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Enough is Enough with the "Centrist" Obama White House: "Even if voters pass Proposition 19 on Nov. 2, which would legalize use of marijuana in California, the Justice Department will continue to enforce federal drug laws there, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday." This is a waste of crime fighting resources and money.

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Excommunicated Over Abortion

Chavez Blows It on Human Rights When He Denounces Chinese Dissident, Winner of Nobel Peace Prize -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash

The imperial defense of Pentagon bloat

FBI Was Warned Years in Advance of Mumbai Attacker’s Terror Ties

Mr. President, Stop Talking to Us Like a Professor and Start Talking to Us Like a President -- Dee Evans for BuzzFlash

New Evidence of Torture of Detainees in Bagram's "Black Jail"

Corporate Shill Man: "Conservative Media Personality Glenn Beck Implored His Listeners Thursday to Flood the U.S. Chamber of Commerce With Donations."

Neo-cons Make Last Ditch Effort to Inject Israel Into Midterm Election -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash

The Rot of D’Souza’s Rant

The Myth of the Bad Teacher

There's Already a Big Winner in 2010: GOP and Its Secret-Money Allies

America's Dish Detergent Wars

Top 10 Crazy Things Conservatives Say: Global Warming Edition

SuperPacs are debasing our democracy

Republican Prosecutor sued for sexting domestic abuse victim

Carl Paladino's Attraction to Porn

Tomato pickers secure path-breaking deal with Florida grower

Holy Palin! O’Donnell Can’t Name A Recent Supreme Court Case In Debate But Promises To Put One On Her Web Site -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario

Countrywide’s Former Chief in Settlement of Fraud Case

Citizens United: An Unprecedented Threat to Reproductive and Sexual Justice

Report: Recovery Act Saved 40,000 American Wind Industry Jobs

"In all, 14 antiwar activists and several organizations from the Twin Cities and Chicago who are being investigated for alleged support of terror groups received subpoenas to appear before the grand jury this month. All -- including five who were to appear last week -- have told the U.S. Department of Justice that they are not going. Instead, several were among about 60 people gathered in front of the U.S. Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday to protest what they consider harassment and intimidation because they oppose U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. So far, it seems, the Justice Department has acquiesced."

When Will Our Water Be Clean?

Sept. retail sales rise, third monthly increase

Paul Krugman: The Mortgage Morass

The New Republic's Jonathan Chait predicts that the if the Republicans retake the House of Representatives this November, Fox News and the conservative media will drive them to impeach President Obama. Indeed, the conservative media has been banging the impeachment drum since as early as March of 2009.

Why Would Murdoch Receive an Award from the ADL? Good Question.

Welfare recipients pay banks millions in fees

Pope Bans Carla Bruni From the Vatican, but Priests Who Engage in Child Abuse are Welcome

Most people say they cannot afford the cost of cancer care not covered by insurance plans, a survey shows.

News in Brief: National Deficit Surpasses $1 Trillion for Second Year, and More ...

The Clear and Present Danger of Internet Voting

At a youth town hall, Obama says the recession has caused an increase in racial tension. No kidding.

Fact Check: New Conservative Anti-Spending Flick Plays Real Loose With Facts

The 'Teach-the-Dems-a-Lesson' Myth

Rory O'Connor: Pentagon-hides-Iraq-war-death-tally

"Partisan tensions are running high, but one top Bush adviser is being welcomed at the White House on Friday: Condoleezza Rice."

Joe Conason on Infrastructure: The Other Deficit

"While the Tea Party fumes at government spending on some programs they intend to shake up the government with spenders of their choosing. Recent reports that the government stimulus spending actually led to a net benefit for the nation at little expense to the budget, it is clear that they stir their tea with a particularly bitter GOP blend. The "Liberty at the Ballot Box" begins October 18 leading up to a fini It's called the "Liberty At The Ballot Box" tea party tour of the United States, and it launches in just days."

Six Reasons Why Americans Should Care About What is Happening with Christian Extremism and Discrimination in Uganda

Hilary Rosen: Obama is fixing GOP's economic mess

Nev. showdown: Reid calls Angle 'extreme,' she tells him to 'man up.' Fighting words, but then again, Reid said in the debate that Scalia was the Supreme Court Justice he most admired. Ugh!

Rachel Maddow busts Chamber of Commerce for attacks ads blaming Dems for job losses

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had a monster September, bringing in nearly $16 million and ending last month with $41.6 million in the bank for the homestretch of the midterm elections. The Republicans are concentrating on retaking the House.

