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• Business Week: Republicans Promising Cuts Deliver Deficit-Raising Policies
• Boehner's Fundamentalist Sharia View on the Constitution -- Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash Editor for Truthout
• Glenn Greenwald on Obama's Wall Street Bias. Meet Bill Daley and More of the Same.
• Republicans Exempt Tax Cuts and the Repeal of Healthcare Reform From Requiring Deficit Offsets
• The Great Middle Class Swindle
• Getting Republicans Up to Speed -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• "The United States economy ended the year by adding 103,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department said Friday, a number that missed expectations. But the unemployment fell to 9.4 from 9.8 percent."
• Geithner Asks Congress to Raise U.S. Debt Limit Quickl
• Harvard Economist Estimates Health Repeal Would Destroy Up To 400,000 Jobs Per Year Over Decade
• Robert Parry: "As the House of Representatives was engaged in its reading of an abridged version of the U.S. Constitution – leaving out parts like the sections on slavery that would make the Founders look bad – I was reminded again of the power of false narrative, especially at a time when the American Right dominates the U.S. media landscape."
• Afghanistan War: Is the US giving up the northeast?
• Only in America: Ted Haggard Gets a Reality TV Show
• Cafferty: House GOP breaking promises after only one day?
• Sorry, So Sorry: 68% Of Nevadans Regret Nominating Sharron Angle
• Reid: Democrats prepared to go it alone on filibuster reform
• Anti-Gay Bigotry and the Resilience of the Religious Right
• Apparently True: Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane
• Bill Daley Selection Pleases No One (But DC Reporters)
• Will House Republicans provide enough votes to ensure the nation can continue to operate?
• GOP Vs. the EPA
• Will House Republicans provide enough votes to ensure the nation can continue to operate?
• Rudy Guiliani Reportedly Considering 2012 Presidential Bid. Run for Your Lives!
• Child Refuses To Take Photo With John Boehner
• Fracking the life out of Arkansas and beyond
• The GOP's Health Care Repeal Problem: $230 Billion In Lost Revenue And Counting
• "Now That Support for Afghan War Down to 34%, How Should Peace Movement Push to End?"
• The Drone of Death -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Gore Vidal: Michele Bachmann 'Too Stupid To Deserve An Answer'
• Opium Production in Afghanistan: Strong and Corrupt as Ever
• Man Repatriated from Guantánamo to Algeria Against His Will
• Report: Pentagon Seeks Biggest Military Cuts Since Before 9/11
• Darrell Issa To Lead Obama Investigations: Suspected Arson, Car Theft, Weapons Charges! Wait! That Is Issa's Past!
• Paul Krugman: The Texas Omen
• After Railing Against Government Spending, Speaker Boehner Can’t Name One Program He Would Cut
• The Schumer Messaging Machine Comes to the Democrats in the Senate
• Business highlights of Bill Daley: With J.P. Morgan Chase since 2004; president, SBC from December 2001 to May 2004; vice chairman of Evercore Capital from January to November 2001. Former executive, Amalgamated Bank. Former member, the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae.
• Are Some Progressives Too Passive in the Face of Rampant Corporatism and Militarism? -- Peter Michaelson for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Two House Republicans Missed Swearing In While At A Fundraiser In The Capitol, Violating Constitution On Day It Was Read
• Pete Sessions Breaks Rules, Briefly Shuts Down Rules Committee
• US cuts finances to Ivory Coast's Gbagbo
• Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
• New Clues About Murder of Former White House and Pentagon Aide Continue to Stymie Authorities
• Republican Bid to Scrap Healthcare Hits Snag
• Filibuster talks to drive Senate recess
• "In another move to center, president to name Sperling as economic adviser"
• Bonehead Update: Boehner: Sure Obama's A Citizen, But I Won't Tell Others 'What To Think' (VIDEO)
• Why Aren't We Impeaching Antonin Scalia? -- Marc Perkel for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Post-Pelosi Era -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• A "Pledge of Resistance" to Defend Social Security (and Defund the Empire)
• Bill Daley: More Wall Street, Not Main Street. "The new chief of staff has for the past seven years been a senior executive at JP Morgan Chase, and before that worked for a hedge fund and in telecoms. He straddles the business-politics divide, having been Bill Clinton's commerce secretary for three years from 1997 and managed Al Gore's failed run for the presidency in 2000."
