I want to make one thing clear:  if the Government of the United States of America decides to provide a bailout to "Old Detroit", I will NEVER purchase another product made by Ford, General Motors, or Chrysler ever again in my life.  And given my relatively young age of 37, that probably means at least another 4-5 vehicles of the course of my lifetime.  I wouldn't take a product from any of those three if you gave it to me for free if you pass this bailout.  Because this liberal fascist bailout fantasy -- and this is fascism in its purest, most academic form -- will do absolutely nothing to fix the endemic structural defects of those three companies.  And what is worse, every politician from the UP to Anacostia Flats knows it.

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The Red Line is a walking, talking "charlie fox".  The long hoped-for, long-awaited, long-dreamed-for transportation line to link the west side and easte side of the cities is too expensive, according to this article in the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter.

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Organizing nurses has long been a goal of some of the nation's largest unions.  Union labor fights over nurses -- typically between hospital administrations and the unions -- are legion.  Unions will often resort to planting organizers in non-unionized facilities just to instigate the organization movement.  It's happened before -- at hospitals right here in Maryland.

But rarely do we see unions battling each other for the right to organize and represent anyone.  But it's happening, as OpenMarket.org notes here.