If you're up for a really hilarious story on a lazy Sunday, check this one out. It's about a cross border raid by one of Mexico's most notorious drug gangs (Los Zetas) in which they stormed across the US-Mexico border and seized two ranches near Laredo. The ranchers, thankfully, were able to retreat to American-held territory with no injuries. Another significant level of detail is that the whole thing actually never happened, though that hasn't stopped a lot of right-wing sites from going totally nuts about it. And a good chunk of the right-wing blogosphere has now decided that the complete lack of evidence that it ever happened actually means that there's a vast government coverup. (One conservative blogger has wittily and memorably dubbed these folks "Laredo Truthers".)
--Josh Marshall
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