Pants on Fire Liar on the Lie-o-Meter: Christine O'Donnell claims Chris Coons has "Marxist beliefs"

The Pentagon announced Thursday that it will comply with a court order to stop enforcing its "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring gays from serving openly in the military, even as the Obama administration asked a federal judge to delay implementation of the ruling.

Jim Hightower: The Rich vs. the Rest of Us

Where's The Note? Shock and Awe for Big Banks

Brent Budowsky: Watching Harry Reid and Sharron Angle debate for an hour, what became most clear is that as Reid ticked off the things he has done for Nevadans, Angle responded that senators should not be doing things for the folks back home.

The Tea Party's Cold War Roots

"The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, indicated on Friday that the central bank was poised to take additional steps to try to fight persistently low inflation and high unemployment." Uh, Like This Time Could it be Effective? Please, Sir!

Special Report: Wolfowitz Directive Gave Legal Cover to Detainee Experimentation Program

Dems push cost of living fix for seniors

David Sirota: The Imperial Defense of Pentagon Bloat

Robert Naiman: For a DREAMy, Wartime, National Service Draft

"They" Want "Their" Country Back So That They Can Sell It to the Chinese. Case in Point, Oil in Texas.

WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting

Brad Blog: Connecticut Election Commission Finds 'Insufficient Evidence' in Ann Coulter Voter Fraud Case But Ignored Key Evidence, Erred in Investigation

How Two Civilian Sleuths Brought Foreclosure Problems to Light

White House DOJ Formally Asks for DADT to Go Back Into Effect. Obama Says He is Against DADT, But Congress Must Overturn It, Which He Knows Won't Happen. This is Called Political Hypocrisy.

Report: Same Person Forged Billions of Dollars Worth of Mortgage Documents for Bank of America, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank and Dozens of Other Lenders and Shells

Union Activists Counter Unprecedented Election Cash from Corporations, Front Groups

NYT Editorial: Is Obama Administration Dithering on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’? You Bet, And It's Shameful.

"Beyond sloppy documents, the foreclosure debacle has exposed one of Wall Street's little-known practices: For more than a decade, big lenders sold millions of mortgages around the globe at lightning speed without properly transferring the physical documents that prove who legally owned the loans."

Crucial pieces of a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's health care overhaul can go to trial, with a judge ruling Thursday he wants to hear more arguments over whether it's constitutional to force citizens to buy health insurance.

Mr. President, Stop Talking to Us Like a Professor and Start Talking to Us Like a President

Chavez Blows It on Human Rights When He Denounces Chinese Dissident, Winner of Nobel Peace Prize

Holy Palin! O’Donnell Can’t Name A Recent Supreme Court Case In Debate But Promises To Put One On Her Web Site

Neo-cons Make Last Ditch Effort to Inject Israel Into Midterm Election

Paladino Tries To Explain His Latest Massive Blunder: "I Am Not A Homophobic"

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Christine O'Donnell Tells GOPers: 'I've Got Sean Hannity In My Back Pocket' Interesting word choice.

Pat "Wheel of Fortune" Sajak Goes to Bat for the Wingers

Nomi Prins | Why Is the White House Against Freezing Foreclosures in the Face of Rampant Fraud?

News Corporation Shareholders Rebel Against Company's Political Donations

Is Obama Hopelessly Behind on Foreclosure Issue?

Thomas E. Ricks: General Shelton: Rumsfeld was the devil in the form of a defense secretary

Push on Talks With Taliban Confirmed by NATO Officials

Researcher: "Terrorist" Suicide terrorism linked to military occupation

The failure of conservative elites

Michael Winship, Washington and Change: Cash You Can Believe in

Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana Legalization a Civil Rights Issue (Video)

Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Walk off The View in Protest of Bill O'Reilly's Islamophobic Statements

Unemployed Workers: Laid Off and Left Out

News outlets caution staffers about "attending" Stewart-Colbert events

David Corn on the Obama NYT Magazine Interview: "Why would the Obama White House want reporters (and voters) to fixate on what it got wrong in its first two years? Also, the piece reveals an internal contradiction in the White House. Obama and his aides note that one big mistake they made was underestimating GOP obstructionism, yet Obama tells Times reporter Peter Baker that he believes that after the mid-term elections he'll be able to work with Republicans."

U.S. Aids Taliban to Attend Talks on Making Peace

As Mountain Of Foreclosure Fraud Evidence Grows, National Media Has Decided It's Really More Of An "Oops!"

Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine

"Outside Cash Will Keep GOP Flush in Final Weeks"

Gulf Spill Fund Offers Little Information to Claimants

Bankers Ignored Signs of Trouble on Foreclosures

"Harry Reid pins hopes on big turnout"

Massey Cited for Serious Violations at West Virginia Mine

Weird Headline of the Day: "Elvis to the rescue: The King's music soothed Chilean miners."

