Free Republic

Actor Rob Schneider, who recently converted to Catholicism, announced he’s working on a new film about the Shroud of Turin. A printing (right) and a negative (left) of the Shroud of Turin. Photo Credit: אסף.צ, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons If you are unfamiliar with The Shroud of Turin it is believed to be the burial shroud that wrapped the body of Jesus Christ after his Crucifixion. In 1988 a carbon dating test that was done on the shroud cast doubt that the Shroud was authentic. According to Schneider the film will focus on research done by Shroud expert Joe...

WILLIAMSPORT – A former Donald Trump supporter has accused the former president of throwing Republican gubernatorial candidate Lou Barletta “under the bus.” Former U.S. Rep. Thomas A. Marino, who was Trump’s pick for drug czar, went further saying at this time he is not supporting anyone who has the former president’s endorsement. Marino, who also served as U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, made some of his comments about Trump at a Barletta event in Williamsport on Saturday then amplified them Sunday. He had not planned to get involved in Tuesday’s primary election until Trump endorsed state Sen....

A Michigan lawmaker told a fellow legislator whom he briefly dated that he’d make it his “life mission to destroy” her and hoped her “car explodes,” court records show. Rep. Steve Marino, a third-term Republican from Harrison Township, also warned Democratic Rep. Mari Manoogian to “hide on the House floor” in a series of text messages as they discussed business for the House Commerce and Tourism Committee, according to screenshots in Michigan court records obtained by the Detroit News. “You’re truly the worst human being I’ve ever met,” Marino, 32, wrote Manoogian, a 29-year-old Birmingham Democrat whom the GOP lawmaker...

The elderly Delaware couple killed in a grisly double murder at a veterans cemetery has been identified by state police. Lidia Marino, 85, and husband, Paul Marino, 86, both of Elkton, died last week after being shot while visiting the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the hamlet of Bear, authorities said Monday.

President Trump said on Tuesday that his choice for drug czar is dropping out of consideration after reports that the nominee pushed legislation that undermined efforts to combat the opioid epidemic in the United States. In a Twitter post on Tuesday morning, Mr. Trump said that Representative Tom Marino “is withdrawing his name” for the White House job of director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He said Mr. Marino, a Republican from Pennsylvania, was a “fine man and a great Congressman!” Mr. Trump was asked about the future of Mr. Marino’s post on Monday after a joint...

Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/03/donald-trump-president-rep-tom-marino-editorials-debates/81277746/

<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican Tom Marino has won a third term representing Pennsylvania's 10th District in Congress.</p>

MARINO CALLS OUT PELOSI - enjoy the graphics and limerick

Nance Pelosi takes crossing the aisle to the extreme …Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) certainly did hit a nerve to say the least when he addressed the House regarding the debate on the border funding bill Friday night. Marino called out former Speaker of the House Nanncy Pelosi why when Democrats had control of the House, Senate and White House they did nothing about the border issue, but now with to make it a political issue. Needless to say, San Fran Nan then did something she never does, she came across the aisle. However, it was to confront Marino. After Pelosi...

Normally, the Congressional votes are about as exciting as watching paint dry on growing grass, but when House Representative Tom Marino accused the Democrats of not being brave enough to pass immigration reform when they controlled the Congress, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi jumped up and came at the guy! Marino struck a nerve by pointing out that the Democrats owned the entire Congress and White House for two years and did nothing about illegal immigration. Nancy Pelosi then crept up on Marino and began taunting him. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., said it best: “What is she doing?”...

In an unusual breach of decorum, even for the divided Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chased Rep. Tom Marino across the House floor, taking offense at comments by the Pennsylvania Republican during debate on the border funding bill Friday night.

In strong language, U.S. Rep. Tom Marino made his opposition to intervention in Syria abundantly clear Wednesday, pointedly questioning Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at a House hearing. Mr. Marino predicted American soldiers would ultimately die if the U.S. gets involved. Despite President Barack Obama's assurance that no American troops would enter the ground war in Syria, Mr. Marino predicted even Mr. Obama's planned limited response to the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons would backfire on the U.S. "And this I cannot accept. Soldiers coming home deformed and limbless and even in a...

