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- Democrats pounce on GOP's use of Ben Affleck heist film Affleck, in another article, is quoted as saying the GOP should watch "Company Men" about the plight of unemployed men, one of whom commits suicide
- "Republican lawmakers who vote for the speaker’s debt-ceiling measure will face Tea Party retribution at the polls next year, movement leader Mark Meckler" says
- A Hero for Our Times: "Noted climate-activist-turned-environmental-folk-hero Tim DeChristopher will face two years in prison and a $10,000 fine for disrupting federal oil and gas auctions on Bureau of Land Management land."
- NYT Editorial: "How can so many Republican lawmakers justify pushing their country toward catastrophic default just to score ideological points?"
- Victory for Life! "A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s funding of stem cell research."
- Boehner's Boxed Himself In. Put a Bow on It and Send the Box Back to Ohio as a Christmas Gift to His Wife, Whom He Rarely Sees.
- Yes We Are Still in Afghanistan. Cut the War. Cut the Budget. "Kandahar mayor killed by suicide bomber with explosives in turban."
- Air Force Cites New Testament, Ex-Nazi, to Train Officers on Ethics of Launching Nuclear Weapons
- The Pernicious Influence Industry of Rage
- Boehner: ‘A Lot’ Of Republicans Want To Force Default, Create ‘Enough Chaos’ To Pass Balanced Budget Amendment
- CBO and Lack of Kamikaze Tea Party Republican Votes Sends Boehner Back to the Drawing Board
- Opinion: GOP brinksmanship on debt ceiling will cripple economy and job growth
- "U.S. gun maker Kahr Arms will pay nearly $600,000 to settle a lawsuit in a fatal shooting involving a gun a worker took from its factory, the Brady Center said. The non-profit Washington gun control lobbying group said in a release Tuesday the settlement is the largest damages payment ever by a gun manufacturer accused of negligence leading to the criminal use of a gun."
- In 2009, Piers Morgan Admitted Dodgy Practices While Working for Rupert Murdoch
- Tea Party Rebellion in House Forces Boehner to Delay on His Faux Debt Ceiling Bill. He Doesn't Have the Votes to Pass It on Wednesday.
- Reviewed by Thom Hartmann: "Orwell Rolls in His Grave"
- ‘We Get The Sacrifice, They Get The Wealth’: A Fired-Up Pelosi Tears Into GOP Deficit Plan. Go Nancy!
- Wednesday Marks the 45th Anniversary of the Implementation of Medicare
- "Dozens of airport construction projects across the country are on hold and thousands of federal employees are not working because Congress failed to pass legislation to keep the Federal Aviation Administration operating"
- The Reason Why Obama Will Not Invoke the 14th Amendment: The Supreme Court -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Orwell Rolls in His Grave at the Misleading Spectacle of the Corporate Media -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Debt Ceiling Debacle
- The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling. Bush Contribution to Debt 4 to 1 as Compared to Obama
- "House Republican leaders made frenzied pleas to their members to approve a plan to temporarily raise the debt ceiling, but passage seemed in growing doubt, and the White House strongly opposes the bill."
- Taxing The Poor: The Only Tax Increase Republicans Support
- Murdoch Veterans Portray an Engaged Boss, In Contrast to His Testimony in Parliament
- Internet Readers Comment on CNN: “It's looking to me kinda like grandma won't get her SS check because we invaded Iraq needlessly. That's pretty hard to swallow.” “Boehner's speech boiled down to ‘Do what I say, and no one gets hurt!’”
- Arkansas High School Appoints Co-Valedictorian Because Top Student Was African American
- The Disintegration of Sanity in Our Society: Pat Buchanan Says Norwegian Mass Murderer’s Anti-Islamic Xenophobia ‘May Be Right’
- From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock and Schlock
- How Boehner’s Debt Plan Produces ‘The Greatest Increase In Poverty And Hardship’ In American History
- NYT Editorial: "The Republican Wreckage" "House Republicans have lost sight of the country’s welfare."
