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- Rick Santorum's American Jihad -- Linda Gibson for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Republican Primaries Have a Surreal Quality About Them -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Fox Pundit Doesn’t Apologize For Saying Women In Military Should ‘Expect’ Sexual Assault
- Who’s Really Violent? Tips for Controlling the Narrative
- Krugman: Conservatives Twist Economic Debate
- Northampton, MA Opts Out of Federal NDAA Law
- As Super Tuesday Looms, Republican Primary Heads into Potentially Decisive Phase
- Two Supreme Court Justices Suggest 'Citizens United' Decision Should be Reconsidered
- FBI Arrests Man Who Dared to Mock Them
- Franklin Graham: Obama May Secretly Be A Muslim, Santorum And Gingrich Are Definitely Christian
- Occupy Movement Targets Corporate Interest Group with Ties to Legislators
- Maddow: How Gingrich Defines 'Barely'
- Minnesota GOP Refuses To Allow Citizens To Testify As It Steals Their Right To Vote
- Go Harry Go: Harry Reid Threatens Mass Recess Appointments to Thwart GOP Obstructionism
- Rupert Murdoch's Legal Tab Approaching $1 Billion
- Santorum's Theology of the Outrageous
- A People’s History of Robin Hood
- Virginia House Delays Vote on Insane Anti-Woman Ultrasound Bill
- Drudge Turns on Santorum
- The Conservative War on Women's Sexuality
- Squad Leader in Haditha Killings Discharged from Marine Corps
- What Bible Is Santorum Reading?
- The High Costs of Birth Control: A Major Barrier to Access
- Army Medical Chief Placed on Leave Amid Investigations into PTSD Diagnoses
- Santorum Leads Romney Nationally by 10 in New Gallup Poll
- Republicans Have a Tax Problem
- Chris Hedges | Powerful Acts of Love
- Why the Media Love the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks
- Hypnotized Into an Endless Dirty War
- The War Against Women is becoming the Crusade Against Women – Rick Santorum Part I
- Supreme Court to Review Affirmative Action Case Next Term
- Go Harry Go: Harry Reid Threatens Mass Recess Appointments to Thwart GOP Obstructionism
- The Real Job Creators: You and Me
- The Failure of Austerity Politics
- The Case for Requiring Members of Congress to Take Drug Tests -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Definition of Insanity: Deregulating Over and Over and Expecting Different Results -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Supreme Court Considers Delaying Health Care Ruling To 2014
- The End of the For-Profit Prison Era?
- For the First Time Since 2008, the Dow is Edging Close to 13,000
- "Santorum, an outspoken opponent of abortion rights, told the CBS News program 'Face the Nation' on Sunday that amniocentesis 'more often than not' results in abortion."
- Republican Strategist Frank Luntz Jokes About Killing Obama At Lincoln Day Dinner Party
- High-Deductible Health Insurance Pinches Workers From Both Sides
- The Crazy Rush to Attack Iran
- "Nothing drives voter sentiment like the price of gas – now averaging $3.56 a gallon, up 30 cents from the start of the year. It’s already hit $4 in some places. The last time gas topped $4 was 2008. And nothing energizes Republicans like rising energy prices. Last week House Speaker John Boehner told Republicans to take advantage of voters’ looming anger over prices at the pump."
- Believe It or Not, Santorum's Surge Is Scary
- Protest Drags Down Europe’s SOPA: "Hollywood heads for another defeat as the online world rejects an anti-counterfeiting proposal"
- Climate Scientist Peter Gleick Admits He Leaked Heartland Institute Documents: "Peter Gleick, a water and climate analyst, says he was blinded by his frustrations with ongoing attacks on climate science"
- Fukushima: Return to the Disaster Zone
- Night Draws Near: "As Anthony Shadid described in his award-winning book, the Shiite centers of Karbala and Najaf were booming in the early days of the U.S. occupation of Iraq -- until a devastating terrorist attack shattered the their hopes for peace."
- Franklin Graham: Obama May Secretly Be A Muslim, Santorum And Gingrich Are Definitely Christian
- Desperate Fantasy: Can Jeb Bush Save The GOP?
- Palestinian Prisoner Ends 66-Day Hunger Strike after Israel Guarantees his Release
- Santorum Takes Climate Change Denial to a Biblical Level
- Indiana Republican Accuses Girl Scouts of Pushing ‘Pro-Abortion’ Agenda, ‘Homosexual Lifestyles’
- Paltry Super PAC Fundraising Forced Rethink in Obama Camp
- In Return to Air, Colbert Honors Ailing Mother
- GOP 'Super PACs' Overtaking Campaigns Fundraising
- "In GOP circles, there is more than a whiff of panic in the air."
