Reuters: “Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific coast. “Correa has refused to renew Washington’s lease on the Manta air base, set to expire in 2009. U.S. officials say it is vital for counter-narcotics surveillance operations on Pacific drug-running routes. “‘We’ll renew the base on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miami — an Ecuadorean base,” Correa said in an interview during a trip to Italy. “‘If there’s no problem having foreign soldiers … Continue reading Very Funny

Ah yes, the government: National Guardsmen stationed on the Mexican border to stop illegal immgration are arrested for running an immigrant-smuggling ring. (Thanks to Mike Knox.)

I blog a fascinating story from Mike Rogers and a conservative site calls the Pentagon, which denies producing a made-for-tv propaganda movie of the capture of Saddam Hussein, as they did of Jessica Lynch’s “rescue” and so much else.