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• "Right again makes an anti-American ass of itself following Obama's Nobel win" Also Please Donate to BuzzFlash.com As Our Early October Fundraising Has Been Very Slow. Click the Donate Button Above.
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• The Newt Pornographer’s Payback: Gingrich Named Porn Fan of the Year by Scorned Dinner Date
• The Ostroy Report: Why Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is Deserved.
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• The smallness of the right's big bad temper. P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Saturday, October 10. For this morning I noticed in the NY Times that historian Douglas Brinkley has wrapped it up in eight little words: "To begrudge [Obama] the Nobel Prize is small." And those last five little letters -- s-m-a-l-l -- pretty much define modern conservatism.
• Seeing Pink Elephants on Mackinac Island: GOP Allegedly Caters to Underage Students With Free Booze in Exchange for Support -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• GOP Regressive Kyl Holds up Unemployment Extension for Americans in Need
• Competition for jobs at highest level since recession began, 6 unemployed pursue each opening
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• The Second Coming of Sarah Palin?
• The Annual Task of Choosing an Insurance Plan
• You've blood on your hands, Blair told at Iraq memorial
• Florida: Broward Republicans go gunning. Congressional candidate draws fire for shooting at target bearing rival's initials.
• Jeb Bush: Stop Blaming My Brother for Driving the Country Off a Cliff
• Report from Honduras on the Coup: Updated
• You, not Us -- Limbaugh: "We All Agree With The Taliban And Iran" On Nobel Prize
• On Healthcare, Many in Congress Don't Vote their Districts
• Dave Zirin: Flush Rush from the NFL. Don't Let the Racist Hedonist Buy the St. Louis Rams.
• Text of Obama's remarks on winning Nobel Peace Prize
• Gunmen Attack Pakistan Army HQ
• "An assertive minority of the anti-abortion movement, street activists use provocative tactics that tend to attract conflict."
• Atlanta: Vegan Protesters Prevail over Cops in Court. That's Something to Chew On.
• FHA Problems Raising Concern of Policy Makers
• David Corn: Conservatives huff that Obama is weak on national security, but say nothing about the gains in the fight against al Qaeda.
• Two Recent Nobel Laureates Laud the Choice of Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize Also Please Donate to BuzzFlash.com As Our Early October Fundraising Has Been Very Slow. Click the Donate Button Above.
• Evangelical Christian Brent Childers explains his journey from believing that homosexuality was an abomination to marching in a pro-gay march on Washington.
• Farmers use vending machines to sell produce. Sure beats Fritos.
• Committee on Homeland Security: Passenger Guns on Trains Weaken National Security
• Gender disparity shown in 'don't ask, don't tell' policy
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) issues a statement after President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Letterman's Sponsors Appear to Be Unperturbed
• Bombing in Peshawar Leaves Dozens Dead, More Than 100 Wounded
• Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: In Washington, Revolving Doors are Bad for Your Health -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• Christopher Hayes: Rural Health Care, the Public Option, and the Opt Out Compromise
• Airports May Screen For H1N1 Symptoms
• C-SPAN to Cover President Obama’s Remarks at Human Rights Campaign Dinner Live on Saturday
• The Case For A Consumer Protection Agency
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• Why Is Fox Chicago's Jan Jeffcoat Repeating GOP Talking Points?
• Soccer Mom Shooting Highlights Danger of Gun Ownership: Freedom States Alliance Weekly Update Oct. 9, 2009
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• Dan Siegel: Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath
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• Tea Party and 9/12 activists urged to support front group planning protests at Fox News competitors
• What century is this? Oklahoma Republicans Demand Abortion Disclosures
• Frederick Clarkson: Demonization is Different than Incivility
• Few Bush-era energy leases are valid, report finds
• The Official 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Citation and Page for Barack Obama
• David Sirota: Zombie zeitgeist
• EXCLUSIVE: Polanski victim's teen niece shares personal feelings about scandal
• Not a surprise: Republicans Scoff at Nobel Peace Prize Announcement
• In midst of offshore drilling debate, Miami (GOP) lawmaker denies conflict with his lobbyist wife
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for October 9, 2009
• More on Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize
• The Fix on Obama, the Nobel Prize and What It All Means
• David Swanson: How do we claim what is ours?
