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• French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalize gay weddings.
• The Peculiar Politics of Karl Rove's 'Outrage' Over the IRS Flap
• Counter-terrorism leak compromised an informant, sources say
• Robert Reich | The IRS and the Real Scandal
• Is Walmart in Trouble? How Amazon and the strengthening economy are threatening the once-invincible retail giant.
• Why the IRS Scandal Is Built to Last
• Federal Appeals Court: Drug Sentencing Disparity Is Intentional Racial ‘Subjucation’
• Planted question gambit backfires on IRS officials
• Six ways the GOP could screw up the Obama administration's scandals
• The Criminalization of Political Dissent in America
• Pentagon Officials Ask Congress to Shift $9.6 Billion of this Year's Defense Budget
• Who’s Going to Jail Over the IRS Scandal? Probably Nobody.
• Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession.
• A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
• Deportation in 90 Minutes or Less: Border crossers get no justice in Operation Streamline’s kangaroo court.
• "Environmental Genocide": Native Americans Quit Talks Over Keystone XL Pipeline
• Chicago Teachers Kick Off Three-Day March Against Mass School Closings
• Tech industry anxious as House readies end game on immigration
• Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots: A Round-Up of Activism and Victories
• How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional
• "Every Idea Is an Incitement..." - While Gitlow v. New York is a staple for anyone studying constitutional law, most people in the U.S. have never heard of it, let alone understand how critical it is in relation to free speech rights.
• Obstruction will ruin GOP: Playing politics and abusing the system can excite the extremes, but it's a recipe for long-term political disaster
• FEMA Denies Aid to Housing Co-ops After Sandy (Video)
• Interior Department Bows to Pressure from Oil and Gas Industry, Weakens Fracking Rules
• New report explores ‘nontraditional’ ways to fight drug trafficking in Latin America
• South Korea: North Korea Fires 3 Short-Range Guided Missiles
• Congressmen Pocan and Ellison Introduce "Right to Vote" Constitutional Amendment
• 60 people injured after two trains collide
• Cracking the Codes: Dr. Shakti Butler on the System of Racial Inequity
• Americas Coalition Puts Marijuana Legalization Up for Discussion
• Important New Legislation Which Can Mitigate Worst Effects of Climate Change
• Who's Your Highest-Paid State Employee? You'd Be Surprised.
• IRS 'Scandal' Appears Nearly as Phony as Shirley Sherrod, Van Jones, ACORN 'Scandals'
• Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
• Lax state rules provide cover for sponsors of attack ads: State-level nonprofits, super PACs fly under the radar
• IRS chief declines to identify employees involved in scandal
• Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment "Reform"
• The Film the Christian Right Does Not Want You to See
• The Wrong Men: How the DHS Failed to Prevent Terrorism
• Is the Scandal-Obsessed Republican Party Sounding Its Death Knell?
• Feds Falsely Use Specter of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist
• Big Brother Is You, Watching: Google Glass is coming, and it's raising some new privacy concerns
• A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News: Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement (archives)
• Interview on Cyprus Crisis: European Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Financial Capitalism
• Bursting Benghazi's Bubble–Only to Boost Bush
• Reproductive Rights Receding More Quickly for Some Women: A Review of "Crow After Roe"
• Behind the I.R.S. Mess: A Campaign-Finance Scandal
• On the News With Thom Hartmann: Labor Is Dealt Two New Blows, and More
• European Farmers Fight Against US Government Support for Genetically Engineered Crops to Be Sanctioned by EU "In the United States last year, genetically modified crops comprised 88 percent of all corn, 94 percent of cotton and 93 percent of soybeans, according to Agriculture Department figures. In the European Union, they covered less than 1 percent of farmland, mostly in Spain, according to the European Commission."
• Crowd Led by Priests Attacks Gay Rights Marchers in Georgia
• Chicago Mayor "Rahmbo" Emanuel Gets a Political Beat Down on Closing of Minority Public Schools -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• CBS Calls Out GOP For Doctoring Benghazi Emails
• Blasts Kill Dozens of Iraqis As Sectarian Tensions Boil
• NRA Tries To Recall Colorado Senate for Supporting Universal Background Checks
• On 700 Club, Pat Robertson Shrugs Off Adultrey: "The viewer said she was having difficulty forgiving her husband for cheating. Robertson said the “secret” was to “stop talking about the cheating. He cheated on you. Well, he’s a man. OK.” Robertson went on to suggest the woman focus on why she had married her husband and whether he provided for her needs and those of their children, adding, “Is he handsome? Start focusing on these things and essentially fall in love all over again.” “Males have a tendency to wander a little bit. And what you want to do is make a home so wonderful he doesn’t want to wander.”" Hey, Pat, Hiding Something From Your Wife?
• The Perverse Mental Gyrations of Rep. Darrell Issa -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Matt Taibbi | Everything Is Rigged, Continued: European Commission Raids Oil Companies in Price-Fixing Probe
• Memo to GOP: Don’t Pretend You Care
• Experts: Fed's Push for More Wiretapping a Recipe for Security Disaster
• Ostroy Report: Is the Scandal-Obsessed Republican Party Sounding It's Death Knell?