Appalling: Five Public Colleges in Georgia Ban Illegal-Immigrant Students

Time to Get Tough on Crime: Let’s Nail the Banksters Who Have Stolen Millions of Homes

What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths

Biden Says Obama Asked Him To Run in 2012 as VP

"Germans have six weeks of federally mandated vacation, free university tuition, and nursing care. Why the US pales in comparison."

The U.S. is the Most Overworked Developed Nation in the World – When do we Draw the Line?

Glenn Greenwald, The Wars on Drugs and Terror: mirror images

Illinois: Aon to cut up to 1,800 jobs

"The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health insurance companies to offer child-only policies, said Wednesday that they could charge higher premiums for coverage of children with serious medical problems, if state law allowed it."

Gates Signals WH Will Fight DADT Repeal Order by the Courts

How Many People Have to Die Before Glenn Beck and Fox are Branded For Inciting, Aiding and Fomenting Domestic Terrorism?

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Making War By the Book

Yesterday Belongs to Them

What Would Roosevelt Do?

Florida's gay adoption ban won't be enforced anywhere in the state after the Department of Children and Families decided Tuesday not to appeal the ban's overturn to the state Supreme Court.

Colorado: "A billboard depicting Barack Obama as an Islamist suicide bomber, a gay and a Mexican bandit has triggered a storm of criticism in a western US city weeks ahead of crucial polls."

California Tea Party Frontrunner: Abolish Public Schools

BP to Shutter the Safety Watchdog, Despite Rise in Employee Concerns

Christine O'Donnell's Confused Debate Night: Candidate Asks For Hint On Recent SCOTUS Cases

Chile's Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued

By Election Day, there will be more than $200 million worth of campaign ads using untraceable cash.

Dick Durbin: IRS should investigate Rove's Crossroads

"The political action committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has been backing establishment candidates over tea party favorites in congressional races this year, and tea partiers within VFW ranks are up in arms and ready to mutiny."

China's Democratic Conversation

Federal Election Commission Asked to Investigate Rove's Political Fundraising Activities

Sebelius Pressures States To Keep Insurers From Dropping Child-Only Insurance Plans

"Detergent Suicides"?

Tea Party movement: Billionaire Koch brothers who helped it grow

Rove's American Crossroads to expand fundraising juggernaut to House GOP

A peaceful, nonviolent march and rally will coincide with and protest the George W. Bush Presidential Center groundbreaking in Dallas on November 16, 2010.

"Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle is distancing herself from an unusual foe — her own words."

Alan Grayson: Right-wingers can be very angry people. Angry about the president's birth certificate. Angry about black helicopters. Angry about government death panels. Angry that poor people have so much money. In fact, right-wingers are so angry that they seem to have trouble getting to sleep at night.

Leakers, Beware the Corporate Media

"Once the darling of Wall Street and the Darth Vadar of the agribiz universe, Monsanto has fallen on hard times. The reason may have to do with the essentially over-hyped nature of GMO technology. Tom Philpott explains."

Feingold's Challenge in Wisconsin: "The misinformation and simplistic solutions propounded by talk radio and the Republican Party are having an effect even in a state that preferred Mr. Obama by 14 points two years ago."

Glenn Beck: Drawing On 1950s Extremism?

Condi Rice Says Gingrich’s Anti-Obama Rhetoric Is ‘Over The Top,’ Not ‘Very Helpful’

McCain Tells Tea Partiers: GOP Is ‘Party Of Hell No’ And Fox News Is ‘The Best Place To Get Your News’

Over the past seven years, Republican state Rep. David Rivera repeatedly said in sworn documents that his main source of income, outside of his salary from the Legislature, came from consulting work he did for the U.S. Agency for International Development. But USAID has no record of ever hiring Rivera -- now a candidate for Congress -- or his company.

Federal Judge Orders Immediate Halt to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

More on the Foreclosure Scandal and the Mortgage Machine

Being Right Isn’t Always Fair

Why Chris Dudley Had His House Burned Down

We're Hemorrhaging Jobs From the "War Wound" of Defense Spending

US Attorney General Vows to Crush Will of CA Voters

Sestak leading in PA?

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"In a private phone conversation that was secretly recorded, Mark Kirk, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, told state Republican leaders last week about his plan to send "voter integrity" squads to four predominately African American neighborhoods of Chicago 'where the other side might be tempted to jigger the numbers somewhat.'"

Is Being Super Rich Just Boring?

