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• Koch Brothers Mini-me, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Tell Right Wing Washington Times: "Unions Want Me Dead."
• How Romney’s Firm Drove Steel Plant Into Bankruptcy, But Still Profited Thanks To Federal Bailout
• Obama Goes Pro-Consumer Full Tilt in Launching Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Are the GOP Candidates Running for President of the US or the Confederacy? -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Hollow Democracy -- Robert C. Koekler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Judge rules that Twitter must hand over information on WikiLeaks supporters
• The Case of Montana Vs. Citizens United
• A Demented Political Process Dominated by Corporate Cash -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Krugman: Bain, Barack and Jobs
• "The White House will propose a 0.5 percent pay increase for civilian federal employees as part of its 2013 budget proposal, according to two senior administration officials familiar with the plans. The modest across-the-board pay jump would be the first increase for federal workers since before a two-year freeze began in late 2010."
• Fallujah Babies: Birth Defects Blamed on US Weapons
• Texas Judge Forced Off Capital Case After Declaring State Death Penalty Law Unconstitutional
• "On Wednesday night, riot police raided an Occupy Oakland candle light vigil because protesters were violating the terms of their permit, CBS San Francisco said. The next afternoon, two dozen Occupy Oakland protesters gathered to shut down City Hall."
• Quadriplegic Undocumented Immigrant Dies In Mexico After Being Deported From His Hospital Bed
• Making Sport of Our Future When Politics is Not a Sport -- Walter Brasch for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO
• McCain Forgets Romney’s Name. Just Endorsed Him. Seriously, Here's The Clip. It's Pretty Awesome.
• House Democrats Rush Floor Demanding Republicans Come Back To Work, GOP Cuts Off C-SPAN
• "Men are reporting problems buying emergency contraception for partners"
• Judy Miller Alert! The New York Times is Lying About Iran's Nuclear Program
• Stephen Colbert Tears Into Obama Over The NDAA Bill
• GOP Proven Wrong Again As ObamaCare Created 23,000 Jobs In December
• Occupy: ‘Wild Old Women’ Close San Francisco Bank Of America Branch
• Santorum To Mother Of Cancer Survivor: Sick To Blame For Pre-Existing Conditions, Should Be Charged More. No, Really, He Said That.
• Obama’s New Pentagon Strategy: Strip Benefits and Buy More Weapons
• 80 Years Late, FBI Changes Definition of Rape to Include Men
• Derp Derp Newt: "I'm Not Rich" Derp Derp Derp Derp Derp
• William Rivers Pitt | "The High Comedy of Alternate Reality;" or, "Ah... Iowa"
• Job Numbers Are Up, but Veterans Are Left Behind
• Obama’s Consumer Watchdog Targets Mortgage Firms, Payday Lenders
• Derp Derp Derp Florida Republican Muslim Declared A ‘Terrorist’ By Own Party: ‘There Was A Well-Orchestrated Campaign Against Me’ Derp Derp Derp Derp
• Rick Santorum’s Anti-Abortion Politics Would Have Killed His Own Wife
• The GOP’s Big Lie on Obama and Jobs
• NFL Players Call On Indiana Republicans To Drop Their Anti-Labor Bill Before Indianapolis Super Bowl
• Ron Paul Wins the "Most Shockingly Offensive Video of the Campaign" Award
• Top 10 Wackiest Congressional Actions on the Middle East of 2011
• Actual Headline: "Myths around Santorum hard to swallow"
• US Manufacturing Jumps to Six-Month High
• Top Walker Aide Used the Username "Walker04" to Obtain Child Porn
• Democrats on Santorum's Rise: Whatever
• Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal (R) "issued an apology for an email he forwarded to fellow House Republicans that refers to first lady Michelle Obama as 'Mrs. YoMama' and compares a photograph of her to a picture of the Grinch."
• US Pressured Spain to Implement Online Piracy Law, Leaked Files Show
• Epic Derp: Santorum Might Have Actually Won the Iowa Caucus...you know, or not...
• Despite Tensions, US Rescues 13 Iranian Seamen from Pirates
• Occupy K Street Targets Wall Street's Favorite Lobbying Firm
• "In the years before he lost his Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2006, Rick Santorum worked hard to win hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Medicare money for hospitals in Puerto Rico."
• Commentary: Santorum wants to impose 'Judeo-Christian Sharia'
• Ron Paul's Strange Bedfellows
• Pentagon Probing Possible Leak of bin Laden Raid Details
• Unions Boost Economy In Germany
• Nutrition Doesn't Explain Right-Wing Attacks On Michelle Obama
• Santorum Suggests Romney Nomination ‘Will Destroy This Country’
• In Act of Defiance, Democrat Stalls Obama Choice for Court
• Santorum and Students Clash on Gay Marriage in NH
• The Delightful Disruptiveness Of Stephen Colbert
• Unemployment Rate Falls to 8.5%, Hiring Surges
• As Currency Crisis and Feud with West Deepen, Iranians Brace for War
• From the Archives: Rick Santorum Caught Up In John Ensign Affair: Senate Ethics Report
• From the Archives: "Rick Santorum Claims Gay Marriage Caused the Recession"
• "A move by Iraq’s government to welcome a deadly insurgent group into its political system is adding to tensions and could tilt the nation closer to Iran."
