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• Eugene Robinson | GOP's Defeat as Devastating as Sherman's March to the Sea -- Eugene Robinson on BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Jim Hightower | J.P. Morgan: The Man and the Bank -- Jim Hightower on BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Same Sex Marriages Can Begin in NJ, Court Rules
• Flunking 8th Grade Civics With the Tea Party
• Legislators Agree: "Grand Bargain" Postponed Indefinitely
• Democratic opponent continues to lead Mitch McConnell in latest poll
• Rothenberg said the GOP is being perceived as "a chaotic, disorganized, confused party" and it is likely that their fundraising numbers will likely begin to slow in the coming months. "Big dollar donors, who are more pragmatic business types, are now worried about where the party is going," he said. "For Democrats, this helps them for 2014 in recruitment, in fundraising and in overall morale."
• Why Glenn Greenwald’s New Media Venture Is a Big Deal
• The Tea Party and the Economy: It's Like Putting an Arsonist in Charge of the Fire Department -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• While Obamacare Addresses the Uninsured, Medicare Advantage Plans Throw Seniors Under the Bus
• Republicans Have Done Real Damage to the Economy
• Capitalism Works (or Not) for Me
• Are Republicans Anti-Science? In This Case, Yes
• 14,000 Hiroshimas Still Hang in the Fukushima Air
• Food Stamp Outage Highlights Problems With Privatization of Public Services
• Worse Than Watergate: The Supreme Court is mulling a case that could end up giving America’s wealthy a perpetual green light to contribute as much as they want directly to politicians.
• The GOP’s Dixiecrat Problem
• Not a Crank: Surgeon in ER Insists Two Gunmen Shot JFK
• Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity
• My Skin in the Game: How Ted Cruz and the Right Want to Help Cancer Kill Me, and Maybe You
• Tech Experts: Health Exchange Site Needs Total Overhaul
• Tea Party Leader Proposes "Class Action Lawsuit" Against Homosexuality
• Confused GOP Lawmaker Thought Debt Deal Funded Joseph Kony
• FreedomWorks CEO: "A Real Possibility" That the GOP Splits in Two
• Ted Cruz' Father Suggests Ted Cruz "Anointed" to "Bring The Spoils Of War To The Priests"
• Conservatives Misunderstand What Went Wrong Under Bush
• Ex-Blackwater Contractors Face Fresh Charges in Iraq Attack
• The Truthiness of Rand Paul
• Paul Krugman | The Damage Done
• Harry Reid: Hiking Defense Spending for Social Security Cuts Is a "Stupid Trade"
• Unemployed Ohio Woman Charged for Taking $2.87 From Fountain to Buy Food
• Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia
• Bill de Blasio Continues Pressing Fight Over Fast-Food Wages
• The Abject Failure of Reaganomics
• The Ted Cruz Armageddon Is Coming
• A Cosmic Discovery That Would Surprise Even Einstein
• Harry Reid Unloads on Boehner, Vitter and Cruz
• Tea Partiers’ Grave Fear: Why They Disdain Young People — Even Their Own
• David Swanson | Awkwardest and Most Authoritative Ever Comments on Drones
• GOP Is "Crazy and Awful": The Josh Barro Republicans are Displeased
• "Every time Republicans suffer a rejection, some decide they haven’t been sufficiently crazy."
• Bolivian Government Authorizes Workers to Take Over Closed or Abandoned Firms
• Doomed Limerick
• A Message To The GOP From The Passenger Pigeon
• William Rivers Pitt | Rust Never Sleeps
• Wake Up, Rich People: The Wealthy Will Lose Money Betting Against Global Warming -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Haters Holding US Hostage Embraced Denial, Resistance and Willful Ignorance -- Peter Michaelson for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Cruz Blocks Vote on FCC Chairman After Citing Political Speech
• Why Robert Reich Cares So Passionately about Economic Inequality
• "A Native anti-fracking protest turned violent Thursday after RCMP moved in to break up a standoff, with protesters hit with rubber bullets and pepper spray and then retaliating by torching cop cars."
• Spate of Attacks on Shi'ite Muslims Kills 48 People in Iraq
• Coast Guard Discovers A 4,000-Pound Mat Of Tar In The Gulf
• The Koch Brothers' Beer Offensive Against Obamacare Loses Its Fizz
• The Post-Shutdown GOP Civil War in 23 Quotes
• Chinese Agency Downgrades US Credit Rating
• Sen. McConnell Rules Out Future Government Shutdowns Over Obamacare
• The Mainstream Corporate Media and the US Government Shill for Toxic Monsanto
• Son of Slain Sikh Temple Leader to Challenge Paul Ryan in 2014
• The Electoral College: Explained
• The Shutdown was Bad, the Sequester is Worse
• POLL: Mitch McConnell Now Trails Alison Lundergan Grimes In Kentucky
• GOP Senator Hatch: Heritage's "Radicalness" Could Cost the Think Tank Its Power
• Longshoreman Strike Shuts Down Port of Baltimore
• A 2013 Outdoor Medical Pot Preview: Bigger, dirtier crops, “light dep,” and the Slow Weed Movement define the outdoor cannabis harvest this year.
• Charles P. Pierce | Reign of Morons: The Elements of Crazy
• Advocates Push California to Lead On Immigrant Rights
• Government Shutdown Ended, Austerity Drive Lives On
• Ted Cruz Left With Few Friends After Obamacare Fight Fails, Government Shutdown Ends, Debt Limit Rises
• The Conservative War on the GOP
• Why Elizabeth Warren Is "Not Celebrating" the End of the Government Shutdown
• Obama to GOP: "Go Out There and Win an Election" if You Want to Stop Health Care Law
• Door May Open for Legal Challenge to Secret NSA Wiretaps
• Michigan Same-Sex Marriage Case Delayed, Frustrating Gay Activists
• Sen. Bernie Sanders Named to Budget Conference
• Even When the GOP Loses, It Wins
• GOP Rep Looks to Next Showdown: "We’re Going to Start This All Over Again"
• Shutdown Caused Real Economic Damage
• Uncontrollable Boehner and the Bait and Switch Index
• Documents Reveal NSA’s Extensive Involvement in Targeted Killing Program
• WHO Agency: Air Pollution Causes Cancer
• The Republican Surrender
• Tomgram: Kramer and Comerford, Shutting Down Americans
• Chemical Weapons Watchdog Says Confident on Syria Deadlines
• McConnell-Reid Deal Includes $2 Billion Earmark for Kentucky Project
• The Myth of the Hardhat Hawk
• A Message To Republicans From Lord Humungus
• The Right’s Angry Response to the House GOP’s Collapse
• Conservatism’s Dark Side
• Pity the Federal Workers During the Shutdown; They're GOP Punching Bags
• Cory Booker Wins US Senate Election in NJ, Becomes First Black Senator From NJ
• Federal Employees Head Back to Work
• House Passes Shutdown/Default Bill 285-144
• House Conservatives Face Up to Their Defeat
• A Modest Proposal: Voters Must Pass a Sanity Test Before Casting a Ballot -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Ted Cruz’s America -- Steven Jonas MD, MPH for BuzzFlash at Truthout

• Boehner Will Bring Senate Bill to a Vote Tonight
• "The amount of wreckage Cruz has caused in such a short time is truly awe-inspiring."
• Senate Deal Includes Back Pay For Furloughed Workers
• How the GOP Slowly Went Insane
• Thieves Fall Out Edition: Grover Norquist goes off on Obamacare “defunders”
• "The much greater tragedy is we as a country get screwed in the process. At least Reagan was shrewd enough to just pretend to care, to throw the nutballs some symbolic morsels they could chew on yet never letting them gain enough voice to wield actual power."
• "GOP finds solution to their failures: Virginia purges 40,000 names off voter rolls"
• Veteran Republicans Accusing Tea Party Lawmakers Of Staining GOP
• "Wonk Wire shows that Congress's budget fights, debt-ceiling stand-offs, and spending cuts have cost the U.S. economy nearly 3% of GDP since 2010 -- roughly $700 billion in lost economic activity."
• Republican Congressman Questions Whether Tea Party Reps Are Actually Republican. You Elected Them; They're Yours.
• Dahr Jamail | BP's Silent Disaster
• Boehner Concedes: "We Just Didn’t Win"
• "A new Democracy Corps (D) poll finds just 38% now clearly oppose the Affordable Care Act."
• Republicans Shut Down the Government for Nothing
• Fox Newz: Obama’s Grandma "Didn't Trust People of Color," So He’s Taking It Out on America
• Ted Cruz Admits Budget Standoff Was All About Fundraising
• How US Pressure Bends UN Agencies
• Pat Buchanan: Better to Destroy Country Than End Anti-Obamacare Drive
• One Problem With the Deal: The Debt Ceiling
• The Seinfeld Shutdown
• Tea Party Nation Whines: "The Complete Surrender of the Republican Party"
• Shutdown Gives Democrats Lift in House Recruiting
• Stop Fretting: The Debt-Ceiling Crisis Is Over! (Updated)
• Ted Cruz Will Not Filibuster the Deal, Per Ted Cruz
• GOP Congressman Explains Why He Wants to Defund a Health Program He Supports
• Shutdown Ties Hands as Ranchers Face Storm’s Toll
• House Dems Sent Boehner a Message: Strike a Deal and Maybe We Can Help Protect Your Speakership
• Quotes From the Tea Party Base on the Default
• Hawks Squawk, But US-Iran Talks Start Well
• This Is Not Over Yet: "Senate Republicans huddled Tuesday to discuss the latest on the fiscal crisis engulfing the Capitol, but two key members of their conference were missing from the lunch: Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah."
