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- "U.S. Economy Lost 54,000 Jobs in August; Jobless Rate Rose to 9.6%. The unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as weak hiring by private employers wasn't enough to keep pace with a large increase in the number of people looking for work."
- Mitch McConnell, John Boehner And The Republicans' Blood Oath Against America -- Richard Stitt for BuzzFlash
- BP Blackmails Congress: Give Us More Drilling Rights to Create More Catastrophes or We Won't Pay up
- Texas Governor's Race: Bill White called for prior approval for increases in homeowners insurance rates yesterday, as he visited the homes of Texans who have seen their rates increase for years with no explanation as to why. Governor Rick Perry, when asked about his plan for homeowners insurance rates, ran away from cameras -- continuing his campaign's policy of ducking the hard questions at every turn.
- Stuck in Iraq -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash/Truthout
- Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer Makes a Total Fool of Herself in First Debate -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
- In his new book, the former British prime minister asks for a fair hearing on the Iraq war. But he ignores a key meeting where George Bush suggested they con their way to an invasion.
- Social Security Under Assault
- Davis Case Reignites Death Penalty Debate
- A wrongful death lawsuit has accused Tom Phillips, former chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and his wife of routinely allowing teenagers to drink at their Bastrop home, leading to a 2 a.m. accident that killed a 17-year-old girl in 2009.
- House Democrats to Obama: No Cuts to Social Security
- Is This a Sign That Elizabeth Warren Will Get the Consumer Protection Appointment That is Due Her and Us?
- “We shouldn’t have to prove our citizenship every time we come within 100 miles of any border”
- Religious Minorities Suffering Worst in Pakistan Floods
- Now They are Calling Obama an Atheist -- Marc Perkel for BuzzFlash
- The Outer Limits: Sharron Angle Claims Unemployment Insurance 'Really Doesn't Benefit Anyone'
- Are Donated Clothes Harming Africa's Economy?
- Lawrence Lessig: Make Rooms for the Neo-Progressives
- CIA and Iran both keep Afghan officials on payroll. You see, our countries have something in common.
- Will Bedbug Infestation Move Google's New York Engineers to Quit and Go Work For Start-ups?
- Report: Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography
- David Sirota: Despite media celebration, war continues
- The Longest War: Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate. Corruption unleashed.
- George Lakoff: The Cry for Democratic Moral Leadership and Effective Communication. Must Read.
- Reproductive Rights in the 21st Century: The Effects of the Hyde Amendment
- FBI: Six indicted in largest U.S. illegal human-trafficking operation
- A Different Kind of Honey Trap: "U.S. consumers stand a better chance of buying honey free of drugs, chemicals and other illegal contaminants because investigators from several federal agencies have scooped up some of the biggest players in the sticky, international honey-laundering maze."
- AFL-CIO president to Sarah Palin: Change or be linked with McCarthyism
- "North Korea Takes Steps to Extend Dynastic Rule"
- Poll Shows Dead Heat in Illinois Race to Fill Obama's Senate Seat
- Bush Economic Policy II: Obama Considering More Tax Cuts for Businesses, Even Though a Study This Week Showed that Corporations are Hoarding Money, Raising Exec Salaries, And Not Hiring
- In South America, the Left and Indigenous Movements Are Searching for a Way to Co-Exist
- Ostroy Report: Sarah "The Quitter" Palin's Delusion
- Alaska: GOP Senate Candidate Joe Miller – Liar, or Idiot? A Legal Analysis.
- Disgusting if It Comes to Pass: Democrats unlikely to repeal tax cuts for the rich
- More Mao Than Thou: What the Hell Is Happening in Nepal?
- Dean Baker: Seven Key Facts About Social Security and the Federal Budget
- Harold Meyerson: A deserted feeling in working-class America
- NYT: "Settlements in West Bank Are Clouding Peace Talks"
- Gibbs Defends Obama’s Efforts to Help House Democrats
- Obama's campaign manager waits for a call about 2012
- Tony Blair came within seconds of ordering the RAF to shoot down a passenger jet over London in the aftermath of 9/11, his memoirs disclose.
- Bernanke Says He Failed to Spot Flaws in Financial System. His Punishment: Obama is Delighted With His Heading the Federal Reserve. We Don't Need "Geniuses" Like This to Ruin our Economy Again.
