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- Thommy Thompson to Run as GOP Contender for Herb Kohl's Wisconsin Senate Seat. Thompson Will be a Strong GOP Candidate in WI.
- Glenn Greenwald: Jane Mayer on the Obama war on whistle-blowers
- Birthers, Deathers and Now Default Deniers
- Republicans Want to Take Child Labor Laws Back to the 19th Century -- Dick Meister for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Michigan: Emergency Manager law repeal campaign begins statewide
- After The Senate Votes To End Secret Holds, Anonymous GOP Senator Blocks Nominee With A Secret Hold
- Revenue jump cuts California's deficit in half, governor says
- LA Times, The Terminator Never Stopped His Sexual Misbehavior: Schwarzenegger fathered a child with longtime member of household staff. His wife, Maria Shriver, moved out of their Brentwood mansion earlier this year after the former governor acknowledged the child was his. The staff member worked for the family for 20 years, retiring in January.
- While John Kasich Cuts Education And Children’s Health Funds, He Spends Millions On Casino Consultants
- "The U.S. Supreme Court has put an end to a lawsuit over the CIA's so-called torture flights, refusing to consider a long-running case against a San Jose-based subsidiary of Boeing accused of participating in the operations."
- Politico: GOP Budget Cuts Hit the Poor the Hardest
- All In The Family: Guess Who Comcast's Newest Lobbyist Is Related To!
- Accusation: "The Christian Right is Aiming to Destroy All Things Public"
- New York State to Launch Formal Inquiry Into Possible Mortgage Fraud Among Wall Street Banks Too Big to Fail
- Poll: Michigan Voters Oppose Cutting Corporate Taxes, Support Constitutional Protection Of Labor Rights
- Time for Financial Regulators to Limit Speculation in Oil Market -- Robert Creamer for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Music legend Carlos Santana spoke out against Georgia's new immigration law during a baseball game in Atlanta.
- The Case of the Exploding Watermelons in China
- Tammy Baldwin Likely to Run for Kohl's Senate Seat in Wisconsin
- We've Been Trumped: Le Donald Got His Millions of Dollars Worth of Publicity and His Gig on NBC Was More Important, So He's Not Running for Presidient As if He Had a Chance.
- 44 million Americans would lose coverage under a Medicaid block grant
- Federal Audits Accuse Five Biggest Mortgage Firms Of Defrauding Taxpayers
- In Palin's Hometown, High School Jazz Choir Couldn't Freddy Mercury Song Because He Was Gay, But Then Principal Changed His Mind
- Get the GOP on Record in the Senate Voting Against Medicare
- Emanuel sworn in as Chicago's new mayor
- Tens of Thousands Rally in Wisconsin to Declare: 'This Fight is NOT Over!'
- If Newt Gingrich Wants a Leaner Government, He Should Lead by Example -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- FLASHBACK: Reagan warned of "incalculable damage" if debt ceiling not raised
- IMF chief denied bail in hotel sex assault case
- Are Republicans Experiencing a Meltdown on Healthcare?
- “Ironically, Obama has presided over the most draconian crackdown on leaks in our history—even more so than Nixon.” From The New Yorker
- Bring on the Clowns. Sources: Bachmann may join GOP race next month
- Report: U.S. Hits Debt Ceiling
- Paul Krugman: America Held Hostage
- "Flood anger: 'Saving the rich and burying the poor?'"
- Gov. Rick Scott shifts money from unemployment checks to corporations
- Disgraced John Ensign Update. Federal Elections Commission official: “I hate it when people lie to us… Maybe we should not be so trusting.”
- "The Transportation Security Administration is confident that its full-body X-ray scanners are medically safe, but a group of scientists with expertise in cancer and radiation say the evidence made public to support those safety claims is unreliable."
- Maddow: Thousands rally in #Wisconsin on Day 90. Last recall signatures are due
- Dick Armey Invades Pennsylvania: Former House Majority Leader Holds Tea Party For School Vouchers
- Is Scholastic Selling Elementary School Kids on Coal?
- Former Blue Dogs find lobbying jobs
- "America's super rich, new IRS income data show, partied on right through the depth of the Great Recession. And they shared precious little of their good fortune with Uncle Sam."
