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Must Read: At $6 an hour, who needs a tax cut? A Total Sham of An Audience Serves as Backdrop for Failed Bush Job Policy. 3/13
Bomb Blast Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq 3/13
Death Toll Rises in Spain to 198 3/12
The Book on Bush: How George W. Bush (Mis)Leads America, by Eric Alterman and Mark Green
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The Forgotten Dead: As of Thursday, March 11, 554 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq 3/12
Watt to Wahhabi: Use Less Oil, Make Less Terrorism -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Now We Know Who Buys Xanax From Those Spam E-Mails: Key Republicans Admit Anxiety Over Campaign 3/12
The March 12th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
Bob Herbert: Our Wounded Warriors 3/12
"Passion Redux" -- A BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
The Fire of the NRA and Other Tales from the Front (3.12)
"At Diebold Electronic Voting HQ" -- New Editorial Cartoonist Joins the BuzzFlash Family: Steve Bradenton! Another Strong Voice for Our Regular Contributors.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week is (Drum Roll, Please) U.S. Congressman Tom Cole
The California Supreme Court ordered an immediate halt to same-sex weddings in San Francisco on Thursday 3/12
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"The Brady Bunch" - BuzzFlash Cartoon by Thomas Burns
Concerned About Electronic Voting! This is THE Book to read. "Black Box Voting" by Bev Harris, Lead Investigator on the Perils of Electronic Voting.
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else, by David Cay Johnston
The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. Warning: It's Addictive.
Gerald Plessner: A More Perfect Union; "the idea of a constitutional amendment to deny them the right to marry is, quite simply, un-American." 3/13
Labor scrambles to survive; 8.2 percent of private workforce and dropping. And in times like these they're needed the most. 3/13
A snowplow driver in Cleveland has been suspended from his job after displaying an anti-Bush sign. 3/13
Ted Rall: First They Came for the Shock Jocks 3/13
Utah Woman Charged With Murdering Fetus; Dr. Recommended Caesarean section, She Declined. 3/13
Franken vows to bash Bush as host on new talk-radio network. Go Al! 3/13
U.S. Undermining Saddam Evidence - Iraqi Lawyer 3/13
Black members of Congress to aid Kerry 3/13
Non-Axis of Evil Japanese Firm Sold Libya Uranium Conversion Plant. What's a Bush to Do? 3/13
Pointed Questions on Missile Defense System: "Ever since the president made his decision, the priority of the program has been on deployment, not on understanding whether the system works," 3/13
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Repost: Military Families vs. the War 3/13
Molly Ivins: "the problem [with the 9-11 ads] is that Bush screwed the firefighters" 3/13
Margie Burns: Wag the Osama 3/13
A Must for Any BuzzFlash Reader Library: "Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the G.O.P., Their Friends and a Few Others, 1994-2004"
Iraq: A conversation with a concerned soldier 3/13
"The list of allegations [against Halliburton], and not just relating to Iraq, is growing fast" 3/13
Bush alienating some military voters 3/13
Send the Message Across the Nation: "Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died" Postcards. The Perfect Message to Your Senators and U.S. Representatives.
Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died. A BuzzFlash List of Casualty Resources.
