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- Wall Street Journal Accused of Concealing Fact That 10 Op-Ed Writers (10!) are Mitt Romney Advisors
- Romney’s Curious View of Freedom
- Netanyahu Stops Flirting With Romney, Tilts Toward Obama in UN Speech -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Military Makes a Mockery of Bradley Manning’s Right to a Speedy Trial -- Bradley Manning Support Network for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Romney’s Tax Fairness Garbage -- Gerald E. Scorse for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Mitt Romney's Real Agenda
- Literally Adding Insult To Injury: "The entire country needs to be outraged over the blocking of this bill. The people benefiting from this small, cost of living increase are those who were maimed and disabled, or in some truly tragic cases, the surviving family members of a soldier killed in combat."
- Socialist Obama? Wealthy Americans Gain Even as Republicans Decry Redistribution
- Mitt Romney Favorability Lower Than George W. Bush, Poll Finds
- Talk Radio Expert: "Voters are, increasingly, ignoring Rush Limbaugh"
- "47%" Was Bad for Romney; Ryan Has Been Deadly
- Why Mitt Romney is the Perfect GOP Candidate
- "Republicans no longer think they're going to retake the Senate, according to the latest National Journal Political Insiders Poll, a stunning drop in optimism for a party that began 2012 confident it would regain control of the chamber."
- All Charges From Occupy Chicago Mass Arrests at "The Horse" Dismissed
- Revolution Becomes Reality in Spain
- Third of Public Fears Police Use of Drones
- Analysis: Nation's Water Costs Skyrocketing
- Things Are So Bad For Romney, Republicans Are Letting Him Tout RomneyCare
- Explaining Today’s Great Jobs News
- Romney Versus Realonomy: A Peek Inside the Bubble
- What An Obama Win Would Mean For America
- Anti-Austerity Protests Reignite on Streets of Greece and Spain
- Glenn Greenwald | Iraqi-American is Imprisoned by US for Saving His Family from US Sanctions
- There's Something Happening Here
- Anti-Muslim Filmmaker Held Without Bail In California
- VIDEO: Colbert Mocks Right-Wing Freakout Over Polls Showing Obama Up
- Which Republican Senator Put a Hold on Veterans Benefits Bill?
- The Republican Brain: Constructing an Alternate Polling Reality for 2012
- "The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined a request to take up two voter-I.D. cases on an accelerated basis — thus leaving in place, for now, rulings that have kept the law frozen and not applicable to the upcoming general election."
- LIBOR Riggers Should be Jailed, Says FSA Regulator
- VIDEO: Samuel L. Jackson Tells Voters to "Wake the Fu*k Up!"
- Building Bridges Instead of Imperial Wars
- Timeline: Romney’s Love-Hate Relationship With Romneycare
- Obama Bobblehead With Fake Play-Doh "Feces": Catholic League's Answer To "Piss Christ." Derp.
- Why the Religious Right is Still Strong
- Bank of America to Pay $2.43 Billion to Settle Suit
- VIDEO: MA Lawmakers Dish on Romney: "The Man Did. Not. Care."
- Shooting Gallery America: Man Kills 4, Then Self in Minnesota Office Shooting
- Todd Akin Says Claire McCaskill Was 'More Ladylike' in 2006
- Obama Leads in Polls in 3 More Swing States Including North Carolina
- Hundreds of New York Times Staffers Deplore Greed of Times' Owners
- Jonathan Chait | The Poetic Justice of Romney’s Self-Immolation
- New Jobs Numbers Undercut Major Romney Talking Point
- GOP Voter Registration Irregularities Generally Overlooked by Mainstream Media -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Scum of the Earth: GOP Senator Blocks Bill to Increase Benefits for Veterans -- William Rivers Pitt for BuzzFlash at Truthout Updated: Republican Hold Has Reportedly Finally Been Removed
- Between Predatory Self-Interest and Insanity Lies the Drone -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Republicans Lie About "Support Our Troops" -- Walter Brasch for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Romney and Ryan Want to Kick Grandma to the Curb With a Tin of Cat Food -- Marc Perkel for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- "Voting for Obama Jeopardizes the 'Eternal Salvation of Your Own Soul'"
- How The Tea Party Hopes To Purge Thousands of Ohio Voters
- VIDEO: US Calls Assange "Enemy of State"
- Mystery Republican Blocks Cost of Living Adjustment for Disabled Veterans
- New Legal Analysis Finds Strong Possibility of Romney Criminal Liability for Misrepresentation He Made in Federal Financial Disclosure Filings in 2011
- Medicare Working to Boost Obama in Swing States, Poll Finds
- Lavish CEO Pay Doesn't Work as Intended: Study
- GOP Candidates Feeling Pressure From NRSC's Flirtation With Akin
- Curiosity Rover Finds Proof Mars Had Water
- Fox & Friends: The Polls Are Rigged! But...Fox Polls Also Show Obama Surging...Derp.