• Global Zero: A World without Nuclear Weapons
• Outstanding: President Barack Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
• Some Democrats pressure Obama for new stimulus
• Rejected! Sarah Palin stands ready to stump for the Republican gubernatorial candidates running in the two most closely watched campaigns in the country this fall, but neither seems to want her help.
• David Swanson: Rep. Obey Joins Us Idiot Liberals
• John Kasich Wins GOP Hypocrite of the Week for Blaming Economic Meltdown on Britney Spears Instead of His Former Boss, Lehman
• 'Celebrity Apprentice': Rod Blagojevich to appear on Donald Trump's show, source says
• Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' challenges many aspects of American life
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• Police stop more than 1 million people on street
• Yes, things can get worse!! Robert Parry: Health Insurers Threaten Rate Hikes
• Nobel Prize Committee on Soon-to-be Nobel Laureate, Barack Obama: The announcement noted the special importance the committee attached to President Obama’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons. “Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play,” the committee said.
• The leaders of News Corp. (Murdoch) and The Associated Press said it is time for search engines and others who use news content for free to pay up.
• Michele Bachmann: The MSNBC Hosts are Stalking Me
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for October 9, 2009
• Showing 'compassionate conservative' is an oxymoron: House Republicans Block Unemployment Benefits
• Glenn Greenwald: A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes
• Sad reality of health care: Many Americans have been putting off doctors' visits, forgoing medical tests and taking expired medications to save money over the past year, according to a new poll by Consumers Union.
• 17 Die in Kabul Bomb Attack
• Arrogance in motion: Boehner Brushes Off Past GOP Moves To Rush Bills Through Congress 'It Was A Different Time'
• Let's Get Real Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, October 9. The antics of dubious stars are something way far apart from the reality average folks face in lives fraught with anxiety about health care, jobs, and fears about our foreign engagements. The president is being pressured now to make decisions about Afghanistan by the very people who were so deadly wrong in the past.
• Thousands of people swarmed Cobo Hall in chaos this morning trying to get applications for housing and utility payment assistance from the city of Detroit.
• Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Continue Causing Record Army Suicides - Epidemic Continues
• Brad Blog: 'Green News Report' - October 8, 2009
• Paul Krugman: The Uneducated American
• Farmers use vending machines to sell produce
• People For the American Way: Confirm Dawn Johnsen Now
• Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize; hey Fox & Friends, stop hating America, this is GOOD news!
• All the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Listed
• Obama Sets Sights on Urban Renewal
• Your Nation May Be Democratic, But Your TV is Not: FOX Refuses to Air 'Subvertisements.' These are Paid Ads that Reveal the Destructive Nature of Our Advertising Culture. -- BuzzFlash News Analysis This is an important story of a consumer culture buying things it doesn't need run amuck by television ads.
• Consensus? 92% of Americans support solar power development, study says
• The Upper Whorehouse goes down (on) K Street. P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Friday, October 9. "So we end where we started, with the fetching Mr. Baucus and his boys-come-hither look. If he were the only whore in Congress, that'd be one thing. Unfortunately, this Congress is pretty much in toto just one immense whorehouse." Ouch, P.M.
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• Zakaria Amara, Key Member Of Terror Group In Toronto, Pleads Guilty To Plot -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
• The U.S.-India nuclear deal -- 1 year later
• Paul Krugman's blog: Opt out public option
• Less than half of Britons believe climate change will affect them during their lifetime and fewer than a fifth think it will disturb their children, a government survey showed Friday.
