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U.S. Drops Terror Alert Level to 'Yellow'. Yawn. Does Anyone Care About This, Other Than Those of Us Who Think Bush is Wagging the Alert Dog? Just Asking. 5/31
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Ashcroft's Perfect Crime of Injustice 5/30
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Paul Krugman: Waggy Dog Stories 5/30
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Joe Biden, Tom Daschle and Nancy Pelosi Should Resign. Tom DeLay, Tom Ridge, the Republican Party of Texas and the Bush Cartel are Caught in What Appears to be Illegal Activity and a Violation of Homeland Security and Dem Chiefs Say Virtually Nothing.
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The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. By the Man Who Released the Pentagon Papers. A Warning About a Government that Keeps Secrets.
The Tax Bill's Final Indignity: Bush's Tax Cut is "not just unfair, dishonest and economically unsound. It is also cruel to low-income families." 5/31
Richard Reeves: Have Americans Checked Out on Our Wars? 5/31
Battle on Child Tax Credit Intensifies in the Capital; GOP Should be Dragged Across the Coals for This "Steal from the Poor, Give to the Rich" Fiasco. 5/31
Robert Reich: Democratic Economics; George W. Bush's sales plan for his tax cut is much the same as the one for his war on Iraq. 5/31
Bush's plan for Head Start blasted: "No way is there a more important political issue in this country than what happens to Head Start." 5/31
Deportation Behind Closed Doors 5/31
Soldier arrested over Iraqi PoW 'torture' pictures 5/31
George Bush needs a more intimate relationship with the truth, bless his heart 5/31
Mark Morford: Lesbian Wiccans Save America; Because if you don't notice all the fiercely positive glimmers of hope, no one else will 5/31
This is, um, interesting. "George W. Bush, the oilman I prayed with to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord on April 3, 1984 has gone on to become President of the United States of America. All glory to God." 5/31
Editorial: What did the CIA know [about Iraqi WMD]? 5/31
Unanswered questions on Iraq 5/31
UN's Iraq envoy criticises US 5/31
Air says Bush is "Satisfied" that the Imminent Iraqi WMDs are actually Just Two Trailers that Might Have Done Something with Chemicals That Could Have Been Dangerous. 5/31
First, The Bush Cartel Censored the 9/11 Investigation; Now They are Setting the Wheels in Motion for Ensuring the Space Shuttle Investigation Doesn't Reveal Damaging Information About How the Bush Administration Might Have Prevented the Disaster.
This is the Scandal of the New Century: Bush Cartel Won't Tell the American Public the Truth About Their Culpability and the Role of the Saudis in 9/11. We Say Investigate, Indict, Prosecute and Jail the Guilty in the Bush Cartel.
Bush's Tax Cut: Screwing the Poor with a "A Hummer-Sized Loophole" 5/31
Iraq Villagers fall ill amid fears of nuclear contamination 5/31
Nation no safer than before 9-11, says San Jose Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren 5/31
Behind Closed Doors: Top Broadcasters Met 71 Times With FCC Officials 5/31
'Anti mogul' campaign targets Murdoch 5/31
Tax-cut provision helps majority of Congress. Has America Become Fascist Plutocracy? 5/31
AWOL Bush and His Chickenhawk Colleagues in Cowardly Behavior
Heard the local news? It may soon be harder to find after FCC changes 5/31
E.J. Dionne, Jr.: The New Rules of Politics 5/31
Is Cheney Behind Attack on Head Start? He Has a History of Hatred for Public Funding of Education 5/31
Prepared to act; Ossie Davis is ready as always to take on issues of art and politics 5/31
Bill Berkowitz: Band-aids, beans & conversion for Iraqis; For evangelical Christians, 'the question is not whether, but how and when, they should convey their faith' 5/31
Robert Scheer: Pentagon aims guns at Lynch reports; Military spin doctors take to the warpath to discredit reports that Lynch rescue was staged 5/31
Nicholas Kristof: Save Our Spooks; On Day 71 of the Hunt for Iraqi W.M.D., yesterday, once again nothing turned up. 5/31
Cynthia Tucker: Working poor can't expect any help from Washington; Millions of poverty-line families cut from child tax credit in last-minute negotiations 5/31
E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Bush: the man knows how to party; 'Hyperpartisanship' rules the day in America, and Bush's GOP reigns 5/31
New Bush Admin Report on Mountaintop Mining Changes says "nothing about protecting the environment and the communities nearby," 5/31
Shady Dollars-for-Access Deal with Indian Tribe, GOP, Int. Sec. Norton, former DeLay staffers and Bush 2004 election campaign manager. But, the Daschle and Pelosi Will Let it Slide. 5/31
A Jefferson County, Texas, Justice of the Peace told inmates he knew their home addresses and would have sex with their wives while they were locked up 5/31
U.S. Says All Diplomatic Immunity Lapses in Iraq 5/31
Iraq weapons dossier 'rewritten'; A dossier compiled by the government on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction was rewritten to make it "sexier", a senior British official has told the BBC. 5/31
Why Does John Lott Pretend to be a Woman?