• Bank of America to Introduce new Fees to Increase Profits (Can't wait for those Wikileaks revelations ...)
• Bank Errors Cause Damage to Credit, Distress to Homeowners
• Democrats Plan Vigorous Attack on House Republican Repeal Effort
• Is David Brooks America's Most Misguided Pundit?
• GOP’s Push For Health Law Repeal Would Increase Deficit By $230 Billion Over 10 Years
• The Gun Lobby's Deadly Force: 80% of House and Senate Winners Were Backed by NRA
• Is It Safe To Expand Offshore Drilling in the Gulf? "New calls from industry to speed up drilling projects, and new evidence that lack of government oversight helped cause the disaster ..."
• State Revenues Sank 30% in 2009
• Immigrant Rights' Groups Switch to Defense, Gear Up to Fight Attacks on Birthplace Citizenship Rights
• Remembering Judy Bonds, Fighter Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: "I don't mind being poor, and I don't mind being made fun of. But I draw the line at being blasted and poisoned."
• Gore Urges China and U.S. To Build Greener Cities
• Adam Green, one of the most prominent progressive voices, was quick to criticize President Obama’s decision on Thursday to make William Daley his next chief of staff. "This was a real mistake by the White House,” Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said in a statement. “Bill Daley consistently urges the Democratic Party to pursue a corporate agenda that alienates both Independent and Democratic voters. If President Obama listens to that kind of political advice from Bill Daley, Democrats will suffer a disastrous 2012.”
• Women's Rights Groups, Dems Blast Scalia's Assertion That Constitution Does Not Protect Against Gender Discrimination - "A man in power like Antonin Scalia insists the word 'person' [in the 14th Amendment] does not apply to half of the population of the United States ..."
• GOP is a Fraud When It Comes to Public Policy and Governing -- Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash Editor for Truthout
• Abortion Rights Threatened by New GOP Red Tide in Congress -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• NYT Editorial: "But it is already clear that the Republicans’ plan is to serve their corporate donors, above all else."
• House Dems Formally Press House GOP To Announce Whether They'll Accept Government Health Care
• GOP bends its own new House rules, and that's putting it mildly
• Matt Taibbi: The Crying Shame of John Boehner
• Italy Bans Plastic Shopping Bags Starting January 1. Basta di Plastic!
• Republican-Hood: Steal from the Workers; Pander to the Rich
• World's Largest Solar Plant Moves Forward in China
• Lawmakers Across Country Target Birthright Citizenship - 14th Amendment Under Dispute - "a vicious assault on the U.S. Constitution [that] flies in the face of generations of efforts to expand civil rights.”
• House GOP Sheds Many of Its Promises Like a Chameleon Sheds Its Skin
• William Daley of the Famed Chicago Family -- and a Morgan Stanley Exec -- is the New White House Chief of Staff
• First GOP House Vote Disenfranchises Territories and District of Columbia
• BP Spill report: It could happen again 'Failure of management' and regulators given blame for disaster
• Healthcare repealers want government healthcare for themselves. Natch.
• Prominent Republicans Openly Back a Terrorist Group: Why Aren't the "GOP Four" Arrested? -- Lawrence Davidson for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Accusation: New York Times Book Review Excludes Black, Latino Critics
• Report: House GOP's Constitution Reading Could Cost Over $1 Million
• "U.S. Boosts Afghan Surge": It's deja vu all over again!
• Full-Catastrophe Banking in 2011
• Boehner’s Alleged Affair – and Gingrich’s Confirmed One – Go Unmentioned by the New Yorker – Yes, the New Yorker
• The J.P. Morgan Chicago Daley Connection. More Democratic Wall Street Takeover of the White House.
• Is It Mourning in America? -- Tom Hastings for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Dean Criticizes Tea Party, Fears Obama Could Lose Youth Vote
• Glenn Greenwald: U.S. teenager tortured in Kuwait and barred re-entry into the U.S.
• Tea Party Billionaire David Koch Entertains Newly Elected Republicans On The First Day Of The New Congress
• Michael Winship: At Year's End, a Tale of Two Cities
• How to cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon
• Dingbat Alert: Bachmann Weighing Run for President. BuzzFlash is Not Making This Up!
• America's Shooting Gallery: Omaha Principal Dies After Shooting
• Is WikiLeaks Just the Beginning of Government Transparency Sites?
