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Here's the Bush Cartel "Cover Story" for Failing to Protect Americans in Saudi Arabia: The Deaths of Our Fellow Citizens is Due, In Large Part, to the Bush Cartel's Failure to Confront the One Nation is the Home and Chief Financier of Al-Qaeda. 5/15
Texas Democrats Show Spine: Lone Star House Likely to Adjourn on Thursday Without Passing "Toxic" Tom DeLay's Bill to Steal Democracy and, For the First Time in U.S. History, Reapportion Congressional Districts After They Have Been Settled 5/15
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Bush Cartel "We Never Accept Personal Responsibility for Anthing" Propaganda Team Blames "Hussein Loyalists" for Chaos in Iraq. That's Refreshing. It's the First Time that We Remember That They Didn't Blame Clinton. 5/15
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Homeland Security Department Used to Track Texas Democrats 5/15
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15 Saudis Said to Carry Out Deadly Blasts in Riyadh 5/15
The impact of the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia began to reverberate through US politics yesterday as the Bush administration defended itself against charges that it had taken its eye off the ball 5/15
Bush Cartel Pressures U.N. to Give Them the Big Prize: Control Over Iraqi Oil, With Britain (Countries Number One and Two in Oil Companies) 5/15
Iraq Disorder Worries Senators. You, Mean, Some Senators Actually Have Independent Thoughts? Amazing. 5/15
Heroic Texas Democrats Have Earned Our Gratitude 5/15
Is Victory in Iraq Unraveling? 5/15
8 Months Before First Primary, Republicans Start Negative Ads: GOP Group Launches Anti-Edwards Campaign
Disappearing Act of Texas Dems Wins PR Advantage 5/15
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute!
Bob Herbert: Shooting to Kill Looters in Iraq 5/15
U.S. Detains More than 200 in Iraq Raid 5/15
Mark Morford: BushCo Reams Nation Good; No WMDs after all, no excuse for war, too late for anyone to care anymore. Ha-ha, suckers 5/15
The May 14th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
At least six children have been killed and seven wounded after a rocket they were playing with in southern Iraq detonated. 5/15
All Photo-Op, Nothing Else: Bush and South Korean President Are Vague on North Korea Strategy 5/15
Seventeen suspected illegal immigrants were found dead Wednesday in and around a sweltering, airless trailer abandoned at a truck stop 5/15
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Rose: The White House lied
Building a Nation of Snoops 5/15
Many Prized Big Fish Near Extinction 5/15
Haley Barbour: Another Republican Sleazebag, Money Man, Extremist, Crude Candidate 5/15
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. The Book that Inspired "Bowling for Columbine."
Group Files Complaint Against Smucker's; 100% Fruit is Really 50% Fruit, Group Says 5/15
List of Democratic Legislators with Balls 5/15
The parent companies of Tucson's three largest call centers - Convergys, Intuit and America Online - have moved jobs to India, mostly to take advantage of lower labor costs. 5/15
Hubris Unbound: No One Reported Carlyle's Connection to Bush's United Defense Visit. "It's not irony anymore; its just shameless and brazen." Just One Qualification: BuzzFlash Reported the Carlyle Connection the Day After the California PR Stunt. 5/15
Take Back the Media
The Rove Watch 5/15
This is Today! Janeane Garofalo, Art Spiegelman And Others Give "Dr. Strangelove" Second Tour Of Duty 5/15
A Must Read:: "Wealth and Democracy" by Kevin Phillips. A BuzzFlash Premium. The influence of money on government is now, more then ever, a hot political issue.
California Needs to Borrow Billions of Dollars to Close 5/15
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
On March 8th, Greg Palast Posted This Column: "Whatever Happened to Bin Laden? While US Storms Baghdad, Saudi Ties to Al Qaeda Are Unprobed." 5/14
All Our Lives are Endangered by the Incompetence of Bush's Leadership in Fighting Terrorism. He's All Show and No EFFECTIVE Results. 5/14
Bush Betrays Us in the Battle Against Terrorism:The Department of Energy is seriously lagging in efforts to secure hundreds of thousands of U.S.-based sources of low-level nuclear material that could be used in "dirty bombs"
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
U.S. Vigilantes Test Drones on Mexican Border; We Thought Only Terrorists Had Drones? 5/15
Rumsfeld Admits to Using "thermobaric warhead, which creates a blast wave that kills people while leaving a building, bunker or cave intact." That's The Way the GOP Thinks: Caves More Important that People. 5/15
Evaluating Gun Policy
GOP Pension Plan Designed to Mainly Help Investment Companies 5/15
Stop the Budget Disaster!
Bush's Buddies, the Salvation Army, has Member on Trial for Molesting and Killing 15 Year Old 5/15
Question "W" 5/15
No Head is Complete Without a BuzzFlash Cap!
