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With the Sacramento City Council chambers packed to capacity by opponents of the USA Patriot Act, council members voted 8-1 Thursday to approve a resolution against the controversial anti-terrorism law. 11/14
''George Bush killed my son,'' Rosemary Dietz Slavenas said. ''I believe my son Brian died not for his country but because of our country's lack of a coherent and civilized foreign policy." Army 1st Lt. Brian Slavenas Was Killed in the Chinook Crash.
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The Bush Cartel Continues to Betray Our Soldiers: They are Restricting Media Coverage of the Burial of Our Troops in Arlington Cemetery. Who Will Stand up for the Memory of Our Fallen?
Seymour Hersh: "You have a war fought by the underclass, financed by the underclass and for the profit of the upperclass," He said. "I think Bush's going to lose [the election], unless he makes some radical change, which he's not going to do." 11/14
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Roadside Bomb Kills 2 G.I.'s in Central Iraq 11/15
Tom "Cockroach" DeLay Solicits Money for Kids Charity But Uses it for Parties; "using the idea of helping children as a blatant cover for financing activities in connection with a convention" 11/14
Relatives of people who perished in the Sept. 11 attacks say a federal commission accepted too many conditions in striking a deal with the White House over access to secret intelligence documents 11/14
Paul Krugman: The Medicare Trojan Horse 11/14
Bush Demands Action on Judicial Nominees. Someone Give George Back His Toys and Tell Him to Sit Quietly In the Corner, Like He Does for Uncle Cheney. 11/14
Sidney Blumenthal: Bush and Blair - the betrayal 11/14
The People of Britain Have Got Bush's Number: Three out of four feel Mr Bush's war on terror is making the planet less safe as renegade groups hit back in retaliation 11/14
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The Wisconsin National Guard is Hiring, Yet "Work Site of Job" Doesn't List IRAQ
Former Israeli Security Chiefs Blast Sharon, Israel's Counterpart to Bush (Rabin Was BuzzFlash's Hero. Assassinated Like JFK and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. The Men of Peace.) 11/14
Reconsidering Reagan: 66 Things to Think About When We Watch The Reagans on Showtime. 11/15
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On "Bush-Hating"; The Riddle of the Anger: "there's the stolen election, for starters" 11/15
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Bush Pushes Campaign War Chest Past $100 Million 11/15
Robert Greenwald, Producer/Director of "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War," A New Documentary That Reveals How the Bush Administration Lied the Nation Into War. 16 Dead Soldiers on Sunday. Bush is a Liar AND Inept.
GOP Leaders' Medicare Plan Draws Fire 11/15
Cleland Rips Bush Iraq Policy; At Forum, Ex-Senator Compares Situation to Vietnam 11/15
Senate Leader Learns Lesson in Online Activism 11/15
Washington Wrap: Insiders March To The Dean Drummer; Clark Will Take Matching Funds; and More 11/15
Bush's UK Visit "shaping up as the most fraught and ill-timed exercise of its kind in living memory" 11/15
Theater of the Absurd: The 30-Hour Republican Blabber Marathon 11/15
About That Economy . . . Trade Deficit Widens, Jobless Claims Rise 11/15
Dems Say Medicare Plan Would Up Premiums 11/15
The Daily Mislead: Bush Veto Threat May Lead Congress to Reverse Itself on Overtime Pay 11/15
Blair 'dishonest, shallow and cheap' in justifying Bush visit 11/15
Cheney/Republican Energy Bill Up: "falls short in offering incentives for energy conservation, while providing too many tax breaks for producers of oil, gas and coal." 11/15
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U.S. allies rethinking role in post-war Iraq 11/15
Can Miami Really Ban Giant Puppets (at next week's Free Trade Area of the Americas summit in Miami)? Plus, why police say they're a menace. 11/15
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The Daily Mislead: Amid Increasing Violence, Administration Abruptly Shifts Iraq Policy 11/15
Contractors' Deaths Add to Iraq Toll 11/15
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There are so many echoes of Vietnam in Iraq; It took two years for US deaths to reach 324 in Vietnam. It passed that figure in seven months in Iraq 11/15
Bring Halliburton Home: Cancel the contracts. Ditch the deals. Rip up the rules. 11/15
"[A] sick right wing puppy's blog post of a fantasy about the killing of Democratic Senators so he can get his four judicial nominees" 11/15
US stays blind to Iraqi casualties 11/15
Military Targets Latinos; Tracked into Combat Jobs 11/15
Thank you, George: Bankruptcies at Record High. Is This An Economic Recovery? For Whom? Just Asking. 11/15
Accounting for the Invisible Casualties of War Shouldn't Be a Matter of Politics 11/15
First-time claims for unemployment benefits rose 13,000 this week. 11/15
What did Bush know before 9/11 attacks? 11/15
Molly Ivins on the New Medicare RX Benefit: Keeping Us On Our Misanthropic Toes 11/15
U.S. Pounds Iraqi Insurgents; U.S. casualties persisted: three Americans died and ten were wounded 11/15
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A political miscalculation stamped in steel at White House 11/15
Barry Diller Blocking Gore's Cable Buy 11/15
Eric Alterman: Why Chickenhawks Matter 11/15
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The hidden cost of Bush's war: "the spectacularly mounting toll of the severely wounded" 11/15
Exxon Mobil ordered to pay Alabama $11.9 billion 11/15
U.S. Has No Quick Exit Strategy for Iraq 11/15
U.S. Fatalities in Iraq: Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Being Wounded and Dying.