G.I.'s May Be Targets of Kidnappers and Rebels Posing as Policemen 3/13
The Progress Report: Threatening the Truth Tellers; Exploiting a Tragedy; McClellan's Dodge; and more 3/13
When Media Giants Bicker 3/13
Freed Briton tells of beatings; Freed Briton tells of beatings 3/13
Culture War May Find WMD (White Male Defectors) 3/13
Another Bush Embarrassment: Jobs czar candidate withdraws 3/13
Bush Will Continue to Exploit the 9/11 Deaths. Did We Expect Anything Else? Exploiting Others is a Bush Family Favorite. 3/13
Iraq's loose ends may unravel; spiralling towards civil war 3/13
Bush Administration Weighs Condom Warning. They Want to Increase Funding on Abstinence-Only Education, Despite Research that Proves It DOESN'T WORK. 3/13
Washington Wrap: Ad Wars Take Off; Edwards and 100 of His Closest Donors Cheer Brother Kerry; and more 3/13
U.S. fears Iraqi police were behind deaths of 2 civilians 3/13
Firms Awarded Iraq Pacts Tied to D.C. 3/13
"People need to know that not all military families support the war and in order to support the troops, you don't have to support the war." 3/13
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Georgia Legislators erase church-state line 3/13
Minnesota, U.S. cross drug swords again 3/13
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Iraqi police accused in killings 3/13
Did the Saudis buy a president? How much money has flowed from the House of Saud to the Bush family and its friends and allies over the years? "at least $1.477 billion." 3/13
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Bush Scores Another First with Ads: First he Exploits 9/11, Now He uses "the image of a dark-skinned man who is obviously meant to be a terrorist." What's Next? Anti-Bush Speech Linked to Satan? Just Asking. 3/13
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Fear Wins at Disneyland: Permanent security gates will be built 3/13
Bush veto threat on highway bill poses dilemma for GOP 3/13
No Bush Left Behind: When You're Barred From Banking, Why Not Bank on Education? Neil Bush Benefits From No Child Left Behind. 3/13
"American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush," Get the Kevin Phillips' Book from BuzzFlash.com
In Rebuff to Bush, Senate Raises Bar for Tax Cuts. A "surprising election-year rebuke" 3/13
Senate Judiciary Committee Falls Apart on Letter to Request Investigation of Stolen Dem Docs, Then Bipartisan Group Issues Similar Letter. 3/13
FCC's Powell Questions Indecency Bills' Constitutionality. Bill Also Happens to Roll back "the FCC's June 2003 media-ownership deregulation." 3/13
Republican gay rights group hits Bush, Romney stances 3/13
The Daily Mislead: Bush Threatened to Fire Official for Telling Truth 3/13
Liberal Talk Radio Network to Start Up in Three Cities: NY, LA, and Chicago 3/12
Jimmy Breslin: Not to touch the earth 3/12
'On a Mission From God': The Religious Right and the Emerging American Theocracy by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
Get the "Trials of Henry Kissinger" DVD at BuzzFlash.com. We found this recently released -- and overlooked -- documentary absolutely riveting.
Molly Ivins: How to ruin the public schools; Texas, the nation's bad government workshop, provides example for ridding ourselves of pesky public education 3/12
LOL: Bush Pics 3/12
Democrats Have a Good Chance to Pick Up Republican Senate Seat in Colorado, As Campbell Exits Stage Right 3/12
Populist South Korean President Who Urged Better Relations with North Korea and Wasn't a Puppet of U.S. is Impeached. We Just Wonder if King George Had a Hand in This One Too. 3/12
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"Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War" Get This DVD!
George Bush's Credibility Problem: The Truth Behind His New Attack Ad 3/12
As the presidential campaign sharpened in America, it was to be expected that the Bush administration's Middle East policies, already misguided in critical ways, would be further distorted. 3/12
Senate Passes $2.36 Trillion Budget 3/12
The Most Crooked Lying Group. Memo to Bush and Cheney: "You ARE liars. You ARE crooked." 3/12
Bush's "economic story [in Ohio]... is in sharp contrast to the version told by Democrats campaigning in the state..." Dem. Mayor Campbell said the unemployment rate in Cleveland has risen from 8.5 percent to 14 percent during Bush's tenure. 3/12
Spy Unit Skirted CIA on Iraq: "Tenet said he was unaware until recently that the Pentagon unit had presented its findings to the offices of Vice President Dick Cheney and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice" 3/12
Madrid Massacre Probe Widens 3/12
Firefighters to go after Bush 'loudly and aggressively' 3/12
Is Military Creeping Into Domestic Law Enforcement? 3/12
Never Mind All That: "If there’s any single event in the long list of dark moments we’ve suffered through since Bush was installed into power, it was that day in September three years ago." 3/12
Paul Krugman: No More Excuses for Jobs 3/12
A.F.L.-C.I.O. Plans to Spend $44 Million to Unseat Bush 3/12
Corruption & Deception On Supreme Court: Justice Antonin Scalia 3/12
Bush Bars Compensation For Tortured U.S. POWs 3/12
Morons in the News: Thin-Skinned GOP Angry at Kerry Comment 3/12
Bush administration ordered Medicare plan cost estimates withheld. How Can His Supporters Ignore the Lies and Deception? Just Asking 3/12
Hans Blix Tells His Side of the Story: "Disarming Iraq." Available from BuzzFlash.com.
