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• LA Times: Congress Paralyzed by More than a Snowstorm
• Could be a Telling Shift: Obama Now Not Certain Any Form of HCR Will Clear Congress This Year. Take Away the Filibuster from the GOP in the Senate. America is being held hostage by a bunch of Jesse Helms wannabees.
• Excellent Read: Banana Republic, U.S.A.? “Populism” Comes to America -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Nikolas Kozloff
• The politically motivated selective-victimhood of Sarah Palin
• As US begins Afghan surge, Canada plans its exit. Heh, they are the smart ones. They have universl healthcare and not Tea Baggers.
• Rep. Patrick Kennedy Calls Out Scott Brown as an Anti-labor Joke
• After Calling The Stimulus ‘Fiscal Child Abuse,’ Sanford Flies To DC To Demand Stimulus Money
• Raging Grannies slam CBS
• Yes! A federal U.S. judge ordered jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney to halt its plans to move 1,000 jobs out of Connecticut and to Japan, Singapore and the state of Georgia. The judge strongly criticized the subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., saying it evaded the spirit of its union contract requiring it to make every effort to keep the jobs in the state.
• Even As All American Eyes Turn Towards Football Fun And Games, We Need To Remain Concerned About Haiti’s Superbowl Of Disaster -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Danny Schechter
• Eric Alterman: The Truth About Conservative "Journalism"
• Robert Reich: Call me old-fashioned, but I thought Congress was in charge of passing legislation, not Wall Street
• Trapped in Hypocrisy: Palin's campaign against the "R-word" hits snag with Limbaugh
• Utah state representative claims climate change is a ‘conspiracy’ aimed at population control.
• Subsidies for Big Banks or College for Kids: WIll Senate Blow This?
• Jenny Sanford: Husband became 'empty-eyed politician.' Aren't most of them that way?
• Not Insuring America: State Farm cancels thousands in Fla. 125,000 customers to be cut during hurricane season. The "We will only insure you when there is little risk" approach.
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• From the White House: "Let's be clear: Sen. Shelby is preventing qualified nominees who will help protect the American people from being confirmed. He’s not alone, though. This is just the latest example of this kind opposition for opposition’s sake that the President talked about earlier this week."
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• Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’
• Known Diseases Attacking the Republican Brain: Prognosis Negative
• It's Time For Obama To Play Rough With Richard Shelby. You Got That Right! No More Bipartisanship Talk. End the Filibuster Option Now.
• D.C. All Snowed Out. It's Already Paralyzed on Capitol Hill. This is Just Nature Mimicking Reality.
• Can Obama Rally Skeptical Dems in Congress?
• In Search For Solutions to SCOTUS Ruling, Congress Has Failed to Directly Address Corporate Personhood Doctrine -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• While the U.S. unemployment rate fell from 10 percent to 9.7 percent in January, long-term joblessness is at an all-time high—6.3 million workers, according to this morning’s Department of Labor January data.
• Obama calls capital's blizzard `Snowmageddon'
• FOX Frsudcasting Has, Unfortunately, Hit New Highs in Viewershp. BuzzFlash is Asking you to Join Our Campaign to Fight Back by Asking Americans to Turn Off FOX! Click Here to Take the Pledge and Join Us.
• Jeff Cohen: The struggle within the Democratic Party, starting from the Viet Nam War
• Go Progressive This Winter!
• Jeremy Scahill on the Expanding U.S. War in Afghanistan
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• Report: 'No strategic value' to Afghan outpost where 8 died
• What are white Arizonans so afraid of? Skin Cancer or Guns?
• Short Documentary on Coal Fire in Centralia, PA, That Has Been Burning for Decades
• The Great Recession: Will Construction Workers Survive?
• Three former allies of the National Tea Party Convention are planning a guerilla press conference near the convention hall Saturday afternoon to highlight what they contend are the organizers’ efforts to hijack the tea party movement.
