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- Senate to Vote at Noon EST on Tuesday on Debt Ceiling/Deficit Reduction Bill
- Dumb and Dumber in Congress as They Dumb Down America: Students to feel pinch in debt deal "Some students will have to start paying off their loans while they're in school under a last-minute debt ceiling deal to keep the country out of default and reduce deficits by at least $2.1 trillion over a decade."
- Biden Meets With Furious House Democrats
- Homegrown Economic Terrorism -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Government by Hostage Taking -- Mark Perkel, Letter to the Editor at Buzzflash at Truthout
- Media Malpractice on Debt Ceiling
- Israel's prime minister has agreed to negotiate the borders of a Palestinian state based on the cease-fire line that marks off the West Bank.
- Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding ALEC's Influence On Your State Laws
- Frank Rich: Murdoch Hacked Us Too
- The debt deal struck this weekend does nothing to help with the biggest problem facing our nation: anemic job growth and a faltering economy.
- Rep. John Conyers Calls For "Thousands Of People" to Protest in Front of White House
- Al Jazeera English launches in New York: International news channel reaching NY homes through Time Warner Cable
- Americans for Prosperity is sending absentee ballots to WI Democrats with late return date
- Study: Deunionization A Leading Factor Behind Increasing Income Inequality
- The U.S. House will take up the deficit reduction bill first then send it to the Senate for consideration, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday.
- Bank of America is now paying to tear down foreclosed homes
- Scientists from the University of Oxford Map to Sacred Lands
- Congressional Progressives Slam Obama's Debt Deal
- Support for Gay Marriage Highest Among Democrats, but Growing Across the Political Spectrum
- Mainstream Reporters: Too Close to the Field to Get the Debt Story
- EGYPT: Military uses force to break up Tahrir Square sit-in
- Glenn Greenwald on the Democratic transition from "hope" to fear-mongering: "It makes no difference to us how much we stomp on liberals' beliefs...we'll just wave around enough pictures of Michele Bachmann and scare them into unconditional submission."
- Texas Governor’s Religious Rhetoric Grows
- California Redraws Legislative and Congressional Districts: Did the State Just Take a Big Step Toward Political Sanity?
- Debt Ceiling Fix Could Mean Problems for States
- Outsourcing the Local Library Can Lead to a Loud Backlash
- Rebecca Solnit: Hope for the Hell of It
- Ezra Klein: Democrats will lose now. But they can win later.
- Katrina vanden Heuvel: "The debt-ceiling debate has lasted long enough for most Americans to start paying attention and to realize just how divorced both parties are from basic common sense."
- CEOs to Workers: More for Me, Less for You
- In wake of debt deal, Asian and European markets surge
- Democrats Will Lose Now. But They Can Win Later.
- Media Blackout in China After Deadly Train Wreck: The Communist Party’s publicity department forced newspaper editors to frantically remove investigative articles and commentaries, and replace them with cartoons or unrelated features.
- New HHS guidelines require new health insurance plans to cover women’s preventive services such as well-woman visits, breastfeeding support, domestic violence screening, and contraception without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible.
- Banking giant HSBC posts $11.5 billion profit, announces plan to slash 25,000 more jobs
- Oil Cover-Up in Peru: What do you do if you want to build a pipeline to move 300 million barrels of oil but an "uncontacted" tribe is in the way? Employing consultants who claim they don't exist certainly helps.
- Robert Borosage: "The Tea Party terrorists – the extremist faction willing to hold the economy hostage to get their way – have won."
- Robert Reich: "Anyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics."
- Foxconn Will Replace Workers With 1 Million Robots in 3 Years
- Forget Compromise: The Debt Ceiling Is Unconstitutional
- Syrian Troops Launch a Major Offensive to Crush a Four-Month-Old Rebellion
- Debt ceiling fix could mean problems for states
- Senator Dianne Feinstein on the Reported Debt Ceiling/Deficit Reduction Agreement: “Sausage making is not pretty. But the sausage we have, I think, is a very different sausage from when we started.” There Went Our Appetite.
- 1845: Capital Murder in Texas
- Los Angeles Janitors Fight for Their Jobs
- Paul Krugman: The President Surrenders
- President Obama Announces Debt Ceiling/Deficit Reduction on Sunday Night Votes to be Taken in Congress to End Crisis. "House Speaker Boehner told Republicans there is nothing in the framework of the debt deal that "violates our principles."" Principles, You Have Principles? Who Would Have Thunk It?
- Al-Tamimi: The Norway Attacks and the Paranoid Mindset
- In World's Eyes, Much Damage is Already Done
- Boehner's District Assesses His Role In Debt Talks
- Verdict for 2 Americans in Iran Within a Week
- Tiny Tea Party Rally vs. Large Progressive Rally: Which Gets More Beltway Ink?
