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As the Radical Right Wing Creates Havoc Over the Schiavo Affair, They Let More than a Million Die in Rwanda Without a Wink. Watch this Incredible Film. The One and Only, "Orwell Rolls," a Film About Our Orwellian Media Did Bolton try to intimidate spies? Cheney, brought in to defuse Schiavo political stinkbomb, speaks out against acts of vengeance against judges. Isn't that nice of him. 4/4 DVD: Lewis Black on Broadway. He's Brilliant as the Last Angry Man, With a Pitch-Perfect Sense of Timing. BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! Despite public outcries, it's still too easy to find people's Social Security numbers 4/4 Chalabi aide's drunken and "crazy" cousin told BushCo what they wanted to hear before the Iraq war 4/4 Media Expose Book! "News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News" by Bonnie Anderson. "To understand why journalism too often falls short, and why this failure is costly, read this searing book" Bush's Downhill Social Security Express 4/4 Kuwait lawmakers complain U.S. military, Halliburton subsidiary not cooperating with probe 4/4 "You tell Tony Blair we're going alone!" Britain pulling 5,500 of 9,000 troops from Iraq 'Curveball' Debacle Reignites CIA Feud 4/4 Bush-like bubble surrounded RNC's Ken Mehlman at a campus visit where he claimed "personal accounts" would heal race divisions in America 4/4 New Iraqi speaker is a "moderate" -- meaning he backed the attack on Fallujah and was an American exile. Another Chalabi, which is to say a joke. 4/4 Pope to be Buried on Friday 4/4 A "Culture of Life" Top Ten 4/4 Bush, true to his character, fails to pay a hefty bill 4/4 Don't be the last to know. Subscribe to BuzzFlash Alerts Here. Because Lying is the Original Sin. BuzzFlash is Selling "Weapons of Mass Deception." "WMD is a scathing indictment of how the media colluded with the Bush administration to sell an unjust and unnecessary war." Bush has some explaining to do on his plan to warp Social Security. An investment club in his Texas neighborhood thinks the current system is great. 4/4 The perjury of Lt. Gen. Sanchez 4/4 NYT: Moralists at the pharmacy 4/4 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute Wanting to save their own skins, the Republican Congress may break with Bush over key issues 4/4 Britain will pull 5,500 of its 9,000 troops from Iraq 4/4 It's the NRA or Terrorists with Guns That Shoot Down Landing Planes. Join the Movement. Sign Up Now. U.S. Catholics hope next Pope will embrace birth control and priestly marriage 4/4 Taliban kill 9 4/4 Army still can't make recruiting goals 4/4 Daily look at U.S. deaths in Iraq: 1,535 4/4 "Black" conservatives exposed in The Nation as frontmen for Sean Hannity and worse 4/4 Kyrgyz president says he'll resign Monday 4/4 Did Frist and DeLay break federal law -- and will anyone care? 4/4 Analysis points to one corrupt election 4/4 The papal hypocrisy of Bill O'Reilly 4/4 Record high for oil 4/4 Farmers in North Dakota angry at Bush's subsidies plan 4/4 Will Iraq be Tony Blair's Waterloo? 4/4 NPR: Former senator John Danforth, an Episcopal priest, decries Republican fealty to Christian conservatives 4/4 Pope to lie in state at St. Stephen 4/4 Fragile credibility of Republican Congress faces severe test in next two weeks 4/4 It hasn't yet sunk in how completely the GOP has abandoned Republican values -- if they ever had them 4/4 Arianna Huffington launching new blog Web site, says Variety 4/4 Fourth man indicted in Republican phone sleaze case 4/4 Esquire's true confessions of a 21st century soldier 4/4 Digby: The horse heads of "Don" Tom DeLay, kept in the forefront, will cause damage 4/4 Former CIA director James Woolsey is one of 66 disreputable neocon types throwing support behind U.N.-loather John Bolton 4/4 Ad campaign will deal death blow to Bush's Social Security con 4/4 The future of computing in the hands of a computer-illiterate Supreme Court? 