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- WI GOP's Photo ID Law Struck Down Yet Again as Unconstitutional, Unduly Burdensome
- Bain Capital started quietly with *foreign* capital, wealthy offshore investors
- Nancy Pelosi plans to retake House, 1 seat at a time
- William Rivers Pitt: Mitt's Kampaign Klown Kar
- Bill McKibben on the Long Hot Summer
- Why You Should Be Frightened by Romney's Core Entitlement Values -- Steve Jonas for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Krugman: California represents the worst of current U.S. economic crisis
- Pennsylvania Citizens Ask: "Why Are We Building More Prisons While the State Cuts Back on Education?"
- Shell Seeks to Weaken Air Rules for Arctic Drilling
- The HSBC scandal shows the time for politicians to act on bank reform is now
- Fake Michigan driver’s license found on suspect Bulgaria bus bombing that killed Israeli tourists
- Romney’s London fundraisers will take him to heart of scandal-plagued banking industry
- Glenn Greenwald to Move From Salon to the Guardian
- British Company Wants To Release Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Into Florida Keys
- "Interest rate swap deals have allowed the big banks to hold local governments and agencies hostage for tens of millions of dollars."
- Beyond Foxconn: More Dirt on the Factories Making Your iPhone
- Syria: Rebels keep pressure on Assad, fight near government buildings
- Poorest Americans Turning To Payday Loans To Afford Food, Electricity
- The GOP Is So Used to Throwing Punches, It Doesn't Know How to Take One -- William Rivers Pitt for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Will Electric Cars Take Off in Israel?
- GOP Slashes Planned Parenthood Funding
- Romney Admits Cayman Island Accounts Set up to Avoid Paying Taxes in US
- Suppressing Democracy by Stealing the Right to Vote Is the Ultimate Election Fraud - Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Still more holes in Mitt Romney’s tax returns?
- Bank Contractors Break Into Occupied Homes, Terrify Residents, Lawsuits Say
- Democrats apply legislative pressure on Mitt Romney to release more tax returns
- Remembering William Raspberry
- Right Wing Wackos Attack Hillary Clinton's Chief Personal Assistant as Part of "Muslim Brotherhood." A New Low for a Group of People Already in the Gutter as Michele Bachmann Leads the Charge
- "Some Republicans still not sold on Mitt Romney’s campaign"
- Obama Says Romney Is Hiding Something in Tax Returns
- WikiLeaks Is Almost Broke
- Sen. Sherrod Brown's Wife Makes Conservative Blogger Look Silly
- Terror attacks against Israelis in Bulgaria
- The Unhappy Truth About Positive Psychology
- How Big Business Has Triumphed in State Legislatures on Civil Liberties, Higher Education and Energy
- Eighteen Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney to Release More Tax Returns Right Now
- Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs Eleven Years Ago And The Results Are Staggering
- Romney vs. Obama on Regulation and Big Money
- The Geopolitics of Compassion
- Obama Wants Review of Prisoner’s Commutation Request
- Murder Mystery of Assad’s Brother-in-Law
- House passes bill demanding sequester details from Obama
- Dana Milbank: Dick Cheney offers the GOP familiar advice on spending
- Senate GOP: Not Agreeing To Our Tax Demands Is Like Playing Russian Roulette With The U.S. Economy
- Romney’s New Plan To Go After Obama’s Biography Is A Gamble
- U.S. leads the world in cutting CO2 emissions — so why aren’t we talking about it?
- Did Sean Hannity Offer to Pay for George Zimmerman's Defense?
- Report: In 1994, Romney Was Running for the Senate Against Ted Kennedy and Used Same Excuse of "Being on Leave" When Bain Demolished the Workers of a Company Called AmPad
- Pressure Continues to Mount for Romney to Release His Tax Returns. Mitt is in a Rare Position for a Republican Presidential Candidate. He's Stuck Playing Defense for Weeks on End.
- Capital One to refund $150 million to credit card customers
- Chris Hayes: How the Powerful Rig the System, From Penn State to Wall Street
- Katrina vanden Heuvel | Unleashing the power of real girls
- Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs Eleven Years Ago And The Results Are Staggering
- The Retroactive Romney Machine
- Romney’s New Tax Incentive for Outsourcing U.S. Jobs
- Guardian Newspaper Reports £44m Losses, Redundancies Expected
- Walmart Heirs Have As Much Wealth As Bottom 40 Percent Of Americans Combined
- Gloomy Forecast for States, Even if Economy Rebounds
- A "Victory" in My FOIA Lawsuit Against the FBI
- Louis C.K. on Daniel Tosh’s Rape Joke: Are Comedy and Feminism Enemies?
