The Arizona Cardinals’ fourth-quarter comeback seemed too good to be true. In the end, it was. Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald, the pass-and-catch combination that was so spectacular in the playoffs, connected for two touchdowns in less than five minutes against the fierce Pittsburgh defense to give the Cardinals a 23-20 lead last night.

Virginia’s new Sen. Warner, Mark, continues to maintain radio silence about his party’s No. 1 priority: the card check bill. Perhaps that’s an indication he harbors doubts about the measure. But it would be even better if Warner would publicly announce his opposition. The card check legislation, formally—and misleadingly—called the Employee Free Choice Act, threatens to rob American workers of the right to vote for unions by secret ballot. Although it does not technically forbid secret ballots outright, in practice it would permit union organizers to browbeat co-workers into signing authorization cards. Material from the unions’ own archives shows that many employees who would vote against unionizing in private sign such cards under duress, simply to “get the union off my back.“

No one who attended the 1978 Virginia Republican Convention will forget the experience. In a gathering described as the biggest political convention ever, thousands packed the Coliseum to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Sen. Jim Webb yesterday called the Senate’s refusal to help the auto industry “a woeful misapplication of the priorities that should govern our stewardship as political leaders.“ Webb and Sen. John W. Warner, R-Va., joined 50 other senators Thursday night in trying to force Senate action on a $14 billion government loan to Detroit’s Big Three automakers.