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Nat Hentoff Has His Eye on Our Eroding Freedoms...But Do the Rest of Us? The BuzzFlash Interview.		12/29/04 7:44 AM
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Bush's purge of CIA leadership continues. Refuse to drink the Kool-Aid and you're fired. Biased analysis more important than national security to Bush. Harry Reid throws down the gauntlet to GOP. Try to change filibuster rule, I'll tie Senate in knots. About time the Dems fought back. 12/29 Premium: "The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance" by Nat Hentoff BuzzFlash Will be Expanding our Alternative News Service in 2005. You are the Only People Who Can Help Us Grow. Buy a Progressive Book, DVD or CD, Today. We Fulfill Our Own Orders. Your Place to Read About the GOP Confederacy of Dunces in White House. Fallujah Photos. Not for the weak. George Bush should be forced to look at every photo, every day, for the rest of his life,as he sits behind bars for war crimes. We cannot indepently confirm the captions or origins of the photos. 12/29 Tsunami toll rises to 63,114. Jesus Christ. 12/29 Free Subscription to BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Sign Up Now! 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"You're allowing the original error to be repeated a second time, so it's not a meaningful recount," said Cliff Arnebeck, an attorney representing the voters in the challenge of the election results. 12/29 Iraq: A Silenced Majority -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution from Iraqi-American Artist Stephan Smith December 27th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia Kenneth Blackwell has requested a protective order to prevent him from being interviewed by lawyers as part of a court challenge of the presidential vote. What is he hiding? Yushchenko Calls for Blockade in Ukraine "to prevent his opponent from holding a government session." 12/29 Video of Rumsfeld Saying "Are the people who . . . shot down the plane over Pennsylvania." Curious. 12/29 Bush Expected To Delay Major Tax Overhaul; apparently too busy with Privatizing "Social Security and a budget plan that will demand politically painful cuts to non-defense spending." 12/29 Activists or terrorists? 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