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• Easter Eggs on the Cheap: Ohio Fresh Eggs Factory Farm Fire Kills 250,000 Hens -- Martha Rosenberg for BuzzFlash
• The Right Wing Is Just Too Filled with Bile to Have Any Place for Truth In Its Luggage -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash While the truth has little impact on right-wing true believers the other side must keep bringing it home to independents, progressives, liberals and any others who understand that agendas should be formed around actual ideas rather than negative hyperbole.
• The bankable Limbaugh paradox -- P.M. Carpenter, Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com Which, of course, in time will only drive Rush's malicious creativity and audience numbers upward, as he figures new ways to incite and pander to society's most intensely paranoid. And in that lies this splendid paradox as another kind of national barometer: the better his numbers, the worse off is the right.
• Isn't It Time Congress Passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to Protect LGBTs? -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• Sarah Palin: A woman on the verge of violence
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• Checking the Racist Box: White Supremacists Stand Up to be Counted in the 2010 Census -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• The Power of the Republican Skill at Framing Issues Through the Right Wing Media Echo Chamber. CNN poll: 47 percent of Americans want to repeal health care reform. This is not based on HCR's content; it's based on the GOP drumbeat of propaganda that the Dems ineffectively respond to and the lack of Dem investment in media infrastructure.
• The Catholic Church in 2010 -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash.com
• Financial predators targeting military families are in the president's crosshairs as he fights for banking overhaul and his proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency
• Today President Obama will sign an overhaul of the student loan industry. For decades, the federal government has supported student lenders by backing loans originated by private banks. Today we take back the bank subsidy and use it to spend down the deficit and pay low-income kids to finish college. Good day.
• President Obama appointed LGBT activist Chai Feldblum over the weekend to the five-member board of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the government office responsible for handling workplace discrimination complaints. Yes, this wouldn't happen under Bush.
• The Pope Won't Be Intimidated By Petty Gossip. Easy for Him to Say -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• A Republican National Committee staffer who accompanied a group of young donors to a bondage-themed West Hollywood club and then expensed the nearly $2,000 tab has been fired by the committee, POLITICO has learned. But Steele is Still There, Isn't He?
• Sherrilyn Ifill, Professor of Law, at Univ. of Maryland: “The History of Right-Wing Violence In This Country Over the Last 50 Years Cannot Be Denied”
• FDA pressured to combat rising 'food fraud'
• Clyburn: Reid's (and Emanuel's) dealmaking cost Mass. seat
• Not Good: The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January. This is, BuzzFlash assumes, to not give big polluting business an excuse for cutting jobs before the November elections.
• No Wonder the GOP's Losing Cred When Ding-Bats Like Michele Bachmann Open Their Mouths -- Barbara's Daily Buzz
• "Hamid Karzai’s recent behavior reflects a dilemma facing the Obama administration: how to influence an ally they regard as unreliable."
• Michele Bachmann essentially calls Black Dem colleagues liars. Blacks weren't lynched either, eh?
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• "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction" -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Book Review of the Month, Exclusively for BuzzFlash. For March.
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• Kathy Kelly: Civilian Deaths and the "Pacification" of Irag
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• Report: Insurance industry gives in and will not exclude children with pre-existing conditions
• John Boehner Signals to Fundamentalist GOP Base That President Obama is the Anti-Christ -- Karen Webb for BuzzFlash
• NYT: R.N.C. Spends Thousands on Jets, Limos and Clubs
• A Bomber Jacket Doesn’t Cover the Blood -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary from Norman Solomon
• Institutional Epidemic Pedophilia: A Survivor of Church Sexual Abuse Responds to Pope Benedict's Palm Sunday Vow Not to "be Intimidated" -- Gary Bergeron for BuzzFlash
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• Census Update: . Instead, a new and growing threat to an accurate national head count is coming from anti-government conservatives who may not fill out their forms to protest against “Big Brother” in Washington. Good, then they will get lower congressional representation.
• Census Update: . Instead, a new and growing threat to an accurate national head count is coming from anti-government conservatives who may not fill out their forms to protest against “Big Brother” in Washington. Good, then they will get lower congressional representation.
• Robert Reich on Holding Wall Street Accountable
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• Tenacious Investigative Journalist Focusing on Voting Transparency and GOP Dirty Tricks, Brad Friedman, Wins the the BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.