U.S. Sort of Denies Shoot-To-Kill Order on Iraqis, but Not Really 5/15
"Gov. Jeb Bush ordered state lawyers Tuesday to seek the appointment of a guardian for the 6-month-old fetus of a mentally disabled woman who was raped, overruling child welfare officials who said such an appointment would be illegal." 5/15
Michelangelo Signorile: The Bigot's (Bennett) Bluff; Hate mail, hypocrisy and a bloated blackjack king. 5/15
What Jobs? What Growth? 5/15
Companies cut back on retirement plan benefits 5/15
Nuclear Weapons We Don't Need 5/15
The Oily Americans: Why the world doesn't trust the U.S. about petroleum: A history of meddling 5/15
Democrats accuse Bush of dishonesty in his stated support of gun ban 5/15
States Slicing Prison Food Funds 5/15
Murdoch to Give Italians Biased Right-Wing News, too. 5/15
Molly Ivins: Yes, Virginia, the idea of a lying government is serious 5/15
Your last chance to be heard on the FCC changes? May 21 Meeting in Atlanta. 5/15
Paul Krugman: Why Americans Watch the BBC 5/15
The Bush Legacy: U.S. Trade Deficit 2nd Highest on Record 5/15
Remarks by former President William J. Clinton at Syracuse University's 149th Commencement, May 11, 2003 5/15
See the Ad Cox Cable Wouldn't Run (real video stream) 5/15
Powell Fails to Convince Moscow on U.N. Sanctions 5/15
It's the Ideology, Stupid 5/15
WMDs for the Taking? While U.S. troops pushed on to Baghdad, Iraqis were looting radioactive materials from once protected sites 5/15
Terror crackdown has not reduced al-Qaida threat, warns thinktank; "regime change in Iraq ... is going to cause a terrorist backlash and be an inspiration for terrorists" 5/15
Consumer confidence is fading; Confidence declines for a third straight week as economic distress reasserts itself. 5/15
Cholera Outbreak Confirmed in Iraqi City of Basra; Looted Labs Must Be Rebuilt Immediately to Track and Contain the Disease 5/15
No Iraq bounce in US retail sales 5/15
Iraqi children killed by rocket 5/15
Sharon rejects US pressure on settlements 5/15
17 Suspected Illegal Immigrants Found Dead Near 18-Wheeler in Texas 5/15
MSNBC Adds Peggy Noonan to Prime Time Lineup; Can They Be More Right-Wing Than Fox? 5/15
Secret November Deal for Iraq's Oil: The Pentagon and Halliburton 5/15
Support the "Freedom to Read Protection Act"! 5/15
Who is Mary Rosh? An American Enterprise Institute Pro-Gun "Fellow and Scholar"
Retail Plunges, Economic Worry Is Up 5/15
Apparently Ashcroft Has Caught Osama, Saddam, Ken Lay and the Anthrax Terrorist, because He's Got Nothing Better to do than Bush Tommy Chong for Selling Bongs. 5/15
Smoke, Mirrors and Conspiracy Kooks -- Maureen Farrell at BuzzFlash.com
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Tom DeLay is an Abomination, A Cyst Upon Humanity: DeLay Wants Federal Agents to Arrest Texas Democratic House Members Who Are Protesting DeLay's Efforts to Violate Voting Rights 5/14
New Study Finds 60 Million Uninsured During a Year 5/14
Hey, Bill Bennett! You are the Outrage! - Rebecca Knight at BuzzFlash.com
Saudi Bombing Update. A Well-Coordinated Terrorist Attack in the Home of Al Qaeda: Saudi Arabia.
Molly Ivins: Those Radical, Extremist Texas Republicans Mean What They Say -- And It's Mean
Good Advice on Handling Republicans: Remember the Schoolyard
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
Senators to Fight Easing of Cap on TV Audience 5/14
Some Democratic Senators Vow to Filibuster Unprecedented Immunity for Gun Industry 5/14
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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.
Texas Democrats Get a Warm Welcome in Oklahoma 5/14
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Graham, Saudi Bombings Could Have Been Avoided 5/14
Susan McDougal's "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." A Premium From BuzzFlash.com.
Right Wing Talk Show Host Michael Graham Says of Hillary Clinton, "I wanted to bludgeon her with a tire iron. That’s what I wanted to do." This Is What Passes for Wisdom in the Land of Republican Thuggery.
Cox Cable Censors Moveon.org Anti-Tax Cut Ad 5/14
Texas Killer Democrats Echo 1979 Killer Bees 5/14
HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume
Short calls for Blair to step aside 5/14
U.S. Appointed Health Minister in Iraq Resigns 5/14
U.S. Orders Diplomatic Evacuation of Saudi Arabia. Remember that Bush Has Protected the Saudis and Blamed Iraq for 9/11, When Most of the Hijackers and bin Laden were Saudis -- and bin Laden Receives Support from There. Bush Has Failed Us. 5/14
Radiation poisoning feared from Iraq looting 5/14
The Bush Legacy: 'High Risk' of Further Saudi Attacks 5/14
Texas Democrats Get Back to Work: In Oklahoma 5/14
Tax cut opponents mobilize to combat all-out lobbying efforts by White House 5/14
Thank Clinton for a Speedy Victory in Iraq 5/14
"The Democrats believe that if DeLay can win in Texas, he will pursue his plan to solidify the Republican hold on Congress by redrawing congressional districts in one state after another." 5/14
God Bless the Democrats of Texas for Showing Guts, Courage, and Creativity! Republicans Waste Taxpayer Money by Trying to Arrest Them. 5/14
Molly Ivins: Far too far; Texas Republicans vote in lockstep to ensure an unhelpful government 5/14
Democrats Seek Delay in FCC Media Vote 5/14
New! Updated and Expanded American Edition of Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Available Now at BuzzFlash.Com.
