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"If President Bush carries the same states in 2004 that he won in 2000, he will win seven more electoral votes." Of Course, This is Based on the Assumption that Bush Carried Florida, Which the Supreme Court of the United States Awarded to Him .	12/2/03 8:05 AM Support BuzzFlash
Paul Krugman: Hack the Vote. "The credibility of U.S. democracy may be at stake."
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Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly." Now At BuzzFlash.com. Losing Hearts And Minds: Unmoved by Bush's visit, Iraqis blame the U.S. for civilian deaths, missing detainees and razed homes Jay Bookman: This war not against terrorists 12/1 Unfinished Business: The Roll Call on the "Poision Pill" Medicare Vote. Eleven Democrats Voted for the "Trojan Horse" Bill, Including Feinstein, Wyden, and Carper. Follow the Money. (Ron Wyden, A FORMER Senior Citizen Advocate, is Weasel in Chief).12/1 Officers file brief against Bush's Guantanamo policy 12/1 Want to find Out More About Republican "Elder Statesman" Janklow Who Will Try and Beat Multiple Charges for Killing a Veteran with His Car? Listen to the October 10th BuzzFlash Profile of Janklow. (Scroll Down). Troop Families Go to Iraq on Peace Mission 12/1 Woman Trampled in Shopping Frenzy. 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Option at Convention: Luxury Liner 12/1 "(Bush's) visit cannot be considered as a visit to Iraq," Othman told Britain's Guardian newspaper. "It was really a visit to an American military base in the country to boost the morale of the troops." 12/1 Patriot Act Author Has Concerns 12/1 Get Paul Krugman's New Book at BuzzFlash.com High court may hear Cheney appeal 12/1 Oh, for the perks of being related to two U.S. presidents 12/1 Get Your "Loaded Deck" of Playing Cards The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) Joe Conason's "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth," at BuzzFlash.com. The Return of J. Edgar Hoover? 12/1 "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?" Postcards from BuzzFlash.com. Send Them to Your Republican Friends. Will GOP Hypocrite "Wild Bill" Janklow Beat a Rap of Felony Manslaughter for Killing a Veteran in a speeding, stop-sign running collision? 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More Evidence that Tom Daschle is Bush's Chief Democratic Enabler. 12/1 A deal to return British terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay is to be sealed before Christmas, according to officials from America and the United Kingdom. 12/1 Bush plans new nuclear weapons 12/1 Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., also a member of the Intelligence Committee, said the leak of the Feith memo reflects an administration increasingly desperate to justify its policies in Iraq. 12/1 Dual studies undermine Washington's basis for war 12/1 The Pork Feast in Congress 12/1 From the Archives: John F. Kennedy, "Many years ago, Woodrow Wilson said, what good is a political party unless it is serving a great national purpose?" 12/1 Best-Selling Michael Moore Book, "Dude, Where's My Country?", Is Now Available as a Premium from BuzzFlash.com Hard-liner gains cloud N. Irish peace accord 12/1 Journalist Reports on Her Arrest in Miami 12/1 Rockers Unite to Oust Bush 12/1 Group beckons young voters via Internet 12/1 Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources. The Bush Legacy: More than 150,000 Illinois manufacturing jobs lost since June 2000 12/1 Syria Gives Turkey 22 Bombing Suspects 12/1 Operation Cover-up That This Was the Deadliest Month of the Conflict 12/1 U.S. to Transfer 100 Guantanamo Prisoners 12/1 Americans, Spaniards, Japanese, Koreans and a Colombian Killed in Iraq 12/1 Leading Republican Sen. John McCain on Sunday berated fellow lawmakers for "spending money like a drunken sailor" and said President Bush was also to blame for pushing the nation toward higher interest rates and inflation. 12/1 Norad's 9/11 response under scrutiny 12/1 Bush Still Trying for the Osama/Saddam Tie: Three al-Qaida Caught in Iraq, U.S. Says. Who Would be Able to Dispute Such an Unverifiable Claim? 12/1 By this reckoning, the Bush tax cuts will not do much to lift the economy. The $117 billion in fiscal 2003 gives birth to only $40 billion in effective stimulus. 12/1 Iraqi scientists never revived their long-dead nuclear bomb program. It was shut down in 1991. Bush and Cheney and Powell and Rumsfeld Lied Us Into War. Blood is On Their Hands. 12/1 Vietnam Redux: Counter a Record Number of U.S. and Allied Deaths in Iraq with An Insurgent Body Count 12/1 About the Jobless "Recovery" 12/1 Grand Hypocrisy Party Fundraising Hypocrisy in a Nutshell: Executive Tim Timken, one of President Bush's favorite Ohio fund-raisers, who recently helped raise $750,000 for the president, is offended by big campaign money. 12/1 The folks who are "reclaiming America for Christ" are pushing an agenda for a Taliban-like state where Scripture is law 12/1 The extraordinary powers and resources given the FBI to track down terrorists should not be used to suppress free speech. 12/1 More on Bush Cartel Attempt to Divert Attention from Deadliest Month for American and Foreign Soldiers: Pentagon Appears to be Exagerrating Battle, "residents said Monday that the casualty figure was much lower and that the dead were mostly civilians" This is One Way the Bush Cartel Pentagon "Controls" a Story, Delay the Truth Until It is Too Late for the Front Pages: TWO WEEKS Later, Army Says Grenade Attack (RPG) Likely Caused Deadly Crash of Two Helicopters 12/1 The new Medicare law could leave the AARP toothless and the elderly upstaged by business lobbies 12/2 What a Typical GOP Coward: Janklow Will Claim Diabetes Was the Cause of His Killing a Man with His Car 12/1 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Rove's Checklist 12/1 The Black Commentator: Right Wing Turkey Thanksgiving 12/1 Faces of Retirees Say It All 12/1 On the Ground with Bush in Iraq 12/1 Ridge Issues Lynch Dawg Alert 12/1 "A Second Chance": An Essay by President George W. 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Paul Krugman: Hack the Vote. "The credibility of U.S. democracy may be at stake."