- Romney Gives a Shout-Out to Supporters Linked to Fraud Scheme
- Obama the Cage Fighter and Romney the Delicate Puncher
- The GOP’s Self-Delusion Syndrome
- Paul Krugman | Not The Election They Were Expecting
- Red States Outpace Blue States in Income Growth — Thanks to Food Stamps
- Wells Fargo Courts Latinos While Investing in Private Prisons That Profit From Detaining Immigrants: Report Calls for Bank to Break Ties
- How The Right's Latest Conspiracy Theory Might Unleash a Wave of Domestic Terrorism if Obama Wins
- Scott Brown Sorry Elizabeth Warren Forced His Staffers To Do Indian War Whoops By Being Indian
- "First-time jobless claims fell sharply last week, a positive sign in the job market's slow recovery."
- The Right Wing’s Favorite Lie
- After Nearly A Decade Of Declines, Manufacturing Jobs Begin Rebound
- A Love Story In 22 Pictures
- The Kitchen Debate Revisited
- Veterans First ... and Their Dogs, Too
- Demoralized By Polls, Conservatives Seek Psychological Help On Talk Radio
- AP Editor: Michele Bachmann Tells So Many Lies the AP Has To Impose an Upper “Quota” On Fact-Checking Her
- Florida Officially Restarts Voter Purge, Revised List Still Appears To Be Inaccurate
- NEW ROMNEY VIDEO: In 1985, He Said Bain Would "Harvest" Companies for Profits
- Ski Resort’s Snow Won’t Be Pure This Year; It’ll Be Sewage
- Pro-Choice Group Buys Clinic of Slain Abortion Doctor
- Super PACs? How the Election Wasn’t Bought
- VIDEO: DNC Responds to Romney's New "I Care" Ad
- Why Undecided Voters Won’t Be Deciding This Election
- How a Romney Loss Would Impact the GOP
- Tea Party Groups Work to Remove Names from Ohio Voter Rolls
- George W. Bush To Keynote Cayman Islands Investment Conference
- Report: Sears To Offer Cash Rather Than Health Insurance Plans
- Scott Brown Says He "Regrets" the "Unacceptable" Behavior of His Staff
- "They’re out of feed, they’re out of pasture, they’re out of water"
- Democrats Furiously Chiseling Away At The Tea Party Mt. Rushmore
- Second Video Emerges of Scott Brown Staffers Making Offensive "War Whoop" Calls About Elizabeth Brown
- Referees Union and NFL Agree on Deal to End Lockout
- Why the Polls May be Shifting Toward Obama
- Myths and Facts About the Benghazi Attack and Protests in the Middle East
- In Texas Conviction, an Immigrant Rallying Cry
- Open Limerick To Obama Supporters
- Romney Neutralizes His Own Super-PACs
- Tammy Baldwin Whacks Tommy Thompson For Vowing To "Do Away With" Medicare, Medicaid
- ‘Super PACs’ Are Finally Drawing Democrats In
- Harold Meyerson | Redistributing Wealth Upward
- Sheldon Adelson, Who is Under DOJ Investigation: Obama Will Go After Me, Romney Won’t
- Ostroy Report | Is Mitt Romney a Master Debater?