GAO Won't Investigate Bush Use of Taxpayer Dollars for Campaign Commercial Performance on Aircraft Carrier 5/14
For the First Time, the Feds are Requiring Schools to Prove they Allow Prayer 5/14
Question W: Hijack the meaning of the question mark 5/14
Bomb Explodes in Yemeni Court. Looks Terrorist Related. 5/14
Was an American Company in Saudi Arabia the Target for Terrorists? 5/14
Miramax to back Michael Moore's Sept 11 film 5/14
Teresa Heinz Kerry: Speaking Her Mind, Using Her Checkbook 5/14
The New Math: Environmentalists = Terrorists 5/14
A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights
Garner surrenders control of Baghdad in bloodless coup 5/14
U.S. Expels 14 Cuban Diplomats 5/14
The Incredible Shrinking Pataki 5/14
New Iraqi TV Complains of U.S. Censorship 5/14
A Robert Byrd in the Hand is Worth Two Bushes 5/14
E.J. Dionne, Jr.: By whatever lies necessary; Bush stretches the truth as far as needed to reach his goals 5/14
Bush Promises to Find Saudi Arabian Killers. Not Too Promising for a Guy Who Couldn't Find Osama, the Anthrax Terrorist, Saddam Hussein and Saudi Arabia, the Home of Al Qaeda. Bush's Self-Serving Incompetence Endangers Us All. 5/14
Rights group: hatred of Jews at highest level since WWII 5/14
Playing the Hillary card 5/14
Assault Weapons Kill Police Officers, But Tom DeLay is All For Them, Because He is a Dangerous Nut Case. 5/14
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Bush Protestors Get Pushed Away from Plant in Omaha 5/14
Thousands of Bodies Exhumed at Iraq Mass Grave 5/14
Colorado's Gerrymandering Misstep 5/14
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior
Under Pressure, COX Cable Changes Mind and Will Run Ad Critical of Bush 5/14
Did Karl Rove Stuff Socks Down the Front of Bush's Pants Before He Got on THAT Plane?
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An Open Letter to the DNC - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Political strategist Dick Morris is No. 6 on state tax scofflaw list 5/14
Democrats Standing up for Electoral Rights and Democracy in Texas Surface in Oklahoma. Republican Puppet in Texas Says He Will Ask for Ashcroft's Assistance in Arresting the Dems. You Know That He'll Get It. This is Nearly a Police State, After All.
The Republicans Control Everything
What Passes for Worldly Objectivity in Bent Space - P.M. Carpenter
Kerry's Health Care Plan 5/14
The President Goes Off Duty With a Vengeance 5/14
Toe-the-Line Media 5/14
Small Mississippi College Set for Clinton Visit 5/14
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Robert Scheer: A Nuclear Road of No Return 5/14
New Jersey Teen Killed After Revealing Her Sexuality 5/14
Deficit to Be Largest Ever, CBO Predicts 5/14
"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"
France Poses Conditions in UN Iraq Sanctions Issue 5/14
$350 Billion Tax Cut Bill, 100 Senators and, Oops, One Mistake 5/14
Democracy is dead at most corporate annual meetings 5/14
Martha Stewart in talks with prosecutors 5/14
Bush and Blair Trying to Protect Themselves from Lawsuits. Wasn't the GOP the Party of Accountability? Or is that just for everyone else? Just asking. 5/14
See the Anti-Tax Cut Ad Cox Cable Refused to Run 5/14
Stirring a Cause: When Things Get Rough for Protesters, These Lawyers Go on the March 5/14
Saudi Ambassador Was Former Bush Lawyer 5/14
GOP's Haley Barbour Compares Poor Kid's Homes to Whorehouses 5/14
Bill Bennett and the Seven Deadly Sins 5/14
The Tommy Ridge PR Stunt Legacy: Duct Tape Becoming the Weapon of Choice Among Thugs 5/15
Graham Blames Bush Iraq Strategy for Saudi Blasts. Daschle, As Usual, Waffles.
How Does George W. Bush Compare with Other Presidents on Job Creation? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
"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
On Eve of Operation Strangelove, IRW Offers the "Keith Payne" GOP Playing Card 5/15
Bush Explains His Stuffed Region 5/14
President Briefly Empathizes With Exploding Ranks of Poor & Unemployed 5/15
Cowboy Bush 5/14
"Shallow Throat" Returns to Tell Dems How to Take Bush Downnnnnnnn. 5/14
All Hat No Cattle 5/14
The Loaded Deck
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