- While It Won't Include New Revenue from the Wealthy, And Might Still Endanger Medicare, And is Pretty Much What the GOP Wanted Before the Paul Ryan Stunt, Senator Reid Says He Approves White House Deal With Republican Leadership and May Vote on It Sunday Night in Senate
- Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11
- Tim De Cristopher's Statement at His Hearing
- Message to President Obama: Why Voters Tune Out Democrats. They Want the Fundamental Change in DC Government That You Promised in Your Campaign, Not More of the Status Quo Lobbyist/Corporate Governance
- Former Obama Adviser Brews A Different Tea Party
- "Obama won’t seek new revenues before the 2012 election anyway, and will in fact be pushing for a payroll tax cut." That's Just Dandy!
- The GOP Lies: 97% of Small Businesses Would Not be Affected by Increasing Taxes on the Wealthy Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Hope for the Hell of It
- Obama's whistleblower war suffers two defeats
- Wrestling Over the Debt Ceiling
- The GOP Lies: 97% of Small Businesses Would Not be Affected by Increasing Taxes on the Wealthy Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Planned Parenthood Firebombed, Right Wing Silent
- Rank-and-File Remain Wary as Debt Deal Begins to Emerge
- Reid: Cautiously optimistic on debt limit deal
- Right-Wing Pundits Strive to Keep Americans Dumb
- As talks go on, Senate rejects Reid plan
- White House, GOP discuss potential debt limit pact It appears that there are no revenue enhancements, just cuts to spending
- Tempest in a Tea Party
- White House, GOP discuss potential debt limit pact It appears that there are no revenue enhancements, just cuts to spending
- The GOP's Terrorist Tactics
- The GOP Gets Its Way
- Groups: Government forces, protesters clash in Syria, killing 67
- Congress: Beware of Yellow Stripes and Pot Holes
- Watching Post Pens Lavis Puff Piece on Mitch McConnell That Reflects the GOP Perspective and Mentions Little if Anything About His Unsavory Fundraising and Obssession With Obama Being Defeated in 2012
- Perry backs a constitutional limit on marriage
- We Are Wisconsin HQ destroyed in fire
- $22 trillion Social Security surplus revealed on C-SPAN
- Wisconsin GOP tea partier Kim Simac admits she compared public schools to Nazi Germany
- Harry Reid Postpones Senate Vote on Latest Debt Ceiling Proposal to 1 PM EST on Sunday, Amidst More Rumors of Independent Republican Leadership Talks With the White House
- Freedom From Fear Awards: Arizona Student Fights for DREAM Act
- Richard Power: On the Express Train to Dis, with Transfers at Beltwayistan and Oslo; Can the Power of the Word Turn Us Around?
- House rejects Reid debt plan as deadline looms
- How a flush country could be in debt trouble
- Bill Maher: Why Is the Ft. Hood Shooter a "Muslim Terrorist," But the Norwegian Murderer Not a "Christian Terrorist"?
- $230,000 For a Guard Dog: Why the Wealthy Are Afraid Of Violence From Below
- Americans Work Too Much and Have Too Little Time for Play: Here's How to Slow Down 'The Great Speed-Up'
- Top Developments in the Arab Spring this Weekend
- CNN Still Pretending Tea Party Not Just the Extreme Right Wing of the Republican Party
- Politico Chooses 50 Politicos to Watch
- Debunking the Big Lie Right-Wingers Use to Justify Black Poverty and Unemployment
- Norway Terrorist Anders Breivik Purchased High-Capacity Gun Clips From The United States
- Pelosi: Boehner went to 'dark side'
- World Reacts To Debt Ceiling Debacle: ‘Irresponsible,’ ‘Worst Kind Of Absurd Theatrics,’ U.S. Politicians A ‘Laughing Stock’
- Big Oil Hits a Gusher With Taxpayer Subsidies in DC Despite Record Profits -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- U.S. review finds Iraq more dangerous than a year ago There's a Trillion Some Dollars We Can Cut Loose
- El Salvador: The Truth Commission and the Jesuit Massacre
- Why is GOP Hypocrisy So Brazen and Audacious? Take Dead Beat Tea-Party Dad Congressman Joe Walsh, For Example -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
- Economists: Now is Wrong Time for Congress to Cut Spending
- Large Mortgage Service Filed False Documents in Foreclosure Bid
- A Forecast for When the Debt Ceiling Dust Settles: Greece Will Look Like a Good Place to Live -- Pat Weller for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Turkey's Top Generals Quit En Masse Over Political Targeting
- Obama is No LBJ
- Tea Partiers Against Debt Deal Gain From District Spending
- Cut Nuclear Power Subsidies Instead of Making Old People Live on Cat Food -- Harvey Wasserman for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- ALEC, Republicans Beat Up On Kids in Special Ed
- Texas holds on to millions of dollars intended to help poor residents with electric bills
- A Future Without Coal: In New Mexico Supreme Court, Again
- Murdoch's Wall Street Launches Scathing Wall Street Corporate Attack on Tea Party GOP Hobbits in the House