- How Ohio Began To Slip Away From Mitt Romney
- Chicago Area: Minorities unequally disciplined in high school
- Linda McMahon Proposed Social Security "Sunset" At Tea Party Forum
- Charles P. Pierce | How the GOP Thought Leaders Created Mitt in the First Place
- Mitt on the Ropes: "Romney's cause was made more urgent by a new Quinnipiac University/New York Times poll that indicated Obama led the former Massachusetts governor by 10 percentage points in Ohio and was ahead by similar margins in two other important states - Florida and Pennsylvania. Other troubling signs: Obama held nearly a 20-point lead in Florida among women, while Romney's lead among men had dwindled to 3 points."
- Illinois Workers Fight Back Against Bain Capital Outsourcing Their Jobs to China -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Drug Czar Ignores Failure of Marijuana Prohibition to Curb Use -- Marijuana Policy Project for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- How Mormonism Shaped Mitt Romney -- Jeff Fulmer for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- No Kenyan, No Cry: Obama and the Filmmaking Fringe-Right Conspiracists -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Bush Deleted Intel Report Passage Saying Saddam Would Only Attack in Self-Defense
- US Judge Upholds Obama Ban on Lobbyists Serving on Government Boards
- Tough on China? Romney Fundraiser Planned Thursday in Hong Kong
- "Mitt Romney probably won't be bragging quite so much between now and the election about all those jobs he supposedly created at Staples. In an inconveniently timed move for Romney's presidential campaign, the office-supply chain announced it would be closing 30 American stores and downsizing 30 more."
- Mitt Romney's 'Them' Problem
- National Republicans Come Home To Todd Akin
- Voter Suppression Is the Last Resort of These Stop-at-Nothing Republicans
- Michele Bachmann's Seat in Peril as House Race Tightens
- Shots Fired at Mobile County Democratic Party Headquarters
- "An Army brigadier general who served five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and having inappropriate relationships with several female subordinates."
- The Coming Romney Comeback Narrative: "If there's one thing the media won't tolerate for long, it's an unchanging media narrative."
- More Guns, More Mass Shootings — Coincidence?
- Ryan's "Secret" Tape Is Even More Extreme Than Romney's
- War Is (Still) Hell
- Meet the Welfare Queens of the 1%: The Moochers Mitt Missed That Work for the Pentagon
- Romney To Middle Class Ohioans: Don't Expect Too Much Tax Relief From Me
- The Spanish Public Won't Accept a Financial Coup d'etat
- Ocean Acidification Occurring at Unprecedented Rates
- Mitt Romney Blunders Again on Taxes
- VIDEO: Jon Stewart on Romney: "Every Which Way But Lucid"
- Florida GOP Fires Romney Consultant's Voter Registration Firm After Fraudulent Forms Reported in Palm Beach County
- TransCanada Actively Encouraged Torture Tactics to be Used on Peaceful Protestors
- US Special Forces Deployed in Iraq, Again
- "With just six weeks until the presidential election, a judge raised the possibility Tuesday that he would move to block Pennsylvania's controversial voter ID law."
- Name-Calling Begins as Reported Rift Opens Between ‘Stench’ Romney and ‘Gilligan’ Ryan
- David Corn, Romney-Slayer?
- Calling All Activists: Occupy For Seed Freedom (Oct. 2-16)
- "The University of California regents have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million to end a lawsuit over last November's pepper spraying of UC-Davis students, part of a deal that also calls for a personal written apology from Chancellor Linda Katehi to each person hit with the spray."
- VIDEO: Joe Scarborough Reacts to New Ridiculous Romney Videoclip: "Oh...Sweet Jesus..."
- VIDEO: Rachel Maddow | Scott Brown's Racial Politics Crosses Line
- The Cherokee Chief Wants Scott Brown to Apologize
- SATIRE: The Mitt Romney Latino Outreach Program (Video)
- About Damn Time: President Obama Slams House GOP
- Shocked by the NFL Refs? Where've You Been the Last 30 Years?
