Americans have heard almost nothing about the Iraqi reporter who tried to protect our president. We don’t even know his name. (Full article and comments)

The Big Three should file for bankruptcy and we should expand the workers' unemployment benefits. It would be taxpayer money much better spent. (Full article and comments)

Today, even as I write this, the Senate is, in essence,  trying to force you and I to buy an American-made car that we will never drive. The $15 billion bailout they seek for the Big Three automakers in Detroit is nothing more than a fat "Thank You" check to the United Auto Workers union for getting Obama elected--and that check is being drawn on my account and yours. We, the taxpayers, are being asked to pay Detroit's manufacturers some sort of gratuity check that frankly we don't owe them. If you want to keep your car manufacturing business in business, here's an odd little idea that seems to have fallen out of fashion: Build a decent product and sell it for an affordable price. 

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"...Blagojevich obtaining a lucrative job with a union-affiliated organization in exchange for appointing a particular Senate Candidate whom he believed was favored by the President-elect..." (Full article and comments)

Allow the Big Three to die and America may well witness the rebirth of the spirit of Henry Ford, innovation and competition, unfettered by unions. (Full article and comments)

Defense and State contracts provide a handy way to parcel out political favors, they create opportunities for multi-billion dollar corruption and sometimes they endanger the safety of soldiers, because American contractors often are not only unaware of the military goals for an area, they frankly do not care about them. (Full article and comments)

Today's the day for the U.S. Senate run-off election between incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin.  To learn more about where I stand on this race, please see "Saxby vs. Obama and the Unions" at http://www.sundaypaper.com/More/Archives/tabid/98/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3354/Saxby-versus-Obama-and-the-unions.aspx

To find out more about where you can vote, visit http://www.sos.georgia.gov/Elections/

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Today marks the 53rd anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.  (Full article and comments)

A seasonal Wal-Mart worker trampled to death by hordes of eager shoppers. A shootout at a toy store in California. People, let's try to maintain some perspective, shall we? (Full article and comments)

There will be a candlelight vigil at the corner of Piedmont and 10th this evening at 5 p.m. in support of same-sex marriage rights. I plan to be there, not just to support my co-worker Kirsten Ott, the Sunday Paper's fashion editor, but also to make my support of equal rights crystal clear.
I seldom make public appearances these days, but this is important.
Please join me in responding with a clear rebuke to California's prop 8 and similar legislation elsewhere. I'll bring some extra candles, but try to remember to bring your own. There's a lot of darkness out there to lift.
Signs are welcome. (Full article and comments)