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• Rep. King (R-Insane) Blames Reagan Amnesty Bill for Obama Presidency
• Elizabeth Warren Student Loans Bill Endorsed by Several Colleges, Organizations
• The Supreme Court Agreed to Hear a Case Today That Will Probably Nuke Separation of Church and State
• Banks’ Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills That Soften Regulation
• Marijuana: The Next Diabetes Drug?
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart Annihilates Peggy Noonan
• John Conyers Apologizes for Louis Farrakhan's Anti-Semitic Remarks
• IRS Official Lois Lerner Put on Administrative Leave
• Obama: I Make the Drone Decisions
• Infrastructure in America: Cars, Drivers Plunge Into River After WA I-5 Bridge Collapse
• Eric Holder Signed Off On Search Warrant For James Rosen Emails: NBC News
• Verizon (and Google) Helped US Government to Spy on Reporters
• Some Very Good News for Obamacare
• Boy Scouts Vote to Allow Openly Gay Youths, Maintain Ban on Gay Adult Leaders
• Obama's Speech and the End of the Perpetual War
• Obama Lifts Moratorium on Transfer of Some Guantanamo Detainees
• 100,000th Plug-In Electric Car In US Sold This Week
• Alberta Tar Sands Oil Is Already Flowing and Leaking Into the United States -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Barack Obama: DLC 2.0 -- Steven Jonas MD, MPH for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Metastasizing Epidemic of Military Rape -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• This Is The Woman Who Interrupted Obama’s Speech
• Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers
• The Legacy of Andrew Wakefield Continues
• Obama to Convene Media Orgs. to Review DOJ Guidelines
• Boehner: House Won’t Pass Senate Immigration Bill
• VIDEO: CodePink Activist Medea Benjamin Interrupts Obama's Terrorism Speech
• Thanks to Sequester, Four Federal Agencies to Shut Friday
• Internal Emails Indicate IRS Targeting Designed by Low-Level Staffers
• Journalism in the Time of Heroes
• Obama Defends Drone Strikes but Says No Cure-All
• We’re Living In an Ayn Rand Economy
• Big Oil's War on the Sun
• The 20 Craziest Tweets From The Man Who Could Be Virginia’s Next Lt Governor
• VIDEO: Obama Expands Militarization of Police
• House Panel Rejects Pentagon’s Request for Base Closings
• Screwed by Climate Change: 10 Cities That Will Be Hardest Hit
• Huge Majority of GOP Supports Background Checks
• Osama's bin Laden's Death Photos Will Be Kept Secret for Your Own Good
• FALASHBACK: OK Sen. Coburn: Medicare and Social Security "Are Things We Don’t Absolutely Need"
• The Woman Who Stood Up to the Woolwich Butchers
• Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
• Eight Men (NO WOMEN) Consider House Bill to Restrict Women's Reproductive Rights
• Shoddy Materials and Illegal Construction Caused Bangladesh Factory Collapse
• Chicago: Here’s One Parent’s Story About the Closing of Her Neighborhood CPS School
• GOP Sends Operatives to Massachusetts for Markey/Gomez Race
• Annual Income of Richest 100 People Enough to End Global Poverty Four Times Over
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart Asks Bill O’Reilly: Do You Get "Sexual" Thrill from Bashing Obama?
• Tesla Motors Fully Repays $465 Million Federal Loan Nine Years Early
• The Supreme Court Empowers Employers to Lock Out Workers
• US for First Time Acknowledges Role in Deaths of Americans in Drone Strikes
• WikiLeaks Cables Reveal State Department Promoting GMOs Abroad
• The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?
• Glenn Greenwald | Was the London Killing of a British Soldier "Terrorism"?
• James Howard Kunstler | The New Abnormal
• Sen. Reid Appears to Back Away From "Nuclear Option" on Filibusters
• OK Sen. Coburn Calls Tornado Aid Debate "Typical Washington BS"
• The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
• Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages
• Neocons, Hill Democrats Push for War Against Syria
• Obama, in a Shift, to Limit Targets of Drone Strikes
• Maddowblog: What Boehner Considers "Inconceivable"
• Oklahoma Tornadoes: The "Big Dog," the Little Boy and the Hug that Triumphs Over Tragedy
• Behold the "Job Creators": Cash Piles Up as US CEOs Play Safe With Slow-Growth Economy
• How a Heroic Woman Single-Handedly Prevented Escalation of London Terror Attack
• Oklahoma Senate Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood Two Days After Tornado
• Obama, Lawmakers Ready Renewed Push to Shutter Guantánamo
• Overdue Student Loans Reach Record as US Graduates Seek Jobs
• Efrain Rios Montt Will Still Face Justice--And So Should Henry Kissinger
• Moyers & Company Preview: "Going to Jail for Justice"
• Keystone Pipeline Nears Completion This Summer as Carbon-dioxide Reaches Record Levels -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Tea Party Is Partying and Martyring Like It's 2009 -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Teach Your Children Well: Don't Play Monopoly
• Board of Education votes to shut 50 schools despite parents’ protests at raucous meeting
• Humor: The Fracking Nun
• Austerity Comes to America
• Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal
• Full coverage of Board of Education's CPS closings hearing
• US acknowledges killing of four US citizens in counterterrorism operations
• The Inside Story Of The Harvard Dissertation That Became Too Racist For Heritage
• Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit
• Apple Avoids Paying $17 Million In Taxes Every Day Through A Ballsy But Genius Tax Avoidance Scheme
• Fourth-grade filmmaker sneaks a camera into the cafeteria to document his gross school lunch
• Connecticut Advances Conversion from War to Peace Economy
• Full coverage of Board of Education's CPS closings hearing
• The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
• Weak, incompetent Democrats blow another one
• How to Frack an Elected Official
• A Keynesian Victory, but Austerity Stands Firm
• How To Frack An Elected Official
• While Washington Scandals Distract, David and Goliath Tales Inspire Across the Country
• Assault on Wall Street – A Review
• Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered
• Report: Tsarnaev Friend Shot By FBI Was In Process of Confessing to 2011 Triple Murder
• The House's IRS hearing: Live updates
• Obama's Attack on Whistleblowers Criminalizes News Gathering

• The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers' Rights
• New Video Series: Unions Make the Middle Class
• Rand Paul’s Math Doesn’t Add Up
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Testifies Before Congress About Offshore Tax Havens
• VA Backs Off Promise to Fix Veterans' Claim Backlog
• Tea Party Is Partying and Martyring Like It's 2009
• Apple Is in Hot Water in Congress for Shifting its Tax Burden
• The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage
• Creating Good Jobs is the Defining Issue of Our Time
• NBC: FBI Agent Kills Man Connected To Boston Bombing Suspects
• Four Chicago Public Schools saved from closing list
• Obama’s War on Journalism: ‘An Unconstitutional Act’
• How Coca-Cola's Ruthless Business Tactics Created a Despicable Global Powerhouse
• Is Detroit's Recovery for Real?
• Leahy withdraws LGBT measure from Senate immigration bill
• Retailers Key to Bangladesh Worker Safety, Investors Tell Walmart, Gap
• Study: Election officials are biased against Latino voters
• NYPD Stops of (Mostly) People of Color Wrong 90 Percent of the Time: 'High Error Rate,' Judge Says
• Federal court strikes down Arizona abortion ban
• House panel seeks to curb military sexual assaults
• Elders and Chiefs of at least 10 Sovereign Nations Walked Out of a Meeting with US State Department on Keystone XL
• The IRS controversy isn’t about taxes. It’s about disclosure.
• Workers Strike Over Federal Contracts And Low Wage Jobs In DC
• Tornado Questions Y'all Yankees Are Afraid To Ask
• How to Fix Journalism's Class and Color Crisis
• Hold Onto Your Cellphones: Anthony Weiner announces N.Y.C. mayoral run
• Neo-Confederacy Update of the Day: "Texas judge says lesbian couple can't cohabitate, cites morality clause in divorce papers"
• Oklahoma tornado survivor describes friend's heroism
• Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds
• Los Angeles elects first Jewish mayor
• Oklahoma Senators Jim Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Face Difficult Options On Disaster Relief
• Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance
• The New York Times: Another Chilling Leak Investigation
• Teachers as first responders, as protectors, and as heroes
• Eric Garcetti won the Los Angeles mayoral race, and will become the first Jewish mayor of the nation's second-largest city. (He's also of Mexican and Italian descent.)