• Powerful Explosions Kill More Than 40 Shi'ite Pilgrims in Karbala
• Chris Hedges: The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News
• Unaired Exchanges Between Stewart & O'Reilly Demonstrate How Fox 'News' Censored the Interview
• Tancredo Sets the Tone For Tea Party: Extreme, Racist, Nativist
• US Defense Chief Downplays Possibility of Iran Nuclear Deal
• Dave Lindorff: Has the U.S. Government Lost Its Reason for Being?
• Interesting Perspective: "By improving the Muslim view of America and not overreacting to threats, Obama has al Qaeda on the run."
• Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US Citizens
• Ten U.S. Baptist missionaries charged with child kidnapping returned to jail Friday after failing to persuade a judge to grant them provisional release pending the outcome of their case, their lawyer said.
• The unemployment insurance system is in crisis. A record 20 million Americans collected unemployment benefits last year, and so far 25 states have run out of funds and been forced to borrow from the federal government, raise taxes or cut benefits. Using near real-time data on states' revenues and the benefits they pay out, we've estimated how long their trust funds will hold up
• How Corporations Secretly Move Millions to Fund Political Ads
• Danger: Falling Middle Class
• Stuck Accelerators: Toyotas and the Fossil-Fuel Growth Economy
• US backs debt relief for Haiti! Yes, make it happen.
• What Will TN Mean For TEA? Will the Convention Energize or Demoralize the Tea Party Movement? -- BuzzFlash Discussion Share your thoughts by clicking here and adding your comments.
• What Pols Are Heading to the Super Bowl and Other Results of ProPublica’s Super Bowl Blitz
• New Honduran president's legitimacy questioned as the country's 'one-sided civil war' deepens human rights crisis, and national bankruptcy is declared.
• David Sirota: The Case for the Common Good
• Not Clean Coal: Few remain as 1962 Pa. coal town fire still burns in 2010
• JPMorgan CEO Dimon gets $16 million in stock, options
• Michele Bachmann's Hypocrisy with ACU Fundraising
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• Bill Clinton, in Haiti, Emphasizes Urgent Need for Sanitation and Health Care
• Yuch! Judge wants Edwards sex tape 'under lock and key.' Can we forget about this sordid story and move on?
• White House Blasts Shelby Hold on Nominees
• Banner Drop in Chicago Calls Attention to Chase's Funding of Dirty Energy
• The Disturbing Racism of James O'Keefe & the Hilarious Twitter Tantrum of Andrew Breitbart
• Haiti, Still Starving After 23 Days
• Anthem Blue Cross raising rates for Californians by 39%
• "In another blow to Google’s plan to create a giant digital library and bookstore, the Justice Department on Thursday said that a class-action settlement between the company and groups representing authors and publishers had significant legal problems, even after recent revisions."
• After Escaping Jobless Rolls, Trauma May Linger
• Arctic Ice not growing as fast as usual this winter
• Susan Jacoby: Five Myths About Atheism
• Health Care Costs Rise at an Alarming Rate
• Donors Reward Dems Who Pushed Public Option
• What a 9.7 Percent Unemployment Rate Means. Mixed Signals.
• How a radical conspiracy theory traveled from the Tea Party movement to the US Congress.
• Yet another GOP truce? -- P.M. Carpenter, Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on February 5 All of this suggests that the “widely anticipated civil war within the Republican Party” – that is, the Tea Partyers vs. the GOP Establishment -- will fizzle.
• What Goes Around Comes Around: Newt Gingrich Targeted By Club For Growth
• CNN: Does the Government Keep the DNA of Newborns? Apparently, Yes.
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• VIDEO- Mock and Awe: Westboro Baptist "Church" protesters outnumbered by snarkmasters
• Pentagon Plans to Provide Emergency Contraception on US Military Bases Worldwide
• The GOP mindset, courtesy of Michael Steele
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• Washington D.C. to Get Two Feet of Snow? Apparently.
