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• High standards at The Washington Post: "It's great to see the leading newspaper in the nation's capital serving as the primary amplifying force for this McCarthyite smear campaign. Does it get any more reckless and repugnant -- or primitive and stunted -- than that?"
• Number of Millionaires in America Increased 16 percent in 2009
• DC Protesters Try To Arrest Health Insurance Executives -- And Then BuzzFlash Suggests Taking Away Their Health Insurance
• AHIP Spending $1 Million To Defend Health Insurance Rate Hikes. Hmm, wonder where they got that money from in the first place...
• Ernest F. Hollings: Washington's Job Fraud
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• Obama's health-care blitz: a bittersweet war -- P.M. Carpenter, Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on March 10
• Damage Spreads from SCOTUS Decision to Allow Corporations to Buy Elections: "Newly emboldened corporations are suing to overturn state laws that restrict corporate spending on politics."
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• Will college become a luxury for the few?
• Glenn Beck’s Campaign Against Christianity: Leave If Church Teaches Social Justice -- BuzzFlash's Turn Off FOX Campaign
• DC Protesters Try To Arrest Health Insurance Executives
• The Eric Mass "Tickle Me" Mess
• Trouble for Mitt Romney? MA Health Plan Covers Abortion
• Robert Reich: Bail Out Our Schools
• Getting our Priorities Straight: The “Students, Not Banks” Campaign
• Labor Union Lines Up Behind Blanche Lincoln's Democratic Senate Challenger
• Our Banks Are Way Too Big to Save
• A Campaign Promise Dies: Obama and Military Commissions
• No-Pork Diet? House Dems Consider Party-Wide Ban on Earmarks
• The GOP/Eric Massa/Glenn Beck Groping Debacle
• Two Dead, One Wounded in Ohio State Shooting: 51-year-old Nathanial Brown, a custodial employee, suspected of having shot two co-workers then killing himself.
• Israel rebuffs Biden by announcing new settlement construction
• So Much for "Don't Forget Poland!" New Report Shows CIA Rendition Flights Landed in Poland
• The Lies of "Conservatism" and the "Center" are Immoral -- Mark Karlin's Editor's Blog for BuzzFlash
• Wal-Mart Won't Carry Michael Moore's New Film "Capitalism, A Love Story" Exposing Mega Corporations Like Wal-Mart
• Public Pensions Are "Going to Las Vegas." While private sector moves away from risky investments, cash-strapped government pension investors are gambling on futures.
• Tom Friedman is Wrong: No Amount of Sequestration Will Make Coal 'Clean'
• Combustible Ice? The Alternative Energy Source You've Never Heard Of is Gaining Ground in China.
• Is It Doomsday for the Consumer Financial Protection Agency? -- BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
• Is Obama Turning on Goldman Sachs, His Biggest Campaign Donor?
• DOJ Nixes Diebold Merger, Finding 70% Ownership Over American Votes to Be a Monopoly.
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• Netanyahu and Pastor Hagee’s Lovefest on Eve of Biden’s Arrival in Israel
• Support for Financial Reform From the Defense Department?
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• KBR and the Army: Rewarding Incompetence and Scandal
• Is government's dysfunctionality beyond practical help? -- P.M. Carpenter, Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on March 9
• "The base is assumed to be trained seals who will clap and do tricks on command but placidly accept the blame when things go wrong. And it upsets the serious people greatly when it fails to do that. In other words, the base is the party's doormat."
• Sarah Palin, Healthcare Hypocrite, Went to Canada for Care -- BuzzFlash's Turn Off Fox Campaign
• PepsiCo Opens "Research" Center at Yale Medical School. What are they studying? The mechanics of corporate whitewashing, perhaps?
• Pope's Brother Linked to New Claims of Child Abuse by Clergy
• Rep. Lynn Woolsey: "I will fight to include the public option in the final version of the health care reform legislation. If it is not included, however, it will rise from the dead once again. The day after the health care legislation is passed, I will introduce a bill calling for the public option."
• Utah Governor Signs Controversial Law Charging Women and Girls With Murder for Miscarriages
• Fairer, Direct Student Lending to be Included in Healthcare Reconciliation Vote
• Rioters Run Amok In Post-Quake Chile -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash.com
• The Real Reason Our Ancestors Came Here Was to Get Away From People Like Sarah Palin and Bart Stupak -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• McCaskill Takes Issue With Contracts Awarded Blackwater Under Cover Name
• After Telling Women, Gays How To Live, Oklahoma GOP Outraged At ‘Government Intervention’ In Divorces
• Prediction: Democrats will keep control of the House and Senate in November
• Teabaggers and the Right Wing "Framing" Think Tank, The Heritage Foundation, Team Up
• Liz Cheney’s McCarthyism: A Family Tradition? -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• Why Not Let States Regulate Health Insurance? Turns Out Some Regulators are in Bed With Insurance Companies.
• Nothing from nothing leaves healthcare reform?
• "Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of long-stalled health care changes Monday as Democratic congressional leaders worked behind the scenes on legislation they hope can quickly gain passage."
• Bipartisanship Strikes Again! Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Teams Up With Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) to Lower Taxes on the Super Rich
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• Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say.