- "Heil Hitler" Buchanan Defends Norway Mass Murderer’s Anti-Muslim Beliefs -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Legislation to Phase Out Private Military Contractors is Filed in Senate and House -- News Alert from Senator Bernie Sanders
- World Reacts To Debt Ceiling Debacle: "Irresponsible," "Worst Kind Of Absurd Theatrics"
- The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan
- O'Reilly Can't Find The "Shadowy Figures" Behind The Tea Party
- The White, Christian Blue-Eyed Terrorist Attack on Democracy in Norway -- Danny Schechter for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- GOP in DC Kills Jobs and Helps Squash Small Businesses -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Conservative Media Myths About Fuel Economy Standards
- Koch Economics and their Debt Default Advantage
- Safety of tar sands pipelines has not been studied, according to regulation agency
- Even After Proposed Hike, Reagan Increased Debt Ceiling Twice As Fast As Obama
- With Media, Americans Focused on Debt Drama, Congress Attacks Environment
- How Republicans Screwed the Pooch
- US review finds Iraq deadlier now than a year ago
- President's Twitter campaign back-tweets
- Senate Quickly Gives Boehner Tea Party Bill the Heave-Ho
- Bill Clinton: GOP War On Voting Is Most Determined Disenfranchisement Effort Since Jim Crow
- Finally the House does... something
- An un-American response to the Oslo attack
- The debt ceiling solution that Obama dares not mention -- yet
- Why Progressives Need a Big Idea
- This week in global-warming denial
- Gallup Poll: Obama Approval Drops to New Low of 40%
- Air Force Pulls Christian-Themed Ethics Training for Nuclear Missile Officers After Publication of Truthout Report
- Air Force Pulls Christian-Themed Ethics Training for Nuclear Missile Officers After Publication of Truthout Report
- Islamophobic Conspiracy Theorist Frank Gaffney Advising Michele Bachmann On Foreign Policy
- William Rivers Pitt: Boehner's Epic Fail
- George Lakoff and Glenn W. Smith on Truthout, Why Democracy Is Public: The American Dream Beats the Nightmare
- How Shadowy Right-Wing Front Groups Engineered Our National Embrace of Debt Reduction Over Job Creation
- Tea party role in debt bill raises GOP eyebrows
- Hundreds Of Thousands Of Boehner’s Constitutents Would Be Hurt By His Debt Ceiling Plan
- Boehner: "What we've suspected all along can now be asserted with confidence: John Boehner is a SINO -- Speaker-in-name-only. And after what went down -- or, more accurately, what didn't go down -- in the House on Thursday night, it's fair to wonder how much longer he'll even be that."
- Merck will cut up to 13,000 more jobs by 2015, amounting to about 13 percent of its work force, the pharmaceutical company announced Friday
- US Government Conducts "Integrity Inquiry" on Federal Biologist Amid Lobbying by Oil Firms for Arctic Permits
- Tens of thousands of people gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square in bid to show political parties united in seeking change.
- Obama Friday AM Media Appearance: The House plan "has no chance of becoming law," Obama said at the White House. "The time for putting party first is over. (It's time) to show the leadership the American people expect." "This is not a (situation where) the two parties are miles apart," the president insisted. But "we are almost out of time."
- Richard Wolff: Debt Showdown is Political Theater Burdening Society's Most Vulnerable
- William River's Pitt: Boehner's Epic Fail
- Bush Allegedly "Explains" Inexplicable Classroom Reactions to 9/11 Attack
- Paul Krugman: "The problem with American politics right now is Republican extremism, and if you’re not willing to say that, you’re helping make that problem worse."
- Stop Calling This a "Debt Crisis" - It Isn't
- Revisions show deeper 2007-2009 recession New government data shows 2007-2009 recession inflicted more severe than previously estimated
- NYT: Charting the American Debt Crisis America has a long history of raising the debt limit to accommodate spending.
- "The U.S. economy came perilously close to flat-lining in the first quarter and grew at a meager 1.3 percent annual rate in the April-June period as consumer spending barely rose."
- The weak speaker: How a failed debt vote disarmed the nation's top Republican
- John "The Tan Man" Boehner Delays House Vote on His "Please the Tea Party" Bill, No Doubt Because He Hasn't Roughed Up Enough Votes
- Tea Party Wags the Tail of the "Tan Man," As Boehner Thursday Fails to Round up Enough GOP Votes to Pass His Symbolic Right Wing Bill That Would Never Pass the Senate Anyway Nutters are Controlling the Republican Party and Threatening America With Economic Disaster
- Nancy Pelosi: The Boehner Bill "Would Kiss Your Medicare Goodbye"
- Michele Bachmann to Media: Don't Pick on My Hubby; He's Off Limits
- The 'Right-Wing Nutters' Who Are Pushing the Country to the Brink
- AWOL GI Admits to Planning Fort Hood Attack
- Michael Winship: When the Super-Rich Cry, "Class Warfare!"
