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No WMD's Found, No Nuclear Weapons Program of Any Value, No Link to 9/11: Well, We Guess the Iraq War Was Just One Big Bush Cartel OOPS! Unless You Remember That It Was Really About Securing an Oil Franchise Through a Military Invasion. 9/17
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Senate Votes to Repeal New Media Ownership Rules 9/17
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Bush Would Use Mini-Nukes, Professor Warns 9/17
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The Bush Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Insanity: Senate Democrats Fail to Block Nuke Funds 9/17
"When Will Americans Realize They’ve Been Had?" by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
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Full Coverage of the GOP Missouri Hidden Handgun Vote Scandal 9/17
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This Needed to be Posted Twice: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he had no reason to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a hand in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
A US soldier from the 101st Airborne Division, based in the northern region of Mosul, has died of gunshot wounds, the army said on Wednesday. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying. 9/17
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Iraqi Leader Says U.S. Troops Mistreat Civilians 9/17
Why Did Oprah Give Governor Gang Bang (Remember His Most Recent Public Groping Events Were Just a Couple of Years Ago) Prime Time Exposure Without Having Other Recall Candidates On, Especially the Governor of California? Shame on Oprah! 9/17
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Big Difference 24 Hours Can Make in Cheney's Media Fantasy Parade! A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
The Idiocy and Dishonesty of "Conservative" Talk Radio. A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary by Las Vegas Radio Talk Show Host Doug Basham
Unbelievable: The Washington Post Couldn't Even Wait Until Clark Announced to Start Trashing Him. George Soros, Why Don't You Finance a Real Liberal Paper for Washington, D.C., and Put the Post Out of Business? 9/17
The Bush Legacy of Incompetence in the War on Terror: Iraqis' Bitterness Is Called Bigger Threat Than Terror
It All Started on BuzzFlash.com. HELD OVER by Popular Demand: Would You Hire this Man? The George W. Bush Resume That First Appeared on BuzzFlash.Com!
Latest Wrinkle in Federal Court Hearings on California Recall: A Strange Twist Unfolds 9/17
Joe Wilson: White House in Full Retreat From Iraq Reality 9/17
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New Administration Line: U.S. Never Said Saddam Was Behind 9/1. Gee, How Many of Our Soldiers Died for These Idiots in the Bush Cartel? 9/17
Molly Ivins: Us Vs. Us 9/17
The Only Way to Beat Bush in 2004 is to Come Out Fighting 9/17
Save New York from Tom DeLay: Recall Pataki! 9/17
A BuzzFlash Reader Describes the Turn of the "Killer Ds" to the Texas State House. A BuzzFlash Exclusive. It Will Make Your Proud. Includes URL for Photographs.
Elderly Americans: Victims of the Bush Tax Cut. A New York Times Editorial. 9/17
William Safire: The Senate Says No to Big Media 9/17
Cheney Met by Protestors as He Fundraises in West Virginia 9/17
It Looks Like the Theft of Democracy, Engineered by Karl Rove and Tom DeLay Through Their Puppet Rick Perry, Will Succeed. Democracy R.I.P. 9/17
Baghdad Burning/Riverbend Blog 9/17
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US officials have admitted they are holding 10,000 prisoners in Iraq, double the number previously reported 9/17
Rush Limbaugh Says Blacks And Hispanics Are Too Stupid To Know How To Vote 9/17
Clark's Entry Could Shake Up Race 9/17
Janklow Proves, Once Again, That Republicans Can Never Do Anything TOO Low to Cause Themselves Enough Embarrassment and Shame to Quit, Such as Kill a Man With His Car 9/17
Where Did A Republican Party Operative Accused Of Placing "Swinging Couple" Ads Get $150,000 During The 2000 Recount To Finance A Campaign To Oust Florida Supreme Court Justices? A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS!
