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A Pakistani flood survivor interacts with Rajiv Shah, left, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, during his visit to camp in Sukkur, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Khurram Shahzad)
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Aijalon Gomes reaches for his mother Jacqueline McCarthy after arriving at Logan International Airport in Boston, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Former President Jimmy Carter flew to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, this week on a private mission to secure a pardon for the 31-year-old American who was detained in January after crossing into the country from China. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
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A young boy reacts as Kenyans watch the signing of the new constitution into law, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. African leaders including indicted Sudanese President Omar Bashir joined tens of thousands of Kenyans Friday as a new constitution was signed into law that institutes an American-style system of checks and balances on power. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, left, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, second from left, Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, third from right, and Sudan President Omar Bashir, second from right, attend the signing into law of the new Kenyan constitution, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
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A navy officer guards a street where a funeral home is holding the bodies of 72 men and women that were purportedly killed by the Zetas drug gang are in San Fernando, just 100 miles from the the Mexican border with the U.S. near the city of Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010. A wounded migrant who escaped the Zetas gang stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to the scene were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras were executed. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
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Former President Jimmy Carter, second left, and Aijalon Gomes, right, hugs as they prepare to leave North Korea from Pyongyang, on Friday Aug. 27, 2010. Mr. Gomes was freed after nearly seven months jailed in North Korea. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, July 28, 2010 file photo, Kashmiri protesters throw stones on Indian policemen during a protest in Srinagar, India. Ahmed, who calls himself "an anonymous soldier of Kashmir's resistance movement," is part of a wave of Web savvy protesters in Kashmir who have begun using social networking sites to publicize their fight against Indian rule to a global audience and to keep other demonstrators energized and focused. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2009 file photo, actor Martin Short and his wife Nancy Dolman arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. Short's manager on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 said that Dolman, Short's wife of 30 years, has died. She was 58. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2010 file photo, Blackberry mobile phones are displayed at a shop in Mumbai, India. Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, said Thursday, Aug. 26, it is seeking to involve other technology companies in its talks with the Indian government, which wants access to the e-mails of BlackBerry users. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, file)
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In this Feb. 26, 2010 file photo, Major Garrett, then-chief White House correspondent for the FOX News Channel, is pictured in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Mr. Garrett, now with CBS, is on a name of potentially agreeable debate moderators submitted by the Trump reelection campaign (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file) **FILE**
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FILE - In this May 18, 2010, file photo, radio and television personality Glenn Beck is interviewed on the "Fox & friends" television show in New York. Beck's rally on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech is drawing criticism, protests and questions about his intentions. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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In this photo taken Nov. 10, 2008, South African writer and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, delivers a speech in Calcutta, India. Gordimer is leading South African writers in speaking out against proposed laws she fears will muzzle freedom of speech in her homeland. (AP Photo/Bikas Das-File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Supporters of U.S. Senate hopeful Linda McMahon (center) celebrate winning the GOP nomination in May. Though early polls showed Mrs. McMahon trailing considerably behind Democratic rival Richard Blumenthal, an August poll shows Mrs. McMahon behind by only 10 percentage points.
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A group founded by former Rep. Dick Armey, Texas Republican, will be well-represented at this weekend's "Restoring Honor" grass-roots rally in Washington.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (left) discusses home weatherization Thursday at a private residence in Manchester, N.H., as state Democratic Reps. Paul W. Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter listen. "We're picking the pace," he said.
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Associated Press Former Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman this week confirmed long-standing rumors that he is gay. GOP conservatives are not happy about his plans to campaign for gay marriage.
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Illustration: FCC's broadband by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks with Jon Stewart during an appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigators remove evidence boxes from a home in London, Ontario, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. A resident of the house was taken into custody earlier this morning. Police have charged three suspects in what police and court documents say was a terrorism plot that ranged from Canada to Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai and Pakistan. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Dave Chidley)
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A U.S. Army soldier of the 101st Airborne Division walks along a road during a day of joint missions with the Afghan army in the Zhari district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
