A free press is compromised when owned by a commercial interest such as General Electric.

Although the disclosure of potential conflicting interests may be present, the average news consumer may be overwhelmed by the amount of research needed to ascertain to what extent the conflict has on the accuracy of the reporting.

To this end, Glenn is providing an invaluable service.

The question remains, however, as to the ultimate result of this conflict. The issue presented in Glenn's report is but one of many and we'll never know the full extent of the problem as it relates to other issues and times.

The corporate ownership of news media is full of potential dangers to a free and informed press and this, in turn, affects the future of a free country.

Great post, but the tragedy is that the noncoms and officers were apparently convinced that their actions did not meet the definition of "torture" as defined by the Commander-In-Chief, Rumsfeld, Cheney, et al.

These idiots still regard waterboarding, humiliation, sensory deprivation, threats by attack dogs, loud noise, etc., as intensive interrogation, not torture, and therefore OK under US military guidelines. What they failed to see is how the rest of the civilized world and thinking Americans define torture.

Their failure played into the terrorists hands.

If we hold our breath, as you suggest, Rumsfeld will never see an indictment.

I prefer that we exercize our democratic principles and protest, loudly, until justice is served.

The Meltdown has thoroughly discredited the idea to restructure the Social Security System to include stocks and mutual funds.

Obama's moving WAY too slowly. He should have all problems solved before he is sworn in.

That way, he can vacation in his entire first year.

As long as healthcare is structured as a profit industry the USA will continue to trail other industrialized countries in all major areas of providing health care for its citizens.

This is a disgrace. We invade another country because we do not like its leadership and its treatment of its citizens and we do nothing about the millions of our own citizens lacking proper health care.

Now that we have booted the Republicans back to minority status and we will have someone with a functioning brain in the White House, we should be looking forward to an intelligent solution to our health care issues.

The US military is not the place to get decent dental care, right?

Wrong. The best dental care I have received in my lifetime (I am 68 years old) was in the US Army in Fort Ord California. The chief dental surgeon was a bird colonel and he did work on my teeth in 1963 that is unsurpassed today.

Veterans hospitals provide exceptional services and their doctors and staffs are government employees.

How else can one explain their total rejection of reality?

Gas will continue to cost less and less.

Already, Ford is ramping up production of the F-150 Pickup Truck.

has to be OK.

You are referring to the military spec Hummer. This is not the same as sold in auto dealerships.

The H2 Hummer is a Chevy SUV on steroids, built on a civilian SUV chassis.

It is a useless vehicle, driven by folks with mental issues.

Let's put an armor-piercing round into the engine block.

And use the body for temporary housing.

And use the gas tank as a hot tub.

And we can reclaim two parking spaces to boot.

Please. We're having fun here. Don't spoil our fun.

"Just the other day I was driving on a Chicago expressway when I saw some enviro-child (just needed to read the bumper stickers--there was almost enough room on the vehicle for two or three) driving a Smart Fortwo get caught in a thicket of semi-trailers--I could not stop laughing at the look of terror on her face--that car resembled a single pea in a field of boulders...and she had willingly gotten in there.

I drive an old Chevy conversion van (21mpg on highway) and love the looks of the drivers of the little car drivers when they get a rear-view mirror full of American Pride."

Regarding my statement about Hummer lovers' "mental issues":

I rest my case.

Amen to that!

Let's see some leg here.

My prediction is that OPEC will not let the auto industry fail. American cars (especially 12 mpg trucks and SUVs) contribute greatly to Middle East economies.

$50 billion is pocket change in OPECland.

It began when Obama was running for Senate office. His operatives bribed and threatened the US Secret Service and the respective city, county, and state records services in order to hide Obama's birth records.

This intensified when Obama ran for the office of POTUS. All levels of government investigative agencies probed city, county and state records again, in order to verify his natural-born status. Again, Obamas operatives successfully bribed these agencies in order to ensure their silence. This effort involved literally hundreds of government employees in dozens of departments and agencies.

This was, of course, all just window-dressing. Everyone knew that Obama was born on an unincorporated island near Ceylon in the East Indies off the coasts of Oregon and Florida.

I guess the truth will be known, after all.

but demand measurable changes in union rules, benefits, laid-off worker pay, product mix, dealer agreements, and staffing efficiencies.

Set firm targets and benchmarks to measure progress and the viability of financial operations.

Demand the design and construction of vehicles that will satisfy the sensible needs of the public while retaining style and desirability.

Eliminate duplicate lines. GMC and Chevrolet trucks are an example.

Stop the horsepower race. Stop building bigger and bigger SUVs and fashion pickup trucks. Oil may be cheaper now but I guarantee that it will not stay at the current price levels too much longer.