- Greek Workers Begin General Strike
- Matt Taibbi | This Presidential Race Should Never Have Been This Close
- David Swanson | Iran, Israel, and Existential Threats
- Outrage: Why Are 6th Graders Being Drug Tested?
- There's Been a Dictatorial Coup -- Koch Bros. Have a Bunch of Czars Running Cities Across Michigan
- Legendary Crooner Andy Williams Has Died
- The Survival of Our Democracy Is on the Line With This Election
- The Other Death Sentence: More than 100,000 Americans are destined to spend their final years in prison. Can we afford it?
- 100 Million Will Die by 2030 If World Fails to Act on Climate: Report
- VIDEO: Where Do 53% of Your Tax Dollars Go?
- World Contraception Day: Myths, Rumors, and Rubbish
- VIDEO: Romney to Teacher "I didn't ask you a question"
- Election Day Starts Now: In Critical Swing States, Early Voting Expected to Exceed ‘08 Levels
- Ryan Goes Rogue? Running Mate Nicknames Romney 'The Stench'
- Prosecutor Deals Blow to NYC Stop-and-Frisk Tactic
- Workplace Pregnancy Bill Introduced Despite Opposition
- Poll: Obama Opens Substantial Leads in Key Swing States
- Russia Suspends Use of Genetically Modified Corn
- Timeline: A Guantanamo Death Foretold
- Conservatives to Each Other: Let's Lie to Ourselves!
- Sen. Harry Reid Calls Out Romney on Their Shared Mormon Faith
- Anti-Austerity Protests Erupt in Greece
- Five Facts About Voting In America For National Voter Registration Day
- Protesters Encircle Spanish Parliament: "As thousands besieged Parliament, Spain’s two largest regions took steps that underscored their economic troubles and displeasure with austerity plans."
- VIDEO: Romney Says Obama Did Not Raise Taxes ‘In His First Four Years’
- Cheese Head Hypocrisy: Union Crusher Scott Walker Wants Union Refs Back After Packers Loss -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Will 9 GOP Governors Electronically Flip Romney Into the White House? -- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Now We Know Our ABCs, and Charter Schools Get an F -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Humor: Romney Is Upset He Can't Open His Airplane Window Lynn Larrow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Neither Romney Nor Obama: Fifteen Issues This Election is Not About -- Bill Quigley for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Paul Ryan: Preventing Gay People from Marrying Is a "Universal Human Value"
- Washington Post Polls: Obama Lead in Ohio, Edge in Fla. Hamper Romney Path to Victory
- WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange to Address UN Meeting via Videolink from Embassy Hideout
- VIDEO: Video Appears to Reveal GOP Voter Registration Worker Screening Out Dems in Colorado
- Mitt Romney Has the Lowest Favorability Rating Of Any Presidential Nominee In Modern History — Including All Of the Eventual Losers
- Dems Release The Hounds As Deadline For Akin To Drop Out Expires
- Paul Ryan: Preventing Gay People from Marrying Is a "Universal Human Value"
- Rachel Carson and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
- VIDEO: “Romney said he was NOT gonna cut education, and then...those cuts were made.”
- Death Penalty Lessons From a Crime Lab Scandal
- Obama's Lead Is Starting to Look Insurmountable
- "Nigger Lover": Hatred Hits Home...Literally
- VIDEO: Romney Unwittingly Explains Why Citizens United Was Wrong
- Just How Much More Money is Being Spent Because of Citizens United? 78% of All Outside Spending
- VIDEO: Brown's Attacks on Warren's Alleged Heritage Backfire
- 96 Percent Of Americans Have Received Some Government Assistance
- Report: Pakistanis in Drone-Stricken Areas Live Under Cloud of Fear
- Chicago Teachers, Verizon Workers and Quebec's Students Prove That Resistance Works
- Stay Classy: Scott Brown Staffers Mock Warren With ‘Tomahawk Chop’ And ‘War Whoop’