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• RNC Spent Nearly $2,000 At Club With Topless Dancers
• Senate Republican Coburn Blocks Aid to America’s Jobless
• Michigan Christian Militia Raided By Feds Was Preparing To Battle Antichrist
• Pro Publica: Data Show Little-Known Bank Regulator Goes Easy on Enforcement
• Nine members of a Lenawee County-based militia group were planning to "levy war" against the United States and "oppose by force" the nation's government, according to an indictment unsealed this morning in U.S. District Court in Detroit
• Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Issues Statement on Arrests of Christian Cult Militia Members Arrested In Illinois and Midwestern States – Calls For Urgent Federal and State Action to Ban Assault Weapons
• Brad Friedman Discusses His BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award
• Senate On Recess, Thousands To Begin Losing Unemployment Benefits, Labor Secretary Warns
• Chip Berlet: "In times such as these, history passes a harsh judgment on silence. Instead of waiting to see who is next on the list, we must speak out against all forms of apocalyptic demonization, scapegoating, and conspiracism, because they are toxic to democratic discourse."
• Moscow Commuters Post Grim Video and Photos Online After Bombings
• Tea-Baggers: Out of Work and On the Dole
• ICE officials set quotas to deport more illegal immigrants
• Pravda on Palin, Hysterical in a Scary Sort of Way
• The best surprise in the new health care reform legislation: a precedent-setting swipe at executive pay excess.
• BuzzFlash Asks You to Call for the IRS to Investigate Sean Hannity's Favorite Charity
• Sea Lion Pups Starving in California
• Republican Caller on C-Span Complains that Too Many Blacks Call In
• President Obama Pops Up in Kabul, For Real
• Bill Maher: "Democrats in America were put on earth to do one thing: drag the ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next century, which in their case is the 19th -- and by passing health care, the Democrats saved their brand. A few months ago, Sarah Palin mockingly asked them, "How's that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?" Great, actually. Thanks for asking. And how's that whole Hooked on Phonics thing working out for you?"
• VIDEO- Tea Partiers in Searchlight, Nevada: Obama Flag with Bullet Hole in it
• "U.S. Army Counterterrorism issued a report that said WikiLeaks is a threat to U.S. security, particularly in Afghanistan. The report says that the organization should be destroyed and offered a plan. Does the government really think it can destroy WikiLeaks or is the leaked report part of a plan to smear the organization so badly, it will lose supporters and money?"
• Premium Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy (Paperback)
• Rick Steves on the Horrifying Mess That is the Compromised Corporate Mainstream Media
• No August Repeats: How The Dems Are Approaching Recess With HCR Victory Behind Them
• Memo To The Media: Focus On Grass Roots And Cultural Activists
• Subway Suicide Bomb Blasts Kill Dozens in Moscow
• Tina Dupuy: Through the Looking Glass with the GOP
• Bush "Justice": Punishing Those Who Refuse to Lie Under Oath
• "The teabaggers, however emotionally invested they are in the health care debate, no matter how sincere their concerns, serve as an ominous reminder of the pogroms in Eastern Europe that ran roughshod over the Jewish communities, of the mass hysteria that can be whipped up into a bloodthirsty frenzy over nothing by irresponsible, hateful bigots. Bigots who are too cowardly to own up to violence they incite by using borderline, inflammatory rhetoric and visual cues who then try to claim the violence they incite is more characteristic of their political enemies."
• Report: Rightwing nut sent death threats to Cantor, is arrested by feds
• The Ostroy Report: If Democrats Were Republicans
• Nine suspects tied to a Christian militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement personnel, federal prosecutors said Monday.
• '24' Won’t Return in the Fall -- Tony Peyser's Verse-Case Scenario for BuzzFlash.com
• Bloomberg Wire: JPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named in Bid-Rigging Conspiracy
• The Progressive Magazine: This Is What Neofascism Looks Like
• Beth Arnold: The World Is Transforming...What About The Catholic Church?
• NYT: Senior lawyers in the Obama administration are deeply divided over some of the counterterrorism powers they inherited from former President George W. Bush, according to interviews and a review of legal briefs.
• Will Jobs be the Primary Issue on the Minds of Voters in November?
• In Afghan Trip, Obama Presses Karzai on Graft
• New Lawsuit Looms for Florida Manatee Protection
• Seven arrested in FBI raids linked to Christian militia group. Sources have said the FBI was in the second day of raids around the southeastern Michigan city of Adrian that are connected to a militia group, known as the Hutaree, an Adrian-based group whose members describe themselves as Christian soldiers preparing for the arrival and battle with the anti-Christ.
