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The Penn State horror story has taken a twist for the sicker. And Joe Paterno's legacy is now more clearly defined. E-mails have been uncovered by NBC. Three scared sheep - Penn State's president, vice president and athletic director - were going to alert the real authorities to the possible misdeeds of Jerry Sandusky, until the athletic director spoke with Paterno and persuaded the other two Sheep not to be so rash. Subsequently, at least four more young boys were molested by Sandusky. Paterno apparently persuaded the group to go easy on old Jerry. The athletic director, Tim Curley, e-mailed...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has stored up imports and hard currency for a "battle" against "dastardly" EU sanctions, officials said Sunday, the day that the measures aimed at pressuring the Islamic Republic over its controversial nuclear program take effect. Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said the country has stockpiled the population's daily needs to reduce the impact of the embargo hitting the oil and banking sectors. "Today, we are facing the heaviest of sanctions and we ask people to help officials in this battle," Rahimi was quoted by state television's website as saying at a religious conference. He said...

January 20th, 2013 will usher in a new era for the American Dream. One of several things will happen or have happened on or before that date. 1. The Chief Justice will stumble through the oath with either obama or Romney. 2. Martial law will have been evoked prior to the election and there will be no swearing in and obama will still be at the helm of the Titanic and possibly appointed himself King of Planet Earth (and beyond). 3. Irrefutable facts will have come out via Sheriff Joe (and or others) that will knock obama out of the...

A group of about 150 Mormons quit their church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City on Saturday in a rare display of defiance ending decades of disagreement for some over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage. Participants from Utah, Arizona, Idaho and elsewhere gathered in a public park to sign a "Declaration of Independence from Mormonism.""This feels awesome," said Alison Lucas, from West Jordan, Utah, who took part in the rally amid soaring temperatures. "I don't know if I would have had the courage except in a group." The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

The Inevitable Penalty "You will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny" —Matthew 5:26 There is no heaven that has a little corner of hell in it. God is determined to make you pure, holy, and right, and He will not allow you to escape from the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit for even one moment. He urged you to come to judgment immediately when He convicted you, but you did not obey. Then the inevitable process began to work, bringing its inevitable penalty. Now you have been “thrown into prison, [and]...

He’ll never forgive himself. The sole survivor of a Westchester blaze that killed his entire family — a police-captain father, mother and two sisters — accidentally sparked the inferno last month when he flicked a cigarette on dried-up mulch, officials revealed yesterday. “The young man was in shock,” Carmel Police Lt. Brian Karst said about Thomas Sullivan Jr., 20. “For somebody who was in shock, he was very honest and forthright with us.” Sullivan smoked twice on May 1 — between 8 and 10 p.m. — right next to the front porch of his home in Carmel, Putnam County, fire...

I am fearful, more than ever, for my country. We all know the Obama record. Takeover of an auto giant, bypassing of Congress to rule on immigration, ignore State’s Rights in the case of Arizona, three quarters of a trillion dollars spent on a stimulus and nobody knows where the money went, billions in loans to crony green companies, the economy, Obamacare, Fast & Furious, and the list goes on. Someone got to Roberts. Whether it was as simple as the Chief Justice being a Washington insider and just wanting to be liked or veiled threats from Obama and his...

100,000 IRS Agents empowered to carry out the hangings and forfeitures. Those documenting to the IRS that they have completed Obama-Roberts Reeducation (ORR) are exempt. "Only 25,000,000 are expected to pay the tax." says ORR spokesman Bill Ayers. "Once penalties were recast as taxes by the Roberts Court, it was very easy to get the law passed and find an existing agency already equiped to enforce it."

Andi Meuth earned a history degree from Texas A&M in May and has applied for 150 jobs, so far with no luck. Jon Ancira graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology last year, but can't find work that uses his degree. After six months of searching, the 26-year-old did finally land a job — at a bank. Alex Ricard, 21, is grateful to be using his electronic media degree from Texas State at a social media startup company, but it's an unpaid internship. He says he's sent out three to five resumes a week for the past two months, with...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Isaiah 45 22. “Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. 23. By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear. 24. They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone are deliverance and strength. ’” All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame. 25. But all the descendants of Israel...