• Space logic: NASA craft smacks the moon in quest for water
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• What the World Doesn't Need Now: Mary Cheney, the quieter daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, will start her own consulting company. Unfortunately, she will start that firm with her dad and sister.
• Ken Burns: America's "National Parks - America's Best Ideal": Simply Stunning and a Reaffirmation of the American Nation: 6 DVDs, 720 minutes. Released on October 6th, Just Around the Corner. Box Set. Please Fight Back Against the FOX Propaganda Network by Supporting the Truth on BuzzFlash.com Premiered Sunday Night on PBS, But Own the Entire Series!
• Bankruptcy judge approves Chicago Sun-Times Media sale to Tyree group
• Nicholas Kristof: Let Congress Go Without Health Insurance
• Are MSM Covering 21st Century Freedom Riders Fighting For Health Care Civil Rights & Ending Wars
• Months of Republican attacks on President Barack Obama’s health-care proposals appear to have hurt the party, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
• AP Interview: White House expands climate campaign
• ProPublica: Gas Drilling Vs. Drinking Water: New York City Consultant’s Report Sets Stage for Fight With Albany
• REPORT: 'We Will Overthrow The Government' — Calls For Violence Repeatedly Stoked By Conservative Voices
• Schumer: Opt-Out Public Option Being "Very Seriously Considered"
• House Votes to Expand Definition of Hate Crimes
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• Rep. Michele Bachmann Says MSNBC Hosts Are 'Stalkers,' One MSNBC host Responds
• Dear Senator: Please Support Public Option and Save My Life
• Can we get him some medication? Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) calls Speaker Pelosi a 'domestic enemy of the Constitution.'
• Can DC's top bailout cop Elizabeth Warren beat the finance lobby—and Larry Summers?
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• House Ethics Committee Expands Rangel Investigation, though House Democrats thwarted a GOP bid to force Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel to step aside until an ethics probe is resolved.
• Good Billions After Bad "As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system—without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what was needed."
• Pelosi: "I'm in my place" as speaker, thanks
• John Nichols: But How Does the GOP Win With 1 Percent of the Vote?
• California has four possible paths for ending marijuana criminalization this year. But can activists agree on a way to end the ineffective policy?
• It's a start: Half a million troubled homeowners have had their loan payments lowered under an Obama administration relief plan, the Treasury announced on Thursday, claiming a significant milestone in the effort to spare families from foreclosure.
• Financial hypocrisy: Tribune Co., In the Throes of Bankruptcy, Still Reportedly Planning to Award $66 Million in Management Bonuses
• Climate change - A national security challenge
• Drop in CO2 Justifies Tough Carbon Caps, Groups Say
• A year after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were effectively nationalized, problems at the Federal Housing Administration are raising worries among industry executives and Washington policy makers.
• Robert Parry: Can U.S. Make Sound Decisions?
• HMO stocks sink after report boosts reform bill
• Human Rights Campaign Hails Selection of David Huebner; President Obama to appoint openly gay U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa
• Uh, this wasn't the idea: Senate Dems Opening to Nuclear as Path to GOP Support for Climate Bill
• Mississippi mandates civil rights classes in schools
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for October 8, 2009
• Okkaaaay!! O'Reilly to Bachmann: You 'drive the far-left crazy' because you're 'good looking.'
• George Will Keeps Getting It Wrong on Global Warming to Win BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award Perhaps the only reason George Will writes about global warming is that he loves the fact that the same initials (G.W.) run through his name, global warming, and someone who didn't think much about the environment either (George Walker, as in Bush).
• Robert C. Koehler: Power With, Power Over -- Violence is our national distraction; we consume it as entertainment
• Skeeter Bites Report: Left Wing Losing Patience With Obama Even As Right Wing Continues its Wild Attacks
• House of Representatives work week resting comfortably at about 2 1/2 days -- the good life -- and they get paid more than most of us
• What to do with the utility handouts in the climate bill?