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Testing B. V. Gore 9/17
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Cheney Wants Tony "The Fixer" Scalia to Put the Fix in Again and Help Dick Keep the Public from Knowing About Its Own Business. Who Does Cheney Work for Anyway, the American People or the Energy Industry? Tony Will TCB for Dick, Don't Worry. 9/17
In Missouri, A GOP Reservist Breaks the Rules to Pass a Hidden Handgun Law: It’s the Rule of Law for Democrats, and Anything Goes for Republicans, A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
The NRA/GOP Alliance Subverts Democracy in Missouri. GOP fund paid for Dolan's trip from Cuba. Will He Be Court-Martialed? 9/17
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"A Few Words about My Dog, Election 2004, and General Wesley Clark." by BuzzFlash Columnist The Angry Liberal
US vetoes UN Arafat resolution 9/17
Arnold Terminates Family Values, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
MUST, MUST READ: "The publication of a full report on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction has been indefinitely postponed after inspectors found no evidence that any such weapons exist, reports the Times of London."
The Kay Report Comedown. In the End, the Bush Cartel Couldn't Pull Off Planting WMD, So They are Holding Up Kay's Report to Come Up with the Best Spin for Their Biggest Lie Among Hundreds About the Iraq War. 9/16
Another Republican Liar: Arnold Does Oprah and Embarrasses Maria Shriver. Maria Doesn't Directly Answer Question About Arnold's Extracurricular Sexual Activity, But Sort of Indicates That She Tolerates It Because She's Not Perfect Either. 9/17
For the first time since just before the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush's approval rating in California has slipped below 50 percent. Save California: Recall Bush! 9/17
John "KGB" Ashcroft May Have Met His Match: He Mocks Librarians! 9/17
Doctoring The Law: Liberal Democrats are scurrying to organize a filibuster in a last-ditch effort to sink what would be the first federal law banning an abortion procedure. 9/17
Church-state dispute hits Texas: Suit over Ten Commandments at Texas Capitol may reach Supreme Court 9/17
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
U.S. Raids in Saddam's Hometown Leave Iraqis Angry 9/17
Turning peril into peace: Bush has misused the memory of Sept. 11 to divide our nation, erode the constitution and justify an extensive program for war. 9/17
Fed Holds Key Rate At 45-Year Low; "Although the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 6.1 percent in August, businesses slashed 93,000 jobs, marking the seventh month in a row that the economy lost jobs." 9/17
Exploitation And Waste After 9/11: Instead of uniting the world against terrorism, the Bush Administration chose to reject the world and kill thousands of innocent people. 9/17
Live or Digital? The Bugler's Lips Are Sealed 9/17
CalPERS could stop investing in firms that privatize jobs in the public sector. 9/17
Michael Moore: Three Easy Pieces for Any Decent American 9/17
Pilot sues US over 9/11 arrest: A UK-based pilot wrongly accused of training the 11 September hijackers has begun a $20m (£12.5m) legal action against the US. 9/17
Free Speech Zones: As Bush spreads lies throughout the land, dissenters are corralled into “Free Speech Zones” –- is this America? 9/17
Different Versions of Citizenship Oath 9/17
The Daily Mislead: President Bush's Mis-State of the Union 9/17
E. J. Dionne Jr.: Handing Out Hardship; Is this the Bush administration's idea of fiscal discipline? 9/17
The Big Lie: Dick Cheney's Outrageous Performance on "Meet the Press" 9/17
Bush's 'compassion gap' yawns 9/17
The 'war on terror' and its paradoxes 9/17
Who did America defeat in 1781? "Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe it is likely that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks" 9/17
Robert Scheer: White House's cynical Iraq ploy; 'Misspeak' first, 'correct' it later 9/17
Jim Hightower's "Thieves in High Places" at BuzzFlash.com
Geov Parrish: Two years, still no answers; Exploiting 2001's tragedy rather than accounting for it 9/17
Marie Cocco: Needed: A Breath of Fresh Air on Edits of EPA 9/17
Should Free Speech Cost $15,000? Lockheed Martin Launches Attack on Freedom of Speech! 9/17
Return of Texas Democrats Sparks Celebration 9/17
Cheney link of Iraq, 9/11 challenged 9/17
Recall Headed Back To Court 9/17
