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Joseph Milano, formerly known as Joey Calco until he entered the witness protection program after helping in 2001 to put away several members and associates of the Bonanno crime family including reputed consigliere Anthony Spero, has been sentenced to ten years in prison following his conviction in Bunnell, FL of being a felon in possession of a firearm arising from a domestic disturbance investigation at his home on Feb. 15 as reported by Frank Fernandez for the Daytona Beach News-Journal. In January 2009 Milano, the owner of the now-defunct Goomba's Pizzeria in Palm Coast, FL, allegedly jumped over the counter...

LONDON (CNS) -- Catholic officials are investigating claims that a severely deformed baby was born in a perfectly normal condition after the child's mother prayed to Cardinal John Henry Newman for a miracle. Andrea Ambrosi, the Vatican lawyer in charge of Cardinal Newman's cause for canonization, has revealed in a BBC program to be broadcast Sept. 18 that he hopes the inexplicable healing may be the miracle needed to canonize Cardinal Newman as Britain's next saint. Pope Benedict XVI will beatify Cardinal Newman at a huge open-air Mass in Birmingham's Cofton Park Sept. 19, the last day of his four-day...

Today, Mitt Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC endorsed Christine O’Donnell, who is running to serve the people of Delaware in the U.S. Senate (www.christine2010.com). It also is sending her campaign a maximum $5,000 contribution. “Now is the time for Republicans to rally behind their nominee, Christine O'Donnell. She ran an impressive campaign. I believe it is important we support her so we can win back the U.S. Senate this fall,” said Romney.

  Briana Waters The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of Briana Waters in the 2001 arson of the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture. The 32-year-old Californian was sentenced in June 2008 to six years in federal prison and ordered to pay $6 million in restitution by U.S. District Court Judge Franklin Burgess. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that Burgess made several errors that raised questions about the fairness of her trial, The Associated Press is reporting. The panel said the judge should not have admitted certain articles...

New Safety Concerns May Lead FDA to Recommend Pulling Abbott Lab Drug Diet pill Meridia may garner new warning labels or be pulled from the market completely following today's meeting of the Food and Drug Administration's drug advisory committee. Spurred by concern that Meridia might increase cardiovascular risk, Abbott Laboratories, which makes the drug, had sponsored a six-year trial, SCOUT, to further evaluate its safety. Now that results are in, a group of outside advisers to the FDA will meet today to weigh whether the 16 percent increased risk in major adverse cardiac events seen in the trial is reason...

Hamas Slams France Decision to Bar Islamic Veil‎ Islamic Hamas movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, slammed on Wednesday the French parliament for passing a law that bars Muslim women in the country from wearing Islamic veils. Ahmed Bahar, deputy speaker of the Hamas-dominated parliament and a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, said in a written press statement emailed to reporters that the decision "is unfair, racist and hurts Muslims' feelings."

Christine O'Donnell won the Delaware primary last night, and within minutes (literally) über liberal Rachel Maddow started running video and commentary on MSNBC about O'Donnell's views on masturbation. The pretext for sexualizing O'Donnell was a 1996 video in which O'Donnell was interviewed about her conservative Christian views on sex. Before Maddow's post, the subject mostly was the subject of left-wing bloggers, but Maddow took it mainstream on MSNBC's primetime coverage. An almost 15-year old video was all the excuse Maddow needed to take the story national. Because the fate of the nation turns on whether O'Donnell masturbates, at least to...

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Information about an anti-BP candlelight vigil, a gay and lesbian festival and other peaceful gatherings became the subject of anti-terrorism bulletins being distributed by Pennsylvania's homeland security office, an apologetic Gov. Ed Rendell admitted.

In Town Squares and Backyards All Across the U.S.A. Americans Will Proclaim the Constitution in Public This Saturday. Sometime last spring, Colin Hanna, the president of the issue advocacy organization Let Freedom Ring, was searching for a way to make Americans more aware of the actual contents of the U.S. Constitution. “It struck me,” Hanna remembers, “that, if Americans were to read the Constitution out loud, with their neighbors, they could not help but see how the Founding Father’s limited the national government to a few core functions in order to protect our liberty and security.” In a few months’...