- Facebook Was the Alleged Means of Organizing a Non-violent March of Palestinians Into Israel
- What you need to know and do for Saturday "Rapture Day"
- Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum's 'Google Problem' Resurfaces with Jon Stewart Plug
- Brad Blog: Clay County, KY, Election Officials Sentenced to 156 Years in Election Rigging Case; ALSO: Voting Machines Impounded in Perry County, KY
- Why Cornel West Went Ballistic on Obama
- Unemployment Cuts To Grant Business Tax Breaks
- At least 27 people were found dead in a Guatemalan village near the border with Mexico Sunday morning in one of the worst mass killings in the country in a generation, local police said.
- Robert Greenwald Takes on the Koch Brothers
- Here We Go Again: British Commander Says Libya Fight Must Expand
- American Democracy Beyond Casino Capitalism and the Torture State
- Ayn Rand, a Dangerous Greed Guru
- Japan Reversed Its Policy on Nuclear Power Plants. Will We?
- Warning: The Man Behind Citizens United Is Just Getting Started
- Conservative Daily Caller Drags Michele Bachmann's Skeletons Out of the Closet
- President Obama polls well despite jobs fears
- Corporations, Federal ‘Reform’ Keep Shifting Healthcare Costs to Workers
- Again, Ron Paul Calls Social Security and Medicare Unconstitutional, Compares Them to ‘Slavery’
- Emanuel ready to do it his way
- Obama administration is divided over future of U.S.-Pakistan relationship
- The quaint and obsolete Nuremberg principles
- Why isn't Wall Street in prison?
- Corporations, Federal ‘Reform’ Keep Shifting Healthcare Costs to Workers
- Evacuations in Cajun country after floodgates open
- E.J. Dionne: Lincoln Would Weep at the Modern GOP
- Watch out, Whistleblowers: Congress and Courts Move to Curtail Leaks
- Senators demand CFTC tackle oil speculation
- Juan Cole: The Koch Brothers and the End of State Universities
- Guerilla Action NAILS NYC’s David Koch Theater During Red Carpet Event
- Goldman’s Shares Drop Sharply After Downgrade
- At Bahrain Hearing State Department Skipped, Human Rights Groups Urge "Forceful" Action
- Actually, "The Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do.
- Blackwater Founder Forms Secret Army for UAE
- "A new study by toxicologists and obstetricians looks in the bloodstreams of a sample of Canadians for pesticides associated with genetically modified foods (new acronym alert: PAGMF). They studied pregnant women, their fetuses (actually umbilical cord blood after delivery), and also a group of non-pregnant women. GM-associated insecticide was widespread in the blood samples."
- Rowdy, Friendly Crowd of 500 Marches in NYC to Rebrand David H. Koch Theatre "The Tea Party's Wallet"
- House Speaker Zellers: Voting is ‘a privilege, it's not a right'
- Fox's Goler Pushes False Claim That Unions Are Exempt From Draft Executive Order
- Fox Whitewashes Ensign Ethics Scandal
- Fox Rushes To Defend Oil Companies After Senate Hearing
- Limbaugh Is "Epically Wrong" About Government Job Losses
- What Holbrooke Knew - Perils of Overly Relying on Military Force
- It's Time to Break Up AT&T;, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms
- Doonesbury - Time to Fight Back
- Police: IMF head picked out of lineup in sexual assault case
- Bin Laden’s Death Won’t End His Toll on American Taxpayers, Poll Shows
- The Remarkable, Lurid, and CRIMINAL Story of Now-Former Sen. John Ensign (& Sen. Tom Coburn)
- The Global World Money Elite Shaken by Charges of Sexual Assault: IMF chief Denies NYC Charges, But Is In Detention, Pending Arraignment
- Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Warrior Pundits and War Pornographers
- Rick Santorum Caught Up In John Ensign Affair: Senate Ethics Report
- Treasure Islands: An Offshore Awakening
- Georgia Human Rights Summer Called
- Armed Conflicts Claim Unprecedented Number of Civilians
- Arrest of IMF Director on Sexual Assault Charges in NYC Probably Removes Top Progressive Challenger to Sarkozy Bombshell Development in One of the Main Neo-Liberal Organizations Running the World Economy
- N Korea and Iran "sharing ballistic missile technology"
- Health insurance gone, paralyzed athlete fights for his life
- Whoa! IMF Director Arrested in New York on Sexual Assault Charge. Dominique Strauss-Kahn: who could succeed him?