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• Palin skipped paying property taxes on cabins, records show
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• Businesses and Advocates Must Unite To Defeat ‘Open Carry Handgun Cult’ Threatening Public Safety: Freedom States Alliance Update Feb. 5, 2010
• Obama and Clinton in 2012? The speculation starts...
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• Dodd says bipartisan financial reform at impasse. With the Republicans there is only obstructionism, Chris.
• International Violence Against Women Act Addresses the War Against Women
• The nation's unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January -- breaking below the 10 percent mark from December -- but the economy still lost 20,000 jobs, a sign that the economy is still struggling to create jobs.
• Robert Reich is Skeptical, To Say the Least, At Dodd's Commitment to Wall Street Reform
• Are the Dutch Cracking Down on Maijuana Tourism?
• Rahm Emanuel: "He's apologized for using the word 'retarded,' but President Obama's chief of staff, once seen as the perfect strategist for the job, has become a target of criticism as the White House's agenda lags."

• Palin e-mails reveal a powerful 'first dude'
• Tea Party Convention Off to a Fast Racist Start
• Is Obama Going to Set Up the Republicans on Healthcare Reform or Going to Try Yet Again to "Negotiate" with Them? He Just Called the GOP "Obstructionists" to a Meeting of Dem Senators.
• Three Unarguable Reasons to Fire Congressional Republicans and the Real Reason for Bill-O's Homophobia -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
• A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill
• CO2 Regulation in US Hits more speedbumps
• Why Republicans Secretly Love Huge Budget Deficits -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Jacqueline Marcus
• John McCain Wins BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award for His Flip-Flop on Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy. His version of DADT: I didn't ASK, so don't TELL me what to do.
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• Put Corporations Back in Their Place: The Move to Amend. BuzzFlash is a backer.
• Who does the jobless recovery hurt the most? Our Entire Society is Devalued.
• Time to Card the Businesses: Those Forced to Watch FOX Now Have Cards to Get It Turned Off -- And They are Free, as a Public Service for Democracy from BuzzFlash
• Ezra Klein: "But there's no presidential narrative that can impose shape on a year-long legislative brawl. No speeches that can overwhelm the daily stories, no strategies that can secure enthusiastic bipartisanship for a major legislative achievement that will help one party in the next election. Time emphasizes what Americans hate and distrust about the legislative process (which is, put simply, the workings of the legislative process), and that drives them away from the bill. If you can't make these efforts move quickly, then you have already lost the argument. A good message is not nearly so important as a fast process."
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• The Knee Jerk Conservative Approach Ann Davidow exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on February 5. There’s a certain fascination in watching the Republican approach to just about everything. It seems so predictable an observer can guess which talking point will be unveiled in response to the hot issue of the day and pretty much count on being right every time. At the moment the uptight crowd is tying itself in knots over the “don’t ask, don’t tell” issue, what to call detainees in our protracted foreign engagements and how to address the reckless behavior in our financial industries.
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• Congress passes record debt hike
• Report: Toyota to recall 270,000 Prius hybrid vehicles over brake problems in US, Japan
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• New York's attorney general charged Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), former Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis and former Chief Financial Officer Joe Price with fraud for allegedly misleading shareholders about the bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.
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• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 132: Vengeance is Mine, Saith the Lord. Reflections on Pat Robertson. -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Steve Jonas
• The Slow-Walk Could Sidetrack Don’t Ask Repeal
• One in eight Americans needs emergency food assistance
• Sarah Palin Takes $100,000 For Populist Tea Party Speech
• Senate Democrats muster all 60 votes one last time
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• "Investors Fear Europe’s Woes May Extend Global Slump"
• Texas Republican Shennanigans Update: Hutchison's lobbyist ties could hurt attack strategy against Big Hair Perry
• GOP Confederate Senator Shelby Blocks All Obama Nominations In The Senate Over AL Earmarks
• Scott Brown Flip-Flopped on Healthcare Reform
• Senators with the Most Campaign Cash
• Northern Ireland Continues to Advance On Power-Sharing Agreement
• The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy
• A Pakistani female neuroscientist has been convicted of trying to kill US soldiers and FBI agents
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• Mitch McConnell Claims Larry King Is ‘Better’ Than U.S. Interrogators At Questioning Terrorists. Now, That's Entertainment!