• Joseph P. Kennedy III (D) "is taking the final steps to launch a run for Congress this year, hoping to succeed Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) who chose to retire rather than run in his reconfigured district," the Boston Globe reports.
• Jim Hightower: Repeal the Farce of Corporate Personhood
• What's Happening in the Persian Gulf: Explained
• Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs
• Obama Announces New, Leaner Military Approach
• Eric Cantor Brazenly Lied When Asked About Reagan Raising Taxes 12 Times -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum Plays the Race Card While Denouncing Diversity: a Real "Soft Spoken" Demagogue -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Bleak Picture For Illinois Food Banks In 2012
• Whaling: campaigners use drones in the fight against Japanese whalers
• Oil Industry Warns Obama: 'Huge Political Consequences' if Pipeline Rejected
• Walmart Blacklisted By Major Pension Fund Over Poor Labor Practices
• FBI Targeting Political Activists as Terrorists
• The Richard Cordray Rollout Begins
• Shady Santorum Ethics Finally Getting Their Time in the Sun
• Fed Investigation of Scott Walker Appointees Leads to Initial Round of Charges: Embezzlement. "The complaint against Russell said he stole more than $10,000 from a private entity he controlled that was supposed to benefit military veterans. The complaint said he instead used the money in part to pay for Caribbean and Hawaiian vacations." Figures.
• Conservatives: Time to Rally Around a Not-Romney
• The Ineffable Strangeness Of Mitt Romney
• Memo to Obama: Avoid Another Long War
• Postcards from Occupy DC
• Florida Republican Introduces Bill Criminalizing Abortion – Calling For Life In Prison
• John Ziegler, former Sarah Palin fan: She “has now clearly revealed herself to be a selfish, hypocritical, sellout.”
• If They Win, Republicans Plan to Permanently Cripple EPA
• Dan Savage on Rick Santorum: He's Not Just Anti-Gay, "He Has an Anti-Straight Agenda Too"
• Occupy Big Dog
• Manufacturing Is Surprising Bright Spot in US Economy
• Derp Derp Derp Derp Rick Santorum Claims Gay Marriage Caused the Recession Derp Derp Derp
• Santorum Mocks Obama For Extending Health Care Coverage To ‘Everybody’
• The Top Reasons Wall Street and Republicans are Scared of Richard Cordray
• Obama's Recess Appointment Clears Way for Consumer Agency to Act
• Corporate Profits Have Rebounded To Pre-Recession Levels, But Corporate Tax Revenue Hasn’t
• Here's What Happens To Countries That Stop Valuing The Public Good
• Is the Tea Party Over?
• This Is Not Your Father’s GOP -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• EPA Regulations for Chesapeake Bay Will Create 35 Times as Many Jobs as Keystone XL Pipeline
• Hosni Mubarak: Egypt Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty
• President Sidesteps GOP Obstruction With Consumer And Workers' Rights Appointments!
• "It’s the job of congressional staffers working on energy and natural resources issues to know facts like this. But some of them have a more urgent and perverse interest in this particular statistic: they’re participants in a macabre annual office pool in which they try to predict how many acres of U.S. land will burn in wildfires."
• "At least 68 people are reported to have been killed in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad."
• Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers
• Obama To Make Recess Appointments To National Labor Relations Board
• Former Scott Walker Aide Arrested
• 30 Statistics that Show the Middle Class is Dying Right In Front of Our Eyes
• The US and Iran Are Already Locked in Economic War
• Gingrich Floats Idea of Anti-Romney Alliance
• NY City Council Passes Resolution Declaring that Corporations Are Not People
• Actual Headline: Jon Stewart Mocks Holographic ‘Dildo People’ In CNN’s Iowa Coverage
• 10 Reasons Michele Bachmann Will Be Sorely Missed
• Occupy Wall Street Builds Facebook Alternative
• Here’s What Romney’s Unreleased Tax Returns Almost Certainly Hide
• Jack Abramoff Discusses Influence Peddling with Kentucky Lawmakers
• A Republican Failure On the Day After Iowa

• Oil Price Would Skyrocket After Iran Blockade
• Chart of the Day: Presidential Recess Appointments
• SANTORUM: "I’ve looked at that quote, in fact I looked at the video. In fact, I’m pretty confident I didn’t say Black. I started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it sort of — blah — mumbled it and sort of changed my thought." Mmmmmm, OK.