• Is Head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce the New Godfather of "Democracy"?
• Shark Attack Alert: GOP Takes Over House -- Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash Editor for Truthout
• Broehner: Cry Me a River
• The Los Angeles Times reports that a number of conservative scientists are bucking conventional wisdom that "that liberals accept climate change and conservatives don't" by warning the public that climate change is real and seeking to debunk attacks from climate-change deniers.
• "At a time of feared national decline, our leaders undoubtedly prescribe military action in part to comfort us (and themselves) and restore our sense of potency and pride. In doing so, they violate the famous phrase long associated with the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm."
• So Much for Transparency in the White House
• Tom DeLay's Gang is Back in Town, Running the House
• States Aim to Strangle Unions by Their Blue Collars
• 40,000 dead crabs in UK join slew of animal-death mysteries
• Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals
• Anniversary of “Citizens United v. FEC” sparks summit, rally in D.C., national meetings
• The Democratic Struggle for Political Power Has Become Theatrical
• With Middle East peace talks at a standstill, a group of activists is taking matters into its own hands. The Parents’ Circle Families Forum, a group comprising Palestinians and Israelis who have lost family members in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, aims to build a bridge between the two fractured communities.
• 98% of the GOP Members of Congress Will Accept the Government Health Insurance That They are Trying to Deny to Others
• The GOP's Charlie Rangel
• As Coal King Retires to $12 Million, Mine Safety Struggle Goes On
• First, Your Shoes; Next, Your DNA: Elliot Cohen on How Surveillance Is Erasing Freedom and Autonomy, Step by Incremental Step
• Playing With Economic Dynamite
• Census: Number of poor may be millions higher
• Here We Go Again: Speech Suggests Pro-Business Approach by Cuomo. What About a Pro-people Approach?
• House GOP Backtracking on Promised 'Reforms' Before They Even Get Started

• Robert Scheer: Lanny Davis Puts Dems to Shame
• Congratulations Jan Brewer, your death panel was effective. A patient has died.
• "Justice Scalia Courts Controversy For Agreeing To Speak To Tea Party Caucus"
• Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 163: The Corporate Power vs. National Interest Capitalism -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
• "Republican legislators don't own the Constitution. In fact, they should be held accountable to it: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare...” Oh my! All that talk of of Common, General, and "We the People" -- don't tell Glenn Beck --it sounds like a front for socialism."
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate: An Introduction (Video)
• Kentucky Creationist Museum Will Feature Dragons, Unicorns
• The Boehnervik Takes the Reins of the House. His Official Theme Song is "Cry My a River and Pass the Cash."
• "The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can search the cell phone of a person who's been arrested -- including text messages -- without obtaining a warrant, and use that data as evidence."
• The Detestable, Frank Luntz Inspired House GOP "Healthcare Repeal" Law. It's a Proposed Law That is a Piece of Propaganda.
• NYT: "A prominent research psychologist's assertions about strong evidence for extrasensory perception is already mortifying scientists."
• Why Is Jeff Sessions Blocking A Child Sex Trafficking Bill?
• Richard Wolff: Recent decades have seen a massive redistribution of wealth, imposing the cost of successive crises on the poorest. Enough!
• Nader to NYTimes: "Have your public editor look into why flagrant, often bigoted right-wingers are given so much time and space compared with fact-based progressive leaders committed to 'equality and welfare.'"
• "In short, birthright citizenship is rooted in English Common Law, not in the 14th Amendment. Those who pretend that they're addressing a "controversy" about how the 14th Amendment was intended to apply are simply talking nonsense."
• CNN Reignites the Death Panel Myth
• No Tea Party: Glitzy GOP Fundraiser Kicks Off New Congress
• Pentagon Is Poised to Cancel Marine Landing Craft
• F.D.A. Orders Tobacco Industry to Disclose Ingredients
• How the Corporate Media Helped Embellish the US Military Coordinated Toppling of the Hussein Statue Way Back When. A New Yorker 2011 Column.
• Army's "Fitness" Test Designed by Psychologist Who Inspired CIA's Torture Program Under Fire
• Activist Communique: The melting Arctic - a threat to Indigenous land and culture.
