Glenn Beck Chatting Live at WaPost Right Now

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A bloody car wreck, as you might expect, that you just can't help staring at.[...]

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Jacqueline Marcus: The Disastrous War Economy,
Bread NOT bombs

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A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Jacqueline Marcus

When I listened to President Obama's Cairo speech, I felt as if we elected our very own Mahatma Gandhi. Obama reminded Americans and the world that we need to work together for peace. Unlike most politicians, Obama's speech was authentic, enlightening, and reflective of humane principles, which we longed to hear after eight dark years of shock & awe.

My only complaint is the same complaint being voiced by the majority of Democratic voters. If President Obama doesn't stop the Bush/Cheney policies of giving 80 percent of our tax dollars to U.S. war contractors while our national parks are forced to shut down because there isn't federal funding for maintenance, while millions of Americans are losing jobs and their homes, in short, while our dysfunctional congress, to borrow P.M. Carpenter's description, continues down the same corporate path of draining every last drop without putting anything back into the nation's public services, no one is going to have the heart and spirit to vote again.

When President Obama announced that they have plans to build new schools and highways in Afghanistan, the obvious question came to mind: Do we have to move to the Middle East to get jobs, new schools and hospitals, to get the benefits of our hard-earned tax dollars? Obama argued: No government should steal from the nation's treasury. President Obama cannot have it both ways.

Obama is our last chance. That's what we repeated during his campaign.

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Better Briefings

post from MyDD on 15 June 2009 01:23:37 PM. © MyDD

Good news: In a move that could spark another fight with the GOP over CIA intelligence and secrecy, House Dems are quietly preparing to make major changes to the ways the CIA briefs Congress on covert actions, by broadening the pool of members of[...]

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Beneath picture of Iranian election aftermath,
"non-biased" Fox Nation asks if "Obama's 'Apology Foreign Policy'" is "failing"

post from Media Matters for America - Latest Items on 15 June 2009 01:22:39 PM. © Media Matters for America - Latest Items

In a June 15 headline, FoxNation.com -- Fox News' allegedly non-biased website -- wondered whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial re-election and the ensuing protests in Iran indicated that "[President] Obama's 'Apology Foreign Policy' " is "failing." On its homepage, Fox Nation ran the headline, "Is Obama's 'Apology Foreign Policy' Failing?" next to pictures of missiles, Obama, and an Associated Press photo of Iranian riot police chasing opponents of Ahmadinejad in front of Tehran University. Fox Nation's headline linked to a blog post by ABC's This Week host George Stephanopoulos about his interview with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Fox News has frequently referred to Obama's trips to foreign countries as an "apology tour."

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Fox Nation has frequently mocked and made falsehoods about progressives and Democrats.

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KS-02 Jenkins Show Goes on the Road...Apparently
Sans Jenkins

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Our prayers have been answered: Lynn Jenkins is returning to Earth and visiting the peons!From the[...]

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Obama's Speech To The AMA

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Text of remarks as prepared for delivery below the fold.

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McCain: ‘I Hope That We Will Act’
Against Iran

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Today, thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest the election results declaring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner — results Vice President Biden said yesterday he had “doubts” about. Speaking on Fox News this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) condemned the Iranian election as a “sham,” declaring, “I hope that we will act“:

MCCAIN: It really is a sham that they’ve pulled off, and I hope that we will act. [...]
CARLSON: How will the Obama administration react to this? Will they come out directly and say that this is unconscionable, that this can go on when they claim to be a democracy, or will they take an easier tact [sic] on it?
MCCAIN: Well, initial reports by, quote, administration officials, are that they say that they’re not going to change their policy of dialogue, et cetera, et cetera. I think they should be condemned, and it’s obvious that this was a rigged election and depriving the people of their democratic rights. We are for human rights all over the world.

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As with McCain’s impetuous response to the Georgia crisis last summer, his first reaction to the events in Iran is condemnation and a call to “act.” By contrast, the Obama administration seems to understand that knowing when not to act is just as strategically important as knowing when to do so, and that the most productive thing the United States can do for Iran’s reform movement — and human rights — at the moment is to keep itself, to the extent possible, out of the equation.

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Iran: Democracy In Action

Democracy in action: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been decisively re-elected to the Iran presidency. The West's liberal chauvinism and cultural illiteracy has prevented so-called "experts" from accepting the reality on the ground; the Shi'ite theocracy is approved of by the majority of Iranians, despite the neo-liberal American fantasy that "democracy' equates to the American Way.Western

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Candy's Room

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Should Obama Support the Green Revolution What do
You Think

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 15 June 2009 01:10:52 PM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

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Although Iranian voters have been silenced by a brutal crackdown, Iran has spoken. The country's leaders say the status quo shall stand. So what, then, should the free world say in response?

As official numbers and whispered anecdotes slip surreptitiously from a locked-down Iran, it's becoming quite clear that the presidential election last Friday was stolen. Juan Cole, the president of the Global Americana Institute, has a long list of factors that point to proof of fraud in the Iranian election. Even those tasked with counting the votes at the Interior Ministry have been telling journalists that they were locked out of the process and that no count ever took place.

Crafting an answer to what is generally assumed to be an Iranian coup is not an easy task, especially for the United States. Ahmadinejad was quick to enter into the frame game, saying that the contesting of the election results originates with the West's desire to see him lose power in Iran. Meanwhile, uniting under the color of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, the "Green Revolution" is taking hold across Iran and the Internet.

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