• Waiting for the Day When We Can Say We're All Austrians: Ron Paul's Brand of Libertarianism
• The Rick Santorum that America Doesn't Know
• A Betrayal of the Founders
• Keith Olbermann Blasts Current TV; Internal Memo Reveals Tension Over GOP Primary
• Obama team calls Romney the ‘25 percent man’
• Pipeline Inspector-Turned Whistleblower Calls Keystone XL a Potential “Disaster”
• Oil Industry Launches Big Election PR Push
• NH House Approves Allowing Guns on Campus. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• Air Safety on the Cheap
• Rick Santorum Accused Of Discriminatory Remarks Leading Up To Iowa Caucuses
• Obama Sets Up Battle With Congressional Republicans By Appointing Corday to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is the President Putting on His Boxing Gloves, Finally?
• Montana State Supreme Court: Citizens United Not Welcome Here
• More Water for Las Vegas Means More Resentment in Rural Areas
• Wisconsin Recall Effort Proves as Divisive as Gov. Scott Walker's Collective Bargaining Changes
• African-American Teen Missing Since 2010 Mistakenly Deported to Colombia
• House Already Pressuring Obama Into Corner on Keystone XL Pipeline
• Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday is expected to publicly back efforts to make Washington the seventh state to legalize marriage for lesbian and gay couples.
• The Republican Job Killers: Boeing to Shut Wichita Plant. The company plans to close the massive defense operation and eliminate 2,100 jobs there by the end of 2013 in a bid to cut costs.
• New Mexico Lawmakers to Consider Voter ID Requirement
• Police fatally shoot armed 8th-grader at Texas school
• Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
• Democrats Can Barely Contain Their Glee Over Iowa Results
• Occupy Wall Street's Livestream Operators Arrested
• Why Do the Republicans Want the White House? Bad Moon on the Rise.-- Steve Jonas for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Sen. John McCain Endorses Mitt Romney for President at a Rally Wednesday in New Hampshire
• Rick Santorum’s Top 10 Most Outrageous Campaign Statements
• US Auto Sales Ended 2011 With Strong Gains
• New York City Council Votes Against Corporate Personhood, Citizens United
• Kansas in 2012? A Prediction of More Legal Battles, Higher Tax Bills, and Declining Access to Services
• A 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Ohio on New Year's Eve did not occur naturally and may have been caused by high-pressure liquid injection related to oil and gas exploration and production, an expert hired by the state of Ohio said on Tuesday.
• Scotland Looks to Build on a Record Year for Renewable Energy
• Israel, US to hold largest ever missile defense exercise this spring; thousands of US soldiers will be deployed in Israel.
• Newt the Destroyer: Gingrich is now on a single-minded mission to detonate Mitt Romney's presidential prospects. Will he blow up the GOP in the process?
• The Real Winner of the 2012 Iowa Caucuses: The Big-Money Super PAC
• Google's "Chromegate": Massive Online Chrome Advertising Campaign Seems to Violate Google’s Own Guidelines
• Drug Companies Reduce Payments to Doctors as Scrutiny Mounts
• Romney's Secret Tax Returns
• As Farmers in Georgia Struggle to Find Workers to Harvest Crops - Georgia's Agricultural Chief Calls for a 21st Century Guest Worker Program at the Federal Level
• Time for Media to Scrutinize Romney’s Jobs Claims
• Michele Bachmann Suspends Campaign After Iowa Loss
• Iowa caucus results: Romney "edges" Santorum; Paul finishes third - Call It a Toss-up
• Military Contractor Lockheed Martin Goes to Bat for Bahrain's Oppressive Regime
• Two California Assembly Democrats plan to introduce a resolution Wednesday urging Congress to pass a constitutional amendment overturning the US Supreme Court's Citizens United campaign finance ruling in 2010.
• Activists: Syrian Regime Misleading Arab Observers
• Man Arrested in New York Islamic Center Attack
• TIME Magazine Cheers the Drone War
• Michele Bachmann Came in Last But Won't Drop Out
• After Iowa Drubbing, Rick Perry to Return to Texas to Try and Remember Third Government Department That He Would Abolish
• David Corn: "Even as his allied super-PAC spent $3.5 million hammering Newt Gingrich on the Iowa airwaves, Romney himself is channeling the former House speaker's bombast."
• 'Citizens United' Unleashed a Monster: Why the Real Winner In the Iowa Caucuses Is the Big-Money Super PAC
• The Mysterious Disappearance of Keith Olbermann from Iowa Current TV Coverage. A Larger Battle With Management May Be Behind It.