- Bachmann has skipped 37 percent of votes since launching bid
- Yes! Federal Auditors Will Soon Review Health Insurance Rates in 10 States
- Thom Hartmann, Unequal Protection: Protecting Corporate Liars
- Congressional phones jammed after Obama appeal to contact lawmakers and many congressional servers reported crashed
- The New Wave of GOP Voter Suppression: Wisconsin DMV Tells Boy His Bank Account Doesn’t Show Enough “Activity” To Get a Voter ID
- Twitter Update: Media Analyst Jeff Jarvis Goes All Howard Beale on the Politicians in DC
- Tomgram: Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster
- One Small Step for Sanity: Guns on Campus Legislation Fails in Vast Majority of States in 2011 - Biggest Defeats Include Arizona, Louisiana and Texas
- Debt-lock at the D.C. corral
- Joan Walsh: Obama fights full-tilt Tea Party crazy
- Private Funeral for Amy Winehouse
- Oregon Congressman David Wu says he is resigning
- Wealth gap widens between whites, minorities 'I am afraid that this pushes us back to ... 'two societies, separate and unequal'
- Republicans Voted for the Debt in the Bush Years That They Now Blame on Obama
- Speaker Boehner's Disgrace
- GE Screws America Again: GE moving X-ray leadership team from US to China
- "Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) outlined the GOP's debt-ceiling plan to conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh on Monday before showing it to his conference."
- Fox News Has Mainstreamed Pam Geller's Islamophobic Hate Speech
- Job listings say the unemployed need not apply
- More on ALEC Exposed
- Chris Hedges: Fundamentalism Kills
- GOP 2010 Campaign ‘Pledge to America’ Broken: ‘We Will Fight Efforts to Use a National Crisis for Political Gain’
- In His Monday Night Comments, President Obama Did Not Mention the Word "Veto"
- Report? Betrayal? Senator Schumer, Liberal Democrat, Signs Off On No Additional Taxes On Wealthy
- William Rivers Pitt: So This Is Despair
- Wisconsin: Senate Republicans Make Taxpayers Finance Corporate ALEC Group
- Obama Makes Latest Chess Move in Statement to the Nation Monday Night But It's Getting Hard to Tell Tell Who is Offering What Anymore, Except That There Are Enough Republicans in the House to Put America Into Bankruptcy
- Emails Show White House Promotes Genetically Engineered Crops in Wildlife Refuges
- Norwegian Nightmare: Breivik Was Influenced By American Islamophobes Behind ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Hysteria
- "Obama’s Latest Debt Ceiling Offer Is to the Right of Gang of Six and Simpson-Bowles - GOP Still Says No"
- Meet the Members of the Michele Bachmann's Caucus on Capitol Hill
- Why Medicare is the Solution - Not the Problem
- Melting Arctic ice releasing banned toxins, warn scientists Unknown amount of trapped persistent organic pollutants poses threat to marine life and humans as temperatures rise
- New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked
- UN races to get food to hungry Somali refugees
- The Nutter Brigade, Republican Senator Mike Lee: I Want America’s ‘House To Come Down’ Unless Congress Votes To Rewrite Constitution
- The Teen Suicide Epidemic in Michele Bachmann's District
- Taxing The Poor: The Only Tax Increase Republicans Support
- Debt Deathmatch? Reid, Boehner Push Incompatible Plans To Avoid Default
- FOX is Second Only to North Korea in Peddling Propaganda -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Congress' Own Healthcare Benefits: Membership Has Its Privileges
- The Damage Done to America by Global Warming Would Be Cause for War if Done by Terrorists -- Peter G. Cohen for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Web Browser Add-Ons Let Users Block News Corp-Owned Websites
- Michele Bachmann: Bubblehead in a Bubble -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Emails Show White House Promotes Genetically Engineered Crops in Wildlife Refuges
- News Analysis: Resetting the Political Stakes of the Debt Ceiling Debate
- About 1 in 7 in US Receive Food Stamps
- Pressure Grows on James Murdoch
- New York Times Reporting Misses the Mark on Iceland, Prints Neoliberal Line
- The worse may still be ahead for housing – 3 million homes foreclosed on in the last three years with another 5 to 7 million foreclosures in the pipeline.
- Supreme Court ruling, rising police presence in schools spur Miranda questions
- New Report: The Right Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism
- Boehner, Reid to unveil new debt plans as deadline nears
- New Report Examines Lobbying Expenditures, Campaign Contributions and “Revolving Door” Connections of the Most Strident Opponents of Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Law
- Top British finance minister says the world’s biggest economic threat is from “right-wing nutters” in Congress who would send the US government into default.
