(Since some other BNN writers have offered their opinion on Caylee Anthony and Giovanni Gonzalez I thought I would offer mine as well)
There’s been a story in the news lately, you may have hard about it. A small child is missing. The child’s parent is in jail on child endangerment charges and refuses to give […]

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On August 17 a 5 year old boy, Giovanni Gonzalez was reported missing after his mother, Daisy Colon from East Boston tried to pick him up from a scheduled visit with his father. She became concerned when the father didn’t answer the door. Police were notified and they made their way inside the home and […]

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 … But he’s going to make the media and punditocracy wait until he declares his choice via  text message on Saturday, after which he plans a joint appearance with his running mate at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL, where he announced he would run for president. [Update: It’s Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), according […]

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The man accused of kidnapping his 7 year daughter, Reigh Rockefeller and led police on a week long manhunt is to be interviewed by Los Angeles police that are investigating the disappearance of a Los Angeles couple more than 20 years ago. The question is that the same man that claims to be Clark Rockefeller seems […]

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Finally after searching for 7 year old Reigh Rockefeller for six days, she has been found. Her father, Clark Rockefeller has been arrested after police busted him in Baltimore. He now faces charges of felony kidnapping, assault and battery and battery with a dangerous weapon according to baltimoresun.com.
Rockefeller, 48 was arrested at 3:25 pm Saturday […]

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 UPDATE Included
For the second time in four days in Massachusetts an Amber alert has been issued by the police. Ryan, 3, Lyndsey, 2, Lauren, 22 months, and Roddick, 11 months, have allegedly been kidnapped along with their mother by their father, Rodlyn Petitbois.
The children were last seen at 1 am at the scene of a […]

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Robert Novak touched off a frenzy of speculation with his scoop that “[s]ources close to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip.” Some of the chatter naturally focused on the identity […]

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After trailing by a season-high five games, the Boston Red Sox reclaimed their top spot after beating the Orioles 2-1 today.
And the best news of all for the team and for Red Sox Nation? David Ortiz will be back on the field after spending 39 games as a spectator after he suffered a wrist injury.
“I’m […]

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I once was asked by a friend to clean up his computer.
He had antiviral software, but never bothered to update it, or run scans. As a result, whenever he would open his browser, he found the homepage had been reset to a pornography site.
No big deal. I updated his viruses, ran the scans, removed the […]

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You may have heard this tear-jerker on this morning’s news or read about it:
Dateline, Andover, Massachusetts: Sarah Pearson is two credits short of the requirements for graduating with the rest of her Andover High School senior class — she knows this and doesn’t debate that fact. The reason she is short on her credits is […]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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It took some 20 years, but finally Rev. Jeremiah Wright said something that got Barack Obama’s goat: Wright called him a politician. That was the last straw.
Obama was moved to take Wright to task for his lost week-end (rather, the week-end Wright probably destroyed his chances of becoming president) spent dissing all those white voters in MA and […]

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In Colombia, the narco “insurgent” group FARC is being decimated by a “carrot-stick” approach by the Colombian President Uribe.
After years of a “talk nice and let’s negotiate” President, where FARC used truces and safe zones to regroup and fight again rather than to negotiate, the present government is hitting hard, but offering amnesty to those […]

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When Hillary lies, does she know she is lying? Is she a reflexive liar, a compulsive liar, or a pathological liar? Does the staggering number of lies she has told during this campaign make her morally unfit for the office she seeks? Do the things about which she lied make her psychologically unfit?
Consider these questions […]

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Gary Zerola, Professional Victim
Boston attorney Gary Zerola was acquitted today in his 2nd rape charge trial in a Boston courtroom of multiple charges of rape and supplying alcohol to a minor, the second such trial this year with almost the exact same charges and counter charges, that it was the 30-something Zerola who was the […]

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A legal opinion issued Thursday in Connecticut may allow lawmakers to extend a state smoking ban to the American-Indian casinos, which claim that smoking restrictions would be a threat to tribal sovereignty.
Lawmakers in Pennsylvania have debated this week to make casinos completely smoke-free or limit smoking to 25 percent of the gaming floor which is […]

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Scanning the news, I came across this small item:

Coma Girl may Testify about Alleged Attacker.
And therein lies a story that cautions those who would stop treatment should at least hesitate a moment and humbly admit that sometimes they are wrong.
You see, Haleigh was a child from a dysfunctional family, taken from her mother by the […]

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After being let go, a man returns to the scene of the crime
A Persistent Perp
One More Heroin User Succumbs to an Urban Legend

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
A Massachusetts man got off for slashing a woman’s tires, then returned 20 minutes later and was arrested for pouring sugar into her gas tank.
James […]

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Phillip James, the chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce, Calls for Action
Wants a Global Pact “like the Climate change plan” 
Obesity is an “Epidemic” that requires Government Action–Now 
Will Big Food join Big Oil and Big Tobacco in a New Axis of Evil? 
First, drugs. Then, smoking.
A Call for More Government Control for the Overweight
Health groups, or Health […]

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Equinox Fitness Club’s new print advertising campaign depicts four nuns - wearing habits and rosary beads around their necks - sketching the figure of a nude man. Actually two of the nuns are sketching, the other two are gawking. One of the nuns, who is seated, has her skirt hiked high enough up her thigh […]

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The Washington Post’s Libby Copeland wonders whether the presidential candidacy of Fmr. Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) was “good for the Mormons.” She never really answers her own question, but The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press do: No, it was bad for the Mormons, because Romney’s run for the White House unambiguously revealed - […]

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Talk about bad timing. On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) - who has endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) - called Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) to make the case that dropping out of the race was in the best interests of the party. The next day, Huckabee decisively won the KS caucus (60 percent to […]

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When Mitt Romney (R-MA) spoke at the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last year (“a smug demeanor and a smirk that set The Stiletto’s teeth on edge”), The Stiletto immediately pegged him as a phony. Her gut instincts proved out during the year that followed.
Romney’s inauthenticity (some would call it a “candor gap”) […]

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Once John McCain’s inevitability became manifest, there was no shortage of advice from pundits, wise men and assorted kibitzers about what he needs to say to conservatives at the 35th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to earn their trust and their votes. Perhaps he needed the coaching, considering that the other Republican presidential hopefuls […]

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“. . . and we are political junkies.”–“Hi, Mark; hi Mom!”
You’ll never catch Mom or me at a Twelve Step meeting. I don’t want “serenity.” I want adrenaline. I want to roll up one sleeve, plug my high speed internet cable into a vein, let my eyes roll back, and quiver uncontrollably when I hear […]

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February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether.
Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal” or a “phony Republican,” and Fmr. Gov. […]

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Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama.
Since none of the […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Mitt Romney has a message for evangelicals: Your choice is between the Mormon and the “liberal” McCain. Reports the Los Angeles Times:
Evangelicals can “vote for Mike Huckabee and feel good about their vote,” the former governor of Massachusetts told a Missouri TV station. “But they’re basically saying, ‘We’re going to give the conservative vote - […]

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The last Republican and Democrat presidential candidates left standing met for the final debates of the primary season in CA. The GOP debate, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley, was notable for the palpable loathing the two frontrunners have for each other. The Dem debate, held at the Kodak Theater in […]

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