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Hey, Bill Bennett! You are the Outrage! By Rebecca Knight
The Republicans Sick the Texas Rangers on Democratic Legislators from the Lone Star State Because They Won't Let Tom "The Exterminator" DeLay Destroy the Constitution and Take Away Electoral Rights in Their State. Update. 5/13
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New Mexico attorney general not hot on looking for missing Texas legislators 5/13
Baghdad Swept by Anarchy, Not Democracy 5/13
Enron-Like Unreality 5/13
E.J. Dionne: What About Bush's Lies? 5/13
Did Karl Rove Stuff Socks Down the Front of Bush's Pants Before He Got on THAT Plane?
Question "W" 5/13
Shiite Leader Makes Bold Return to Iraq Holy City 5/13
The George W. Bush "Socks" Photo
What Passes for Worldly Objectivity in Bent Space - P.M. Carpenter
Canadian Broadcaster: " U.S. government's "official" version of 9/11 is the greatest deception ever launched." 5/13
Are 'Mini-Nukes' The New Big Thing? 5/13
Texas Democratic Party Website 5/13
The May 12th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Democrats in GOP-dominated Texas House stage mass absence to break quorum 5/13
The Shredding of Media Credibility 5/13
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U.S. and Saudi officials said they suspected al Qaeda in a series of four explosions that rocked the Saudi capital late Monday. Since Saudi Arabia Was Home to bin Laden, His Family and Most of the 9/11 Hijackers, It's a Good Guess. 5/13
Wages slide for workers glad to have paychecks 5/13
The BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American!
TV 'turns people off politics'; Television news may be partly to blame for voter apathy. 5/13
Deficit Forecast Up Again Amidst Tax Debate 5/13
The two faces of Rumsfeld: 2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea; 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change 5/13
N.Y. GOP Slides Into Fiscal Disarray 5/13
Iraq: A minister quits, buildings burn, rubbish rots. So much for the 'reconstruction' 5/13
The War that bin Laden is Winning 5/13
Stop the FCC 5/13
Who is Waging Class Warfare? The Republicans, Of Course. A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary.
Stop the Budget Disaster 5/13
Walk Out in Texas Legislature to Protest the Anti-Democracy Ways of Tom DeLay Reverberates in Washington 5/13
FCC Makes It Official: They Are Proposing More Media Consolidation 5/13
Bush and Economic Satisfaction Polling from Gallup 5/13
Who is Mary Rosh? An American Enterprise Institute Pro-Gun "Fellow and Scholar"
UK investigates coalition troops masquerading as aid workers in Afghanistan 5/13
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
Message to Tom Daschle: They are Going to Try and Pull You in the Gutter No Matter What, So Why Not Take the Gloves Off Thom, Instead of Running Silent and Deep? 5/13
Politically Incorrect Bill Maher is Author of "When You Ride ALONE, You Ride With Bin Laden." The Newest BuzzFlash.Com Premium. In Book or CD Format.
Despicable Hypocrisy and a Betrayal of the Iraqi People: Bush Cartel Restores Hussein Supporters to Power in Iraq
Looting of Nuclear Waste Sites in Iraq: Bush's Deception About WMD and How His Incompetence in Iraq Exposes Us to Increased Risk of Terrorist "Dirty Bombs"
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Your Local Emergency Room May Call the FBI on You 5/13
US Treasury Secretary John Snow has broken with the long tradition of backing a strong dollar; dollar plunges to four-year lows 5/13
US states borrow more to ease financial crunch 5/13
Union leader says Pentagon jobs proposal a threat 5/13
Primary U.S. WMD Inspection Team to Leave Iraq. Do You Get the Picture?
