Archbishop Desmond Tutu has given his support to Amnesty International’s campaign to free the 2,200 political prisoners in Burma.

He has joined the growing campaign by raising his palm with the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s name on it – a symbolic act of fearlessness and defiance in Burma - and is calling on everybody who values human rights and justice to do the same.

I have been very fortunate to have been given opportunities to contribute in a small way to the development of our new democratic, exhilarating, exasperating nation, and to have travelled the world as a representative, first of our collective apartheid anxiety, and later, of our promise and our hope.

I retired as Archbishop of Cape Town in 1996. Then I retired again, after completion of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. But my mission determined that I continue to work, and my schedule has grown increasingly punishing over the years.

Plans by a tiny Gainesville, Fla. church to burn Qurans on Sept. 11 were condemned by a guy who knows how to act toward Islam. Gen. David Petraeus is pleading with the Christian extremists to tone it down or put American troops at risk. This faux commercial for the event sums up the absurdity in the pastor's position.

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Ortiz said the GOP must temper its tough stand on those in the country illegally with compassion for those trying to provide for their families, calling the issue "the key to the soul of the Hispanic community."

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