Survey: Nat´l Park Service Workers See Parks Jeopardized By Political Interference, Special Interest Deals 11/15
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
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How the Bush Cartel Shafts Our Veterans: Held Over
Not Quite Bubba vs. Bubba; Louisiana Governor's Contest Defies Stereotypes 11/15
TV Producer Norman Lear Starts Campaign to Register Young Voters for '04 11/15
Ben Stein Pans John Bolton's American Spectator dinner Speech. 11/15
Monterey County poll workers prevented Hispanics from voting 11/15
Democracy Caravan seeks to revive participation in US democracy. 11/15
Bush Messing with Lands Worth Leaving Alone 11/15
Daily Reality Check: Republican Slumber Party; PLUS: No Roy, No Moore 11/15
Troop Deaths by State: U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Mounting 11/15
Afghan Blast Kills U.S. Special Ops GI 11/15
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Florida Court OKs NAACP Challenge of "Elimination of Racial Preferences in University Admissions" 11/15
Legal fees for Enron 'shocking' in stature 11/15
Bill Berkowitz: Ball of confusion; Bush Administration bungling and fumbling for answers in Iraq 11/15
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Code Pink Alert: "listen to and interact with informed Iraqi women who passionately want to dispel the assumptions about Iraq" 11/15
U.S. face more setbacks in Iraq; Japan has ruled out any rapid dispatch of forces to Iraq; and More 11/14
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Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," at BuzzFlash.com.
Clark to Accept Public Financing 11/14
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Japanese Rebuff Rumsfeld on Eve of Visit 11/14
The Radical Cheerleaders, a loose network of young, mostly female activists, have put a new face on protest. 11/14
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30 Media Outlets Protest Treatment in Iraq
Must See! Faces of the Fallen: U.S. Fatalities in Iraq. All Of These Men and Women Might Be Alive If It Weren't For Bush's Lies.
A palpable sense of panic: George W Bush appears increasingly at a loss, not to say panicked, about what to do. 11/14
Karl Rove Has Bush Meet with Families of Dead British Soldiers, but Not American Families. What a Betrayal. Also, Bush Disputes American Commanders in Iraq. Bush Knows Better, Obviously. He is Hotwired to the Beyond, Didn't He Tell You? 11/14
Iraq casualties: Bush doesn't want us to know 11/14
Schwarzenegger is in Hawaii as His Staff Pretends He is Hard at Work in Sacramento 11/14
Jeb Bush Jokes San Franciscans May Be Endangered; Said "That's probably good news for the country," 11/14
Priest's diary reveals Jackie Kennedy's pain 11/14
Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan: A Photo Gallery 11/14
U.S. Detains Relatives of Suspects in Iraq Attacks; Military Denies Claims That It Takes Hostages 11/14
Apology to the American Worker 11/14
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Franken mulls Senate run in 2008 11/14
Repost: Pentagon keeps dead out of sight; Bush team doesn't want people to see human cost of war; Even body bags are now sanitized as `transfer tubes' 11/14
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Light At The End Of The Iraq Tunnel is Vietnam 11/14
Poll: President Bush's approval rating continues to fall in N.J. 11/14
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Bush Says He Welcomes Protests in London. Except, They Made a Big Stink To Keep the Protestors Far Away. What a Maroon. He'd NEVER Face a Protestor. EVER. He Really Puts the Chicken in Chickenhawk. 11/14
Pressure builds on U.S. allies; Opposition in Italy calls for return of troops 11/14
Skepticism About U.S. Deep, Iraq Poll Shows 11/14
Meanwhile, the Shooting Spree Continues IN America.... 11/14
Senator Leahy: "This year, with breathtaking arrogance, we have seen the systematic dismantling of the Judiciary Committee’s own rules." The White House is Having Frist and Hatch Do This Now to Get Their Radical Base Distracted from Iraq. 11/14
A presidential visit [by "the most unpopular US president in decades"] is no reason to suppress the right to peaceful protest 11/14