Dick Meyer: Welcome To Bushworld: "it is chilling to realize that the arrogance and deception that went into the most important action of the Bush presidency also infect their system down to obscure science boards and policies." 3/12
"Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" DVD
The RNC is trying to silence MoveOn. Help Them Expand the Reach of Worker. 3/12
99 Reasons to Vote Bush Out! 3/12
The Sorrows of Empire: A Premium on BuzzFlash.com
Euros concerned for US science; Scientists worried that politics is damaging science in the US-and the world 3/12
An Excerpt of George Soros' "The Bubble of American Supremacy." Check it out and then buy the book from BuzzFlash. 3/12
Military Families vs. the War: Organized Opposition Is Small, but Some See It as Historic 3/12
A Not-So-Mighty Wind: Limbaugh Blows It Once Again 3/12
Drive the Message Home, "Save America: Recall Bush" End America's Nearly Three Years of a Bush Cartel Halloween Nightmare
Donated bodies blown up by Army "in land-mine experiments"; Tulane suspends deal with cadaver broker 3/12
Bush Continues to Mislead About 9/11 3/12
What a Bunch of Idiots! The Tennessee Senate last night stripped the right to an abortion in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother from a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution. 3/12
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A Stand-Alone Episode for New Cafe Visitors! "Lying as a Way of Life" -- Episode #9 of "The Last Chance Democracy Cafe" -- Political, Historical Fiction by Steven C. Day
Bush Cartel Throws YOUR Tax Dollars Down the Toilet: Pentagon STILL pays Chalabi group for dubious data, more than $4 million a year to the people the Bush Cartel is blaming for giving them "False" pre-war data. Remember, it's YOUR money. 3/11
You're Messing with the Wrong Generation -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Ex-Aide in Congress Charged As Iraq Spy: "I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else. ...I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible." 3/12
It Didn't Take Long. Bush Goes Negative. He's Got Nothing Positive to Run On.
Bush Exaggerates Kerry's Position on Intelligence Budget 3/12
Greg Palast CD from BuzzFlash.Com: "Weapons of Mass Instruction"
John Le Carre's "Absolute Friends." BuzzFlash's First Fiction Premium. Le Carre At the Top of His Game. Read Our Review and See Why We are Offering It.
In Recognition of the Chief Chickenhawk Who Let Other Young Men Die in Vietnam, While he Partied Hearty in Texas, George W. Bush, New BuzzFlash Premium! The GOP Chickenhawk Deck of Cards.
Immigration chief uttered epithet against migrants 3/12
House Votes to Increase Indecency Fines. Don't They Have More Important Things To Do? 3/12
The Backgrounder on Tony Raimondo, Bush's "manufacturing czar". It took him six months to find someone, and he still got it wrong. 3/12
About the lone Kerry swift boat crew member who doesn't like Kerry: "his view of Kerry is based on a comparison with three more-experienced skippers; "Kerry was new to combat and thus more tentative." 3/12
Hilarious Comic Relief for the Dark Ages of the Bush Years, The White House Inc. Employee Handbook: A Staffer's Guide to Success, Profit, and Eternal Salvation Inside George W. Bush's Executive Branch by the Writers of WhiteHouse.Org
Sen. McCain Briefly Open to Being Kerry's VP. BuzzFlash is Not Endorsing the idea. We're Just Reporting the News. Anyway McCain's Staff Quickly Decided He Misspoke. 3/11
Poll Finds Growing Support for Gay Civil Unions 3/11
Next Stop for Bush's Shameless, Insulting, Exploitative Use of September 11th is Thursday in Long Island. His Perfect Combo Deal: Raising Money and Using Septermber 11th as the Sole Reason to Vote for Him! 3/11
Capture of Mercenaries in Zimbabwe Appears to Have Been About Oil. So, You Can Safely Say the Bush Cartel Was Involved. Maybe They Were Employees of Halliburton. 3/11
In war without front lines, women GIs caught in chaos 3/11
Hillary Raises the Dangers of Electronic Voting. (Ignore NY Post Headline.) 3/11
Charleston, WV Gazette Editorial Seeks Answers: "If Anyone Can Explain How The Current President’s 1990 [Harken] Stock Sale Differs Materially From Martha Stewart’s 2001 Sale, We’d Like to Hear It" 3/11
We Recommend "Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species," by Laura Flanders
Britain Allows Former Guantanamo Prisoners to Go Free. No Evidence to Detain Them. So Why Was the Bush Cartel Torturing Them at Guantanamo to Begin With, Except For Homeland Political Purposes? A Very Good Question, Indeed? 3/11