• After Iowa, Ron Paul calls Newt Gingrich a 'chickenhawk'
• After Dismal Iowa Showing, Newt Won't Just Shut Up and Go on Weight Watchers
• Live Iowa Caucus Results The Three Estupidos Essentially Tied: Romney and Santorum (basically a co-victory) Just Ahead of Ron Paul, Just a Few Thousand Votes Behind
• Swiss bankers charged in $1.2 billion tax fraud. Of course, bankers in US still get a free get out of jail card.
• In Iowa, Young Voters Unenthusiastic About Obama
• We Are All Terrorists Now: "The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has recommended for many years that animal activists who carry out undercover investigations on farms could be prosecuted as domestic terrorists." -- LA Times New documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by activist Ryan Shapiro show the FBI advising that activists – including Shapiro – who walked onto a farm, videotaped animals there and “rescued” an animal had violated terrorism statutes.
• Vermont Introduces Resolution To Ban Corporate Personhood
• In One Year, a Hedge Fund Manager Can Make Enough Money to Hire 100,000 New Teachers -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Santorum: No One Has Ever Died Because They Didn't Have Health Care
• "No doubt you've heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it. The photo shows the Ohio man restrained inside the Lee County Jail with his body covered in pepper spray. "This photo is a picture of a man who is strapped to a chair naked inside a jail for hours with a hood over his face. That evokes thoughts of being tortured," says Cleveland-based lawyer Nick DiCello who represents the Christie family." Then, He Died.
• "The Trouble With My Uncle Rick Santorum"
• Expert: Wastewater Well for Oil and Gas Drillers Triggered Minor Earthquakes in Ohio
• When the Primaries are Over, Will Our Politicians Start Making Sense Again? -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Billionaires Create Organization to "Prove" That They Are Victims. Let Them Eat Rolexes! -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Occupy Protests Follow 123rd Annual Rose Parade
• It's Tuesday and Back to the Punditry of the "Election Process" (In This Case, Iowa) Involving Crazy People, And Taking It Seriously. What Happened to the Occupy Movement? The Status Quo Evicted It and Changed the Media Frame Back to 1% Media Propaganda. -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• New Rules Mean Full Disclosure For Airfares
• George W. Bush Barely Mentioned in GOP Campaign. I Can't Imagine Why.
• Top Tea Party Republican Admits It: "We’ve been employing hostage strategy"
• Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street?
• Occupy: The NYPD Keep Beating and Impeding the Free Press
• YO OBAMA: "Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under investigation." TRANSLATION: THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.
• 4 Reminders That the Iraq War Was A Catastrophe
• Explaining Socialism To A Republican
• Welcome to Super PAC Nation
• Republicans Have Shut Down The NLRB. The President Must Act!
• Callista Gingrich, America’s Camilla Parker-Bowles
• Arrests at White House Over NDAA Military Detention of Americans
• "The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed ordinance to impose stricter rules and fines for protests would be permanent — and not just for the upcoming G8 and NATO summits, as originally implied."
• US Manufacturing Jumps to Six-Month High
• Iraq War Lives On as US Conflict Fuels Debt
• Pulaski WI Marching Band 'Sticking to the Union' in Rose Bowl Parade
• Iraq: Remembering Those Responsible
• Gingrich: I ‘Wouldn’t Make Exceptions’ For Abortions In Cases Of Rape Or Incest
• Obama Won't Rule Out Recess Appointment at Consumer Bureau
• "It's 2012. Here are eleven charts that explain what's still wrong with America."
• "He fought a war against Hitler, gave us some of the best television ever and founded People for the American Way, so Norman Lear knows something about getting the job done. In this stirring editorial, the producer challenges us to get on board the Occupy train and fight for the American dream."
• Rick Perry Loses His Mind But Not His Conservative Support
• Iran-US Tensions over Gulf Send Oil Prices Soaring
• America’s Secret Political Power
• Boeing Wins $3.48 Billion US Missile Defense Contract
• Montana Supreme Court Rejects Citizens United
• German Joblessnes​s Falls to Lowest Rate in 20 Years
• Reading in the New Millennium: Forward to the Past?
• Santorum Tells Iowans: ‘I don’t want to make black people’s lives better.’ Ah, yes, the racism card.
• "Texas Gov. Rick Perry today compared the GOP's quest to defeat President Barack Obama to one of the deadliest battles of the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944."
• Occupy Iowa Caucus Protesters Storm Democrats' War Room
• Chief Justice Draws Guffaws With His Claim That Federal Courts Operate Honestly
• Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages
• North Korea Calls For “Human Shields” To Protect New Leader -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Electing People Who Will Govern on Foolish Assumptions Won't Work -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Founder of American Family Association Endorses Serial Adulterer Newt Gingrich. Say What? -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• What We Have Now Is Lots of Money and Very Little Intellectual Substance -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• Ode To Barney Frank
• Reaction: President Signs Controversial Defense Bill
• Ode To Sex-Obsessed Santorum