A Dallas-based truck driver is in prison in Mexico and facing a possible 35-year sentence because he missed his exit and had no way of turning around without crossing the border.

Jabin Bogan was making deliveries in El Paso before heading on to Arizona when he missed his exit and found himself stuck on the highway leading into Mexico. This is an easy and common mistake to make on the confusing highways of the El Paso area, but it can be a costly one, as Bogan has discovered.

Near the border he says he “asked a cop” how to turn around and was told he would have to continue on a couple of miles to an exit. The details of that part of the story are murky, as U.S. authorities say they have no record of a truck driver making such an inquiry of border agents. They say that had Bogan asked at the U.S. checkpoint, they would have stopped traffic to allow him to make a U-turn on the highway. Instead Bogan crossed the border and was stopped by Mexican authorities who searched the truck and found over a quarter of a million rounds of rifle ammunition.

Headlines in Mexico and the U.S. announced the largest detection and seizure of illegal ammunition in recent memory and strongly suggested that the shipment was destined for Mexican drug cartels. That assertion was quickly denied by both Bogan’s boss and the ammunition dealer in Phoenix, who had paid $100,000 for the shipment.

Dennis Mekenye, operations manager for Demco Freight, says the truck was equipped with a GPS tracker and when he saw it was in Mexico, he called Bogan’s cell phone. The driver told him about the missed exit and that Mexican authorities were searching the truck. Shortly thereafter, Bogan was arrested.

Read more at WND HERE.

You don’t need a mind reader to know that hiring a magician for your government conference may not be a great idea right now.

But that’s what NOAA had planned before it pulled an advertisement for a speaker on the “magic of change” for an upcoming confab in Silver Spring, Md.

The agency wanted a motivational speaker to create “a unique model of translating magic and [principles] of the psychology of magic, magic tools, techniques, and experiences into a method of teaching leadership,” according to the ad, which appeared Tuesday.

NOAA took down the ad, however, after media reports surfaced Thursday.

The agency “has referred the solicitation to the General Counsel and NOAA’s Chief of Resources, Operations and Management to review the statement of work and the process surrounding the solicitation,” NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen emailed POLITICO.

Read more at Politico.com HERE.

Former US presidential candidate John Edwards’ wife ripped off her shirt and bra in a confrontation with her husband over his affair, a court has heard.

Breast cancer sufferer Elizabeth Edwards also collapsed during the fight in an airport car park, a witness said.

Mr Edwards’ daughter left the court in tears during the latest evidence in her father’s campaign finance trial.

He denies using donations to hide a pregnant mistress, and faces up to 30 years in jail if convicted.

He could also be hit with $1.5m (£930,000) in fines. Mr Edwards has pleaded not guilty to six counts of campaign finance law violations.

Read more at the BBC HERE.

Richard Grenell, an openly gay foreign policy spokesman for GOP presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, resigned Tuesday over what he called “the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign.”

“While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished,” Grenell said in a resignation statement in a statement obtained by the Washington Post.

Grenell’s hiring was widely criticized by those both on the left and right and he also came under fire for a number of Twitter posting he deleted poking fun at the physical appearances of many women politicians and pundits, including Callista Gingrich and Rachel Maddow.

But it was Grenell’s sexual orientation that he said ultimately led to his exit from the campaign. Grenell’s hiring earlier was announced April 19 but he had yet to make any public remarks or on-the-record comments on foreign policy issues for the campaign, even during the days marking the one-year anniversary of the Osama bin Laden raid.

Many pundits found this fact puzzling considering the Osama raid was a major international incident on which Grenell could have commented officially. Some posited the campaign hired Grenell to fill a diversity quota and they were keeping him under wraps because of conservative and liberal attacks on his homosexuality. Other said he was hired in April but officially wouldn’t begin his tenure as spokesman until May 1.

Read more at RTTNews.com HERE.

It is easy to (falsely) accuse Ron Paul of anti-Semitism because of his daily rants on the floor of Congress about the war on Iraq being fostered by Jewish lobbyists in America. Widespread suggestions make the connection and the so-called neocon movement clearly advanced the project. Paul opposes foreign aid to everyone in general and to Israel in particular. But Israel is not a product of the initiatives or the imagination of American or Israeli Jewish lobbyists and to assume it is as is widespread today in American academia and globalist pop culture is itself anti-Semitic and virulently nihilistic. And these positions have tragically been fostered and nurtured by the American state department under Secretary Clinton and President Barack Obama. But you won’t find that in Ron Paul. Rising political forces in Israel like Moshe Feiglin’s “Jewish leadership” faction have long called to a breaking free from American aid to Israel much as Paul does.

Business Insider recently interviewed Dr. Paul claiming he “shocks campaign staff with new position on Israel.” When Paul was asked whether he would sign an Executive Order to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a major policy objective for Israeli hardliners and many leaders in the Christian Right, he said, “The real issue here is not what America wants, but what does Israel want. If Israel wants their capital to be Jerusalem, then the United States should honor that. How would we like it if some other nation said ‘We decided to recognize New York City as your capital instead, so we will build our embassy there?'”

From the Business Insider essay: “Ironically, Paul and Newt Gingrich are now the only presidential candidates who have said that they are in favor of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the U.S. Embassy there. President Barack Obama has postponed moving the Embassy. Romney ‘would like to see the U.S. Embassy eventually moved to Jerusalem,’ campaign spokesman Andrea Saul said in a statement emailed to Business Insider.”

Read more at QuigleyBlog HERE.