- MSNBC host shouts down former GOP congressman over Social Security cuts
- Here We Go Again: Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion
- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer flounders at start and end of debate
- Al Franken Shows His Stuff
- Head On Radio Network: Employment Land
- Wrong Turn: Obama's Diplomacy With Guns and Boots on the Ground
- Felons for Life. Missouri Right to Life Endorses Felon in St. Joseph
- For first time in Iraq or Afghanistan wars, U.S. military chaplain is killed
- Breaking! Another Oil Rig Explosion in Gulf of Mexico: An oil rig has exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 12 people overboard and one missing, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning.
- Where are they now? Serial Iraq misinformers find home at Fox Fraudcasting
- NAACP forms 'tea party tracker'
- Chuck Norris NRA "Trigger the Vote" Ad. Watch this Culturally Surreal Video. For Real.
- Re-employed but less satisfied
- Paul Krugman: Lost in Stagnation, Japan's Dismal Tale
- Heroes: Greenpeace Activists Arrested After Abandoning Occupation of Arctic Oil Rig
- Your request is being processed... Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party Senate Candidate, Hammered By Delaware Republicans
- Chicago Hyatt Workers Prepared To Strike Friday
- Jan Brewer’s cringe-inducing 1 minute opening remark
- Unions are in trouble. But if only we'd listened to them more often in the past, America wouldn't be in the predicament it's in now.
- In Germany, a strong social safety net keeps people from plunging into the abyss. Why are we so averse to having that security in the United States?
- Another False Ending: Contracting out the Iraq Occupation -- Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond for BuzzFlash
- Does Obama Get Along With Bush?
- Message to Momma Grizzly. Africa Beats U.S. on Solar Power: Solar Energy Brings Power to Rural Africa. Palin, You Make Progress by Moving Forwards, Not Backwards.
- 500,000 Pregnant Women at Risk in Pakistan Floods
- Sen. Bernie Sanders: Hands Off Social Security
- Walmart segregates books based on race
- Billion Dollar Audit Missed by Pentagon Watchdog
- Der Spiegel: Military Study Warns of a Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis
- U.S. sues controversial Arizona sheriff in civil-rights investigation
- John Grant: Looking for a Straight Answer
- Dave Lindorff: Investors Are a Wacky Bunch, and the Financial Press is Largely a Shill Game
- Beck's 'Apolitical' Black Robe Regiment Will Urge Voter Involvement
- Brent Budowsky: The Son of Sharon Angle
- Robert Parry: How the Right Still Frames Iraq
- Victims pressure Sen. Harry Reid on food safety
- BP spent $94M on ads during spill
- Defense Contractor Money Fueling Push to Militarize the US-Mexico Border
- Locked Up, Pregnant, and Shackled: Governor Schwarzenegger Can Unchain Them
- Veterans Support Obama's VA, Denounce Former Republican Senator Simpson
- Concern Over Prison Rape Should Extend to ICE Detentions
- One Ruling for Sanity: A group of states seeking freedom from federal gun laws were dealt a blow Wednesday when a federal magistrate recommended dismissal of a lawsuit launched by gun rights advocates who argue Congress has overstepped its bounds with gun control.
- WV: The Battle Over Blair Mountain
- Christina Romer calls for tax cuts, spending ahead of resignation
- Migrant Massacre in Mexico
- Joan Walsh: Does Obama Just Not Get It?
- Vanity's Fair Withering Profile of Sarah Palin
- With the Defeat of Murkowski by a Palin Tea Bagger in Alaska, Some Dems See a Competitive Opportunity to Pick up the Seat
- Another Time Around: Netanyahu and Abbas to Begin Direct Mideast Peace Talks
- IL Former GOP Gov. George Ryan wants a judge to free him from prison and throw out some of the charges that landed him there, using an argument based on a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this summer.
- New Jobless Claims Down
- Robert Reich | The Stock Market Rally Versus the World's Economic Fundamentals
- Emails Reveal McCain Campaign Misled The Public About Palin’s $150K Plus Shopping Spree
- New Research: Immigration Bolsters Economy, but Many Immigrant Workers Exploited
- James Kwak | Just Because You Make a Lot of Money Doesn't Mean You Know What You're Talking About
- Stephen Hawking Says Universe Not Created by God
- Robert Rubin Demands Government Give $250 Billion to Millionaires
- German military report: Peak oil could lead to collapse of democracy
- Help Squash Glenn Beck on Facebook
- Chuzpah: Ex-Goldman CEO Blames Government for Firm's Collapse!