• The Psychology — And the Cynicism — Behind Austerity
• Most US Clothing Chains Did Not Sign Pact on Bangladesh Factory Reforms
• Boston Suspect’s Writing on the Wall
• The Next Senator From Georgia Will Probably be Nuts
• Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
• RNC Spokeswoman Admits Harry Reid was Right About Romney's Taxes All Along
• George Takei Responds To "Traditional" Marriage Fans
• RNC Spokeswoman Admits Harry Reid was Right About Romney's Taxes All Along
• John Paul Stevens: Bush v. Gore Decision Rationale Was "Unacceptable"
• The Casualties of Justice
• Ambiguity in Tax Rules and Disintegration of Election Law May Have Led to IRS Tea Party Mess
• 5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About
• 84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft in a New Survey
• Payrolls Increased in 30 US States in April, While the Unemployment Rate Dropped in 40
• Congress Is Ready to Fight Over Deep Food Stamp Cuts
• Ohio Republicans Push Law to Penalize Colleges for Helping Students Vote
• New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis
• Scandal Machine: Behind smears of President Obama, Republicans continue to damage the economy and society.
• Glenn Greenwald | The Major Sea Change in Media Discussions of Obama and Civil Liberties
• If Obama Went "Bulworth," Here’s What He’d Say
• FBI Seeks Source of Prostitution, Corruption Allegations Against Sen. Robert Menendez
• Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims
• Pentagon "Rewrites Constitution" Affirming Endless War
• Metal Shards and Much Worse In Your Food? What Happens When the Food Industry Regulates Itself
• Taxpayers Get $96 Billion Bill For 2012 Extreme Weather = One-Sixth of Non-Defense Discretionary Spending
• VIDEO: "The Other IRS Scandal": David Cay Johnston on Dark Money Political Groups Seeking Tax Exemption
• Conservatives’ Last-Ditch Chance to Destroy Obamacare — and How the IRS Scandal Helps Them
• Congressman Tears Into AG Holder Over Marijuana: "This Is the Time to Remedy Prohibition"
• Blog del Narco: author who chronicled Mexico's drugs war forced to flee
• Voting Laws Roundup 2013
• US Government Shills for GMO Seed Companies Throughout the World, Including Monsanto, Report Reveals -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• No One Is Safe in Our Know-Nothing Security State -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• James Bond Aficionado Obama Sends US Navy Seals to Uruguay: What's Behind the Story? -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Paul Krugman | When Basic Economic Theory Is Ignored, Disaster Will Follow
• Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom
• Jonathan Karl Blames His "Invented" Benghazi Reporting on President Obama
• Second Court Invalidates Obama Recess Appointment

• Obama to Name White House Budget Official as Acting IRS Chief
• Billionaires Unchained: The New Pay-As-You-Go Landscape of American "Democracy"
• "Co-chairmen of independent Benghazi review blow the whistle on Darrell Issa"
• It Wasn’t Conservatives That Were Being Investigated by the IRS; It Was the Koch Brothers’ Front Groups
• "Remember that time Occupy was examined by the IRS? Oh wait... that was the FBI who infiltrated Occupy. Wasn't it DHS who was coordinating local police for maximum supression of peaceful protest?"
• Behind the IRS Mess
• Obama: "No Apologies" for Investigating Leaks of Classified Information
• Mark Morford | Guns to Your Gay Mother
• Obama: "I Have Complete Confidence in Eric Holder"
• MD Governor Signs Comprehensive Gun-Control Bill with Fingerprint Licensing
• Glenn Greenwald’s Mirror vs. Bill Maher’s Blind Spot
• The Scandals are Falling Apart
• Bomb Plot Briefing May Undercut DoJ's Case for AP Records Seizure
• OFA Refuses To Push On Keystone
• Jon Stewart Calls Out Rumsfeld and Cheney for Daring to Talk About Benghazi
• Kevin Cramer, North Dakota Congressman, Ties School Shootings to Abortion Legalization
• Rise in Suicides Plagues US Military
• House Republicans Will Again Try to Repeal Obamacare (for the 37th time)
• BAA Invites 2013 Non-Finishers to Run 2014 Boston Marathon
• Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
• A Message From Dick Cheney's Horcrux
• Two GOP Judges Just Voted to Eliminate Union Rights, Here’s How the Senate Can Stop Them
• At an Impasse: Collective Bargaining Under the Judicial Amendments
• NYC Used Memo Leak to Drag Stop-and-Frisk Judge Through the Mud, Lawyers Say
• MSNBC Contributor Claims He was Audited 5 Years in a Row by IRS for Criticizing Bush
• Boston Bombings Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Left Note in Boat He Hid In, Sources Say
• The "Henry David T.," a Lobster Boat, Blocks a Coal Tanker at Brayton Point in Environmental Protest
• America's Education Spring: A Growing Revolt Against "Reform" Mandates
• DC Considers Law Requiring Gun Owners to Take Out $250K Insurance Policy
• Why Isn't the New Orleans Mother's Day Parade Shooting a "National Tragedy"?