Legendary quarterback Dan Marino fathered a secret lovechild with a junior network employee and paid her millions of dollars to keep it quiet, it emerged today. The former Miami Dolphins star cheated on Claire, his wife of 28 years, with Donna Savattere, a production assistant at CBS Sports.

The 24-year-old daughter of Cuban Vice President Marino Murillo, sometimes mentioned as a possible successor to ruler Raúl Castro, defected earlier this month and is now living in Tampa, knowledgeable sources said. Glenda Murillo Diaz crossed the Mexico border at Laredo, Texas, around Aug. 16, the sources told El Nuevo Herald, meaning she was paroled under the wet-foot, dry-foot policy, which allows Cubans who set foot on U.S. land to stay.

Dear Fellow Republicans and Conservatives, I am very excited to pass along some great news that I just received from Tom Marino. An independent poll conducted by Whit Ayres, Jon McHenry, and Dan Judy on July 28 through August 1 shows that GOP candidates are doing very well in the East. The most exciting news is that Tom Marino is ahead of Chris Carney! Tom Marino 52% vs. Chris Carney 37%The fact that Tom Marino is leading Chris Carney in the polls even though Carney has significantly better name recognition shows that we will be sending Tom to Washington, D.C....

DALLAS TWP. – Someone’s at it again. A new group of signs against the re-election of U.S. Rep. Chris Carney has popped up along state Route 309 in the Back Mountain. The latest version is more colorful and detailed than the previous one that said “Dump Carney” and pictured the congressman’s name in a red circle with a line through it. This time the anonymous sign maker connected Carney to fellow Democrat Nancy Pelosi, depicting him as a hand puppet of the Speaker of the House. “Dump the Puppet!” reads the sign. The signs have angered the Chris Carney for...

The 10th District Democrat finished June sitting on more than $792,000. Carney’s second-quarter campaign finance report had not yet been published online early Thursday afternoon, but the numbers were provided to pa2010.com by his campaign. That’s more than 71 times the money held by Republican Tom Marino; the former U.S. Attorney finished June with just over $11,000 in the bank. Carney’s cash lead could prompt some political watchers to reevaluate Marino’s prospect in the cheap, northeast Pennsylvania media market. The race is currently No. 6 on the pa2010.com Congressional Power Rankings. Carney raised about $203,000 between April 29 and June...

Republican congressional candidate Tom Marino was hospitalized overnight in Bradford County after his pickup truck was struck Tuesday night by a car that crossed the center line in downtown Towanda, state police at Towanda said. Police said they will charge the other driver, Michelle J. Merschbach, 23, of Towanda, with driving under the influence of alcohol. Mr. Marino, 57, a former U.S. attorney who lives in Lycoming Township in Lycoming County, was at Memorial Hospital in Towanda and might be released today, his wife, Edie, said. He suffered no broken bones or major injuries, but complained of dizziness after the...

The name Louis DeNaples strikes fear, respect or both into many local residents because of his wealth and the behind-the-scenes power he reputedly wields. His emergence as an issue in the 10th Congressional District race this week is a good example. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thrust Mr. DeNaples into a higher profile than he prefers in former U.S. Attorney Tom Marino's nascent Republican congressional campaign. "Casino" Marino, the DCCC called Mr. Marino, alluding to his representation of Mr. DeNaples, who developed the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Paradise Twp. This much is true. Mr. Marino resigned a month after...

PAUPACK — Attorney Tom Marino, 57, a Williamsport Republican, has announced his candidacy for the US House of Representatives seat currently occupied by Democrat Chris Carney. At a party held at Ehrhardt’s Wednesday to introduce the candidate to Pike County Republicans, Marino said his aim is to return the federal government to the people. “Washington DC is out of touch..."