4/4 Evangelical leader tells NYT why his people own the Republican party 4/4 Gov. Mitt Romney's Department of Labor pays director $108,000 to go shopping and fool around 4/4 John Kerry: Federal budget doesn't reflect most Americans' values 4/4 Chalmers Johnson: An alarming foreign policy 4/4 Update on 44 troops wounded in Abu Ghraib prison attack 4/4 Houston Chron's Clay Robison: "Although Tom DeLay portrays a believable Third World dictator, it is time that he stopped trying to transform the United States into his own ideological fiefdom." 4/4 William Greider: Pro-death policies 4/4 Jon Stewart: We'll never leave the freedom of Comedy Central 4/4		Bomb blasts in southern Thailand 4/4 Tom DeLay's constituents souring on him 4/4 U.S. facing punitive duties from the EU and Canada for Byrd Amendment 4/4 Poetic justice for Rowland 4/4 Taser shocking deaths raise questions 4/4 Bill Maher: So Abstinence-Only pledges lead to kinky sex? Where was Bush when I was in high school? 4/4 Bush's Social Security plan will turn over the management of trillions to unqualified investors: The American public 4/4 Dowd: Curveball the Goofball 4/4 Qaeda claims responsibility for Iraq prison attack 4/4 C-SPAN's dubious treatment of a Holocaust denier 4/4 DeLay fires up GOP troops for counterattack 4/4 Scheer: Bush is Pakistan's Pal 4/4 Congress is generous with pensions -- its own 4/4 Whistleblowers charge that NYC trash bins, supposedly terror-proof, are deadly, and that the makers fudged test results 4/4 Omar Jabara: The vast wasteland of TV news 4/4 Another unethical Republican, Habay, faces criminal charges 4/4 Bush's stance on mercury pollution: Don't eat the fish. 4/4 Gil Smart: GOP's theological certitude and threats will finally drive off moderates 4/4 The management of public opinion 4/4 Sunni Arab Elected Iraq Parliament Speaker 4/3 Rebels Wound 44 U.S. Troops in Attack on Abu Ghraib Prison 4/3 Bush Won't Get His "Save Malpractice Doctors from Being Held Accountable" Bill This Year 4/3 Few See Gains From Bushevik Social Security Tour 4/3 Panel: U.S. ignored the work of U.N. arms inspectors in frenzy for Iraq war. But you knew that already. It just isn't PC to point out that BushCo ignored all rational evidence on the ground. 4/3 Diverse coalition of Montana lawmakers unite to oppose the Patriot Act 4/3 Guessing Game Begins on Pope's Successor 4/3 Bush appeases terror, part II: It seemed bizarre when Daniel Pearl's killers demanded F-16s for Pakistan. Until Bush agreed to give them. See these links for stories of this demand. 4/3 Souring on DeLay in Sugarland, His Hometown 4/3 A Wicked Curveball 4/3 Now DeLay wants a special review of the courts' role in the Schiavo case. Everything he knows about checks and balances he learned from the back of a Wheaties box. 4/3 Green light for Iraq prison brutality came from the top. Where is the outrage? William O'Rourke: Bush wants to make Iraq an orgiastic free-market paradise 4/3 Tell Friends About BuzzFlash.com! Spread the Word! We've Made It Easy to Let Others Know About the News and Commentary Site that Reflects Truth, Justice and the American Way. WaPo reports another Bush plan may be floundering: the one to stop people from suing bad doctors. The dwindling political capital of an unpopular president. 4/3 Asia "will retaliate" over Wolfowitz 4/3 Feingold builds visibility with PAC 4/3 "You tell your story, figure out your message and get people to identify with it." Mr. Ailes described how Fox adopted the line, "America's most powerful brand in news." When a rival contested the phrase, he responded, "It's a marketing slogan!" 4/3 Watch Out for the Supreme Court and the Environment 4/3 Vitriol and hysteria engulf Republicans, as an Australian correspondent watches in wonder 4/3 David Broder:The Heat is on the GOP 4/3 Daily intelligence briefings are vague, officials say. "Bin Laden determined to attack U.S." just too fuzzy and out-there for them. 3/4 Plucky Social Security activists protest Bush's dog food future 4/3 Seal Hunters Fire Shots to Drive Off Protesters 4/3 Rummy backpedaling from "Blame Turkey" comments 4/3 Democratic Superiority by the Numbers 4/3 Postcards: Bush Lied and Soldiers Died. Unfortunately, They are Back, Because Our Deaths in Iraq Have Only Gotten Worse. Yes, You can sign up for monthly donations to BuzzFlash! Syria will give timetable for Lebanon 4/3 Education official dies in Iraq as Al-Sadr calls for protests 4/3 BuzzFlash Expands: Introducing Our First Official Affiliate Site, "The BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week!" This Week's "Honoree" is Chronic and Brazen Hypocrite, Rick "Man/Dog Sex" Santorum Canada to put trade surtax on U.S. goods 4/3 Turns out an American citizen has been held without charges in Iraq for a year. Your secret tax dollars at work in the Bushevik Revolution. 