- America's own Taliban. A fast growing right-wing politico-religious presence plans to implement an end-times, Christian theocracy in the US.
- Arctic scientist who exposed climate threat to polar bear is suspended by Obama Administration Oil Drilling Exploration and Rights Are on the Horizon
- Matt Taibbi: Evil Corporate Tax Holiday Gains Bipartisan Support
- Michele Bachmann's Deranged Homophobic "Minister" Buddy, Bradlee Dean, Sues Rachel Maddow for Telling the Truth
- 9/11 phone-hacking claims: families to meet US attorney general. Top law official agrees to discuss progress of FBI investigation into allegations against journalists working for News Corp.
- The Latest Crop Of Ultra-Conservative Debt Ceiling-Obsessed Loons -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- NYT Editorial: America’s Credibility Is at Risk
- Jobs report pushes stocks up despite debt worries
- Satire from the Onion: Emergency Team Of 8th-Grade Civics Teachers Dispatched To Washington
- Why Keith Olbermann called Rep. Peter King an “a**hole” (Hint: He deserved it)
- The Jingoistic Cult of the Tea Party is a Perversion of Our Once Proud Heritage and Principles -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- John McCain derides 'tea party hobbits' in debt ceiling fight
- Hypocrisy Central: "Freshman Rep. Joe Walsh, who sharply lectures President Barack Obama on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed in their divorce case in December."
- Marcus Bachmann at center of campaign reimbursement controversy
- MinnPost poll: Most Minnesotans blame GOP for shutdown in state, by a 2-1 margin
- More Blah, Blah, Blah on the Possibility of a Debt-Ceiling Deal
- The GOP War on the Environment
- Jim Hightower: Corporate Thieves Fear Public Disclosure
- Obama's Obsession With Compromise Has Compromised His Presidency -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- GOP Still Trying to Dump FDR’s New Deal
- President Obama to Announce New Fuel Efficiency Standards on Friday
- The workers at the IKEA (Swedwood) plant in Danville, Va., voted overwhelmingly (221-69) to join the Machinists yesterday.
- A Very Dangerous Opportunistic Demagogue: "Glenn Beck likens Obama administration to the Third Reich Glenn Beck, the American broadcaster who compared Norwegian massacre victims to the Hitler youth, has defended his use of Nazi analogies and likened the Obama administration to the Third Reich."
- CIVIL WAR: GOP Coalition Splinters Into Open Conflict Over Debt Ceiling
- Europe Losing Patience with US Debt Delays
- Koch-Funded Tea Party Heavyweight Tim Phillips Spoke at Norweigan Killer's Political Party Event
- If Corporations And The Rich Paid Taxes At The Same Level As The 1960s, The Debt Would Disappear
- Misleading America About the Debt Limit. House Republicans Try to Shift Responsibility for a Crisis They Created
- "So the debt limit debate has come to this: John McCain, who you may recall was the GOP’s 2008 standard bearer, is now openly accusing conservatives of actively misleading America with their completely unrealistic demands, which he labeled “deceiving” and “bizarro.”"
- Report: Obama And Boehner Agreed To Raise Medicare Eligibilty Age Before Debt Talks Broke Down
- Church/State group seeks restraining order against Gov. Rick Perry
- 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."
- Commentary: CEOs to workers: More for me, less for you
- 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."
- Bush vs. Obama on Spending: It's No Contest
- The Pernicious Influence Industry of Rage
- Boehner: ‘A Lot’ Of Republicans Want To Force Default, Create ‘Enough Chaos’ To Pass Balanced Budget Amendment
- Right-Wing Activists Claim That Daycare, Public Schools And Gay Rights Are Destroying Society. You Have Entered the Twilight Zone.
- The Deficit Crisis is in Jobs
- Opinion: GOP brinksmanship on debt ceiling will cripple economy and job growth
- 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
- FOX is Second Only to North Korea in Peddling Propaganda -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Damage Done to America by Global Warming Would Be Cause for War if Done by Terrorists -- Peter G. Cohen for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Michele Bachmann: Bubblehead in a Bubble -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Best of... Jokes About the Debt Ceiling
- Limerick Ode To A Failed Presidency
- Yet Another Debt Ceiling Limerick
- GOP Leaders: Why Raise The Debt Ceiling, We’ve Already "Lowered The Floor"
- Satire: John Boehner and Eric Cantor Rushed to Hospital After Late Night Car Wreck