- Europe Agrees on New Bailout to Help Greece Avoid Default
- Santorum Suggests Ending Public Education
- Iran Warns of Pre-Emptive Action in Nuclear Dispute
- Pakistan to Ask Interpol to Arrest ex-President Musharraf
- Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Rates at Record Low
- An Online Weekly on Excess and Inequality
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- Rick Santorum's nationwide lead expanded Monday in Gallup's daily tracking poll, which showed the former Pennsylvania senator leading rival Mitt Romney by ten percentage points Among Republicans.
- Two Charts on the Economy That Should Terrify Republicans
- Leaders meeting on Greek bailout have a growing problem: A fed-up public
- Claim: Walmart is a deadbeat when it comes to paying subcontractors
- Right Wing Washington Times Article: "Romney shows trouble keeping supporters from 2008"
- Outrage Mounts in Virginia Over "Personhood Bills" That Treat Women Like Baby Bearing Machines: "This war on women has got to stop," the petition reads. "Virginia may be the butt of jokes for late night comedians, but the bills coming out of the General Assembly this year are no laughing matter."
- Here Comes the Bush Dynasty of Disaster? ‘Top GOP Senator’ To ABC News: If Romney Loses Michigan, ‘He Will Publicly Call’ For Jeb Bush
- Why Is Rick Santorum Obsessed With Your Sex Life?
- The Spiraling Decline of America's "Liberal" (LOL) Capital City Newspaper: The Washington Post. The Post Publishes and Promotes Op-ed by Glenn Beck: "We Are All Catholics Now." The WP doing this is wrong on so many levels in stooping to this "circulation," last gasp type of move.
- Radioactive or Not, Tsunami Debris Could Seriously Impact US's, Canada's West Coasts
- The University Besieged: "The American university today is a battered figure on the public domain, half-relic of the past, half-orphan of the present, celebrated on the dais while denigrated in the boardroom and starved by state legislatures. Administrators say our campuses can’t survive if they are constantly challenged from within."
- Poll: Obama Ratings Don't Suffer Among Catholics Despite Attacks by Bishops on Contraception
- Backlash to Internet Big Brother Legislation in Canada
- Spain Protests Labor Reforms As Hundreds Of Thousands Take To Streets
- Will Malaysians Get Cancer for Your iPhone or Prius?
- Pressure Mounts on Apple's Hip Brand Image, As It Is Battered by Its Profiteering From Slave Wages, Unsafe Working Conditions, and Use of Shady Contractors Who Treat Workers Like Chattel "Apple's profits are so high, and its global labor costs so low, that it could triple the wages of its 700,000 manufacturing workers and help them achieve a living wage (just a few dollars an hour in China), and still make $40 billion a year. A wage increase of 16% to 25% at Foxconn, announced today as Apple's public relations blitz reaches a crescendo, doesn't come close."
- Republicans and the Culture Wars: Why It Won't Work This Year
- Apple Uses Industry Paid "Group" to Try and Whitewash Its Way Out of Slave Wage, Dire Working Conditions Scandal
- Exxon Valdez Oil Walloping Mom and Pup Sea Otters
- Supreme Court Sanctioned Sale of US Government to Highest Bidders Likely to Continue as Court Puts Hold on Montana State Limit on Political Contributions
- Cantor Can’t Explain Why Americans Oppose GOP Agenda
- Santorum Excommunicates 45 Million Christians: Mainline Protestants Are ‘Gone From The World Of Christianity’
- Virginia Poised To Enact ‘State-Sponsored Rape’ Law Forcing Women To Be Vaginally Probed Before Abortions
- "Santorum says Obama agenda not "based on Bible"" Hey, Ranger Rick, the US was founded on the Constitution not the Bible. This guy is a misogynist bible-thumping doofus. Obama would make make mince meat of him in a general election.
- How the Ohio GOP's Attempts to Game Voting Rules Backfired
- Human Safaris: When Does Tourism Become Unethical?
- Subsidize This: US Eyes Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels, But What Gets Protected?
