“El Salvador” on The Daily Caller

A COUPLE OF kids figure to add even more juice to the North Carolina-Duke rivalry, a Hurricane hit the Great Wall of China and the Wall hit back, and does anybody know how to get to Iowa City? Watch those elbows, fellas. The annual college basketball primer is coming through. (more)

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Paula Cruz wept quietly at the foreign ministry office in El Salvador’s capital after reporting that her son was missing — apparently kidnapped — in Mexico. (more)

President Obama wasn’t content to just go on vacation to Martha’s Vineyard Thursday. Instead, he left town with a huff and then a jab. (more)

Police arrested a man at Dulles Airport on Thursday for trying to smuggle cocaine past security in powdered soup packets. According to the LaCrosse Tribune, customs dogs identified the man, who was traveling to El Salvador, as a suspect. This attempt, although creative, is far from the first imaginative drug-smuggling attempt. Check out a few other favorites: (more)

While you’re watching Team USA soundly whomp England (hopefully) on day 2 of the World Cup tomorrow, ponder this: could soccer, the obsession of every country in the world other than the slightly backwards and somewhat confused USA, possibly be a bad thing? (more)

Wednesday, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon stood side by side on the White House lawn, smiled, and attacked an American state.  It was a display grotesque and bizarre, laden with the stink of lies and ripe with hypocrisy.  For a half hour or so, the two men hammed it up for the assembled international press, reveling in themselves as they mischaracterized a law that, most likely, neither of them managed to read.  Calderon later addressed Congress.  Again, he targeted the U.S., focusing on Arizona’s immigration law and its nonexistent human rights abuses.  As he did so, he received a standing ovation from those who populate the left side of the aisle. (more)

Republicans are upping the pressure on Obama diplomatic nominee Mari Carmen Aponte, demanding to see details of her background investigation conducted by the Administration. (more)

Gautham Nagesh has wrangled two letters to Sen. John Kerry’s office, both asking that the committee hearing for the appointment of Mari Carmen Aponte as Ambassador to El Salvador be delayed (likely because, as Nagesh reported Saturday, Aponte was romantically involved with a man who was an alleged Cuban Intelligence asset). In a letter to Kerry, Senators Jim DeMint, Johnny Isakson, James Inhofe, Bob Corker, John Barrasso, Jim Risch, and Roger Wicker wrote: (more)

Senate Republicans are preparing to challenge President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to El Salvador over her previous ties to an alleged asset of Cuban intelligence. (more)

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — President Mauricio Funes has apologized to the victims of El Salvador’s brutal civil war and recognized the state’s role in human rights violations. (more)