• House GOP Ushers in Corporate Takeover
• Glenn Beck Dropped From New York Radio Station WOR
• Right-Wing Noise Machine Aims at Public Employees
• Robert Parry: Justice Scalia's 'Originalist' Hypocrisy
• Lots of Large Group Deaths of Animals Lately: An estimated 2 million fish have been reported dead in Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. I think Cheney and Rumsfeld have "get-away" mansions around there.
• More bee species dying off
• On the Retaliatory Beatings of Striking Georgia Prisoners: “The conditions in these prisons across the country are such that it's amazing that we haven't had more explosive situations or strikes because you have overcrowding, brutality, neglect, and the inability of prisoners to address these issues." And where is the Congressional Black Caucus?
• Some Senior Staff Changes at the Daily Show
• Meet the New Baloney About the Religious Right: Same as the Old Baloney
• New House Rules Prohibit Consideration of Removing Tax Giveaways to Corporations
• The Challenge To President Obama The Washington Post Refused To Print: "Fight for Social Security And Medicare"
• Village Voice: Dead Birds Fall in Sweden, Louisiana, Arkansas and Kentucky; Now It's Time to Panic
• IRS's 'hard-core' collection tactics needlessly harm taxpayers, report says
• The GOP Adopts New "Rules" for the House
• Lanny Davis' African human rights disaster. Lanny's a dirt bag. It's that simple.
• From the 2009 Archives: Geithner Aides Reaped Millions Working for Banks, Hedge Funds
• As if it weren't bad enough already: Killing of Governor Deepens Crisis in Pakistan
• Most Americans say tax rich to balance budget: poll. Uh, that's a landslide of 60%.
• Issa Goes Hollywood
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• Defending Senate Filibuster, Heritage Foundation Hosts Corporate Lobbyists Who Specialize In Helping Set Filibuster Record
• Gibbs to Leave as White House Press Secretary
• From Haaretz, "WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse"
• The GOP House's Opening Act: Making a Statement — or Making a Mockery?
• Georgia Prisoners Beaten With Hammers In Retaliation for December Strike: NAACP "said prison guards had beaten at least three inmates so badly that one was in a hospital intensive care unit, another required staples in his head and a third was beaten beyond recognition."
• Theater Audience Boos Tea Party Billionaire David Koch
• Maine Democrat Considering Challenging Snowe
• Vast Inequalities in Wealth Undermine Democracy -- Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• "As Republicans, among them Tea Party politicians, take control of the House, they would be wise not to misread voters’ will."
• The Military/Industrial/Academic Complex: Still Gobbling up the World and Our Economy After All These Years -- Harry Targ for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Birthright Citizenship Looms as Immigration Fight
• The Filibuster FAQ: Fact, Fiction, and Why We Need Reform
• "The Obama administration, reversing course, will revise a Medicare regulation to delete references to end-of-life planning as part of the annual physical examinations covered under the new health care law, administration officials said."
• Glenn Beck's Radio Empire Imploding on the East Coast - Due to Low Ratings, He's Off the Air in Home Base of New York, With Philadelphia (and Boston?) Soon to Follow
• Fed Moves to Gut Key Predatory Lending Regulation - "I view this as nothing less than a criminal ploy to shove hard working Americans out of their homes and onto the streets!"
• Update on the Dick Cheney
• Wikileaks: From South Atlantic to South Pacific, It’s Open Season on Environmentalists -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Ethnic Studies Classes Illegal in Arizona as of Jan. 1
• Newly elected Republicans are pushing state-level voter-ID laws designed to disenfranchise minority voters.
• Unbelievable, Republicans Ban "Labor" From Name of House Committee
• No Coal-Fired Power Plants Built in Past Two Years
• As Republicans Vow Repeal, More Health Care Reform Benefits Kick In
• Haley Barbour's Revisionist History
• Ex-Laura Ingraham Staffer In Counseling: “She Emasculated Me”
• If Obama Wants to Effectively Counter the Republicans, He Should Remember That You Can't Negotiate With a Shark -- Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash Editor at Truthout
• Republicans Aim Info-War at Obama
• Brad Friedman: "Once again proving the well-worn axiom IOKIYAR ("It's okay if you're a Republican"), disgraced former U.S. Attorney, Karl Rove protege and the Republican Party's 2004 vote cager, Tim Griffin has not only been elected as a Representative to the U.S. House from Arkansas' 2nd district, he's also been assigned to a leadership position as deputy whip and has been given a seat on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, of all places."