• States are awash in federal money for energy efficiency — $5 billion to weatherize low-income homes and another $6.5 billion for a wide range of projects from enforcing building codes to researching new energy technologies.
• 'Egg-as-Person' Makes Colorado Ballot, While Prospects in Florida and Nevada Remain Unclear
• Rachel Tabachnick: “This land is mine, God gave this land to me.” For many, these words evoke the haunting melody from Otto Preminger’s 1960 feature, Exodus. However, those words were not in the Academy Award-winning soundtrack composed by Ernest Gold. Christian Zionist and singer Pat Boone scribbled them down on a Christmas card after the movie was released as described in coverage by the Jerusalem Post of Boone’s “Christmas present to the Jews.”
• CBS Fact Checks the Lies Michele Bachmann Told on Face the Nation
• Barack Obama rallies forces on visit to Afghanistan
• AP: Drug lobby's health care win
• Corporate Mainstream Media Has Shifted: Now Has a New Narrative, Obama Has the "Big Mo"
• "In the meantime, we’re in for more tantrum politics, with Republicans petulantly protesting that they’ve not gotten enough love from the Oval Office while at the same time beating up Obama and his policies with a rhetorical baseball bat. It’s school yard antics from people paid to help run a government."
• Israel: Sixty-four former IDF soldiers are suing the Defense Ministry for NIS 18 million ($4.8 million) over what they claim is damage caused to them during Anthrax vaccine experiments in the early 1990s.
• Intriguing Headline: "How 50,000 Hindu pilgrims keep Lady Gaga looking hot."
• The Under the Radar Battle Over Redistricting After the 2010 Census
• Premium Reviewd by Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash: The Coming of the Chinese Century. "In the Jaws of the Dragon: America's Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony" (Paperback) -- Reviewed Exclusively for BuzzFlash by Thom Hartmann
• Preexisting condition vexes Romney
• Pelosi instructions to Democrats leaving for recess: It’s time to go on offense
• US-Israeli Relations at a Crossroads
• President Clinton apologized on March 10 for the role that his government played in destroying a big part of Haitian agriculture: "It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. ... I have to live every day with the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti, to feed those people, because of what I did."

• "Republicans were for President Obama's requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it."
• It Appears Insurance Companies Will Try to Evade HCR Mandate to Require Coverage of Children with Pre-existing Conditions
• Chris Hedges: Is America ‘Yearning For Fascism?’
• Catch This: State of Utah Okays Eminent Domain to Seize Federal Property. This Could Lead to Armed Federal Agents Protecting Federal Property from Being Annexed by Utah.
• Four employees of the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, including an Australian citizen, were convicted by a Chinese court on Monday of accepting millions of dollars in bribes and stealing commercial secrets. They were sentenced to seven to 14 years in prison, and the company said the four would be fired immediately.
• Palin Tells Constitution-Loving Tea Partiers: We Don’t Need A President Who Is A ‘Constitutional Law Professor’ McCain and Palin: Dumb and Dumber.
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• Tom Dispatch. Welcome to Glennbeckistan: Where the Tea Party Rules and Tea-hadis Roam
• UK Guardian: Pope faces fresh wave of child sexual abuse scandals in Italy
• Frank Schaeffer: The GOP leadership have literally gotten into bed with hate. Like all such bargains with the devil, it was easier to begin their relationship with rube America than to end it.
• Rubio Admits Repealing Health Care Isn’t Realistic, But Says GOP Should Campaign On It Anyway
• U.S. Military Doing 'Limited' Drug War Work In Mexico, Napolitano Says. Uh, Exactly What Does That Mean?
• Frank Rich: The Virulent Violent Hatred of the Tea Party and GOP Leaders is About Race. Don't Kid Yourself. It's the Last Gasping Effort of the Neo-Confederacy and White Males to Seize Power Away from An America in Which They Will Soon Become a Minority.