- Drug prices to plummet in wave of expiring patents - generics saved the US health care system more than $824 billion from 2000 through 2009
- US Trucking Funds Reach Taliban, Military-Led Investigation Concludes
- Former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor: David Hicks' War Crimes Charge Was a "Favor" for Australia
- Why Prosecutors Don't Go After Wall Street
- AT&T; Spends $4.9 Million to Lobby Government in 2Q
- Young People Not Joining The Right-Wing Attack On Social Security
- Republicans Stumble Over Reid’s Surprise Debt Limit Offer
- Syria Holds Hundreds at Protests as Cabinet Approves Plan for New Parties
- US Squandered £21 Billion on Private Contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq
- ACLU Asks Judge to Stop Illegal-Immigration Law, Republicans React
- Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama Blinks
- Ezra Klein: Republicans Have Won
- Walker Cuts DMV Centers in Democratic Districts Now That Voter ID is Passed
- Why 96 Percent of Italian Voters Rejected Their Government's Push for Water Privatization
- Florida Clinics Remain Open in Face of Anti-Abortion “Siege”
- Fox News Refuses To Acknowledge Norway Shooter's Right-Wing Beliefs
- Yellowstone Pipeline Spill Worse Than Initially Feared
- Paul Krugman: Messing With Medicare
- Norwegian White Fundamentalist Christian Terrorist Admits Attacks That Resulted in Nearly 100 Dead, Mostly Teens. The Enemy Within. Watch Out America.
- White House and Boehner Play a Game of Chicken Down to the Wire on the Debt Ceiling
- Cartoon: Pyramid Schemes
- Michele Bachmann launches scathing attack on Tim Pawlenty
- The Nightmare in Norway and the Threat of Fundamentalist Christian, Blonde, Blue-eyed Terrorists in Our Midst -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Day of fury: Housing protestors converge on Tel Aviv
- Koch-Funded Tea Party Heavyweight Tim Phillips Spoke at Norweigan Killer's Political Party Event
- The Slaughter in Norway
- Suspect wanted to 'change Norwegian society'
- Gunman Kills Self, 5 Others At Texas Roller Rink
- When is Terrorism 'Christian'?
- Coburn Bemoans FAA Shutdown, Doesn’t Mention House GOP’s Anti-Union Demands
- Eisenhower Today Would be Considered a Socialist by the Modern Radical GOP -- A BuzzFlash News Alert
- Woman in DSK New York Assault Case Breaks Her Silence
- Eisenhower Today Would be Considered a Socialist by the Modern Radical GOP -- A BuzzFlash News Alert
- Gang of Six Proposal Encourages Corporations to Move Offshore
- LA day laborers double as actors to teach, empower
- Norway attacks shine light on right-wing extremism in Europe
- North Korean Official to go to US for Nuclear Talks
- Bernie Sanders Calls for Dem Primary Opponent to Obama -- A BuzzFlash News Alert
- The Following Graphic is Extremely Enlightening
- Robert Reich: Why Medicare is the Solution Not the Problem
- Invisible poverty: One in three Michigan seniors can't afford basics according to Wayne State University study
- Wisconsin ID Law will Suppress Youth, Minority Vote
- Breaking the Israel-Palestine Impasse
- Winehouse's Troubled Life
- Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing Terror Attacks Like Norway's in the US
- Iranian Detention of US Activist, Journalist Nears Two-Year Mark
- An Interview With the Norwegian Killer
- Pakistan Spies on Its Diaspora, Spreading Fear
- Failure to Reach a "Grand Bargain" on Debt Makes 2012 Harder for Obama
- NYTimes Op-Ed: Obama Should Raise the Debt Ceiling on His Own
- Head of Dem Caucus warns: No revenues in deficit deal, no Dem votes
- Greece's Crisis Long in the Making
- Mubarak and Murdoch: The Arab Spring Gives Way to the Anglo-American Summer
- Ex-Schools Chief Emerges as Unlikely Murdoch Ally
- Union Proposes Hot Dog Sale to Protest Tax Breaks
- Illicit Globalization on the Border: Drug War and Transnational Crime
- Praising the Hostage Takers: Will Obama Ever Hold the Republicans Accountable? -- Paul Rogat Loeb for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Debt Talks Show Breakdown in Governing
- After Long Wait, Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York
- The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of "Terrorism"
- The Quest to Build the Perfect Lie Detector
- "The man charged with the attacks in Oslo that killed at least 92 people left behind a detailed manifesto calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination, officials said."
