Over the YEARS, America had BECOME more like WAL-MART. It had gotten CHEAP. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters.

I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to ESPIONAGE. At the union LEVEL, they talk about commerce and privacy. But to keep citizens safe, that remains a responsibility BACK in NATIONAL capitals.

I chose John Carroll Lynch as my SAG name when I was 19 years old. I was working in D.C., and I got my SAG CARD by doing a FIRST AID FILM for the Red Cross called 'Bleeding CONTROL'. They had a union contract.

Kissinger celebrants inevitably POINT to two things to justify their ADMIRATION: an OPENING to CHINA - 'rapprochement' - and IMPROVED relations with the Soviet Union - detente - which included SALT, a historic arms-limitation treaty.

I know what unemployment MEANS because I was UNEMPLOYED for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the LABOR union better than I think anyone ELSE does.