Deaths in Iraq War Take Toll on Voters 11/14
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Washington Wrap: The race for Florida’s open senate seat; and More 11/14
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Another day, another rationale for Iraq war 11/14
Iraqi Governing Council... An Insider's Look from Baghdad Burning Blog 11/14
U.S. Expats in UK Hit by Wave of 'Anti-Bushism' 11/14
Senator Hollings: Misled and Undermanned 11/14
Illinois friend in high places helped pilot Boeing-Air Force deal 11/14
Erase Your Student Loans the Howard Dean Way; Candidate’s $7.1 Billion Vision for a Diploma in Every Pot 11/14
Repost: Right-wingers practice politics of intimidation 11/14
5,000 British Police to Protect Bush? What's He So Afraid Of? Just Asking. 11/14
Iowa electrician shot down in copter. Newlywed Army officer died in Fallujah 11/14
U.S. to Seek Iraqi Elections in Mid-2004. Good Luck. 11/14
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Baghdad Burning: The Girl Blog from Iraq 11/14
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Daily Howler: SAD MAX! How inept is your press elite? Reciting a standard Reagan script, Max Frankel is eager to show you 11/14
Soldier Might Face Court Martial For Radio Comments 11/14
Wishing Won't Beat W 11/14
Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore Removed From Bench
Jimmy Carter has become the first US president to write a novel. 11/14
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
The Daily Progress Report: Two Months, Still No Help; Fox News Filibuster; O'Reilly's Distortion Zone; and More 11/14
Bush and Schwarzenegger: Personae non gratae in Mexico? 11/14
Editorials becoming thing of the past 11/14
A Lie to the Right: Despite all the evidence to the contrary, WorldNetDaily still insists it's not a right-wing site. 11/14
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Vaccinations in Cedar Rapids recalled 11/14
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Excerpt of Upcoming Bill Moyers Interview with Stewart Udall, Former Secretary of the Interior 11/13
Grand Hypocrisy Party Vows Another Overnight Stunt to Toss Red Meat Radical, Extremist Federal Judges Upon America 11/14
Drive the Message Home, "Save America: Recall Bush" End America's Nearly Three Years of a Bush Cartel Halloween Nightmare
Bush's Followers Define Democracy as Censorship. Jethro Tull Banned on this Radio Station for Criticizing Bush. This Radio Station is UnAmerican. Call It the Pravda Hawk. 11/14
Republican-controlled House bill would halt Ohio suits indefinitely; "They’re trying to make it retroactive, which is patently unconstitutional." 11/14
CIA Report Contrasts With Bush's Incompetent Optimism and Shifting Storyline for Iraq: 50,000 Insurgents and Growing. 'We could lose this situation' Bush in a Panic. Sits on Cheney's Knee and Discusses "Transfer of Power" With Dapper Dresser Bremer.
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Supreme Court Limits Disability Rights 11/14
Senate Democratic leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) accused Bush of having "chosen to politicize these nominations and to raise the level of confrontation within the debate itself." 11/14
Still No Details on "The Deal" Reached between 9/11 Panel and White House. We're Sure It Will Amount to Very Little Real or Useful Intelligence 11/14
Death Toll Up to 31 in Italy Base Attack 11/13
The Speech by Bill Moyers to the National Conference on Media Reform 11/13
Support the Democrats' Fight Against Bush's Extreme Judges 11/13
Reuters Headline: "Iraqi Teenagers Watch as Americans Bleed." This is the Bush Legacy of "Liberating" the Iraqis.
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Veterans Day 2003 and the Rancid Meat in the White House
Al Franken vs. Coleman? He's thinking it over 11/13
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The Legacy of Bush's Incompetence: U.S. officials say that after six months of intensifying guerrilla warfare, Iraqi insurgents know more about the U.S. and allied forces than the coalition forces know about them. 11/13
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