Molly Ivins: Us vs. us? Slash-and-burn Bush administration makes U.S. government out to be biggest enemy 9/17
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Some returning troops butt heads with boss 9/17
Asbestos settlement plan unleashes lobbying war; "legislation could let companies like Halliburton, the energy giant formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney, get out of proposed settlements with victims and pay less into the new fund." 9/17
From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy, by Douglas Kellner (Author of "Grand Theft 2000")
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Reservists say they remain in Iraq with no mission 9/17
What Bush Learned From Enron: How to hide an $87 billion debt by pretending it's off the books. 9/17
U.S. Vetoes U.N. Motion On Arafat 9/17
Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group, Available from BuzzFlash.Com
Ashcroft seeks to quash suit; He asks judge to deny contempt charge in terror case 9/17
Bush Snr. Tours City, Sochi and Moscow; Shilling for Carlyle Group. 9/17
UW study: Raise minimum wage 9/17
Dem candidate Ben Chandler's anti-Bush campaign continues to enjoy great success in Bush-friendly Kentucky. 9/17
ACLU/SC Argued For Postponement of Recall Election Until All California Counties Had Replaced Faulty, Decertified Machines (Press Release issued prior to Tuesday afternoon's 9th Circuit Announcement) 9/17
Provision in Energy Bill Brings Unease in G.O.P. 9/17
California GOP -- slow-mo implosion 9/17
Another Casualty of the Iraq War: Truth and a free press. 9/17
Bush Suffers Defeats in Republican-Led Congress 9/17
Bush’s Radical Fiscal Immorality 9/17
Will the Media Let Bush Lose? 9/17
Ashcroft bars the doors to democracy 9/17
Is John Lott Mary Rosh? Or is Mary Rosh John Lott? Or is It a Case of Pro-Gun Shill Split Personality? Updated. 9/17
A Patriotic American Reservist Writes BuzzFlash From Kuwait: This is What She Has to Say
Bush is Gunning for a War with Syria, Just Keep Making War -- And Say Anyone Who Opposes You is Siding with the Enemy. If This Isn't Orwell's "1984," What Is? Oh, Yeah, What About Saudi Arabia, George? 9/16
That Physician Malpractice Insurance Crisis the AMA and the Bush Cartel Sends Out Alarms About? Guess What? It Doesn't Exist. Imagine That. As If They Would Lie and Exaggerate. Perish the Thought. 9/16
Appeals Court Delays Calif. Recall Vote
Angry Iraqis tell of U.S. troops making fatal errors 9/16
Must See! "Bush Knew - An American Requiem" (A Flash animation from TakeBackTheMedia.com)
Remember in True Republican Fashion, Bush V. Gore Only Applied to Bush V. Gore, Not to An Election When It Might Benefit a Democrat. Just Remember that When the California Recall Case Gets to the Supreme Court. 9/16
When Will Our Country Return to the Land of the Free? - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
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September 11th, 2001, Ended with a Laugh for George and Laura. Aren't You Happy for Them? 9/16
Immigration visa issue dogs Schwarzenegger 9/16
In Killing Fields Of Iraq, Our Real Foe, The Saudis, All But Forgotten 9/16
Bush's War on Terror is Failing 9/16
"U.S.-led coalition forces insist that stability is returning to Iraq. The ledger in the Baghdad morgue tells a different tale."
Action Alert: Arnold Protest by Code Pink: Women for Peace 9/16
Are the Felonious Supreme Court Five Once Again Likely to Make a Partisan Decision to Help The GOP? "My assessment that this, like any other decision by the 9th Circuit, is a magnet for reversal by the Supreme Court." 9/16
Republicans are Sweating a Little. No Doubt, They are Waiting to See What Little Scare Tactic the Bush Cartel Has Waiting for America Between Now and the Election. 9/16
Why Isn't Scarborough Being Fired for This Breach of Ethics? 9/16
Second Black Bodybuilder Claims Schwarzenegger Repeatedly Made Racist Comments to Him 9/16
Kerry's communications director leaves campaign amid shakeup rumors 9/16
The Bush Legacy: Some Retirees May LOSE Prescription Benefits 9/16
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How Media Has Changed Since the Day that 'Changed Everything' 9/16
California Grand Hypocrisy Party Operative Admits to Fraud. So, What Else is New? 9/16
Think About This: Whenever You Buy a Tank of Saudi Arabian Gas, You are Helping to Finance Terrorism. A BuzzFlash Interview with the Former CIA Case Officer Who Wrote, "Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude."