- Bernanke Outlines Range of Options for Additional Easing
- Study finds costs associated with voter IDs
- USDA Prepares To Greenlight Gnarliest GMO Soy Yet
- House GOP unveils death by 1,000 cuts
- Marissa Mayer Stares Down ‘Glass Cliff’ at Yahoo
- Obama Finds His Groove on Working Class Identification, While Romney Stumbles Like a Drunken Member of the Royal Family
- Moroccan women build land rights movement
- Cybersecurity bill shows signs of life in Senate
- Unions’ Past May Hold Key to Their Future
- GOP, liberals doubt Dem leaders' tough rhetoric on taxes
- Protecting Groundwater: A Guide To Fracking Risks And Best Practices
- Minnesota Town Bans Signs in Yards Unless They're Pro-War
- Intense fighting rocks Syrian capital, fueling perceptions of a turning point
- Supreme Court Immigration Ruling in Arizona v. U.S. Got It Backward
- Coalition urges tax hikes, entitlement cuts to tame national debt
- In Victory for Women, Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Birth Control Mandate
- The "We Don’t Care, Less Care For You, Couldn’t Care Less" Party -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- McCain on Romney: ‘Palin Was the Better Candidate’...No, Seriously, He Said That -- William Rivers Pitt for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Mr. Romney: If You're Listed as the Owner of a Car, You Are Responsible for It? So What's the Difference with Bain? -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- In the name of fighting health reform, a growing number of states are ignoring their obligations to the neediest citizens.
- Military contractors to testify on potential defense cuts
- Since When is Focusing On Romney's Business Record "Swift Boating"? -- Dee Evans for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Jon Stewart mocks Romney: ‘Retroactive retirement’ worst use of a time machine ever
- David Brooks, Joe Klein, and the Courtier Press
- Tipping Point? National Review, Rick Perry Call On Romney To Release Tax Returns
- 15 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now
- Blair-Bush Iraq War Transcript May Be Suppressed
- The Average Canadian is Now Richer Than the Average American
- US Corn Crop Shrinking By The Hour
- Senate Republicans filibustered a bill that would have shed some light on dark money.
- Obama Campaign Sues Ohio For Shortening Early Voting Period
- VIDEO: The Bain Ad That Romney Should Fear the Most
- Human Corpses Are Prize In Global Drive For Profits
- Revealed: Key Files on Big-Ticket Political Donations Vanish at Federal Election Commission
- Cultivating Influence: The 2008 Farm Bill Lobbying Frenzy
- John McCain: I Didn’t Pick Romney Because ‘Sarah Palin Was The Better Candidate.’ LOL at Your Leisure. No, Really, This Happened. Cue Obama Ad in 3...2...1...
- Obama Spokeswoman: Romney Campaign ‘Off The Deep End’
- Top Romney Spokesperson Urged Kerry’s Presidential Campaign To Release More Tax Returns In 2004
- Kinder Morgan: Vancouver Not Ready For a Major Oil Spill, Experts Warn
- There Are Spies Among Us, and There Shouldn't Be
- Former DC Schools Chancellor Rhee Still Scamming and Posing as Education ‘Reformer’
- Norquist Jumps the Shark: The anti-tax king goes postal on a conservative Republican senator
- After G4S, Who Still Thinks Outsourcing Works?
- America’s Drones Are Homeward Bound
- US Drought Grows to Cover Widest Area Since 1956
- Marissa Mayer Becomes First Ever Pregnant CEO Of Fortune 500 Company
- After National Gathering, Is There Room for Insurrectionary Anarchism in Occupy?
- Fiscal Crisis in States Will Last Beyond Slump, Report Warns
- Senate Republicans Fight to Protect Secret Donors
- William Raspberry Dies: Washington Post columnist wrote about social issues including race, poverty
- NYPD's 'Stop-and-Frisk' Mess Gets Messier
- The Prodigal Frum: "He spent his life inside the GOP establishment. Now, he’s on the warpath against the right. What’s gotten into David Frum?"
- Koch Bros. Get Into Local News Business
- Romney Mega-Donor Adelson Attracts No Attention for Shady Dealings Abroad--(But Gets Propositioned By Sarah Silverman)
- GOP Stonewalls Climate Hearing Amid Extreme Weather
- FDA Approves First Drug To Prevent HIV Infection
- VIDEO: Jon Stewart Destroys Romney’s Weak Bain Capital/Tax Return Defense
- Romney and His Time Machine
- Must We Go Here Again? Birthers, Neo-Birthers, and Right-Wing Sleaze
- Romney Camp Decries ‘Crony Capitalism,’ Can’t Name Single Ethics Reform To Stop It
- Unleashing the Power of Real Girls
- Charlie Sheen to Donate at Least $1 Million to Help Wounded Soldiers
- Mitt Romney Ad Taken Down Over Copyright Claim
- 36 Percent Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths From Radiation Exposure
- Top Romney Surrogate: Investing In Green Energy Is Turning America Into The Soviet Union
- VIDEO: Thom Hartmann: Civil War - The Makers vs The Takers?
- 'Fox & Friends' Deceptively Edits Obama's Comments On Small Business
- Persian Gulf Shooting: Boat Not Warned Before Being Fired Upon, Official Says
- British Bank Chief Says Geithner Didn’t Warn of Rate Fraud
- Meteorologist: Heat Wave Shows Global Warming is Real
- As DISCLOSE Act Stalls, Super PAC Reserves $6 Million in Ad Time for House Races
- The Power of Anonymity: "Republicans have been the main beneficiaries of corporate and independent spending sprees. The party’s lock-step opposition to letting voters see who writes the big checks is an embarrassment to Congress."