- Ireland's future depends on breaking free from bailout
- Hypatia and the Clash of Civilizations in Late Antiquity
- The Return of the Real McCain
- It Takes a Drone to Bomb a Village of Children -- Jacqueline Marcus BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Yawn to Huckabee's No-Go
- In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights
- The Renewable Future
- Synecdoche Wisconsin
- FOX "News" Obsessively Incites Racism. It's Not Even Debatable. -- Mark Karlin Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Israel-Palestinian violence erupts on three borders
- We Won't Have the Huckster to Kick Around in 2012: Huckabee won't run again for president
- The Moral Bankruptcy of Middle-Aged Republican Elected Officials Behaving Badly -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care
- Starving the Rebellion: Syria's Brutal Tactics
- Jane Corwin Voted To Allow Women To Be Shackled During Childbirth
- Let's Join Japan and Junk New Nuclear Power Plants -- Harvey Wasserman for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Tenn. Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From History Textbooks
- Goodbye Polluting Industries! You Won’t Be Missed: Renewable Energy is the Dominating Energy Force -- Jacqueline Marcus BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Amid Haiti's Devastation, Musician-Politician Takes Over as President
- Obama Pushes for Increase in Domestic Oil Production
- Rahm’s “team” appointments in Chicago violate state school code
- An FCC Commissioner’s Brazen Dash Through the Revolving Door Buried by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News
- Trump has thrived with government's generosity
- Women Against Tea-Publicans in Indiana
- US Army Opens Mississippi Spillway
- "Friday of Decisiveness in Yemen”: Tens of Thousands Protest as President Saleh Defiantly Rejects Demands to Resign
- Actually, "the Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do
- Report: Shirley Sherrod heading back to USDA for new job
- Brinksmanship For Dummies
- Newt's Big Fail: How He Couldn't Lead Conservatives Into Taking Climate Change Seriously
- Seniors, Guns and Money
- Forget Raj: "Too Big To Fail" Is Still "Too Big To Jail"
- How Fox News Outfoxes Americans
- The Black Unemployment Epidemic, Pt. 1
- Taking Back the States
- Why does the GOP hate taxes so much?
- What’s a Big Government?
- Why are we so angry at the pump? Because we have no choice
- Mr. Ryan’s Neighborhood The House budget chairman’s plan takes from the poor and gives to the rich.
- Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant
- Illinois House Passes Education Reform, Slashes Budget
- Bin Laden raid: Neighbors say Pakistan knew
- In the slums of Nairobi, elderly women take tough measures to protect themselves from rape.
- Food Fears Return
- Fishing Villages Turn to Int'l Justice in Fight Against Waste Duct
- Smuggling Everything From Cough Syrup to Sex
- Two Peas in a Pod. Information Found in Osama's Newly Discovered Diary: bin Laden and Limbaugh Both Hate Obama. -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- SOUTH AMERICA: Curbing Land Purchases by Foreign Investors
- Weapons That Will Never Die: We Need to Stop the Expensive Reincarnations (Part II)
- Ron Paul: ‘Why Not?’ Abolish FEMA, Government Should Not ‘Take Care Of Us When We Do Dumb Things’
- Mitch Daniels, Architect of US Debt Crisis
- Obama to open Alaska petroleum reserve to new drilling
- Ohio: A New Kind of Battleground
- Syria offers ‘dialogue’ to opposition as protests continue
- Mubarak's Wife, Also, Has Sudden Heart Attack During Questioning on Corruption
- Anti-Gay Bill in Uganda is Shelved in Parliament
- The Awkward Exit of Mideast Envoy George Mitchell
- Why We Must Sail to Gaza
- GOP-Style Democrats Slash DC Budget: Homeless, Poor Children at Risk
- Sixth Circuit Gives The Thumbs Up To Federal Judge Who Belongs To Whites-Only Country Club
- US Air War Costs $750 Million Thus Far
- Scientists’ Report Stresses Urgency of Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Scott Walker's School Voucher Overreach: The Privatization of American Education for Profit
- Democrats Blast ConocoPhillips CEO Over “Un-American” Comment
- Right Wing Assault on Education is in Full Swing. Learning Doesn't Matter, Just Profit. -- Mark Karlin Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Is Herman "Godfather" Cain the Second Coming of Alan Keyes? No, Cain Comes With Pepperoni. -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- How the Murdoch Press Keeps Australia's Dirty Secret
- The Promise of Grassroots Populism and Protest at the State and Lccal Levels
- "Official: George Mitchell, U.S. Middle East envoy, to resign." Things not going so well.