Ashcroft Is Seizing Foreign Assets and He Doesn't Have to Prove It's Connected to the Target of an Investiation; Some Are "unrelated to terrorism."! 5/31
Ted Turner is Against Media Consolidation: Monopoly or Democracy? 5/31
Philly council passes anti-Patriot Act resolution 5/31
G.I.'s in a Desert Town Face Rising Iraqi Hostility. Mission Accomplished? Don't Think So. 5/31
Evidence against Saddam Hussein was "sexed up" on Downing Street orders because it was not damning enough to justify war on Iraq, it was claimed yesterday. 5/31
General: Guerilla Warfare in Iraq 5/30
Did Ashcroft Block Investigators from Probing a Republican Congressman? 5/30
Hey, a Democratic Senator Who is Holding Bush Accountable! Amazing Things Happen! 5/30
Good Review of Sidney Blumenthal's Book 5/30
Wolfowitz says "WMD emphasis was 'bureaucratic'" The Truth Behind the Lies. Will Bush Pay for His Lies? Will Anyone Pay for The Lies? 5/30
In New Hampshire, Two Republicans Defect to the Democrats 5/30
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SCANDALOUS ATTACK ON OUR MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS, OUR CHILDREN:Tax Law Omits Child Credit in Low-Income Brackets 5/29
This Isn't a War of Liberation in Iraq. It is a War of Occupation. We are Becoming a Full-Fledged Colonial Power Administering Oil Concessions. Tribune Headline: U.S. to launch new Iraq offensive. 5/30
More Army Contracts to Halliburton 5/30
The Bush Legacy of Incompetence: Relief for U.S. Troops Lacking 5/30
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The Bush Cartel Dismantling of the Federal Government Speeds Up: 425,000 federal jobs to go to contractors, who will, of course, make contributions to the GOP. It's a grand scam. 5/30
Report: Israel to Withdraw from West Bank Town Centers 5/30
U.S. Eyes Change in Endangered Species Act 5/30
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Another One of Our Soldiers is Shot Dead in Iraq 5/29
Remember the Lincoln. Bush Declared Victory in Iraq. Tell that to the Families of Soldiers Who Continue to Die in a War for Oil. 5/30
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Bush Cartel Ready to Take on Iran 5/30
Joe Klein: What is the Bush Cartel Not Telling You? 5/30
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Media Reform Now 5/30
In Iraq, U.S. Gunfire Kills Three Teens at Wedding 5/30
British MPs React with Fury at "Flimsy" Basis for Invasion 5/30
Lover of Illinois GOP Operative Becomes 63rd Republican-administration related defendant in ongoing federal investigation of GOP office holder wrongdoing in Illinois 5/29
Another Report that Jessica Lynch Rescue Met No Resistance. By the Way, the Alleged Iraqi Attorney Who Allegedly Notified U.S. Soldiers of Jessica's Whereabouts Now Has a Job With Former Congressman Livingston, the Serial GOP Adulterer (Says Larry Flynt)
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Report: Texas Governor's Office Linked to Use of Department of Homeland Security for Partisan Political Purposes 5/29
The Gun Guys Stand Up for Gun Guys and Criminals 5/29
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The Bush Legacy of Incompetence: Communist Party Plans Comeback in Iraq 5/30
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Official explodes key WMD claim 5/30
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U.S. Troops Raid Palestinian Mission in Baghdad, Arrest Staffers 5/30
"An ally of Gov. Gray Davis said Wednesday that she would file a legal complaint today charging Rep. Darrell Issa with illegally raising money for the recall campaign against the governor." 5/30
Latest Installment in Chronicles of An Occupying Power 5/30
Bush Cartel Conceals the Truth from the American Public: US 'faces future of chronic deficits'
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The case for war is blown apart 5/30
G.I.'s in a Desert Town Face Rising Iraqi Hostility 5/30
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Liberal groups join forces to best Bush in '04 5/30
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U.S. Media Ownership Debate Slow to Hit TV News 5/30
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Poll: Most Want Health Coverage, Not Tax Cut. Ah, But Bush Couldn't Care Less What People Want. More People Voted for Someone Else. 5/30
More Pigs at the Trough: Bush officials make the leap to lobbying firms 5/30
Bush event misrepresented audience; Beyond the Tie Issue 5/30
Riot Chases Troops Out of Iraqi Town; Hey Bush, Was the "Mission Accomplished"? Or Was That A Lie, too? Just Asking. 5/30
Graham leads charge against Bush in inquiry 5/30
Patriot II: The Sequel. Why It's Even Scarier than the First Patriot Act 5/30
Arianna Huffington's "Pigs at the Trough" and a BuzzFlash.Com Honest-to-Goodness Piggy Bank! Can You Beat a Combination Like That?