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Janeane Garofalo, Art Spiegelman And Others Give "Dr. Strangelove" Second Tour Of Duty 5/13
Robert Scheer: The Only Law West of the Tigris 5/13
Many Americans Are Wary Of Bush's Proposed Tax Cuts 5/13
Senator says Bush hiding 9/11 failures 5/13
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Will the Last Liberal to Leave Minnesota Please Turn Out the Lights - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
An Open Letter to the DNC - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
George McGovern: A More Constructive Internationalism 5/13
The Republicans Control Everything
"Dr. Germ" in Custody. Wasn't She in Custody Last Week? Just Asking. 5/13
Reposted: Graham alleges a coverup of pre-9/11 failure 5/13
Bob Herbert: Bush's Radical, Extremist Judges 5/12
Brutal Crime on Rise in Iraq 5/12
The Moral Imperative: Talking To George Lakoff, Part Two 5/13
Former Writer for Kennedy Laments Hawkish Strategy 5/13
Martin Luther King III and Greg Palast chronicle America's continued progress toward the "Floridation" of America's voter rolls. 5/13
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
Bush Tax Speech Costs Workers Money. Company will Dock Workers Pay the Day Bush Speaks. 5/13
Normon Solomon: Introspective media not in the cards; Deck is stacked against truth in Bush's media home game 5/13
Official: U.S., Iran, Held Secret Talks 5/13
NYT Ed.: An Empty Energy Bill 5/13
Study shows class counts 5/13
Doctor Who Grows A Million Pounds of Tobacco a Year Gives Bush an Honorary Doctorate. What a Farce, What a Disgusting Farce. 5/13
Bringing the War Home: the weakening of the 1878 Posse Comitatus and the establishment of Northcom, a military command for the domestic United States 5/13
The WMD Scoresheet: A BIG FAT ZERO 5/13
Stop the Tax Cut for the Rich - An Action Alert from TrueMajority.com 5/13
Texas Democrats Boycott House Session 5/13
Dollar Crumbles as Snow Encourages Bears 5/13
Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com.
McCarthyism Watch: Cop Makes Midnight Raid of Teacher's Classroom 5/13
Britain's Head of Iraq Reconstruction Resigns; Development Secretary Calls Draft of U.N. Security Council on Iraq 'Shameful' 5/13
Cynthia Tucker: Bush's triumphant jet flight could cause future turbulence; Remember Bill Clinton's infamous haircut? 5/13
Mexican president rejects US Congressional action 5/13
McCarthyism Watch: Website Lists 142 Traitors 5/13
As surveillance powers grow accountability languishes 5/13
Budget and Flag Amendments' No Surprise Return 5/13
Bush's Man in Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi: Banker, Schmoozer, Spy 5/13
Bush Changes Iraq Team: "We can't even run ourselves, let alone a country," one insider told our correspondent. 5/13
The racist skeletons in Charles Pickering's closet 5/13
"I just wake up in the morning and tell myself, 'There's been a military coup,' and then it all makes sense," said one veteran foreign service officer.
"With Baghdad still in a state of chaos, there was a whiff of panic about Washington's removal of the top layer of its team responsible for reconstruction." 5/12
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Disorder Deepens in "Liberated" Iraq 5/12
Allegation: Heavyweight GOP Congressman Verbally Abuses Airport Screener
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It's the Gun Guy News! 5/12
Boxer suggests 'hanky-panky' in Halliburton contract 5/12
What Exactly Did Bush do on 9/11? 5/12
Question "W" 5/12
Reposted from the BuzzFlash Archive: Endgame 5/12
Must Read! The GOP Attack Machine
Reposted from the BuzzFlash Archive: The Perfect War 5/12
The Karl Rove PR Machine Keeps All the Right Wing Shills on Message Point, Even Jerry Falwell
HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume
And What About the Billion Dollars Saddam Allegedly Stole? Don't be Surprised if it Ends up in the Bank Account of the Republican National Committee. 5/12
Joe Klein: How to Make a Better Democratic Candidate for President: Fire the consultants, find some core values and speak from the heart, and then maybe one of the candidates will have a chance against Bush 5/12
The Bush Cartel Lied and Then Lied Again, As They Always Do 5/12
The Daily Howler 5/12
Unconscionable: Bush Cartel Eyes Tax Cuts as An Annual Event! Goal is to Shrink Government and Keep Democrats on the Defensive. Tom Daschle Needs to Step Down. He is Not Able to Make the Case Against the Destruction of the American Government.
