U.S. Border Security has been tightened on concerns that Mexican drug cartels may send hit men across the border according to this AP story in today's San Francisco Chronicle. A spokesman for the U.S. Boarder Patrol said that they had credible information that cartels plan to hit targets across the border. Violence between cartels has increased dramatically as they fight for control of drug and human trafficking. In Ciudad Juarez, a city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, nearly 800 have been killed by the drug gangs this year.

Liberian DP Concerns UN: The United Nation's Human Rights Committee express deep concern today regarding the Liberian government's adoption of a death penalty option for murder during the commission of robbery, terrorism or hijacking as reported today in this story from News Blaze. In 2005 the small West African Republic signed the U.N. Committee's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Second Optional Protocol agreeing to abolish the death penalty.