• Jon Talton: Want to create real jobs? Get busy building high-speed rail in U.S.
• When children with illegal firearms rule
• Bronx Bakery Closing Imminent, But Union Continues Fighting
• Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for October 8, 2009
• "Health care in Texas ranks among the worst in the nation." Let Them Secede. They are Already a Third World Country.
• Herta Mueller, a member of Romania's ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse.
• 'Christian' right wing groups organize to oust Obama official who opposes bullying gay children
• Rep. John Dingell: GOP must support Medicare's promise
• Tomgram: Are We the Martians of the Twenty-First Century?
• Charlie Wilson's Peace: Time to Exit Afghanistan. Don't Let More American Troops Die by Sending Them Into a Buzz Saw. -- BuzzFlash News Alert Wilson, the Primary Backer of the Islamic Forces Against the Soviet Union Says It's Time to Get Our Troops Out of Afghanistan. "I'd rather take on a chain saw," Mr. Wilson said. "They're [the Afghans] the world's best foot soldiers, best warriors. And they're fearless." "They're fearless, and they've got nothing to lose. And they have a pretty serious hatred for those who try to occupy their country." Former Rep. Who Armed Mujahideen Calls for Withdrawal Before War in Afghanistan Becomes Another Vietnam.
• Beneath the hype: Is Iran close to nukes?
• Where do your senators stand on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill?
• Green tech execs press for climate change bill
• Martha Rosenberg: Pfizer's Fraud Three-Peat -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• Guinea: Violence a 'Vile Violation' of Human Rights, Sec. Clinton Says
• Mass firings at Kraft Foods' plant in Argentina sparked protests throughout that nation, and ignited a new wave of worker organizing.
• 'Looking Backward': The Return of a Classic -- Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker Review
• Progressive Face-Off: Native American Tribes and Environmentalists at Impasse Over Coal -- Green is Good
• Conservatives Caught Recreating the Bible in Their Own Image Are Preaching to the Right-Wing Choir -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Dawn Smith Goes to The Top in Her Fight Against CIGNA to Win This Week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award "Her story's exposure got CIGNA to pay for some of the tests, but that has been a rough road. Recently, Smith was told that the co-pay on her anti-epileptic medicine was increasing from $10 every two-and-a-half months to $1,115. That is not a misprint: an 11050% increase. After press attention shined some light, the cost was reduced back to where it was. CIGNA said Smith's doctor misfiled the prescription. But the attention hasn't hurt."
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• Soldiers Fighting the War on Christmas Hypocritically Use Capitalism as a Weapon Against the Godless Liberals at The Gap -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
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• Struggling to Preserve Intelligent Life. Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Tuesday, October 6. What began as anger and outrage at the excesses of radicals in government and right-wing media has become something more deeply distressing. It isn’t just that mean-spirited, low-minded rubbish is so widely disseminated. More disturbing is the ignorance that infuses so much of the rhetoric and the degree of public acceptance that attaches to it.
• BuzzFlash Takes Another Look at Hydraulic Fracturing, and This Time the Country's Watching, Too -- Green Is Good
• Health Care Reform Advocates Visited John Boehner's Office, Delivered Garlic Milkshake To Demonstrate Support for Public Health -- BuzzFlash News Alert
• Government-Paid Medical Care Pulled Seniors Up Out of Poverty: They Should Remember That -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog by Mark Karlin
• Empty Gestures vs. Real Reform: How to Prevent 9.8% Unemployment From Becoming the 'New Normal' -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Dems in Despair Finally Find a Champion Who Won't Back Off Defending Sanity: The Unlikely Hero is Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida. -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog by Mark Karlin
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• The Religious Right Would Like to Wish You a Happy Halloween With Their Latest Misogynistic, Xenophobic Horror Flick -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• Next Step Toward Copenhagen: Sens. Kerry and Boxer Introduce New Climate Change Bill -- Green is Good Find out how the Senate bill differs from Waxman-Markey
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