- Revolutionary Law in Chiapas, Mexico: A New Generation of Mayan Women Plan Their Future
- Arizonans Enraged at Muslim Word for Dust
- 'Anomaly' detected in Exxon pipeline before rupture in Yellowstone River
- Phone hacking inquiry judge attended parties at home of Rupert Murdoch's son-in-law
- How Can God Be Telling Every GOP Candidate to Run for President? Maybe They're Lying. -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- How the Republicans Make the Irrational Seem Rational On Their Way to a Coup -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Can a Fundamentalist Congresswoman from Minnesota with Migraines Speak Yiddish? -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- News Corpse: When Corporate "Journalism" Becomes Toxic Junk Food -- Robert Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Pastor Hagee Invokes Memories of George Wallace, Bashes Obama at Christian Zionist Summit -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- New GOP hostage demand: Kill Obamacare
- The Oslo Attacks
- Boehner Says Work Has Begun on New Debt Deal to Cut $3-$4 Trillion
- 21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor
- Florida rejects child-abuse prevention funds tied to health care law
- Sudanese army seizes southern Libyan town
- REPORT: Number Of Tea Party Events Down More Than 50 Percent In 2011
- The Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) – A New Insurgent Group with an Old Time Political Ideology?
- U.S. Envoy Minimizes Mounting Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan
- In Bid for Control of GOP, Tea Party Brings U.S. to Brink of Economic Calamity
- The 10 Craziest State Legislatures In America
- The Liberated Keith Olbermann Is Making Powerful TV
- Sri Lanka’s war-hit ethnic Tamils trickle to elect local councils in former war zone
- Mass Syrian protest against Assad regime adds to death toll
- Stewart: Migraines not in top 20 problems with Bachmann’s brain
- Norway horror: 80 die in camp shooting, 7 in blast
- Belarus: Clapping Protest to Resume
- What’s the Deal With News Corp’s Other, US-Based, Hacking Scandal?
- Debt Ceiling Talks Collapse as Boehner Walks Out, Again
- Suspect in Norwegian Terror Attacks That Killed 91 May Be Anti-Islam Right-Wing Extremist
- Ron Paul polls just 4 points below Obama if the two ran head-to-head
- Palestinians turn against Syria's regime, their long-time advocate
- Is David Cameron an endangered man?
- Japan's nuclear gypsies: a day in the life
- Some Democrats fuming at Obama
- Fox Cites Ownership Of Appliances To Downplay Hardship Of Poverty In America
- Fox Continues To Ignore Economists To Push For Cut, Cap, And Balance
- What Do Obama, the "Gang of Six" and Paul Ryan Have in Common?
- William Rivers Pitt | Murdoch in the Morning, Part II: Watching Fox
- Obama, Pentagon Certify Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
- Seventeen dead in Norway bomb and gun attack
- James Murdoch faces police probe on hacking
- Obama, Pentagon Certify Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
- 2 out of 3 Americans may vote against their current member of Congress
- Paul Krugman: The Lesser Depression
- How Murdoch’s Empire Suffocates the Craft of Journalism
- Time to depose Norquist
- Richard D. Wolff | In Economic Crisis, Capitalism Delivers the Bads
- Justice Department Prepares Subpoenas in News Corp. Inquiry
- As Women Veterans Increase, Labor Department Releases Guide for Service Providers
- Explosion rocks central Oslo, Norway PM's office
- Report: Pentagon Officially Repeals DADT on Friday
- Balance the Budget on the Backs of Billionaires -- David Swanson for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Hunger Strike: California Prison Inmates Protest Cruel and Unusual Conditions -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Best of... Murdoch Jokes
- GOP Plays the Racial Card in Debt Ceiling Negotiations
- Bachmann Cancels Choot-Spa Membership
- GOP Leaders: Why Raise The Debt Ceiling, We’ve Already "Lowered The Floor"
- Bat Girl's Recurring Nightmare