• GOP Prepares For Surrender On Debt Ceiling And Shutdown
• How Bad Is It? Even Ann Coulter Has Turned On Conservatives
• Houston Chronicle Expresses Regrets For Endorsing Cruz
• US Court: Transcanada's Keystone XL Profits More Important Than Environment
• NY Times Reporter May Go To Supreme Court In Leak Case
• Tea Party Ringleader (Heritage CEO) Admits the GOP Shut Down the Government for Nothing
• SLATE: Boehner Relents, Will Rely on Dem Votes to Pass
• Freeing Marissa Alexander
• In Big Win for Defense Industry, Obama Rolls Back Limits on Arms Exports
• Charles P. Pierce | Reign of Morons: Apotheosis, Starring Ted Yoho
• Indigenous Nations Are at the Forefront of the Conflict With Transnational Corporate Power That Affects Us All
• McCain: 'Republicans Have To Understand We Have Lost This Battle'
• Arizona Man Allegedly Kills Girlfriend in Attempt to Scare Her With a Gun
• Tea Party's War Memorial Rally Was Another "Let Him Die!" Moment
• Protectors vs Destroyers — Canadians Unite to Stop Fracking in New Brunswick
• Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Admits GOP Went Too Far - Pleads for Mercy
• Debt Ceiling Crisis Is Like a Toxic Groundhog Day on Capitol Hill
• The Muslim Test: How To Expose The Hypocrisy Of The Religious Right
• Cruz' Speech Writer Complains She Doesn't Know How She'll Get Health Care Come January
• Backlash for the GOP: Democrats Raising Big Bucks in the South
• Senate Debt Ceiling Deal Won’t Mean This Chaos Is Over. Far From It. Tuesday might have ended with the Senate on the cusp of a deal to avert a default, but it also featured Boehner bowing and scraping to his House crazies to come up with a competing plan that failed.
• "Boehner sees his control of House Republicans slip away" -- Oh, It Slipped Away Along Time Ago. And He Could be a Patriot and Bring up a Clean Bill, But He's Just Concerned About Keeping Power Over the Interests of the Citizens of the United States and the Economic Stability of the World.
• The Tea Party is the Country’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’
• Right Wing Tea Party Think Tanks Nix House Bill to Avert Default: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) blamed House conservatives for the failure. “It’s been about 30 people that make their money on not hanging with the team. And so that’s on them,” he said.
• Fitch Puts US AAA Rating on Rating Watch Negative
• The Awarding of the World Food Prize to a Monsanto GMO Executive Is a Travesty Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Refusing to Make Peace With War -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Eugene Robinson | Democrats Raise Their Ante -- Eugene Robinson on BuzzFlash at Truthout
• California Wants to Protect Transgender Students; GOP Targets Them -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• "House Republicans have dropped two demands related to Obamacare from their proposal to end the fiscal stalemate in Washington, sources told CNN. These include a proposal to delay the medical device tax and another to tighten income verification of those seeking subsidies to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Separately, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California told CNN's Dana Bash that he expects the House to vote on Tuesday night on its plan to reopen the government and avoid a possible U.S. default."
• Maddowblog: The Electoral Consequences of the Shutdown
• Glenn Greenwald Leaving Guardian, Starting New Venture
• Report: House GOP Considers Passing Bill, Then Leaving Town
• Antonin Scalia: 14th Amendment Protects Everyone, Not "Only the Blacks"
• Ex-Halliburton Manager Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence
• The Government is Already Defaulting
• MSNBC Anchor Asks GOP Congresswoman If She Hates Obamacare More Than She Loves America
• Videos Contradict Medal of Honor Recipient’s Account of Taliban Attack
• Tea Party Republicans Put Dollar's Reputation at Risk
• Senator Reid on Senate Floor: US Could Be Downgraded as Soon as Tonight
• Supreme Court Affirms EPA Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Powerful Typhoon Wipha Heads for Fukushima, Tepco Bracing for "Inflows of Water"
• Dollarocracy Book Tour Dates with Bob McChesney and John Nichols
• Tea Party Groups Still Want Obamacare Gutted
• The Ten Hardline Conservatives Pulling the Strings of the GOP Shutdown
• House GOP Now Demanding Birth Control Provisions in Shutdown/Debt Deal
• Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner Pleads Guilty To Battery And False Imprisonment Charges
• Shutdown and Default Considered Small Price to Pay for Banning Birth Control, Say Catholic Bishops and Paul Ryan
• Jane Goodall on Climate Change, Technology, and What Makes Us Different From Chimps
• Edward Snowden’s Brave Integrity
• House GOP Plan Implodes Immediately, Congressional Republicans Now in Total Disarray
• Central Banks Gaming Out U.S. Default as Deadline Nears
• Famed Street Artist Banksy Takes On 9/11
• The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown
• White House Dismisses New House GOP Plan as "Ransom" Demand
• Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Used Phantom Jobs to Give Raises
• Be Afraid! The Scariest Quotes About the Debt Crisis
• Reisinger First Register of Deeds in South to Accept Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
• Why Harry Reid Fears a Long-Term Shutdown Deal
• First It was Detroit, Now "PetKoch" Piling Up in Chicago
• House GOP to Push Separate Bill to End Government Shutdown, Raise Debt Ceiling
• Judge Who Framed Voter ID Laws As Constitutional Says He Got It Wrong
• The Right’s Crisis Of Infinite Ragegasms
• NSA Gathering Contact Lists From e-Mails, Chats
• White House Press Corps Reaches for Peak Derp