- Broken Budget Process Hurts Wall Street Reform
- Paul Babeu, Immigration Hawk Sheriff, Outed by Alleged Mexican Gay Lover
- Disaster Capitalism: Profiting From Crisis in Post-Earthquake Haiti
- The Questionable Economics of the Keystone XL Pipeline
- Pinal County [Arizona] Sheriff Paul Babeu, a Republican rising star and a leading candidate for Congress, is facing accusations that he and his attorney threatened to deport a Mexican former boyfriend of Babeu's if the man refused to agree to not disclose the relationship
- Gun 'R Us! Santorum: ‘The Second Amendment Is There To Protect the First Amendment!’
- How Rick Santorum Ripped Off American Veterans
- Mortgage-Backed Bonds That Got Us Into Trouble in the First Place All the Rage Again
- Industry Plan to Save Us From Global Warming a Nightmare, Not a Dream
- Fracking debate divides New York landowners As the state prepares to lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking, many people debate the risks of leasing mineral rights to extraction companies.
- Hague warns Israel over military action on Iran
- Delusions of the Corporate State
- Lieberman Edges US to War with Iran
- Chapter 20 The Self-Destructiveness of the Society of the Old U.S. Part 2
- Syrian Protesters Fill the Streets in Biggest Protest Since Uprising Started
- Class Warfare: Which Side Are You on?
- Mortgage-Backed Securities Make a Comeback, Despite Similar Risks
- William Rivers Pitt | To My Mother
- Sen. John McCain Endorses Talks With Taliban
- Frustrated Protesters Fill the Streets in Syria's Capital
- Iran Stops Oil Exports to U.K. Companies
- Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Uncle Sam, Global Gangster
- Obama’s Plan to Save the Military From Cuts - at the Expense of Domestic Programs
- "Made in the USA" Not Enough for Campaign Trail
- Russia's Winter of Discontent
- A Story and a Book: On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence
- Commentary: Some lies around Deep Throat exposed
- Problems Alleged With Major Afghan Mining Deal
- Will We Choose a Chinese Future? Manufacturing jobs are trickling back into the U.S. economy because depressed wages are turning America into China
- Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Whether a Lie Is Protected Speech
- Newest Anti-Keystone Activists ... Tea Partiers?
- Romney and Obama Vie for Title of Most Charitable; Santorum Gave Least to Charity
- US House OKs Opening Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil Drilling
- Gay Marriage Advances in Maryland, Vetoed in New Jersey
- Economists Shoot Down the Wall Street Journal's Claim That Extending Unemployment Harms the Unemployed
- When It Comes to Unions, the Republican Party is Like the Soviet Politburo -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Where GOP Libertarianism, White Supremacy and Social Conservatism All Came Together
- Voters This Year Should Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid, or At Least Be Very Careful -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Santorum Excommunicates 45 Million Christians: Mainline Protestants Are "Gone from the World of Christianity"
- Can Rep. Bachus and His Money-Crazed Congressional Colleagues Be Stopped from Insider Trading?
- Minnesota Vikings Set to Fleece Unwilling Taxpayers for New Stadium
- William Rivers Pitt: To My Mother
- Why MSNBC Dumped Pat Buchanan: His 10 Most Outrageous Statements
- Honduras: Our Continuing Catastrophe
- Why Obama's the Least Socialistic President in Modern History (And That's a Shame)
- Media May Give Hamas Extreme Makeover
- How Citibank Dumped Lousy Mortgages on the Government
- Eastern Europe’s Conservative Crackdown on Reproductive Freedom
- Rush Limbaugh ... Secret Democrat?
- Drones Set Sights on US Skies
- Despite Safety Worries, Work on Deadly Flu to Be Released
- All Politics Aren’t Local: Florida GOP Wants to Block Local Government from Enforcing Wage and Hour Laws
- Syrian Forces Fire on Funeral in Damascus
- Supreme Court Blocks Montana Campaign Finance Ruling
- Teamsters Threaten to Picket Ford Plant as Escape Production Looms
- Oh the Irony! Wikileaks Banned from UN Conference on Wikileaks
- Instead of Being Disgusted By Poverty, We Are Disgusted By Poor People Themselves
- The President's 2013 Budget Shifts the Focus to Growing the Economy and the Middle Class
- Jason Leopold | I'm Suing the FBI, CIA, and Other Government Agencies for Violating a Provision in the Freedom of Information Act
- The Revolution’s Torturers: Systematic Human Rights Abuses in New Libya
- Bill Moyers: Freedom Of and From Religion
- "The Obama Justice Department has concluded that legislation banning same-sex couples from receiving military and veterans benefits violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment and will no longer defend the statute in court"
- 'This Is Just Crap’: Santorum Attacks Media Over Friess Firestorm (methinks Rick just needs an aspirin)
- Same-Sex Marriage Approval in Maryland House Appears Likely
- "In an embarrassment for Mitt Romney, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) switched his support to Rick Santorum on Friday with a brutal speech condemning Romney for failing to run a positive campaign."
