The Centers for Disease Control has confirmed the first US case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS) MERS, which is similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus (SARS) which killed 800 people in China in the 2002-03, is fatal in up to one third of the people who contract it. Dr Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for Imminzation and Respiratory Diseases said that while the case represents “a very low risk to the broader... Read more
It’s a compliment in a way. Satanists aren’t trying to put monuments to their master in front of the Capitol Building in Washington. No need. Evidently, the people they want to go head to head with live in little ole Oklahoma. Who would ever have thought that Oklahoma would be deemed important enough in the culture wars for this honor? I guess somebody who walks on the dark side thinks we need our little light covered up a bit. Whatever their... Read more
Oklahoma managed to execute a prisoner this week, but we did it in the most ungainly fashion possible. Make no mistake about it, Mr Clayton Locket is dead, and the reason why is that he was executed on Tuesday night of this week by the people of the State of Oklahoma. Also and again, make no mistake about it, in the parlance of the death penalty debate, Mr Clayton Locket “deserved” to die. He was a cold-blooded killer and... Read more
What would happen today if an American president told the Supreme Court, “You’ve made your ruling. Now how are you going to enforce it?” That’s exactly what President Andrew Jackson did when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee nation and against the president’s plan to seize the Cherokee’s land. Jackson went ahead with his plan. He sent General Winfield Scott and 7,000 soldiers to force the entire Cherokee Nation into stockades. White settlers then raided the Cherokees’... Read more
What part does corruption play in Nigeria’s failure to stop Boko Haram? Women and men from all over Nigeria took to the streets of the Nigerian capitol, Abuja, Wednesday in what was dubbed “The Million Woman March.” They marched through heavy rain to issue a call for the Nigerian government to do more to free 230 teen-aged girls who were kidnapped in a bloody attack on their high school on April 14. The kidnapping has been labeled the work... Read more
Like everybody my age, I’ve got a lot of past. Not all of my past is good. In fact, a portion of it is seriously miserable. I try to forget. And forgive myself for the things I’ve done. I try to forget. And forgive others for the things that have been done to me. But there are days when that load of past can get heavy. Especially in church. My miserable past includes a couple of bad times with... Read more
This statement was issued by my religious leader, Archbishop Paul Coakley, regarding yesterday’s botched execution of Clayton Lockett. Archbishop Coakley on execution of Clayton Lockett: “The brutality of the death penalty disregards human dignity” OKLAHOMA CITY (April 30, 2014) – On April 29, in McAlester, Okla., the planned execution of convicted killer Clayton Lockett utilizing a new three-drug lethal injection protocol failed, leaving Lockett evincing unexpected signs of pain and leading Oklahoma prison officials to halt the proceedings. Lockett... Read more
Oklahoma seems to be having trouble executing people. First, attorneys for death row inmates got a judge to agree that their clients could not be executed because of an Oklahoma law that grants anonymity to the companies that supply the toxic brew of killer drugs used to kill the prisoners. Once the state got past that roadblock, it had to call off an execution in progress because the needle in the inmate’s arm was evidently putting the killer drugs... Read more
John Paul II, the Polish pope who brought down Communism. Now, he’s a saint, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t soon become the new patron saint for Poland. I imagine he already is the patron Saint of most polish households. From what I’ve read, Pope John Paul II retained a deep love and constant connections with his homeland to the day of his death. He had a Polish cook at the Vatican who prepared Polish meals for him,... Read more
Deacon Greg has the story. Evidently, former Governor Sarah Palin made the statement in a speech at the national NRA convention that if she was president, “water boarding would be how we baptize terrorists.” She went on in this speech to indulge in a string of name-calling; talking about “intolerant, anti freedom leftist liberals” and “clownish, Kumbaya-humming, fairytale-inhabiting Democrats.” How are these comments offensive? Let me count the ways. First, aside from the issue of using torture against our enemies,... Read more
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