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• Swimming With The Sharks -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash
• Report: Machete attacks on Christian villages kill 500-plus in Nigeria
• From America to Iraq and back again. Exporting Gridlock to Baghdad, Not Democracy. -- P.M. Carpenter, Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on March 8
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• Robert Parry: How Reagan's Propaganda Succeeded
• EPA's Lisa Jackson Not Happy With the Way the Climate Bill is Progressing
• A Return to Taliban Days? Group in Afghanistan Seeks to Ban Women's Voices From Airwaves, Among Other Sociocultural Setbacks.
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• CA State Sen. Roy Ashburn: I'm Gay and I Stand by my Anti-Gay Votes
• What Would Jesus Do? "Glenn Beck set out to convince his audience that 'social justice,' the term many Christian churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a 'code word' for communism and Nazism."
• The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste
• We Already Have A Huge Carbon Tax - But Oil And Coal Companies Get The Money
• College Students Who Protest for Affordable Higher Education Merit the BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.
• Chris Hedges on the Potential Downfall of the U.S. and the Need for Rebels for Democracy
• One of Pope Benedict XVI's elite ushers — already in jail over a corruption probe — has been dismissed for an alleged gay-prostitution ring, according to new reports from Italy.
• Alarm Bells Sounded Over Skyrocketing Number of New Anti-Government Groups
• Well, that's a new one! Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) Proposes Pay Cut for Congress
• 15 Reasons Why We Need a Revolt in This Country
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• Robert Creamer: Republicans Want to Vote Against Health Care Reform? Go Ahead, Make My Day. Republicans do not win when Democrats are successful at making fundamental progressive change. They win when they stop Democrats from making fundamental progressive change.
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• Sallie Mae's Jets: Bank Shills Use "Socialism" Scare to Shaft Students, Serve the Wealthy
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• And You Thought the PATRIOT Act Was Bad: A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully.
• Obama Administration Floats Plan to Pay Underwater Homeowners to Sell Property at a Loss
• Sure-Fire Crowd Pleaser: Reining in Wall Street
• The Death of the Colorado River: A Photo Essay
• Fed to Retain Bank Oversight Role. Because That Worked Out So Well the Last Time. "In a concession to Republican fears about giving government too much power over business, a bankruptcy judge would provide checks and balances." Negotiations continue on consumer protections, resolution authority.
• Corporate Barbarians at the Gate: Wal-Mart Internships at Detroit Schools
• Go Iceland. You Got the Guts the WH and Congress Need: "In the national referendum Saturday, Icelanders sent a resounding message to the rest of the world: We are not paying the debts of reckless financiers. While we are few and powerless, we refuse to be bullied by our European neighbors. Some 98% said "No" to a recent deal negotiated by their government with its British and Dutch counterparts; only 2% voted for it."
• Can You Blame Republican Fundraisers for Sticking With What Works? -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary

• Oscar Meet Kathryn: A Big Gender Barrier is Broken at the Academy Awards
• When the Truth is Shown to be Lies: The Religious Right's Argument Against Stem Cell Research is Proven False
• Obama Submits Second Nominee to Head TSA: Retired Army Major Gen. Robert Harding.
• Republican Fundraising Letter Compared Majority Leader Reid To Scooby-Doo -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario, Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on March 8
• Memo to the GOP and Tea Party: We're Being Out-Classed by the Whole World -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
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• Paul Krugman: An Irish Mirror for the Financial Crisis
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• Kansas City Wants to Close Half Its Public Schools as a Result of the "Reagan Revolution" Stealing from the Public and Giving to the Rich
• Asked on CNN if "people are unemployed because they want to be," former GOP House leader Tom DeLay said: "Well, it is the truth. Hah. Clearly, DeLay can't handle the truth.
• White House Seizes On Goldman Sachs Report Of Health Premiums Rising
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• Chris Wallace Calls The Perpetually Wrong Bill Kristol An ‘Expert’ On Iraq
• Hatch: 'Ashamed' of RNC fundraising plan
• US Troops Withdrawing En Masse from Haiti
• Housing Crisis Still Not Yet over the Hump?
• NATO Suspends Training of Kosovo Security Force
• Less Stimulus Money for Minority Firms
• If Reform Fails, a NYT explanation of reform and its necessity
• New York Politicians...Well, Politicians for Now
• 2 Darfur Peacekeepers Missing after Ambush
• Fallout from GOP Fundraising Memos: Evangelical Stops Donations
• The Web of Debt: How Consumers are Entrapped by the Financial Industry
• Officers: Pakistan Arrests American-Born Al-Qaida
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• Has Our Gov't Understated Labor Offshoring For Decades?
• Graham Falsely Claims GOP Has Only Used Reconciliation With ‘Bipartisan Support’
• Ground Zero Hotel Wants to Attract WTC Tourists. Not Tacky at All, Eh?
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• Mitt Romney Claims That President Obama’s Words ‘Support’ 911 Truthers Abroad
• Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be. Tom Boy Done Got Unemployed.
