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What a Girlie Guy: When the Going Gets Rough, Bush Gets Going or Stands Behind the Skirt of His Mom. Now, He is Hiding Behind Laura, Who Suddenly is Being Sent Out to Defend Him. Accuses Democrats of "Witch Hunt" Against Poor "Bushy Boy." LOL 2/20
More than 60 top scientists accuse the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes. 2/20
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"Given the situation, one might expect the Bush-Cheney campaign to change the subject when influence peddling comes up. But that would imply that the president and vice president feel some shame or remorse for their fundraising practices." 2/20
Bush Plays His Snake Oil Salesman Permanent "Tax Cut" Card for Everyone: Free Money for Everybody. Just Leave the Debt to Your Kids and Grandkids. What a Charlatan! 2/20
The Blair (Witch Hunt) Prosecution is Prepared to Abandon Prosecution of Iraq War Whistleblower Kathy Gun. Were There More Patriots for the Truth Like Ms. Gun in America. 2/20
It Will Make You Laugh so Hard, You'll Cry: Bush Cartel Propaganad Arm Strategy is to Run Add Campaign Accusing Kerry of Hypocrisy. Impeach the Lying S.O.B.s. They Stole Our American Govt., and We are Taking It Back. 2/20
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Why Rove Loves Nader: "If there is a rerun of 2000, when an estimated 6 million fewer evangelical Christians voted than in...1994, then the Bush ticket will be in trouble, especially if there is no Nader alternative to draw Democratic votes away." 2/20
U.S. Soldier Killed in Accident in Iraq 2/20
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Dismal Six Weeks for Bush Has Supporters Edgy 2/20
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Ralph Nader, If You Run, Ironically, You Become the Ultimate Capitaist "Fool," Aiding and Enabling Bush. It's Really That Simple. 2/20
The Daily Mislead: Bush Provides 2.6 Million Examples of Misleading 2/20
RICHARD PERLE, the former US Assistant Defence Secretary and Hollinger International board member, is under investigation for allegedly failing to disclose bonuses worth about $3 million (£1.6 million) which he received for running an investment scheme
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Bill Moyers to Leave PBS 2/20
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John Ashcroft's Subpoena Blitz: Targeting Lawyers, Universities, Peaceful Demonstrators, Hospitals, and Patients, All With No Connection to Terrorism 2/20
San Francisco Sues California Over Gay Wedding Ban 2/20
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Florida shuns paper backup of computer ballots 2/20
Raising Minimum Wage is Needed to Help Children in Poverty 2/20
William Rivers Pitt: The One You’ve Been Waiting For 2/20
The Progress Report: CBS Caves Again; Economy; Dumping Retirees 2/20
Message to Mel Gibson: Being the Son of a Holocaust Denier with Reactionary Catholic Beliefs Does Cut Down on the Credibility of Your New Film. It Really Does, Mel. 2/20
Americans Urged to Leave Haiti 2/20
Iranians Vote in Parliamentry Elections 2/20
The US decision to repatriate five British detainees from Guantanamo Bay was motivated, at least in part, by the threat of a potentially embarrassing supreme court judgment on the legality of their detention 2/20
Soldier for the Truth: Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski 2/20
Repost: Mark Morford: What Are You So Afraid Of? Sex? Gays? Terrorists? God? In BushCo's fear-drunk world, only one question really matters 2/20
It's Electability, Stupid! 2/20
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Baghdad Burning 2/20
Skilling Is Indicted, Pleads Not Guilty 2/19
New: The Book on Bush: How George W. Bush (Mis)Leads America, by Eric Alterman and Mark Green
Organized Labor Backs Kerry 2/20
Suicides in Iraq, questions at home; Pentagon tight-lipped as self-inflicted military deaths mount 2/20
Democrats eye plan to protect Kerry Senate seat 2/20
DA examining donations from DeLay-linked PAC 2/20
Iraq hawks put WMD cart before horse 2/20
Laura Bush Lies For Her Husband 2/20
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A Lawmaker's Ex-Aides in the Lobbies: All the Folks Who Want Something from Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), the likely new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Will He Give it to Them? 2/20
Less help for the homeless; More of that wonderful Bush compassionate conservatism. 2/20
'NY Times' Fails to Acknowledge Its Role in WMD Hype 2/20
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Nuclear Expert Tells AP Yucca Mt. Unsafe 2/20
Edwards challenges Kerry to series of debates 2/20
U.S. Now Saying it Might Take "Temporary Role" in Running Iraq on July 1st. Wouldn't Want Those Lucrative Halliburton Contracts to Go to Someone Else. 2/20
Election Reform Advocates Call for Paper Back-Up 2/20
