Not only did Bruno Kirchenwitz's U.S. Border Patrol baseball cap help get him fired, it almost got him shot.

Mr. Kirchenwitz, 54, was dismissed from his part-time job at 7-Eleven in Basalt after he was threatened by two Hispanic men who are suspected of later pumping five bullets into the store.

Mr. Kirchenwitz, who left work less than an hour before the shooting, was terminated by Southland Corp., which owns the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores, for violating the company's "non-confrontation policy."

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The big question about two live landmines found in a countryside culvert running under Inadale Drive between Strathroy and Mt. Brydges, Ontario yesterday is who put them there?

Appearing to be attached to timers, the landmines were likely of the type used to blow up tanks, according to Strathroy-Caradoc police.

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DailyKOS member duvallbuck says he’d rather die in a terrorist attack than, “allow the domestic surveillance of any citizen’s email, phone calls, etc... then, he quotes Patrick Henry, who said, at the end of one of the most famous battlecries in the History of America, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”

I wonder if duvallbuck, or any of the numerous commenters on his KOS diary, which support his desire to be killed in a terrorist attack, have taken time to read the rest of that speech Patrick Henry made to rally his fellow Virginians to join the Revolutionary War

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Notice anything missing from this National Association of Letter Carriers endorsement ballot? Not a single Republican name appears. So, it's not who to endorse, but rather which Democrat. Check it out below

h/t: Jawa Report

Susan Page reports that President Bush is making some headway in arguing that the increase in U.S. troops in Iraq is showing military progress

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A ranking Democrat has finally admitted what we all should have realized.

The worst nightmare for part of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would be victory for the U.S. in Iraq.

In an interview with the Washington Post, James Clyburn, D-South Carolina and the House Democratic whip, was asked what his party would do if Gen. David Patraeus reports in September that the surge strategy is working very, very well.

"Well, that would be a real big problem for us, no question about that," said Clyburn.

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The final thing I'd like you to remember about stare decisis is that the very doctrine itself is given far less weight with respect to Constitutional issues than with respect to statutory or common law decisions....In the years 1946-1992, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed itself in about 130 cases (h/t: digg)

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Three men arrested in the death of a gay man who was beaten and then struck by a car during an October robbery attempt can be charged with hate crimes without evidence that they were motivated by hatred for gay men, a judge ruled yesterday

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Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict

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Tom McKenna is a longtime Stuart businessman who speaks only English.

He says that's why he's being kicked out of the storefront on South Dixie Highway where he has run Seacoast Water Care for seven years.

"I don't know how else to put it," said McKenna, 51.

I'm not sure I do either.

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Less than a year ago, it was Attorney General Eliot Spitzer calling for and conducting investigations of alleged wrongdoers.

Now as governor he's seeing the process from the other end, with a half-dozen agencies either already looking at him and his administration or considering doing so.

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