• Right Resists Link to Pentagon Incident
• Today’s Soulless Republican Party -- Steven C. Day of BuzzFlash's Last Chance Democracy Cafe
• 3 Dems unsure about changing votes for health care
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• Retiring Dem: GOP Doesn't Want to Dance on Healthcare. So just pass the bill already.
• Trading Away Productivity: U.S. Free Trade Policy May Ignore Declining Production in U.S. Accepts Mutual Humanity, Though.
• McConnell Doesn't Like GOP Pitch Based on Fear. But he sure will take the money.
• Frank Rich: "We face the alarming prospect that Barack Obama’s presidency could be toast if he doesn’t make good on health care reform and a year’s worth of false starts."
• American Al-Qaida Spokesman Lauds Fort Hood Killer
• Reporter: More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence
• Va. AG: Colleges Can't Ban Gay Discrimination Not in Virginia, at least.
• Iran Begins Production of Cruise Missiles
• D.C. and MAC Cosmetics Fight Aids By Distributing Female Condoms
• Swiss voters reject giving abused animals a lawyer
• Republicans Use Filibuster to Prevent Government from Working for the American People For BuzzFlash.com
• Michelle Obama compared to Tarzan's Cheeta in email
• Processed Foods Recalled Over Salmonella Contamination
• Squeezing the Last Drop of Productivity from the American Working Class – 18 Percent National Underemployment and Why Wall Street and the Government are Cheering Your Financial Failure.
• RI Mayor Faces New Questions in Congressional Run in Succeeding Kennedy
• Biden off to the Mideast for Peace Talks
• Dave Lindorff: "Death to Obamacare!" (A Dissenting Perspective)
• The Tea Party IS All about Race
• Afghan President Visits City at Center of Anti-Taliban Push
• Literally: We Can't Afford Afghanistan or Our Military Industrial Complex, If We Want to Advance as a Nation -- Peter G. Cohen for BuzzFlash
• Letting Women Reach Women in Afghan War
• Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse
• Tax Oil Companies, Not Students
• How Sports Attacks Public Education
• A government that does not promote a strong, just and fair economy for the American people is not doing its job -- Susan S. Pastin for BuzzFlash
• Mitt Romney Says Obama Health Care Plan NOT Like Massachusetts Plan, Since One State and One is National
• Thin Wall Separates Lobbyist Contributions and Earmarks. No One Surprised.
• Early Results: Iceland Voters Reject Foreign Debt Deal. Less than 2% voted for it. About 5% of votes were just empty ballots.
• Unlike Health Care, When It Comes To Nukes, Cost Is No Object
• North Korea to Abandon Disarmament Over U.S. Exercises
• Are We a Nation of Archie Bunkers? Discriminatory Ban on Gay Blood Donors Based on Squeamishness, Not Reality -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Campaign 2010: Déjà Vu All Over Again -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary from Michael Winship
• Whither Financial Reforms? What Are They Waiting for? Fears of A Second Crash Are Real but Congress Lacks “Appetite” for Action -- Danny Schechter for BuzzFlash.com
• FOX’s Megyn Kelly, Poorly Masking Bias, Airs Attack on President Obama Appointee -- BuzzFlash's Turn Off Fox Campaign
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• Should Women Take Hormone Therapy? -- BuzzFlash Interview Martha Rosenberg spoke with Dr. Rowan Chlebowski about the physical and mental costs of hormone therapy for women and the influence of Big Pharma on doctors and researchers.
• Sen. Jim Bunning Wins BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award for Flip-Flop-Flipping on Unemployment Benefits During the Worst Recession in Decades. Turns out it's way more fun to hold up legislation when the Democrats are in charge!
• Sea World: Remembering the Tilikum Rebellion -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Martha Rosenberg
• Is 2010 The Year of the Coffee Party? Progressives Show Tea Baggers Don't Have a Monopoly on Civic Participation -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Rush Limbaugh Wins This Week's BuzzFlash Media Putz Award. He Called Nancy Pelosi a Suicide Bomber for Saying Healthcare is More Important Than Reelection, But Come ON. Who's the Real Terrorist Here?
• The Preamblers -- Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 135
• What Would Jesus Do About the SeaWorld Tragedy? Stone the Whale to Death and Sue the Pants Off the Rest of 'Em -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• FOX Welcomes Erich 'Mancow' Muller to Talk 'Communist Healthcare' and 'Radical Muslims' -- BuzzFlash's Turn Off Fox Campaign
• Where Are This War’s Heroes, Military and Journalistic? -- Guest Commentary by Dave Lindorff
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• Are We Seeing the First Inklings of a Chaotic Revolution in America? "It Can Happen Here: America on the Brink" -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book Review of the Month, Exclusively for BuzzFlash. For February.
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• These are Ironic Times
• Liz Cheney: Samuel Adams Should Be Barred From Selling Beer
• Dracula's Daughter -- Ann Coulter
• Torture Watch- Clarence Thomas: Peekaboo! I see Yoo!
• Liz Cheney: Chip Off The Old Crock
• NRA Lobbies For ChatRUSSIANRoulette
• Lewis Black on the Economy
• GOP Opposes Reconciliation, of the ‘North and South’