• Obama Job Approval Reaches 50% for First Time Since Spring
• Is an Independent Primary Challenge Necessary to the Corporate Direction of the White House?
• Despite Demanding ‘Bipartisan Discussions’ On Health Reform, Republicans To Vote On Repeal Without Hearings
• Pelosi Vows to Fight GOP Health Repeal Efforts
• 2011 Will Bring More De Facto Decriminalization of Elite Financial Fraud
• Get the Energy Sector Off the Dole - "70% of all federal energy subsidies goes toward oil, natural gas, and coal," less than 5% to wind, solar, and geothermal.
• Debunking the Myth That Roads Pay For Themselves (While Subsidized Public Transit Is a Left-Wing Conspiracy For More Government Handouts)
• Time to Fix the Senate: Unprecedented, Record-Breaking Use of Filibuster Has No Justification from American History: "At stake in this battle is the very notion of an open and accountable government that can respond to the public's wishes and not be obstructed by an obstinate minority."
• Laura Flanders on More Possible Wall Street Influence at the White House
• Weekly Audit: GOP plays chicken with the debt ceiling
• The Republican Majority's Coming War on Women: From Washington to the States (Aided By Compromising Dems?)
• New York Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing Republican members of Congress who oppose last year's health care legislation to decline health coverage for themselves and their families. Yes, Dems talking common sense.
• David Corn: The House GOP Weaponizes the Constitution
• The GOP Contract on America Returns, And We Are the Targets -- InternetWeekly.org for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Bradley Manning Update: "A soldier suspected of providing classified documents to the Web site WikiLeaks will be evaluated by a mental health panel, a U.S. Army spokesman said." Somehow we think that the administration has decided in advance the outcome of this inquiry.
• Scalia: Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination. This Dude May Have Beaten Bush and Cheney as the Person Who Has Done the Most Harm to the American Constitution in the Last Two Decades.
• G.O.P. Sets Up Huge Target for Budget Ax: You and Me
• Harper's Magazine's Always Entertaining Three Paragraph Summary of the Week's News
• "Navy Capt. Owen Honors, who produced profanity- and slur-laden videos while second in command of the USS Enterprise, has been relieved of his command of the ship, a senior defense official told CNN Tuesday."
• Let's Play Republican Economic Suicide! "In Killing Ohio’s High-Speed Rail Project, Kasich Eliminated Private-Sector Jobs He Promised To Create."
• NYT Editorial: "The Republicans’ refusal to give prompt consideration to noncontroversial judicial nominees sets a terrible precedent."
• Bob Herbert: GOP Rerun
• Report: Senate Rules Reform Fight Likely To Be Drawn Out For Weeks
• Administration Prepares to Defy Efforts to Limit Obama’s Options for Guantanamo
• Petraeus blew $1 million on Iraqi water park
• University refuses to remove from its website a student's thesis revealing flaw in chip-and-pin security system of bank cards
• Tom Dispatch: "Just as 2010 ended, the American military’s urge to surge resurfaced in a significant way."
• Why are So Many Homophobes Concerned About Gays in the Military, But Not the Rape of Females? -- Tony Peyser, Verse Case Scenario
• Can Democrats Turn Disaster Into Something Positive for 2011? -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Sacrifice Social Security? No, Make Corporate Tax Thieves Pay! -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Why is the Tea Party Targeting the Methodist Church? Good God! -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• Thom Hartmann: His New Book Exclusively Posted in Installments on Truthout. This Week's Chapter: "They Will Steal It!"
• Corporate Personhood Allows Corporations to Rule Over Democracy as Virtual Monarchs -- Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash Editor at Truthout
• Greedy Old Tea Party White Guys are Robbing Their Grand Children -- Jane Stillwater for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• “Maybe the regulators have just given up. As Comcast-NBC goes, so goes the nation.”
• The Tea Party GOP Gets Ready to Talibanize the US Constitution -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Republican New Jersey Governor Gives His State a Snow Job -- Tony Peyser, Verse Case Scenario
• Mark Karlin on Thom Hartmann's Latest Book, "Rebooting the American Dream" -- "Independent Thinker" Review of the Month
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• The John Boehner Diet
• New GOP Lawmakers Hungry for Founders' Diet
• The Conservative Constitution of the United States
• Flush Out the Boenherviks
• Mark Morford: The great impending OMG of 2011
• Brain Study Shows Conservatives Have a 'Caligula Amygdala'