board said.

This means the all boys, Islamic-education-based school will still be allowed to open on the 13-acre waterfront campus, but its students will have to go home at the end of the day.

“The question before the Board is not whether a parochial school is a permitted principal use within the District — [Town code] expressly permits such use,” the board wrote in its decision, released Thursday.

Do you suppose liberals in the community will be policing this school to make sure it’s diverse enough?

How about LGBT content in the lesson plans and rainbow flags during pride month? Will the school be required to do all of that too?

It’ll be interesting to see how all of that goes.

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