George Bush at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

President Bush attended and addressed the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast earlier this morning at the Washington Hilton.  The AP dispatch  (the one at the New York Post now, at least) noted Mr Bush's invocation of the 'culture of life' and his intention to veto...

Zimbabwe Journalist Arrested

Apparently, this trainee asked the wrong question and was detained. There is no word on whether the intern is still in detention. This is one of those arrests that it would be easy to forget, given the media prominence of the official Zimbabwean opposition and the chaos in...

Bronx fire victims buried in Mali

A few weeks ago, NowPublic reported on a tragic fire in New York borough the Bronx in which nine people were killed. Today, the father and husband of some of the victims buried his family in Mali. He plans to return to the United States in a few months and hopes to bring...

Zimbabwe Oppositon Leader Beaten

Cris Chinaka reports today that the weekend detention of Morgan Tsvangirai(bio) was not merely an infraction against what remains of a democratic process in Zimbabwe. The head of Zimbabwe's main opposition party received head injuries and his face, according to his lawyers,...

Zimbabwe Opposition Chiefs Arrested

Robert Mugabe is the anti-Mandela. One of the heroes of the Rhodesian War and one of the fathers of independent Zimbabwe, he has turned into a despot, unwilling to let democracy take its course. His supposedly pro-Zimbabwean measures have reduced Zimbabwe's economy to ruins,...

Somali clerics want Muslim prayer room built at Minneapolis-St. Paul Internat...

"Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth has posted an article today simply named, “Success in the war against sharia.” It is an interesting article citing the small successes we have had against Islamic oppression and obsession within our country and how we are combating it....

Clues emerging in Delray mummy mystery

"DELRAY BEACH - The mummified baby encased in newspapers from 1957 and found this week in a Delray Beach storage unit still had an attached umbilical cord, police said Thursday. Packed with the infant boy were rosary beads, a rendering of Jesus, a photograph of a 5- or...