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FReepers may recall some discussions of a case in Moab, UT around the time of the Gabby Petito murder investigation. A lesbian couple were found deceased from shotgun injuries in a remote campsite near Moab, UT. At the time there was some speculation that Petito's male companion Brian Laundrie could have been involved. It turned out otherwise. The link provided explains that police tracked down a former co-worker of one of the victims, who had already committed suicide in Iowa when the investigation located his last known whereabouts. Details in the link.

If you want to assume the Clintons are devious, five-steps-ahead political operators -- and, really, why not assume? -- it seems somehow important that their lower-level allies are so handy with uncomfortable truths about Barack Obama. Yes, New Hampshire fixer Billy Shaheen quit the campaign after going on a lengthy ramble about Obama's (long-acknowledged) youthful use of cocaine, but can the Clintons be so devastated that the drug story is out there again?

Responsibility for the escalating violence in the Middle East rests entirely with those who have kidnapped Israeli soldiers, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday. Harper, on his first major international foray, hadn't even touched down in Europe yesterday before aligning himself firmly with the United States and Israel in the latest conflagration. Earlier, U.S. President George W. Bush laid the blame for the violence squarely on the militant Islamic group, Hezbollah, calling it a "group of terrorists who want to stop the advance of peace." And at the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. vetoed an Arab-backed resolution demanding Israel...