U.N. Chief Agrees U.S. Should Restore Sovereignty to Iraq on June 30, but Sets No Date for Elections 2/20
Greedy, Money-Grubbing Pfizer Cuts Supplies to Canadian Drugstores; Sales Are Halted To Reimporters Of Bargain Drugs 2/20
U.S. to Send Military Team to Haiti 2/20
The culture-war president: With Iraq still a mess, Team Bush is switching battlefields to start screaming about Sodom and Gomorrah. 2/20
It's Always about the Oil: U.S. Considers Building Port at Sao Tome 2/20
U.S. Marines preparing for 'small war' in Fallujah 2/20
On Bush's Conscience: I wouldn't want to be George W. Bush these days. 2/20
Saddam Hussein: Thanks for the Memories, a Retrospective of Hussein's Career, including links to Reagan, Bush 1 and others (A Flash Animation) 2/20
Weekly jobless claims fall sharply, but people filing for unemployment went up. 2/20
Democrats Break a Taboo; "they've found their voice again." 2/20
Cheri Delbrocco: Who Killed Howard Dean? 2/20
Long-hidden report details FBI crimes 2/20
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
Bill Berkowitz: Sierra Club shenanigans; Anti-immigration and animal-rights activists attempt to hijack nation's oldest environmental organization 2/20
The Daily Reality Check: Bush's Debt; Show's Jobs; Skilling; and more 2/20
Israel's wall: Divisive issue, dividing neighbors 2/20
Big Financial Boost to Democrats in 2004: Section 527 Advocacy Groups Allowed to Raise Unlimited Funds 2/19
Chicago's Mayor Daley said Wednesday he would have "no problem" with County Clerk David Orr issuing marriage licenses to gay couples -- and Orr said he's open to a San Francisco-style protest if a consensus can be built. 2/19
Kerry, the Democratic front-runner and a Massachusetts senator, leads Bush by 55 percent to 43 percent among likely voters:. Edwards, the North Carolina senator who is challenging Kerry, leads Bush by 54 percent to 44 percent. 2/19
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"Heads Should Roll" Over Iraq, Says Perle. We Couldn't Agree More: Let's Start With Bush, Rumsfeld And Perle 2/19
University of Colorado football coach Gary Barnett was placed on paid administrative leave late Wednesday over comments he made after a woman who was on the CU team in 1999 came forward to say that she was raped by a teammate. 2/19
Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron Corp. chief executive who resigned less than four months before the company shattered in scandal, surrendered to face expected criminal charges related to the company's collapse. What about Bush's Good Buddy, Ken Lay?
Bush dodges rosy jobs estimate 2/19
Wash. Times: Medicare reform backfires on Bush 2/19
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As Poll Numbers Plummet, Bush Starts New War -- This Time Against Culture 2/19
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Chicago Police infiltration of protest groups upsets rights activists 2/19
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Double suicide bombings kill 8 at coalition base south of Baghdad 2/18
Cyprus Re-unification Talks Begin 2/19
Lights! Camera! Action! Ft. Polk Troops Practiced Their Hoo-ahs For Bush 2/19
60 Respected Scientists, Including 20 Nobel Laureates, Accuse Bush Administration Of Distorting Scientific Evidence To Match Policy Goals; Nation Could Be At Risk 2/19
Dean's New Mission: Staying A Player. "The party is very different than if he had not run," Says Senator Leahy
Update on Civil War in Haiti 2/19
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David Corn: Under The Bright Lights; George W. Bush has finally agreed to be interviewed by the independent 9/11 commission. 2/19
Soros says Bush has abused power since 9/11 2/19
The Daily Mislead: President's "Disgraceful" Treatment of Troops/Vets 2/19
Ted Rall: Howie, We Hardly Knew Ye 2/19
Ga. Republicans Plan New Redistricting to Replace Dem Redistricting Plans. Hmmm, But Repubs in Texas Are Okay to Redistrict Whenever They Choose and TX Dems are Bad for Objecting? 2/19
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Civil liberties threatened under surveillance 2/19
More Jobs to the Gallon: The Bush administration has issued a proposal that would weaken one of the nation's most successful environmental laws. 2/19
A-Dubya-O-L: In Bush’s beloved baseball, “Dubya” denotes a win; but in military parlance, it’s just part of the acronym A-W-O-L. 2/19
"Two Georges" -- Iraq Sketchbook, a tribute to the service and sacrifice of the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Michelangelo Signorile: Dredge Report; The cyberhack jumps the gun. 2/19
Cheney Still Hawking the Same Old Lies to the GOP Faithful 2/19
Naomi Klein on Iraq: "Who Owes What To Whom?" 2/19
The Widows of 9-11 2/19
Arguing that privacy rights of all Floridians are under attack, Rush Limbaugh's attorneys asked a court Tuesday to return the talk-show host's medical records and ban prosecutors from using them. Rush Seeks to Hide the Truth. You're Not Above the Law!