• Tuh-WEET! There goes another right wing talking point
• An Unprecedented Level of Obstruction from the GOP
• Survivor of Clergy Sexual Abuse in Boston: The Catholic Church Leaders Have Not Cleansed the Cancer of Child Sexual Abuse -- Gary Bergeron for BuzzFlash
• Tea Party of Nevada candidate hit with felony bad check charges, also facing home foreclosure
• Congress has taken aim at financial institutions that hide information about offshore accounts. One would hope so. "Individuals have stashed an estimated $1 trillion in offshore accounts, the government says, allowing them to avoid up to $70 billion in taxes each year. The federal government estimates that abusive offshore schemes by corporations cost our Treasury an estimated $30 billion in tax revenue as well."
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• Large Scale Sexual Abuse of Deaf Boys by Priest in Milwaukee: Milwaukee priest’s victims have questions, no answers
• In a campaign initiated by World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), more than 1 billion people from over 1,000 cities in 125 countries and territories around the world switched off their lights for one hour between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.
• US troop deaths double in Afghanistan
• Drumbeats of Coming Conflict with Iran?
• "Conservative Woodstock?" Fox News' all-day promotion of anti-Reid tea party rally
• Families Double Up in Housing Crisis
• Gunning for Social Security
• Protesters gathered outside the main Catholic church in the UK today to call for the Pope's resignation over clerical sex abuse.
• Obama announces 15 recess appointments, scolds GOP, Includes great pro-Union appointment to National Labor Relations Board
• Thailand protesters try to oust army from streets
• Putting wind-generated power where it’s needed
• Are There Scientology Sweatshops?
• Joan Wile, Grandmothers for Peace: "If you know the Upper West Side of Manhattan, you know there are probably more progressives per square inch here than in all the 50 states. So, it's no surprise that a big bunch of people showed up this evening, March 27, at my small one-bedroom apartment in this highly liberal neighborhood to see Michael Moore's masterpiece, "Capitalism: A Love Story.""
• Pope: I 'will not be intimidated' by sex abuse accusations. The Pope Doesn't Get the Gravity of the Epidemic of Child Sex Abuse in the Church. This is a Crime, Literally.
• Colbert King: In the faces of Tea Party shouters, images of hate and history
• Maureen Dowd: "The church has been tone deaf and dumb on the scandal for so long that it’s shocking, but not surprising, to learn from The Times’s Laurie Goodstein that a group of deaf former students spent 30 years trying to get church leaders to pay attention."
• Bob Herbert: "So I guess it’s understandable that the financial industry and other big-money interests are all but hysterical in their opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Agency that has been proposed by the Obama administration as part of its overall reform of financial regulations. You’d hardly expect the people rifling the pockets of middle-class Americans and the poor to be happy about an agency with oversight and enforcement authority homing in on their nefarious and wildly profitable activities."
• Why Does Congress Allow a Pedophilia-ridden Church to Control Women’s Rights?
• Matt Taibbi: "If you look at it that way, the church’s institutional behavior is far worse than is commonly believed. It’s not just a matter of an intractable bureaucracy responding too slowly or too insensitively to some scattered accidents of fate. This is more like the situation of a car company that continues selling a cheap but faulty brake system because it has calculated that it stands to make more money selling the cars than it does to lose in lawsuits. The only difference is, a car company can fix the brakes if it wants to. What the Catholic church is selling is by definition faulty. It can’t change, or it will be out of business. So even if not changing means kids will be continue to be molested, it doesn’t change."
• The Legacy of Three Mile Island: It Could Happen Again At Any Time -- Harvey Wasserman for BuzzFlash
• Although lawmakers have been focusing on the economy, current policies don't address the deep financial problems facing many women of color.
• Thai Leader Meets With Protesters
• Health care: How will you be affected by reform changes?
• Sarah Palin and Tea Party to Stalk Harry Reid in His Small Hometown in Nevada.
• VIDEO: The Extreme, Violent Rhetoric Of GOP Lawmakers
• U.S. courts allow sex abuse cases against Vatican to proceed in rare legal move
• Palin Steps Deeper Into the Tea Party
• What is it with Republican sex with animals?
• The Republican National Committee has rejected a proposal from its Democratic counterpart to sign a joint “civility” statement, POLITICO has learned.
• Reid open to recess appointments made necessary by Republican Obstructionism
• There is a push among some southern whites in the U.S. for a separate category on the census. The Southern Legal Resource Center is calling on self-proclaimed “Confederates” to declare their heritage when they are counted in the 2010 Census. According to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the organization is urging white Southerners to declare their “heritage and culture” by classifying themselves as “Confederate Southern Americans” on the line on the form, question No. 9, that asks for race. Check “other” and write “Confed Southern Am” on the line beside it.