Head Start advocate accuses administration of using scare tactics 5/30
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
E.J. Dionne, Jr.: JFK's Enduring Appeal 5/30
White House Staff Leaking Bad Stuff on Rumsfeld. That's Good News. The Thieves are Falling Out. 5/30
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Morale Lags For Some U.S. Troops In Iraq; Soldier Questions Why 'Those Who Did Killing' Are Now Peacekeepers 5/30
Ed: Head Start is for kids, not politicians 5/30
Military Pundit Sues Fox News Over Al Qaeda Tape 5/30
Bush Cartel Warns Head Start Programs Not to Lobby to Try and Save Head Start Programs. Makes Sense in a Dictatoryship, Right? 5/29
British intelligence agents were unhappy with the government's claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction ready to use within 45 minutes 5/30
Dean Urges Repeal of New Bush Tax Cuts 5/30
Dubya's Phony War 5/30
MSNBC Article on Bush "Misstatement" Pulled Off Site 5/30
Utah Officials Look for Volunteers for their Firing Squad 5/30
Alleged Casablanca Mastermind Caught, Dies 5/30
It's Not So Funny Any More: "The fact is that people have stopped laughing at Bush because he's no longer the village idiot. He's the village tyrant now" 5/30
Children suffer on Baghdad streets 5/30
Opec snubs US over Iraqi delegation 5/30
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Editorial: Head Start should not be dismantled 5/30
Royal Dutch/Shell Group said documents found buried in New Mexico are "everyday" office waste and shouldn't be linked to litigation involving Houston-based EOTT Energy. 5/30
The Secret Saudi Flight on 9-13 Could be the Key to the Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda Connection 5/30
LA Times Deletes Key Paragraphs from Web Version of Article 5/30
The prohibition on U.S. government funding of any organization that performs abortions or advocates for the liberalization of abortion laws in other countries nearly crippled President Bush's high-profile $15 billion AIDS initiative. 5/30
Bill Berkowitz: In chatter we trust; As the 'tide turns' in the war against terrorism will the real al Qaeda please stand up? 5/30
Availability of condoms doesn't increase likelihood of teens having sex, study says 5/30
Bush Cartel Quotes on WMD 5/30
Giving corporations everything they want in return for the promise of a booming economy has been a bad bet. 5/30
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Kerry Cites Bush Campaign in Donor Appeal 5/30
He's Cuban, a Bush Donor and Texan: Homeland Security’s ‘private-sector guy’ leads business outreach effort 5/30
Tax cutters now take aim on ‘sunsets’ 5/30
Amnesty Int'l Student group gets backing of ACLU 5/30
Bookseller Backing Freedom To Read Act 5/30
FCC Receives Trips From Lobbyists; FCC Officials Take Thousands of Trips Paid for by Telecommunications, Broadcasting Industries 5/30
Hey! Iraq lost! Feelin' safer yet? 5/30
A bill allowing for the release of 13 people who remain imprisoned from a discredited 1999 Tulia drug bust won approval in the Texas House today. 5/30
Activists Claiming a partial victory: "We're in a bit of a lull. We did not stop the war. That was not a defeat for us, but for the country. We were successful because we brought out thousands who resisted the war." 5/30
Pakistan is losing the fight against fundamentalism 5/30
We Need a Whistle Blower in the Mainstream Media 5/30
"The Looting of America" - P.M. Carpenter
Liberals vs. Conservatives? It's the Corruption, Stupid -- Maureen Farrell
The Bush Tax Cut, Part II: The Free Ride for Stockholders by The Angry Liberal
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PRESIDENT WELCOMES ESTEEMED YALE CLASSMATES TO WHITE HOUSE SOUTH LAWN FOR FUN-FILLED DAY OF ORGIASTIC BACKSLAPPING, WASP DOMINANCE, AND NON-FAGGY ELEPHANT WALKS 5/30
Ted Rall: 'Terrorism': The Quicker Picker-Upper! 5/31
Bill of Rights `unconstitutional'; Court squelches the founding fathers' open invitation to anarchy 5/30
The Betty Bowers Operation Liberate Iran (formerly Iraq) Newsletter 5/30
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Ted Rall: The Domestic Strategist 5/30
How Iran Can Avoid a Bush Cartel Invasion 5/30
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