- Estimate: 44 Million Could Lose Health Coverage Under Republican Budget
- Dubious Achievement Award of the Day: Pawlenty Snags Swiftboat Funder and Other Top Donors
- Michael Moore: Some Final Thoughts on the Death of bin Laden
- GOP Bill Shifts Oil Drilling Cases To Court Dominated By Judges With Oil Investments
- Appeals Court Cites "Unchecked Incompetence" at VA, Hands Veterans Major Victory in Mental Health Care Case
- The dirty energy money behind the Senate move to dismantle the EPA
- Scott Walker's School Voucher Overreach
- Democratic US Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin Won't Seek Re-election
- Mike Huckabee Will Teach Your Children Not So Well
- Trump's Building Scam
- AFL-CIO Turns Corner, Embraces Immigrant Workers
- Legal Advocates Slam Tea Party Constitution Classes
- "A Win-win for the Super-rich: Their Income Soars While Their Real Taxes Plunge"
- Facebook Tried to Use Social Networking to Smear Google, Through a Pricey PR Agency
- Krugman: "Between an aging population and rising health costs, then, preserving anything like the programs for seniors we now have will require a significant increase in spending on these programs as a percentage of G.D.P. And unless we offset that rise with drastic cuts in defense spending — which Republicans, needless to say, oppose — this means a substantial rise in overall spending, which we can afford only if taxes rise."
- Report: The Senate Might Have Expelled Former Senator Ensign Over Ethics and Legal Issues Involving His Adulterous Affair
- WikiLeaks: US opens grand jury hearing First session of process of deciding whether to prosecute website and founder Julian Assange for espionage
- TEPCO Admits Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 'In State of Meltdown', Fuel Rods Exposed
- "Former Sen. John Ensign of Nevada broke federal law, made false statements to the Federal Election Commission and obstructed a Senate Ethics Committee's investigation into his conduct, the [Senate] panel said Thursday in a scathing report that sent the matter to the Justice Department for possible prosecution."
- Viewpoint: If Snyder and Republicans are not stopped, Michigan will be like Walmart
- McCain Says Bin Laden Death Not Result Of Enhanced Detainee Interrogations
- "How Raising Retirement Age Screws the Poor"
- Gary Trudeau Calls Out Lanny Davis as an Unethical Scumbag
- It's Been a Bad Few Months for Transparency and Whistle Blowers Who Release the Truth
- The Forces of Evil in Our Midst. "Rand Paul: If You Believe In A Right To Health Care, ‘You Believe In Slavery’"
- BuzzFlash Celebrates Its Eleventh Anniversary Online, Now, as a Member of the Truthout Family.
- FLASHBACK: Romney, WSJ talk health care, circa 2006
- Tim LaHaye: The King of the Apocalyp$e Returns, Enjoying the Rapture all the Way to the Bank -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Radical GOP/Tea Party Somehow Perpetuates the Myth of the "Political Middle" -- Steve Jonas for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Why Are Taxpayers Giving $4 Billion Dollars a Year to Oil Companies Making $4 Billion Dollars in Profits a Week?-- A BuzzFlash at Truthout News Alert
- Massy Mine Disaster Update. Families: Massey acted 'above the law' after blast.
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Evil GOP Bastard of the Month
- After Bin Laden's Killing, Al Qaeda Radically Revises 'Logistics'
- Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
- Poll: Given Choice Between Palin and Trump, Most Voters Choose Suicide
- These are Ironic Times 5/16
- Donald's Trumped up Campaign
- Newt's 'Food Stamp' Comments Belie His Own 'Food Stamp' Problem