• Obama Fires IRS Head Instead of Taking on Right Wing
• Suicide Bomber Kills Six Americans in Afghanistan
• Pat Robertson Tells Wife of Cheating Husband to Be Grateful For Marriage, Make Home Enticing
• Obama Speaks of "Going Bulworth" in Second Term
• Senator Seeks to Reform Military's "Unacceptable" Sex Abuse Policies
• An Insider Account of the Creation of the Benghazi Talking Points
• Remember When Andrew Joseph Stack Flew a Plane Into a Texas IRS Building? That was February 18, 2010. A week later, the agency's scrutiny of the Tea Party began. Here's what happened leading up to the two events.
• Florida Lawmakers Who Rejected Medicaid Have Really Sweet Health Insurance Deal
• KBR Tells US Army It Will Cost $500 Million and Take 13 Years to Close Out Its Iraq Contract
• Justice Department Attacks the Press: AP records seizure a troubling fishing expedition
• Inside San Pedro Sula – the Most Violent City in the World
• What Crimes Might The FBI Look At In IRS Investigation?
• Vermont May Be First State to Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Food -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• US Stands Idle as Oil Exploration Threatens Rainforests with Obliteration -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Batty Battalion -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• VIDEO: Holder To Issa: Your Conduct Is "Unacceptable" and "Shameful"
• Armed Forces Sexual Assault Crisis Reaches New Heights
• Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Suffers Major Failure, NASA Says
• Closure at Kent State? The newly unveiled May 4 Visitors Center attempts to reconcile the search for truth with the need for reconciliation and healing
• IRS Points Finger at Two Rogue Employees
• Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun, Shoots Friend In The Leg
• "With an assist from the White House, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Wednesday he will re-introduce his legislation to provide legal protections to journalists engaged in news gathering activities."
• VIDEO: Bill Moyers on the Toxic Politics of Lead Poisoning & How Money Rules Washington
• The Vicious New Bank Shakedown That Could Seriously Ruin Your Life
• The Other IRS Scandal
• The Day the Obama Administration Went All Nixon On Us
• Food, Farms, Forests and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
• "The gap between rich and poor widened more in the three years to 2010 than in the previous 12 years, the OECD group of industrialised nations has said."
• How the Benghazi “Conspiracy” Turned Into an Epic Republican Failure
• You Want a Scandal? Here’s a Scandal
• Under Fire, White House Pushes to Revive "Media Shield" Bill
• Ex-IRS Director: Tea Party Groups Deserved Scrutiny, But IRS Bungled the Job
• Occupy the Farm Movement Rises Again, Hours After Being Raided
• GOP Congressman Defends DoJ Surveillance: "They are Doing What We Asked Them to Do"
• If Frances Kelsey Could Protect America from the Pharmaceutical Industry in 1962, Congress Can Today
• David Swanson | Hit and Stay
• House Panel Set to OK Cut in Food Stamp Program
• Obama’s War on Journalists: His administration’s leak investigations are outrageous and unprecedented
• Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
• Private Prison Profits Skyrocket, As Executives Assure Investors of "Growing Offender Population"
• Report: Wealthy Moms Hiring Disabled Tour Guides to Cut Lines at Disney World
• Leader of Loaded Gun March Compares Himself to Gandhi
• Florida Mayoral Candidate Claims Jesus Endorsement, Finishes Last
• Ambassador Stevens Twice Said No to Military Offers of More Security in Benghazi, US Officials Say
• The Fate of the Middle East in the Balance: Syria Endgame Approaching Fast
• "A drone the size of a fighter jet took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time yesterday in a test flight that could eventually open the way for the U.S. to launch unmanned aircraft from just about any place in the world."
• Inconvenient Deficit Facts
• Julian Bond, Former NAACP Chair: Tea Party Is "Taliban Wing of American Politics"
• Judge Tosses Manslaughter Indictment Against Cop in Ramarley Graham Case
• The Right’s "Scandal" Funhouse Mirror
• Fast Food Strikes Hitting Fifth City: Milwaukee
• Justice Department, IRS Scandals Challenge Obama’s Civil Liberties Credibility
• House to Vote Yet Again on Health Care Law Repeal
• Casino Owner and GOP Financier Sheldon Adelson Hit With $70-Million Verdict
• Elizabeth Warren: A Great Investment
• Leaving Gaza – Thoughts from Four of the People Who Joined Our Delegation
• EU Probes Global Oil Price Rigging
• Republicans Use IRS Scandal to Undermine Obamacare
• Justice Dept. Defends Seizure of Phone Records
• Walmart Balks at Safety Plan for Bangladesh Factories
• William Rivers Pitt | An Itty Bitty Pity Party for the Associated Press
• Tax Havens Are Entrenching Poverty in Developing Countries
• It's Official! Minnesota Becomes 12th State to Legalize Same Sex Marriage: Social Progress Can and Is Being Made -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Graphic Truth of America's Criminal Justice System -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Chance to Limit Citizens United Damage if SEC Chair Requires Big Money Transparency -- Mark Karlin, Editor for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Biggest "Takers" and Societal Parasites Are the Rich, Not the Working Class and Poor -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout