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Newsflash:
  • A cynical foreign policy/campaign strategy bombshell lurks, largely unnotic...
  • Last week, BuzzFlash at Truthout wrote on "GOP Voter Registration Irregular...
  • If Mitt Romney wins the presidency in November, he will inherit a weak econ...
  • Mitt Romney’s got his own problems, but the letter behind his name isn’...
  • As Wednesday’s presidential debate approaches, the political junkies are ...
  • IS IT WEDNESDAY YET? WHAT ABOUT NOW? We've still got another day to go unti...
  • A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday ordered state officials not to enforce the ...
  • President Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney among likely voters, polls sh...
  • The man at the center of a voter-fraud investigation in Florida is a longti...
  • A billionaire businessman is calling on his fellow wealthy people to fight ...
  • Barry Commoner, a pioneering environmental scientist and activist, died Sun...
  • ust as joint operations between American and Afghan troops were supposed to...
  • California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law prohibiting minors from being subj...
  • Paul Ryan was clearly in friendly territory when he sat down for an intervi...
  • As the presidential candidates get ready for the first debate in Denver Wed...
  • Greek workers carried out a 24-hour general strike today as 50,000 people d...
  • The silence is deafening. Last week, the New York Times reported a horrify...
  • Despite the official US military withdrawal last December, American special...
  • On the eve of Occupy Wall Street’s first anniversary, Congressman Keith E...
  • Paul Ryan admits that he’s an “end Medicare as we know it” candidate....
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  • Last week’s debate between Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren showc...
  • KABUL — Four U.S. troops were killed Sunday at a remote checkpoint in sou...
  • A Wisconsin’s judge’s Friday decision to strike down Gov. Scott Walker...
  • Libyan President Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf said he is convi...
Romney Promised to Take Advantage of Foreign Policy Crisis in 47 Percent Remarks A cynical foreign policy/campaign strategy bombshell lurks, largely unnoticed, in the full transcript of the now-infamous "47 percent" tape secretly recorded at a Romney fundraiser. The remarks (revealed in the full Mother Jones transcript of the Florida mega-bucks gathering) further reinforce the dangerous gamble that the Romney campaign is making that if Americans were to be harmed or held hostage between now and election day,  the Romney campaign would attempt to use such a nightmare as a "game changer" in the 2012 election. Read the Full Story
GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal Grows Last week, BuzzFlash at Truthout wrote on "GOP Voter Registration Irregularities Generally Overlooked by Mainstream Media." What has began as a reporting of likely voter registration irregularities found in forms submitted to Palm Beach County, Florida, has become a national GOP scandal, involving state Republican Parties, the Romney Campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC). Read the Full Story
What a Romney administration economic team might look like If Mitt Romney wins the presidency in November, he will inherit a weak economy, huge budget deficits and a perilous global economic situation. Among his first, and most important, tasks will be appointing people to senior economic policy jobs to help him deal with those challenges. Read the Full Story
Republican brand: Still ‘dog food’ Mitt Romney’s got his own problems, but the letter behind his name isn’t helping things. The Republican Party remains at a low point in terms of its popularity, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with a majority of voters (53 percent) saying they have an unfavorable view of the party and more than one in three (35 percent) saying they view Republicans in a strongly unfavorable light. Read the Full Story
Ignore Debate Zingers, Focus on Issues As Wednesday’s presidential debate approaches, the political junkies are gearing up for a shoot-out. If history is any guide, much attention will be paid to the political horse race. Much debate commentary will be about technique: Will President Barack Obama be crisp? Will Mitt Romney use the zingers he has reportedly practiced? Will he get under the president’s skin? Read the Full Story
Your daily PM briefing from the Slatest IS IT WEDNESDAY YET? WHAT ABOUT NOW? We've still got another day to go until President Obama and Mitt Romney take the stage in Denver, a fact that sucked up pretty much all of the oxygen in today's political news cycle.  Read the Full Story
Pennsylvania voter ID law shouldn’t be enforced this time, judge rules A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday ordered state officials not to enforce the commonwealth’s tough new voter ID law in the November elections, a political victory for Democrats who say the measure is an attempt to discourage support for President Obama in a battleground state. Read the Full Story
Ahead of presidential debate, polls show Obama favored on key issues President Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney among likely voters, polls show, suggesting that the president has been able to maintain a post-convention bounce as the Republican candidate struggles to regain traction. The polls come as Romney and Obama are set to face off in their first debate Wednesday in Denver. Read the Full Story
Businessman who GOP cut ties with at center of voter fraud probe in Florida The man at the center of a voter-fraud investigation in Florida is a longtime GOP operative with a pugnacious streak and a controversial history among Republicans and Democrats for his aggressive tactics in registering voters. Read the Full Story
Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus Calls On Fellow Rich To Battle Voter Suppression A billionaire businessman is calling on his fellow wealthy people to fight voter suppression, which he says is a mortal threat to American democracy. William Louis-Dreyfus announced in a full-page ad in The New York Times on Tuesday that he has pledged $1 million to protect voting rights, and he asked others to join him. Read the Full Story
Barry Commoner, Pioneering Environmental Scientist and Activist, Dies at 95 Barry Commoner, a pioneering environmental scientist and activist, died Sunday at age 95. Described in 1970 by Time magazine as the "Paul Revere of ecology," Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America's most prominent modern environmentalist. He viewed the environmental crisis as a symptom of a fundamentally flawed economic and social system.  Read the Full Story
Shootout Between Afghan, U.S. Troops Kills Two Americans and Three Afghans ust as joint operations between American and Afghan troops were supposed to be getting back to normal, there was another big setback this weekend when U.S. and Afghan troops appear to have turned their guns on each other, leaving five people dead. Read the Full Story
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