- McCain Campaign's Full 2008 File on Mitt Romney
- Survey Finds Large Majorities In GOP Districts Support Reducing Military Spending
- PA Cyberschool that Once Educated Santorum's Kids Now Tied to FBI Probe
- Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?
- Raising Taxes on Rich Seen as Good for Economy, Fairness (.pdf report)
- The Rise (and Fall?) of Adidas
- Walmart: 50 Years of Gutting America’s Middle Class
- Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Government More Than the Rest of Us Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Ripping off the Public of Billions of Dollars Should Land You In Jail, Not the Forbes Wealthiest Persons List - Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- REPORT: Biggest Donor To Romney And GOP Did Business With Chinese Mob
- Mitt Romney’s unsolvable Bain problem
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- Chris Hedges: We Live in the Biggest Company Town on Earth
- The Toothless Accountability Systems Behind the Penn State Scandal
- Howard Zinn | To Disagree Is to Be Put on the Enemies List
- As the West Burns: Speaking Truth to Fire
- Wendell Potter: Why GOP Governors Will Embrace ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion - After the Election
- Democrats Mock GOP For Protecting Own Health Care In Repeal Vote
- E.J. Dionne Jr.: A Challenge to Conservatives
- Matt Taibbi: Romney's 'Free Stuff' Speech Is a New Low
- Nikki Haley Slashes Support for Violence Victims Just When They Need It Most
- Battle Over Planned Parenthood Funding In Indiana May Be First Test Of Coercion Theory From ACA Decision
- Former Romney Partner At Bain Makes Case For Outsourcing
- Seven Tea Party Freshmen Spent More Than $100,000 In Taxpayer Money On Personal Cars
- Surveys Give Big Investors an Early View From Analysts
- Senate Democrats are readying a one-year, $272 billion bill extending income tax cuts for all but the highest earning Americans that would also boost their capital gains and dividends taxes next year to 23.8 percent.
- Islamophobia - for Muslims, read Jews. And be shocked
- Romney Supports Voter ID Laws That Could Disenfranchise 25% Of African-Americans
- Obama Seeks to Criminalize Linking to Online Piracy Websites
- Seeds of federal health care law were planted in Illinois Senate
- Is the Heat Wave of 2012 What Climate Change Looks Like?
- Syria, The Movie: Monsters and Defectors
- Ohio Medicaid expansion uncertainty raises questions for MetroHealth, Cleveland Clinic, others
- Battle Over Planned Parenthood Funding In Indiana May Be First Test Of Coercion Theory From ACA Decision
- Modernize the Country of Origin Label
- Raging youth unemployment fuels fears of social collapse in Spain
- Republicans Attack Obama For Giving States Flexibility On Welfare Reform
- FDA Engaged in Widespread Spying on Whistleblowers
- The nation’s governors are unnerved by the course that’s being set in Washington, and many dread that neither party will be able to fix what’s broken after November.
- Heated Emails Point To Growing Divide In Texas Education Board Elections
- College Costs Shift to Students
- Are Drones Moral Killing Machines?
- New York Activists Blockade Foreclosure Auctions to Stop Banks Selling Homes
- How A Koch-Affiliated Group Is Infiltrating State News Coverage in Mainstream Papers
- Web Divorce: NBC Splits from MSNBC
- In Pennsylvania, the Rosa Parks of voter ID faces down GOP voter suppression
- Naomi Wolf: The Criminal Connection at the Top of the Financial Pyramid
- Bill Keller: Democrats Should Defend the Health Care Law
- Did Ginni Thomas Leak the Goods on the Healthcare Reform Decision Because She and Clarence Were so Angry?
- Guatemalan Femicide: The Legacy of Repression and Injustice
- The 1% Connection: Mexico and the United States, Crony Capitalism and the Exploitation of Labor Through NAFTA | Mark Karlin
- Scandal-Plagued Congressman Jerry Lewis To Give Lecture On “Ethical Lobbying” — To Audience Of Lobbyists
- "North Korea Removes Its Army Chief From All His Posts"
- Waiting for Criminal Indictments in Trillion Dollar Interest Illegal Scam -- And Waiting for Millionaires and Billionaires Who Break the Law to Be Held Accountable. Instead, They Are Treated Like Upstanding Members of the Global Elite Whose Companies Get a Traffic Fine.
- Editorial head at Journatic says he's leaving company after outsourcing scandal shows rotten face of corporate media
- Romney’s Palin Problem: Where’s Her Convention Invite?
- Alabama’s GOP Governor Calls On Romney To Release More Tax Returns: ‘Release Everything To The American People’
- Monsanto trying a sneak attack through the new House Farm Bill
- Republican Congressman: States Can Ban Birth Control, but Not Foie Gras
- How Changes at a Newspaper Are Unifying a City New Orleanians rally to keep the Times-Picayune publishing seven days a week and to support staffers who are losing their jobs.
- Up in the Air Hillary Clinton, a lone explorer, and the search for Amelia Earhart.
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Limerick Ode To Wimpy Mitt Romney
- Romney "Tax Issues" Now Follow Him To The Olympics