Remember The Movie "Brazil"? James Pinkerton Does: "In that bureaucratic bubble in the middle of chaotic Baghdad, it's seemingly easy to make the real yield to the unreal" 2/19
Jesse Jackson: Give Dean his due for rousing Democrats 2/19
Why Single Women Must Vote 2/19
How the Bush team will try to paint Kerry 2/19
Warriors: "it remains to be determined if John Kerry is more of a politician than George W. Bush. But he is, unmistakably, a braver, more honorable man." 2/19
Judge Scolds Park Service Over Bush Cartel Defiance of Court Order on Snowmobile Restrictions in Yellowstone. Bush Believes His Admin. is Above the Rule of Law. 2/19
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A Fistful of Kryptonite: "By recasting bin Laden from a super-villain into a banal criminal, we weaken support for him around the world. And we also deflate the heroic SuperGeorge action figure in the minds of average Americans" 2/19
"Equal Rights For Gay And Lesbian Americans" A Top Concern for Gay Voters, Says Survey 2/19
Still AWOL, Part 4: The Lazy Way Out 2/19
Operation Sweatshop Iraq 2/19
Another Death Row Inmate Found Not Guilty; North Carolina Under Pressure To Impose Moratorium On Executions 2/19
Next Stop, Georgia: Candidates Head South
Edwards Proves His Point With a Strong Late Surge 2/19
Housing Starts Fall 7.9 Pct. in January 2/19
Scientist Quits Federal Panel, Warns Of Nuclear Waste Danger At Yucca Mountain 2/19
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States challenge No Child Left Behind Act 2/19
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To the College Students of America, Vote for Bush and Get the Draft in 2005! What a Two-for-One Deal! -- A BuzzFlash Editorial on Bush's Post-Election Draft
"The Assassination of Howard Dean": Did The DLC Do Him In? 2/19
The Progress Report: Show Me the Money; Economy Talk is Cheap; and more 2/19
Bush's Alaskan Reserve Drilling Plan Draws Lawsuit 2/19
Midcourse GOP ticket correction seems unlikely, but speculation abounds 2/19
Iran Train Blast Kills More Than 200 2/19
Slime Time: What's a respectable media outlet to do when a story too juicy to ignore -- but sleazy and unverified, and from a discredited, though occasionally accurate, source -- starts making the rounds? 2/19
Electile Dysfunction: The Drooping Polls of Neo-Conservatism 2/19
Soft Money and the FEC 2/19
Does Anyone Believe Bush's Economic Predictions? ... Anyone? 2/19
Mercury Rising: The EPA Raises Concerns About Mercury Levels in Newborns While Bush's "Clear Skies" Initative Allows Emission Levels To Rise 2/19
"When the polls numbers are crashing, and the GOP really needs a hard-edged smear to change the subject, Drudge is the go-to-guy." 2/19
The neo-con philosophy of intelligence 2/19
Now smear this: a Web of deceit; From their beginning, American politics have been a blood sport. 2/19
Take This Job And Be Thankful (For $6.80 An Hour): The Longevity of Poverty in America 2/19
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Dear Mr. Prosecutor, I could not help but notice that the White House has been less than cooperative in your efforts to identify the source of the Plame leak. 2/19
The True Story of Max Cleland's Vietnam Injuries -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
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These Men Died in Vietnam While George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Avoided Combat Like Cowards. The Dead From the Hometowns of Bush and Cheney: Midland and Casper. The Two Cowards Let Others Die to Maintain Their Wealth, Elitism and Privilege.
Investigators question ricin test results; Was positive reading in Senate office caused by paper byproducts? 2/19
Russert’s Near Miss, A Special Guest Commentary by James Moore
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Important Update of Continuing BuzzFlash Item: Indignities Endured by Veterans at the Hands of the Bush Cartel
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U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
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