- Feds File New Arizona Immigration Lawsuit, This Time to Protect Workers
- Corporate Mainsteam Media turned to discredited Bush officials to respond to Obama's Iraq speech
- Larry Sabato Prediction: The GOP Will Pick up 8 Governorships
- If Republicans win one or both houses of Congress and take their pledge to defund the health care law to its extreme, the logical end point of the ensuing fight with the White House will be a government shutdown. Or at least a partial one. And top conservatives are clamoring for that outcome.
- Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not To Drink Their Water
- Workers Rebuilding New Orleans Face Rampant Wage Theft
- Purported Eco-Terrorist Angered Over ‘Immigration Pollution And Anchor Baby Filth.' So, He's Really a Tea Party Terrorist.
- Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina spar in first debate
- Gail Collins: "In her spare time, the former governor of Alaska is making speeches at $75,000 a pop. To which she must be flown first class, as per her standard contract, or in a private plane that “MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger.” This is a new, emerging “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” version of Palin. In her public comments, Sarah is still just a down-home gal, making moose chili for the kids and assuring an N.R.A. convention that she and Todd prefer sleeping in the back of their truck to paying for a motel room."
- Poll: Romney tops Palin in Alaska
- "Michael Hirsh writes a powerful essay in Newsweek explaining how Wall Street didn't, and won't, have to face real reform because of Geithner and Summers having rolled the President. But Hirsh doesn't give the President a pass."
- E.J. Dionne: What's on Obama's Next Page?
- "Blair Hails Bush's 'Immense Simplicity.'" Hey Tony, Is That a Compliment?
- Guerrilla art takes bike activism to the streets [SLIDESHOW]
- Are Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Now, Ken Mehlman, Manifestations of the GOP’s “Gay Problem?” -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
- Two U.S. Marines accused of knocking a gay Savannah man unconscious will face only misdemeanor charges in the attack after the Justice Department declined to prosecute them for hate crimes, authorities said Wednesday.
- In 2008, Sarah Palin Had No Idea Who Her ‘Political Heroine’ Margaret Thatcher Was
- Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses.
- GOP Promises Detailed Agenda, If Not A 'Contract' (on America)
- Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 153: It's Not About the Mosque: When do the Muslim Roundups Begin? -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
- When Will the NRA Become the Butt of Jokes: Hiker accidentally shoots himself in the rear
- Nearly three out of four Americans have been directly affected by the recession, either because they have been unemployed or know someone who has lost their job, according to a new survey.
- Deficit Commission: If You Won’t Fire Simpson, Keep Your Hands Off Social Security
- Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Iraq Occupation
- After 9/11, We Launched the 100 Years War, With No End in Sight -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash
- You Don't Want to See the Inner Sarah Palin
- Sarah Palin’s Shopping Spree: Yes, There’s More...
- Shooting Gallery America: Suspect in Discovery standoff shot; hostages safe
- American Politics is Getting All Koch'ed Up
- Norman Solomon | A Speech for Endless War
- Sales Fell in August for Carmakers
- Why Wikileaks Must be Protected?
- Banks Playing 'Foreclosure Roulette' With Delinquent Homeowners
- Following rumors that reverend Sun Myung Moon would be buying back The Washington Times from his son Preston Moon, the terms of the deal have been released. Douglas Joo, a trusted friend of Mr. Moon and a former chairman of the paper who was dismissed by Mr. Moon's son, is handling the deal to buy the paper back. Mr. Joo will pay a dollar to acquire the paper for News World Media Development LLC, a company he registered in Delaware.
- Telecoms Force Customers to Pay for Nothing
- Overworked and Underpaid? Productivity Increases, But Wage Growth Declines
- Amy Goodman: In conversation with Eve Ensler
- Obama Gives FOX Fraudcasting a Headline on a Silver Platter: "Obama Marks End of U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq, Salutes Bush." Unbelievable!
- The Pentagon's Double Envelopment of President Barack Obama
- As U.S. Troops Move Out Of Iraq, Oil Companies Move In. Ah, Now We Get to "Mission Accomplished."
- If Social Security is "a cow with 310 million tits" then what's the proper metaphor for veteran's benefits? We don't know. But Alan Simpson seems to think they're too expensive. Or too overused. Or something. Anyway, it's bad. "The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess," said Alan Simpson, co-chair of the White House's fiscal commission, according to the Associated Press.
- Well, Well, Well. SC U.S. Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson acknowledged Tuesday that he’s under investigation by the House ethics committee for his use of travel funds while on at least one congressional trip to Afghanistan.
