High-ranking Mexican thugs face trial for setting up death squads to disappear suspected drug gang assistants, after torturing them in the police academy.

In Mexico one can hardly separate the thugs from the gangs. Could it be that thugs targeted those people for belonging to a rival gang?

Bipartisan pressure in Congress to reconsider Dubya's Authorization for the Use of Military Force, which is dangerously overbroad but not universally broad the way Obama and the bully have interpreted it.

Kuwait and the UAE deny citizenship to thousands of people born there. Those countries pressure or trick the stateless inhabitants into becoming citizens of the Comoros, then threaten to deport them there.

Republicans have not been able to repeal Obama's medical care advances but have adopted practices that will make it collapse.

People sell phony books on Amazon, apparently for money laundering, and they use real people's social security number. Amazon refuses to cooperate with the victims who may then get stuck with paying tax on the income they never got.