It Could be You! U.S. agents take an IMF economist off a plane in handcuffs and hold him for three hours because his name matched one on a watch list. 3/11
Follow the Leader on September 11th 3/11
The Pentagon has asked the U.S. Justice Department to join an inquiry into alleged fuel overcharging by Halliburton Co. according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Thursday. 3/11
"Bush: Soft-Headed on Military Intelligence" by The Angry Liberal
Rep. Waxman: Haliburton's Problems Uncovered by Pentagon Auditors 3/11
Survey Results Show Strong Support for Veterans Health Care and Benefits; Most Americans Say Veterans Issues Will Play Role in Election Decision 3/11
BuzzFlash Premium: "The Bush-Haters Handbook: An A-Z Guide of the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years"
Some 9/11 Questions for Bush 3/11
James Carville, "Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back." Available on BuzzFlash.com. Your Carville Book Purchase is the Way We Pay for the Site. Remember, No Outside Advertising, No Subscription Fees, No Sales of Our E-mail List. We Depend on You.
"FRAUD: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You."
"Disgracing the Fallen" -- Iraq Sketchbook, a tribute to the service and sacrifice of the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Kerry Asking Wealthy to Pay Old Tax Rate 3/11
Joe Conason: 'Bush had friends, but Martha had none' 3/11
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A Betrayal of Democracy: The former National Security Council chief on Latin America says that Bush has created a disaster in Haiti 3/11
"The American people are entitled to know before the election, not after the election, at least the estimated costs ... in dollars ... lives ... length of the occupation," says Senate's Voice Of Reason, Sen. Robert Byrd 3/11
Ashcroft's Gall Bladder -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
Grow Up, George! -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
The Bush Legacy: Record high for US trade deficit 3/11
The new Pentagon papers: A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war. 3/11
Rehnquist "Mulls" Retirement. Can You Take Nino "I Own America" Scalia With You, And Clarence Thomas. That'll Help Clean Up the Stable. 3/11
Were the Mercenaries Detained in Zimbabwe Part of a Bush Cartel Covert Operation? Read and Decide. 3/11
Marie Cocco: Bush owes 9/11 answers, not TV ads 3/11
What John Kerry Should Say About "God, Gays and Guns": A BuzzFlash Editorial
A Question of Character AND Priorities -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
A Bush 911 Ad -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
The Bush Harken Insider Trading Collection -- A BuzzFlash Perspectives Compendium
The Nature of the Threat by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
Indignites Experienced by U.S. Veterans. March 1st Edition.
Indignities Endured by U.S. Military: Exclusively from BuzzFlash. Updated Each Month.
John Kerry's Democratic Convention Speech Exclusively on BuzzFlash.com! Not! But a Speech One of Our Readers Would Like Him to Deliver.
"These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen," Kerry added. "It's scary."
Kerry Calls Bush Slime "Character Attack" Machine for What It Is: "These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen. It's scary." Racicot, One of the Chickenhawk Liars, Gets All Indignant. The Truth Hurts These Guys, It Really Does.
Sidney Blumenthal: Squandering the Trauma of September 11: Having Failed to Create Consensus, Bush is Left With a Negative Campaign 3/11
As the Worm Turns: Stern, "Sully and the Bush Backlash" by BuzzFlash Columnist Maureen Farrell
"Demagoguing to distraction? Not so fast" -- by BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter
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.
U.S. and British Casualty Count. Bush Lied and Our Soldiers Died -- And Continue Dying.
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This Modern World: Where Dubya Really Went in 1972 3/10
Lost in Space: The 2004 Bush Campaign 3/11
Mark Fiore: Today's Growth Industries; "With a Recovery Like This, Who Needs a Recession?" 3/12
Bush-Cheney '04 Proudly Broadcasts "Our Nation's Comforter" - First Television Ad of the General Campaign 3/9
Bush Injures Campaign Supporter In Freak Accident 3/9
These Are Ironic Times 3/9
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