Not a Good Sign: Michele Bachmann shatters fundraising record

Report: Iranian, Chinese Computers Also Discovered to Have Been Hacking DC Internet Voting System

Rolling Stone: The Case for Obama

The Callous Use Of Women's Lives To Sell The War In Afghanistan

Pfizer To Buy King Pharmaceuticals For $3.6B In Cash. Let the People Eat Cake!

Automated Greed Factories: How Soulless Banking Is Crushing the Economy

Census: Fast-growing US areas show big income drop

Mexico’s New War: Sex Trafficking, and the One Against the Drug Cartels Isn't Going Well

The attorneys general of all 50 U.S. states announced Wednesday that they are joining to probe mortgage loan servicers who are accused of submitting false affidavits, but they stopped short of calling for a national moratorium .

Biden: GOP is 'playing for keeps'

Carl Paladino made money from gay clubs

A lower Latino vote would signal trouble for the Democratic Party in November.

Bob Herbert: So Utterly Inhumane

US FDA warns of thigh fractures with bone drugs

"John le Carré, the former British spy turned spy novelist, has some grave words for Tony Blair. More than seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the former British prime minister, now out of office and touring the world pushing his political memoir, is encountering serious protests at his book signings."

Palin, Beck, the Tea Party and the Big Lie About Saving "Children and Grandchildren"

Paladino Tries To Explain His Latest Massive Blunder: "I Am Not A Homophobic" -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario

Rescue: Chilean Miners Reach the Surface

When Karl Rove Squeals, You're Doing Something Right

American Science's Racist History Still Haunts the World

Keith Ellison Exposes Michele Bachmann's Anti-Gay History on the Ed Show

FCC investigates wireless industry for billing practices, announces proposal to prevent shocking bills

In a 'tea party' year, a brew of gaffes, groans

Report: New Jersey Guts Toxic Clean-up Regs

Obama accuses Republicans of fear mongering

At Newsmax, Palin joins fellow conservatives with false, inflammatory attacks on Obama

Right-wing Oath Keepers fighting to return baby to abusive dad

Still Making Out Like Bandits: JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second- biggest U.S. bank, said profit rose 23 percent

The Brown-Whitman Debate

'Right to Work for Less' - The Low Road to Nowhere

Obama Administration lifts 6-month oil drilling freeze. Didn't take long.

Corporate Media: Tribune Co. proposes new bankruptcy settlement plan

Tina Dupuy: The Full Gingrich

Log Cabin Republicans, a political organization of gay conservatives, Were the Plaintiffs in the Latest Ruling Against DADT. Of Interest.

A Lot of Wealthy Cooks Out There: Sharron Angle Raises $14 Million

Preserve the Open Internet

The Reagan Backlash Against America: "The district attorney in Multnomah County, the state's most populous area with over 710,000 residents, announced recently that it can no longer prosecute dozens of crimes thanks to an ever-shrinking budget."

Republican Power and Slaughter of Native Americans

Proposed Chuitna Coal Mine in Alaska Threatens Salmon

Obama Pushes Transportation Spending

"The hottest progressive political show in the US finds a new home The Big Picture, a no-holds-barred talk show created and hosted by Thom Hartmann will appear on RT" Television Network

Paul Krugman: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? I Only Earn Six Figures

Anti-Choicers Pour Millions Into "Abortion" Misinformation Campaigns

Pay on Wall Street is on pace to break a record high for a second consecutive year, according to a study conducted by The Wall Street Journal: $144 Billion

Axelrod Is Wrong: Obama Must Protect American Families From Wall Street Fraud

The Nazi Virus and Human Experimentation -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash

GOP Candidate for Governor of New York: Porn Good; Gays Bad -- Barbara's Daily Buzz from Atlanta

Chemical Relations: Monsanto and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash

If Republicans Resume Power the Bankrupting Wars Will Never End -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash

Brazil Rises on the World Stage as Election of First Female President Looms -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash/Truthout

10 Reasons to Keep Fighting Like Hell for Equal Opportunity -- Sue Pastin for BuzzFlash

The Wages of Hate: The Development of Political Homophobia -- Steve Jonas for BuzzFlash

The 15% Solution Serialization, Ninth Installment. Chapter 8 -- Guest Commentary for BuzzFlash

The "Backlash" of the New Right Wing -- The September BuzzFlash/Truthout Review by Thom Hartmann -- Thom Hartmann's Exclusive September "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash/Truthout

THE LIGHTER SIDE:

Open Limerick To The Anti-Government Crowd

These are Ironic Times

Top Ten Facts in George W. Bush's Memoir

Cast of Jersey Shore: 'Carl Paladino Giving Italians a Bad Name'

MadKane: Guess Who's Itching for Impeachment

Mark Morford: Sympathy for the Wretched Politician