Hatch alarms right over anti-terror act 9/16
HELD OVER: Either Cheney is a Complete Liar or is Too Stupid to be Vice-President Based on His September 14th "Meet the Press" Interview
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Republicans as Elections Thieves 9/16
Gov. Gray Davis appears to benefit the most from Monday's decision delaying the recall race, but like just about everything else surrounding this first-of-its-kind election, that is far from certain. 9/16
Senator Edwards Seeks to Block Bush Cartel EPA Nominee 9/16
The GOP’s Texas Power Grab 9/16
One Thousand Reasons to Dump George W. Bush 9/16
NYT Supports Decision Delaying California Recall Vote 9/16
More Proof of Dick Cheney's Lying: Cheney link of Iraq, 9/11 challenged 9/16
Maria Comes to the Defense of Governor Gang Bang (AKA the Movie Promoter Groper) 9/16
The Truth About Colin Powell and the Iraqi Gassing of the Kurds 9/16
Wesley Clark's Little Rock Conclave 9/16
The BuzzFlash Interview With Paul Krugman. Thank God for this Man!
Bush Defends His New Anti-Environmental Rules, Which Rove Packages as Green Rules -- As In MONEY Green! 9/16
Recent Bush Cartel Lies. Actually, You'd Have to Keep Track of Them by the Minute to Do a Decent Job. 9/16
Harley Sorenson on the Luckiest Man in the World 9/16
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Bush's New Federal Math Leaves Kids Far Behind 9/16
Israel Backs Off Arafat Threats 9/16
Awake for O.J., asleep for terror 9/16
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
Reposted: Barbie, Dick and Donald 9/16
What Happened to Tibet? 9/16
Democrats are Alive and Well in Cedar Rapids, Iowa 9/16
The September 15th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
Feeling 'dragged along'? It's 'a simple matter' to convince any populace to go to war, says Goering 9/16
Bush's Contempt for the courts 9/16
Suicide bomb attack targets Russian security agency building near Chechnya 9/16
The Bush administration has quietly installed a surprising figure in a high-level Pentagon post: L. Jean Lewis, the former federal fraud investigator who kicked up major controversy in the ’90s over her allegations about the Clintons’ Whitewater dealings.
Bob Herbert: IBM Families Ask, 'Why?' 9/16
Next Year's Senate Races Giving Both Parties Reason to Worry 9/16
Iraq campaign exposes flaws in small arms 9/16
Edwards to Formally Launch Presidential Bid 9/16
Despicable: "the organ harvest team's flight was grounded because President Bush's Air Force One was scheduled to land." (see "Flight grounded") 9/16
CNN news chief Jim Walton had a "private conversation" with reporter Christiane Amanpour after she accused her own network of being "intimidated" in its coverage of the Iraqi war 9/16
Pataki Emerges as Rainmaker for National G.O.P. 9/16
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"Quagmire" -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
The Democratic Message in 2004: Looking Back to Find the Future - A Media Watch Special by Gloria LaLumia
"The U.S. Must Go" by BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter
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The September 15th Edition of Top Ten Conservative Idiots 9/15
Bush Does a "Britney" for Bump in Polls 9/17
Tom the Dancing Bug: Asteroid! 9/16
Whitehouse.org's Q&A With John Ashcroft 9/17
This Modern World: Clear-eyed Conservative Realists 9/17
Ann Coulter's School of Beauty and Elocution 9/15
Bush Admits He Doesn't Know Why We Invaded Iraq 9/16
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