Category: The News

A crime, covered up in New Orleans? I suppose it’s no surprise in that city, notorious for official corruption.
CNN reports that five medical experts judged mysterious deaths in a New Orleans hospital to be homicide, but the grand jury convened to review the case never saw their reports.

In a decision that puzzled the five experts hired by the state, New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan never called them to testify before the grand jury. What remains unclear, because of grand jury secrecy laws, is whether the grand jury even saw the experts’ written reports.
“They weren’t interested in presenting those facts to the grand jury,” said Dr. Cyril Wecht, the former coroner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and a past president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists.
“The hard scientific facts are those from five leading experts, [the patients died] from massive lethal doses of morphine and Versed. As far as I know the toxicological findings were not presented to the grand jury and certainly not with quantitative analysis.”

Our Lady was crowned Queen of Poland at Czestochowa in 1717; now that Poland has been delivered from Communism, laymen have proposed naming Christ our Lord as King of Poland. The proposal probably won’t go through yet, but it’s a laudable thought.
(Via Catholicgauze.)

The good news is that Fr. Bennett caught the young perpetrators in the act and scared them off before they could break into the wonderful Basilica in Boston. It’s also good that they were untidy criminals: some of them came back to the church to get the drill they’d dropped, so the police were able to arrest three. The other two cared enough to bail out the three, so they came by the station to do that, and the police arrested them too.
Some of them appear to have pages on “myspace”, and if these are the very same people, the pages reveal them to be a bunch of drunks barely out of high school who care only to party when they’re not at their dead-end jobs: “Robby”, “Alyse”, “Jamie”.
Some of them break into buildings for kicks, it seems: one friend posted on “Alyse’s” page: “we should party and break into s— again” (8/10); and she replied on his page: “we definetly need to break in to things and drink some more!” (8/11).
What do these people really need? What kind of life is this? They don’t seem to have any connection to the Church: the two girls designate themselves as atheists.
Now, folks, don’t post any comments on their pages….
Update: These whiz-kids removed their myspace.com pages from public view today, but Google has preserved snapshots of the pages from a few days ago.

It is a sad day for mainstream journalists and liberals everywhere: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is facing the judgment of God for his crimes.
Zarqawi scurried away from Afghanistan when the U.S., the U.K., and Afghan militias destroyed his protectors’ government. Despite the Left’s fanatical insistence that Saddam Hussein had “nothing to do with al Qaeda,” Zarqawi set up shop in Baghdad two years before the war, as an honored guest of the regime. He was in bad company — Iraq had sheltered several other major international terrorists. Saddam also had extensive contacts (not to say alliances) with terrorists, directly funded Ansar al-Islam and used terror groups as proxies in his vicious struggles with the Kurds and Iranians.
Two years ago, Zarqawi announced that his band of merry thugs and murderers would be the Iraqi franchise of al Qaeda. They have killed hundreds of Americans and thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqis. They are the avowed enemies of democracy and have promised to institute a Taliban-style theocracy in Iraq if they triumph.
Zarqawi and other terrorist leaders have depended upon the Left’s footsoldiers to broadcast news of their murders and bombings, with little context or explanation, and the Left has been happy to comply in order to harm the standing of President Bush and the war in Iraq. With yet another major terrorist undergoing the anger of Allah, it will be difficult to spin this as anything other than a victory, but I’m sure journalists will do their best. Within 24 hours, you will see stories that say, “Despite the Zarqawi’s death, the violence continued in Iraq….”
May the remaining terrorists repent of their crimes and turn themselves in to the civil authorities for temporal punishment. For those who do not, may God visit his wrath upon them for the innocent blood they have shed, and the discord they have sown.

There have been three arrests in the case of nine church burnings in Alabama. So far it looks like it’s the work of college kids who started it for thrills, burning five churches in two days; then they burned four more in another part of the state in an attempt to distract the police.
These crimes may provide a case study in how evil operates. It wasn’t about race: half the churches were white. It may have been about the denomination: they were all Baptist — but then, that’s the main denomination in rural Alabama.
These were all small parishes, compared to what we’re used to: congregations of a hundred or so — in one case as few as 30 — with aged buildings whose doors couldn’t withstand a kick: probably not wealthy churches.
They were burned down by a pre-med student, son of a doctor; a theater major on scholarship, and a campus actor-rocker who had been student president at his high school.
If they’re found guilty — one has confessed already — 90-to-135-year sentences should be adequate.