• Celebs slam GOP on abortion rights, birth control access
• Choking on the Benghazi Smoke Screen -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• US Economy at Risk as Regulatory Agency Allows Big Banks to Continue Secret and Non-Competitive Derivative Trading -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Terrified children, teachers' heroics, no shelter: Inside a tornado-ravaged school
• Standing Tall for Landowner Rights vs. Oil Pipelines -- Walter Brasch for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Tea Party "Working the Refs" in IRS Scandal -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• "In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters"
• Oklahoma Tornado: Hope for Survivors Fades at Ruined School
• Inhofe and Coburn: Red State Hypocrites
• Obama Administration Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid Disclosure on Public Lands
• Matt Taibbi | Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again
• Budget Offsets to Pay for Tornado Relief: End Subsidies to Oil Companies
• "My life on the Republican right—and how I saw it all go wrong."
• Charles P. Pierce | In Which We Give Sheldon Whitehouse a Big Bravo
• Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY): No Offsets for Oklahoma Aid
• What a Real Cover-up Looks Like
• Greg Palast | My Big Fat Greek Minister
• Dimon Prevails in Key JPMorgan Vote, Retaining Two Top Jobs
• Feeling the Heat: Coburn’s Office Slams "Crass" Critics on Oklahoma Disaster Aid
• Pat Robertson Blames Tornado Victims For Not Praying
• Hatred of Obama Could Lead to GOP Overreach
• The Debt Ceiling Debate That Wasn't
• White House: Reporters Shouldn’t Be Prosecuted
• Study Finds Election Officials Biased Against Latino Voters
• Inspector General: Treasury Informed Issa Of IRS Investigation In 2012
• Tea Party Group Protesting IRS Has History of Questionable Political Involvement
• GOP Aides Mock House Republicans' "Crazy" Benghazi Witch-Hunt
• The Rescued Women in Cleveland Were Not ‘Sex Slaves’—They Were Raped
• Police Use Tasers Against Foreclosure Activists Outside Dept. of Justice
• Right-Wing Historian Shoots Himself in Notre Dame Cathedral "in Protest at Gay Marriage"
• Limbaugh: Obama Won't Be Removed From Office, Because He's "The First Black President"
• The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science
• Oklahoma’s Clout Tested by Tornado Aid Divide
• Robert Scheer | Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You
• Court Rules bin Laden Death Photos Can Stay Secret
• Climate Change Denier Inhofe Says Monster Tornado 'Hard to Explain"
• Inhofe Says Tornado Aid is Different Than Hurricane Aid
• Charles P. Pierce | The Oklahoma Test
• Enabling Greed Makes US Sick
• It's Smart to Scale Back Nuclear Weapons Spending
• Something Has Been Lost
• The Michele Bachmann Campaign Probe, Explained
• Oklahoma: Tornado Death Toll Revised Down To At Least 24
• Undercover: Police Officer Connected to "NATO 5" Case Still Spying on Protest in Chicago
• Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future
• The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks
• PBS Killed Wisconsin Uprising Documentary "Citizen Koch" To Appease Koch Brothers
• Walter Pincus: "The reality is that this is not a whistleblowing case. There are no heroes here, and the press in this instance was not protecting individuals trying to expose government malfeasance."
• Reid Mulls Nuclear-Style Filibuster Reform for Nominations
• Church Whistle-Blowers Join Forces on Abuse: "They call themselves Catholic Whistleblowers, a newly formed cadre of priests and nuns who say the Roman Catholic Church is still protecting sexual predators."
• How the Government Targeted Occupy: A new report reveals that the US spent millions of dollars spying on Occupiers and other anti-corporate activists.
• Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn Will Seek to Offset Federal Aid to Victims of Tornado with Budget Cuts Elsewhere
• PBS's Koch Problem: How a Major Right-Wing Funder Undercut Key Films
• Eugene Robinson | Obama Administration Mistakes Journalism for Espionage
• Erick Erickson Tweets Benghazi Joke as Children are Pulled From the Rubble in Oklahoma
• ABC News And CBS News Officially Normalize Fabricated Reporting
• What Comes After Hope
• Fukushima No. 1 Can’t Keep Its Head Above Tainted Water
• Apple Avoided Billions in Taxes, Congressional Panel Says
• Just How Insane Is E.W. Jackson, The GOP Pick For Lt. Governor In Virginia?