We have Saturday and Sunday worship services...our family usually goes on Saturday night because we like to sleep in on Sunday mornings. :) Our pastor last night spoke about America and how it has lost its moorings and is becoming rapidly anti-Christian like Europe. He even had a missionary who ministers in Europe speak about how irreligious that continent has become, how roughly 80 to 90% of the people in his part of Europe don't worship AT ALL. My pastor's sermon and the sad results of the recents SCOTUS decision weighed on my heart, and I have decided to try,...

In the late hours of Saturday night, the Chief Rabbi and other high-ranking officials from Russia visited Joseph's Tomb in Samaria. Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar and close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin made a special trip late Saturday night to visit the Tomb of Joseph in the Samaria city of Shechem, in Shomron. The delegation was hosted at the tomb by Shomron Regional Council head Gershon Mesika, regional Rabbi Eliyakim Levanon, and IDF Chief Rabbi Brigadier-General Rabbi Rafi Peretz. The small group did not hide their joy at having the privilege to be present at the...

Naomi Chazan was deputy speaker of the Knesset and the dean of the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. Given her credentials, one would have thought that she would have a good grasp of politics and law. But in a recent article published in The Forward, she stated that “Israel’s settlement enterprise...violate[s] international law” because “colonizing occupied land is illegal [based on] the Geneva Conventions,” notwithstanding the contrary opinion expressed in “the contortions of a few right-wing legal scholars.” Well, I am no legal scholar but I’d rather be on the side of those...

.........AT: In the last number of years, the House votes out specific legislation, it goes over to the Senate, and Harry Reid sits on it..... TM: The continuing resolutions ought to abide by the process I've just outlined. Unfortunately, instead, the continuing resolutions which originate in the House are pre-negotiated with Harry Reid. So, the House is then bound by the diktats of Harry Reid, who is not even a member of the House -- and that's what I object to. I've said, once each house has acted independently, as the Constitution envisions, and we have a conference process that...

An Egyptian soldier was killed and four others injured when a patrol jeep they were riding in was attacked in Sinai. The report of the attack appeared in Egyptian media. Sources said that the jeep was attacked with heavy fire, forcing the driver to veer off the road. The vehicle turned over, killing the driver and injuring four...

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ROME, - An Italian journalist and author known for exposing the Naples mafia was honored by having an asteroid named after him, officials said. Roberto Saviano had asteroid No. 278447 named after him Friday, Italy's ANSA news agency reported. Saviano was given the honor by the International Astronomical Union for exposing "the Camorra's organized-crime activities in his 2006 best-seller 'Gomorrah.'" Saviano received death threats for his novel and was placed under round-the-clock police protection after its publication. "Gomorrah" was later turned into a film and won second prize at Cannes and five European Film Awards in 2008. "Thank you Dr....

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary isn't sure if Birth Control is a sin. Watch this Vortex. The problem with Protestantism, you get to decide.

White House adviser David Plouffe urged fellow Democrats to take the offensive on the tax issue in the campaign to reelect the President. “The GOP is trying to twist Justice Roberts’ words into a campaign slogan implying that we favor imposing taxes on average Americans,” Plouffe contended. “The truth is that the President and the Democratic Party are not in favor of raising taxes on everyone. We are in favor of raising penalties on the non-compliant.” Plouffe emphasized that “it is absolutely critical that we clarify this distinction to the electorate. Those who are cooperating with the President’s agenda—whether it...

People living in one Coconut Grove neighborhood are on the hunt for a thief – a thief who is taking something very important to them. Peacocks. "They're part of the neighborhood and I treat them as my pets. I go outside and feed them – the little babies eat from my hand. It's fun to have them here," Patrick Moghari said. His mom said the giant birds make the area unique and they're something most people look forward to seeing every day. "It's so cool. We even have tour buses stopping three or four times a day and they stop...