- Says More Than Anything About Obama's Speech: William Kristol Praises It, "I thought his speech was on the whole commendable, and even at times impressive."
- Homeowners Stuck in Loan Modification Limbo
- Wolfowitz's 2003 testimony before Congress: "Iraq can finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon."
- Grand Old Islamophobes? Polls Show Widespread Republican Concerns Over Muslims -- And Obama
- Obama Meets Netanyahu as Mideast Peace Talks Begin. "Peace Talks" in the Middle East are Like the Movie, "Ground Hog Day." Wake up and It Just Keeps Repeating Itself.
- Will we ever get off oil? [AUDIO]
- The Bush/Obama Hundred Years War for Empire. NYT: "Obama Tells Troops, ‘Our Task in Iraq Is Not Yet Over’"
- Conservative Columnist Kathleen Parker: Saturday's Beckapalooza was yet another step in Beck's own personal journey of recovery. He may as well have greeted the crowd of his fellow disaffected with: "Hi. My name is Glenn, and I'm messed up."
- Alabama: Don Siegelman Seeks Reversal Based on Ruling in Skilling Case
- Obama declares 'combat mission in Iraq has ended.' Sure, right, okay.
- Poll: Plurality Back GOP Leadership on Economy
- Entire US-Mexico Border to Be Guarded by Predator Drones
- What's More Important? Turning Off Fox News? Or Stopping the President's Cat Food Commission?
- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says working families are looking for candidates this fall who demonstrate “economic patriotism” to rebuild the nation
- Possible Arson and the Right's Texas Voter Suppression Effort
- A History Of Bush Admin's Lies: WMD, Who Said What and When
- FDIC holding banking system by a thread – $13.2 trillion in assets backed by -$15.2 billion Deposit Insurance Fund. 19 Banks hold 50 percent of all banking assets out of 7,830 institutions. What needs to be done to restore the banking system for the American public.
- Harry Reid's Anti-Islamic Agenda
- Detained and At Risk: Sexual Abuse and Harassment in U.S. Detention System
- Thom Hartmann: Is Newt Gingrich Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy?
- Michigan leads U.S. in new jobs with 27,800
- While free trade wiped out Mexico's traditional agriculture, the drug cartels moved in
- Obama to appear at Labor Day rally with AFL-CIO president
- Lab Report Confirms Highly Toxic Levels of Corexit In Sickened Family's Swimming Pool
- BP Thugs Threatening Independent Scientists That Have Found Corexit And Oil In BP Gulf Oil Spill Waters
- The Glenn Beck Doctrine and the Tea Party: A ‘cult like’ mindset ignores a troubling contradiction
- Message to Tea Party: Don’t Be Fooled Again -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash
- Conservatives Chew Up Their Own in Battle Over Islamic Community Center -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
- Hammering, Slamming, and Pounding the President Has Become a Cottage Right Wing Industry -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash
- While Entire Governments Don't Come Cheap, This One is Almost Within Grasp of the Rich -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash
- Martin Luther King Had a Dream and Glenn Beck Was Not in It -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog, By Mark Karlin
- Jon Stewart Nails it Again by Describing Glenn Beck's August 28th Rally as "I Have a Scheme" -- Barbara's Buzz from Atlanta
- The Media Has Made a Mockery of the Real News by Giving Credence to Glenn Beck's Rally -- Pam Weller for BuzzFlash
- The Anger of Colonization Should Not be Brought Into the Next 500 Years -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash
- Big Oil Earns 45 Billion Dollars a Year Virtually Tax Free -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash
- The Koch Family Connection to the John Birch Society -- Barbara's Buzz From Atlanta
- Learning About Reality from Fiction, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" -- Thom Hartmann's Exclusive August "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash/Truthout
- Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 152: Tipping Points, Are We Headed Toward Theocratic Fascism? -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Pat Buchanan Introduces Hermann Goering Line Of Clothing
- Beck and Palin At The Lincoln Memorial: Two Blockheads ON Hallowed Ground
- GOP Proposes Treadmills for the Poor and Aged
- Glenn Beck's Lincoln Memorial Rally Even Disgraces Forrest Gump
- Limbaugh To Open "Bigot Boy" Restaurant Chain
- Forget Alan Simpson, Even John Boehner Opposes Veteran’s Benefits for 'Agent Orange'
- Mark Morford: How to Regret Ever Having Children