• We, the Tea Partiers - Matt Taibbi
• White House 'Muzzled' DOJ's Attempts to Advocate on Guantanamo Trials and Obama Got What He Deserved: Bipartisan Opposition -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Obama Calls Out Conservative Democrats For Their Timidity. About Time.
• " On the same day Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn officially claimed the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, he found out that his newly-minted running mate has a rap sheet that includes alleged domestic battery and tax evasion. The revelation has shocked Democrats, leading to worries that his presence could taint the entire statewide ticket." Oy, Veh! And BuzzFlash's Homestate!
• GOP Rep. Issa Says Democratically Elected Democratic Congress Is ‘Exactly The Same’ As Kazakhstan’s Dictatorship. WTF?
• Intelligence chief acknowledges U.S. may target -- as in kill -- Americans involved in terrorism
• Joe Conason on Dubious GOP Populism
• David Sirota: The Dystopia Conservatives Built
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• We Need 402,000 Jobs A Month. Does The Senate Get It?
• White House Expects Two Supreme Court Vacancies in Not Too Long, Both of Them Liberals Alas
• Report That Dem Senators, Led by Al Franken, Vented to David Axelrod About WH Handling of HC Reform
• Character by Character Transcription of Michele Bachmann's ACU Strikeforce Letter
• "Roosevelt's faith in the authority of Congress to regulate corporate power has been formally and fully challenged by the lawless intervention of the Roberts Court. This is not the time to give up on legislative remedies."
• Bamboo-zled: FTC says retailers fibbed about bamboo product claims
• Defense Department Turns Down My FOIA Request for Mohamed Al Hanashi's Autopsy Report
• Dave Lindorff: Government Labor Statistics: Lies and Damned Lies -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Dave Lindorff
• Senate confirms GSA head, breaking political logjam caused by, well of course, a GOP senator, Kit Bond!
• Southerners a stronghold of far-right views in Republican Party
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• Blame Game on Gitmo Messaging: DOJ Complains of Being "Muzzled" By Obama, "Clobbered By Congress," While White House Believes it Was Justice That Screwed Up.
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• The GOP: Grand, Old and Preposterous
• Sanders Introduces Major Solar Energy Initiative
• Carly Fiorina "in full Mutton Meltdown" with "an increasingly bizarre fixation on farm animals"
• Stop Anti-Choice Super Bowl Ad During the SuperBowl
• Bill Berkowitz: Tea Party Express III on the launching pad -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Bill Berkowitz
• How Corporations Secretly Move Millions to Fund Political Ads
• Roots Of Conservative Failure: Bush Called Deficits "Incredibly Positive News"
• Elected officials invited but "refuse to come" to Free Health Clinics
• A group of U.S. missionaries in Haiti was charged on Thursday with child kidnapping and criminal association for allegedly trying to take children illegally out of the earthquake-hit country.
• Get the Message? -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Sue Wilson
• CNN Wins the BuzzFlash Media Putz Award For Consulting Bigots on DADT Instead of Experts
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• Thom Hartmann Wins the BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award. He wrote the first book on "corporate personhood" several years ago, and laid out the disastrous results of the concept just endorsed by the GOP Supreme Court 5.
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• Forget Dems and Rethugs, Obama to Take Q&A; From Jedi Council
• The GOP Hate Card
• Justice Alito Backs First Amendment Rights for Ventriliquist Dummies
• Punxsutawney Phil predicts groundhog-led govt. coup
• Supreme Court Will Declare a Beer Company the Winner of the Next Presidential Election
• Richard Shelby: The Treasure of the Senate Hombre
• Mark Morford: No Murdering in Our Store