Was 20 Million Dollars Paid to Free Betancourt and 3 American Hostages in Colombia?
THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
July 8, 2008
A report from Swiss public radio that $20 million was paid to release three American hostages, Ingrid Betancourt, and 11 Colombian soldiers and police officers is being pretty much roundly ignored in the United States.
Not so the case in the UK, where the Times reported the allegation on July 4th:
Hanging Tough with Obama When Obama is Not Hanging Tough
THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
July 7, 2008
As I've mentioned more than once, BuzzFlash is the oldest and largest progressive Internet news and commentary site between the two Coasts. We have the perspective of the Heartland -- and we were founded on a premise that only when we hang tough for Constitutional values will we prevail.
The United States is a Radical and Revolutionary Nation
THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
July 5, 2008
"The United States is a Radical and Revolutionary Nation."
How those phrases -- radical and revolutionary, which we ostensibly celebrate every July 4th -- send shivers of disgust down the spine of the entrenched status quo in D.C. and the great masses who are convinced that calling themselves "patriots" is itself enough to bestow virtue upon them.
Antonin Scalia: Rush Limbaugh's Man on the Supreme Court
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
by Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
June 30, 2008
Antonin Scalia is Rush Limbaugh's high I.Q. alter ego; in short, Nino is a partisan hack and fabulist.
We once chastised Harry Reid for saying -- after Rehnquist's death and before Roberts' nomination -- that Scalia was so brilliant that he might make an okay Supreme Court Chief Justice, even if Reid disagrees with his decisions. Good grief!
Why is the Dem Congressional Leadership Abandoning the Constitution and the Rule of Law on FISA?
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
by Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
June 22, 2008
Patti Solis Doyle is Going to be the VP COS for the Campaign, Not Necessarily in the White House
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
by Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
June 17, 2008
How FOX News Endangers My Life!
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
by Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
June 15, 2008
The FOX Propaganda Network endangers my life -- and yours.
How else can you explain that a White House administration and Republican Party who have squandered hundreds of billions of dollars, countless lives, and a war longer than WW II -- and we haven't even caught Osama bin Laden?
The Clintons Lost Control of the DNC: Hillary's Campaign is Over
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
by Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
June 2, 2008
Last year Harold Ickes (a chief Clinton strategist), a member of the DNC Rules and By-Laws Committee that met on Saturday, voted to take away the delegates and superdelegates from Florida and Michigan if they moved up their primaries, which they did.
Yes, BuzzFlash Would Back Hillary Clinton if She Were the Democratic Nominee
THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher
May 28, 2008
Yes, we've lost perhaps 20% of our readership because we have been highly critical of the Clinton campaign strategy and statements. Many of the readers who left us were there at the beginning in 2000 and were part of an online community forged out of the theft of the election from Al Gore.
Mike Huckabee, Racism, Chain Gangs, a Joke About Assassinating Barack Obama and the NRA: This is the "Gun Rights" Movement
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
by Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
May 20, 2008
Here is the abhorrent "joke" Mike Huckabee made at this weekend's annual NRA convention (in Kentucky) about assassinating Barack Obama after hearing a loud noise: "That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak...Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor."