Blair emulates Bush: Poverty levels in UK largest in 13 years 5/12
Canadian Conspiracy crusader doubts official 9/11 version 5/12
The Democrats Should Be Bashing Bush Over Judicial Nominations that are Neo-Confederate, Reactionary, and Paleolithic. Oh, By the Way, Where is Tom Daschle? Anybody Heard from Him Lately? 5/12
Please inform Chris Matthews . . . Dubyah flew 102s in Texas . . . not 105s as Gee Gordon said . . . on "Hardball" tonight . . . - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights
How Did Condoleeza Rice Arrive Aboard the Abraham Lincoln? The Media? Just Asking. 5/12
Michael Powell and Media Deregulation 5/12
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Iraq's Crude Awakening
Frauds-R-Us: The Bush Family Saga 5/12
Now We Are Having Citywide "Terrorist Attack" Drills 5/12
On a Friday night, just after Congress had left for spring break, the government said it would no longer consider huge swaths of public land to be wilderness. 5/12
Homeless Man Set on Fire in California 5/12
Another Example of Why Bush as Commander in Chief and The Invasion of Iraq are Both Dangerous Farces to Us All: Seven Iraqi Nuclear Facilities Reportedly Looted
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The Fabrications of the Neo-Cons 5/12
Labor Protests in China 5/12
Another Bush Cartel Ally Set to Profit From War on Terror 5/12
True Majority 5/12
Bush Acts Like A Jerk on the Golf Course, Tells One Reporter, ``You are one of my favorites and I'd hate to stick this Titlest (golf ball) between your eyes." 5/12
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Jobless Outlook Clouds Bush Political Horizon. Oh, They Will Find a War or Terrorist Alert Somewhere to Distract Us Again. 5/12
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior
Cleric Demands Iraq for Iraqis. What a Novel Idea! 5/12
Republican Activist and Contributor Turns Out to be the Spy from China 5/12
Cheerleaders Who Protest 5/12
U.S. and Iranian Officials Talk in Geneva 5/12
So What Am I to Do? A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Ashleigh Banfield Website 5/12
Fair Taxes for All 5/13
About 340 workers at an Omaha plastics factory will lose pay or have to work next Saturday to make up for time lost during a visit by President Bush on Monday to promote his "jobs and growth plan"
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Perhaps It Is About Oil 5/12
Iraqi Villagers: U.S. Brought Us Death 5/12
Bush Has Got It Wrong on Judges 5/12
Poll: Tony Blair Voted Worst Briton 5/12
Bush Has a French Pastry Chef. Imagine That. (Toward End of Column) 5/12
New evidence may show how anthrax used in 2001 attacks was packaged 5/12
How Does George W. Bush Compare with Other Presidents on Job Creation? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Las Vegas Paper Says Bennett Was Done In By Fellow Neo-Cons Who Think That He Is "Too Liberal." They Are ALL Nuts. 5/12
In Baghdad's Anarchy, The Insane Went Free 5/12
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."
Evaluating Gun Policy
When the Media Fails 5/12
FOX Pulling Cable News to the Right 5/12
"Since President Bush took office in January 2001, some 2.7 million jobs have been lost from private-sector payrolls, including more than half a million in February through April alone"
Reposted: When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History 5/12
The federal government should guarantee parents protection against testifying against their own children, former White House intern and reality TV host Monica Lewinsky says. 5/12
Have They No Principles at All? Bush Tax Cut Backers Claim JFK's Support 5/12
The Pentagon refuses to believe that depleted uranium ammunition is hazardous to soldiers and civilians. But the data suggest otherwise. 5/12
End Our Dependence on Oil 5/12
Stop the Budget Disaster!
Workers won't get paid time off for President Bush's visit to their plant Monday 5/13
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
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Fighting for Democracy in Texas: Dems on the Lam 5/13
Paul Krugman: The China Syndrome 5/13
A Homeland Security Charade
It's Like the Movie "Groundhog Day," Only It's a Nightmare. Bush Campaigns AGAIN for Tax Cuts for the Rich, Which Will Worsen the Economy and Shrink the Size of the Government. The Perfect Crime for the Extremist Right Wing. 5/12
Claire Short Quits with Attack on Blair; Int'l Dev. Secretary "accused Mr Blair of breaching assurances he had given her about the United Nations' role in post-conflict Iraq." 5/12
Must Read: The Jerry Bruckheimer White House 5/12
America's Fishiest First Family -- Maureen Farrell at BuzzFlash.com
"Top Gun-shy Bush": America's #1 Chicken Hawk Takes to the Skies by The Angry Liberal
Mission Accomplished - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
THE LIGHTER SIDE::
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots 5/13
A Kid Busts into U.S.; Canuck, 7, walks through 'tough' security 5/13
Federal Judiciary Nominee: Express Confirmation 5/12
These are Ironic Times 5/12
The Dubya Chronicles 5/12
The Little Detail the Cameras Missed in Bush's Photo Op 5/12
Presidential Farting Doll -- Hail To The Cheese 5/13
Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 5/12
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