We are SHEEP because we don't swallow every half-truth and lie that the media darling and street corner con Obama, dishes us. I swear there is special place in hell... What absolute drivel. There are 26 year-old clueless lib hacks running this website. It is the most radical of msm sites. Shameful.

A satirical view from "two heterosexual, white boy, Methodists" of today's social and political climate in the US. iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jala... Download the video: http://itunes.apple.com/us/video/jala...

An Open Letter to the RINO leadership: I know you are disappointed that the conservative O'Donnell has won the Delaware primary. I can sympathise -- she IS a conservative -- she never claimed to be a RINO, and she does not share your RINO values. And to be perfectly frank, yes, there will be times when she will vote like a conservative instead of like a RINO. I am writing this letter to try to convince you to support her anyway. First, I will note that RINOs did have a candidate running against O'Donnell. Mike Castle ran a fine campaign,...

The Arminian Doctrine of Infant Damnation Having noticed one objection to the doctrine of predestination, we proceed to a second, viz. "It leads to the idea of infant damnation;" "brings with it the repulsive and shocking opinion of the eternal punishment of infants;" "causes not only children not a span long, but the parents also, to pass through the fires of hell."The above are samples of the manner in which this charge is reiterated by every controversial Arminian author that has come under our notice. The reader will be surprised to learn that the "shocking and re-pulsive doctrine" here objected...

Whenever you use Yan Lu's "Poor Little Fishbowl Sink," water in the above fishbowl drains, resulting in a life-threatening situation for its resident goldfish. That's a clever way of reminding us that our wasteful practices can directly affect other creatures (and that, for much of the world, water issues are matters of life or death).

Rosenberg: The Latest Gold Spike Was A Huge Tell Of What's Moving The Metal Joe Weisenthal Sep. 15, 2010, 1:58 PM In his latest note, David Rosenberg draws a lesson from yesterday's gold surge to a record high: Well, at least we know we can use yesterday’s action as a microcosm to what is actually driving the gold price higher (up $22.55/oz, +1.8%, yesterday to $1,268 an ounce) — and it isn’t inflation. How do we know that? Because 10-year TIPS breakeven levels — the market proxy for inflation expectations — fell seven basis points. The correlation would seem to...

From: Michael Steele, RNC Chairman To: Subject:  Congratulations to Christine O'Donnell and Delaware GOP Candidates Dear , Congratulations to Christine O'Donnell and all of our Republican nominees in Delaware on their primary victories last night. The people of Delaware have spoken.  And just like voters across America, they are demanding commonsense conservative candidates who will focus on the issues that matter most to them: creating jobs, turning the economy around and protecting our most cherished freedoms. Christine O'Donnell is exactly that type of candidate and the RNC is proud to support her and our entire slate of Republican candidates...

Looks like she's almost to $350k. Apparently the web site crashed earlier with a flood of people trying to donate.

With very little change since yesterday in the situation in the Gulf, it may be time to start spreading these reviews out a little more, or if the well is intersected this week, to consider moving to more general topics. The DDIII drilled 30 of the remaining 50 ft between the relief well and the original Deepwater Horizon well on Monday. The drill was then retracted to make a ranging run, and once that is completed, one can assume that they might just go ahead and do the intersection on the next drilling pass.That will begin to generate the next...

BRUSSELS—The World Trade Organization is likely to rule Wednesday that Boeing Co. received some illegal subsidies from the U.S. government, said people familiar with the case, fueling the debate with European rival Airbus and opening the door to negotiations on state support to plane makers. The preliminary, confidential WTO finding will come more than one year after the WTO ruled in a similar case that Airbus had benefited from illegal European subsidies. The European Union alleges that Boeing benefited from some $24 billion in tax breaks, research aid and export rebates from U.S. federal and state governments. Boeing officials say...

Complete title: New Waters/Frank Scandal Documents Uncovered by JW: OneUnited Bank Received “Less than Satisfactory” Assessment Prior to Bailout Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Evaluation: OneUnited “Ineffective” “Needs to Improve” “Less than Satisfactory” “Has Done a Poor Job” Washington, DC -- September 15, 2010Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has received new documents from the U.S. Department of Treasury related to the controversial $12 million bailout grant provided to the Boston-based OneUnited Bank. The documents, obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against Treasury, include internal...