Jim Bunning

Sen. Jim Bunning's boneheaded move last week to block a jobs bill in Congress that would extend unemployment benefits for 1.2 million Americans is forcing at least one long-term unemployed person into a potentially dangerous situation. Richard Hutnik, 42, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has been unemployed...

Making the rounds of the blogosphere today is a lot of talk about Senator Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, who released an epithet in Congress that, to put it politely, is a synonym for tough cow manure. But what's more serious than the curse word: unemployment benefits now hang in the...