- Why MSNBC Dumped Pat Buchanan: His 10 Most Outrageous Statements
- "Nevada state Sen. Sheila Leslie is my new hero"
- The GOP Primary Season Is Not Going to End Any Time Soon: Gingrich to Get Another $10 Million from Casino Backer
- How Does the 1% Exploit America? Find Out in 1 Minute
- This Gay Man Represented the President
- Dick Cheney to Maryland Republicans: Support Marriage Equality...and if you listen closely, you can hear Tea Party heads exploding all over the countryside.
- Fox Pundit Liz Trotta’s History Of Anti-Gay, Pro-Rape, Pro-Obama Assassination Comments
- "A 29-year-old Moroccan man who authorities say wanted to be the first suicide bomber on U.S. soil was arrested Friday after strapping on what he thought was an explosive vest and headed for the U.S. Capitol"
- Senate Passes Payroll Tax Bill Over Broad GOP Opposition
- Disabled People in UK Face Unlimited Unpaid Work or Cuts in Benefits
- Thomas Frank Talks With Truthout on How Wall Street Doubled Down on Trashing America's Economy
- How The GOP Went Back To The 1950s In Just One Day
- After Surviving Sectarian Mob, Egyptian Christians Expelled from Village
- "US officials believe Iran sanctions will fail, making military action likely"
- Conservatives Quiet After Saying Civilian System Couldn’t Handle Underwear Bomber
- The Things That Anthony Shadid Taught Me
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches “Make Life Easier for Lobbyists” Tool
- Jeremy Lin, Teamwork and the US Elections: "Jeremy Lin's new-found stardom at the New York Knicks is because he is a team player and not a superstar. There are lessons that can be learned from this"
- Romney Targets Labor Unions, which Could Be Risky Come Fall
- House Acts to Extend Payroll Tax Cut and Aid to Jobless
- Republicans Fail to Appeal to Latinos
- The Republican War on Women: Invading the Vagina in Virginia
- The Woman Prevented From Testifying In Favor Of Birth Control Says She’s ‘Stunned’ By GOP’s Rebuke
- How to Restore the Middle Class
- Billionaire Romney Donor Uses Threats to Silence Critics
- When Oakland Is Under Attack, What Do We Do?
- Rush Limbaugh Leads GOP In Pondering How To Deal With Improving Economy. Derp.
- Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Frenzy
- Foreclosure Abuse Rampant Across US, Experts Say
- Virginia Poised To Enact ‘State-Sponsored Rape’ Law Forcing Women To Be Vaginally Probed Before Abortions
- The Soul of Mitt Romney
- Darrell Issa Compares His All-Male Anti-Contraception Panel To Martin Luther King
- Pat Buchanan: “My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.”
- Congress Will Auction Public Airwaves to Pay for Benefits
- Senators Promise War With ‘Nuclear Capable’ Iran, Don’t Define ‘Capable’
- Secret Wisconsin Redistricting Emails Released; Lawyers Discussed "Wildly Gerrymandering..."
- The Nation’s Most Radical Abortion Bill? Iowa GOP Proposal Would Ban All Abortions, Sentence Doctors
- Face Masks, Snipers and Aerial Surveillance: Chicago's Newest Anti-Protest Measures Revealed
- Republicans Use Rare Tactic to Block Two Obama Rules
- "Goldman Sachs Group, already under fire for reaping record trading profits in the aftermath of the financial crisis, is now fighting to defend one of its biggest sources of revenue -- commodities trading -- with regulators considering setting limits on Wall Street speculators."
- Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying
- Veterans Group Presses Obama on ‘Welcome Home’ for Iraq Troops
- Is the Republican Party a Last-Stand Contingent for Returning America to the 1800's? -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The GOP and Change: On the Separation of Church and State -- Steven Jonas, MD, MPH for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Mitt Romney's Own Private McCarthy -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - These Are Ironic Times
- Where are Americans taking their technology? And what does this mean for Presidential election ad campaigns?
- Dear Bedroom-Invading Republicans
- Right Wing Attacks on Clint Eastwood Reach New Absurdity
- Rick Santorum’s ‘Iran-Contraception Scandal’