• NYT: Deaf boys tried to tell of priest’s abuse for years
• Breakthrough: EPA proposes blocking West Virginia mountaintop mine
• "President Barack Obama told Americans on Saturday his student loan overhaul should help drive college graduation rates back to the top worldwide and save money in the process." Kudos to the President and Congress for Cutting Out the Predatory College Loan Industry. This was a Big Accomplishment.
• Just One Question: Where were all these “freedom-loving” right wingers during the Bush years? -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash
• Viva la Student Loan Revolution: One Part of Healthcare Reform Corporate America Couldn't Buy -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Lights Go Out as Global Climate Campaign Begins
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• Richard Fricker: "In what can only be described as a surreal moment reminiscent of “Night of the Living Dead” a group of Teabaggers accosted me."
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• Nat Perry: The GOP's Double Standard on Anger
• Mitt Romney wins BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award for Slamming 'Obamacare' While Taking Pride in Romneycare. Romney offers no apology for the supposed abuse of power that apparently is Mass-Care. Instead he offers a mass scare, insinuating that the country might just disintegrate because a plan that he personally signed off on is going national.
• Death of the Tea Parties? Not So Fast...
• Report: U.S. take if it sells its Citi stake to settle cost of bailout, $8 billion
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• "Republicans were for President Barack Obama's requirement that Americans get health insurance before they were against it."
• If elected Republicans truly believe in small government, then they should follow in the footsteps of their fearless leader, former-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, by resigning and returning to their refuge: the private market.
• Second TSA Nominee Withdraws
• GOP Party of Jim Jones: GOP Rep. Nunes calls Hill aides ‘staff thugs,’ compares Pelosi to Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe.
• The Pentagon's request for a $33 billion war supplemental for Afghanistan has Congress concerned about long-term costs. Training Afghan security forces, for instance, could take years....Here we go again.
• Kandahar: War and Death Continue in Afghanistan
• Rep. Eric Cantor's Lies on the Supposed Attack on His Campaign Office Are Really Piling Up
• Personal Income Drops Across the Country
• IRS Commissioner Debunks GOP Fear-Mongering: We Won’t Audit People To Check Health Insurance Status
• No "racial slurs"? Wash. Times tea partier apparently can't read his own sign
• Union Chief: GOP Fueled Healthcare Vote Violence
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• Should the Pope Be Punished for Church Abuse Scandal? -- BuzzFlash Discussion Join the debate by clicking here
• Say It to My Face: Congressmen Challenge CEOs of Caterpillar, Verizon and Deere to Testify Under Oath That Healthcare Bill Will Make Insurance More Expensive
• Beth Arnold in a Profound Commentary on the Immoral Incitement by the GOP: "The Republican Party, which has not only gone along with the raping of the American psyche but has actively promoted such rape, has sold its soul and those of every other American for all the things Lee Atwater spoke against on his deathbed--money, power, and greed. And with the GOP's total lack of morality, it has convinced our American worker bees that they should hate their friends and neighbors who look or think differently than they do. Republican propaganda has convinced the blue-collar men and women--again, the bedrock of the American psyche--that not only do they not deserve to be able to go to the doctor and receive the medications and medical care that they need, but those who are even less fortunate than they also don't deserve any brotherly or Christian love or societal care. They have been whipped into a frenzy of being mad as hell. And on some level, they have come to believe they are not worthy. We have become a savage nation. We have sold the American soul."
• Debunking Eric Cantor's Bizarre Bullet Story
• AT&T; Inc. will take a $1 billion non-cash accounting charge in the first quarter because of the health care overhaul and may cut benefits it offers to current and retired workers.
• California Marijuana Legalization Initiative Makes for Strange Bedfellows or Peas in the Pot, So to Speak
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• Vatican attacks media 'conspiracy' in latest child rape cover up
• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 136: Financing Fascism, I -- Steve Jonas for BuzzFlash
• Tom Shales of WaPo Wins BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award for Breaking Out His Own Bias to Prove Christiane Amanpour is Too Biased to Host ABC's This Week.
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• The She Bagger
• GOP Complains Health Reform Bill Doesn't Cover Armageddon Until 2012
• These are Ironic Times
• The Ballad of John and Loco
• Mitt Romney: Constitutionally Challenged
• Republicans: Stuck Between Their Crock And A Hard Place