4/3 Iran claims witness in journalist death is imposter 4/3 "Minute Men" border extremists protest, say Bush has let them down 4/3 Fierce debate over Cold War nukes 4/3 Baghdad Burning Blog on American Television News: "All the reportages are upbeat and somewhat cheerful, and the anchor person manages to look properly concerned and completely uncaring all at once." 4/3 Kyrgyzstan's Shining Hour Ticks Away and Turns Out to Be a Plain, Old Coup. How Do You Spell Bushevik "C.I.A."? The Forward on inequities in the "Culture Of Life" 4/3 Judith Miller's new WMD problem 4/3 Michael Harris: Mr. President, when Pat Buchanan calls you a radical...you're a barking extremist 4/3 Cheney throws DeLay under figurative bus 4/3 Bush vows to fix intelligence flaws. He'll try to be more slippery next time he invents a pretext for war. 4/3 Name-calling is dangerous, not helpful in North Korea talks, says former ambassador 4/3 Ray McGovern: Honest intelligence needed 4/3 TomDispatch: If you build it, they will...kill 4/3		Meet Fox's newest "fair and balanced" reporter 4/3 Murder-suicide for family of Guard slain in Iraq 4/3 Bush calls Pope "champion of human dignity," despite W.'s unfitness to comment on either the Vatican or dignity 4/3 Mugabe wins crucial vote 4/3 Corn: WMD investigation continues to stonewall 4/3 Chris Floyd: Operation Infinite Injustice 4/3 William Lind on Lebanon baloney: U.S., you will recall, welcomed Syria's invasion of Lebanon 4/3 Berkowitz: Drifting towards theocracy 4/3 Ira Chernus: Culture of life? Nah. Culture of fear. 4/3 Geov Parrish: The misguided FCC crackdown on free speech is likely to intensify 4/3 Robert Parry: True reform would require sacking Washington's media and political elites 4/3 U.S. troops may have beaten Iraqi general to death. 4/3 Guardian: Gates of hell are open in Iraq 4/3 Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell called on senators Saturday to reject a Republican plan to ban filibusters of judicial nominees, calling it "unprecedented, unfair and unwise." 4/3 CIA directors rebut Bush scapegoating for WMD lies 4/3 Fighting Republican policies of debt slavery 4/3 Sen. Bob Graham asks why "with us or against us" Bush is appeasing Hizbollah 4/3 NYT accidentally runs rough draft of Pope story ("Need some quote from a supporter here") 4/3 Mugabe: My landslide victory has sent a message to Blair 4/3 What happened today in Iraq: The "Bring It On" update 4/3 Sister Joan Chittister: In the name of freedom and goodness, thought suppression is in the air 4/3 Dean blasts Santorum at Philadelphia fund-raiser 4/3 U.S. torture mercs win shorter sentence for freelance Abu Ghraibing in Afghanistan 4/3 GOP caught trying to shore up phony "voting rights" group. Do you see any shame in the vicinity of these people? We don't. 4/3 National Press Club does 180, agrees to invite bloggers to witness spectacle of the amazing White House Presstitute in action 4/3 Kurt Nimmo: 100,000 murdered Iraqis, a "model for how democracy can take hold" 4/3 Bush is bypassing the Senate, so intent is he on closing America's military bases. 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Will it be the straw that breaks Bush's illusion of being in touch with mainstream Americans? 4/3 Miami-Dade voting chief quits over ballot box problems 4/3 Don Russo: Erosion of hard news hurts the nation 4/3 The sentence the NYT left out of a story reveals that the intelligence panel wasn't authorized to do its own job 4/3 NYT's article on intelligence panel left out a key admission: That the commissioners weren't allowed to investigate "how policymakers The Republican Party: In contempt of courts 4/3 America Has Changed Since I Was a Boy: The Blackened Soul of America Suffers from Conservatism's Complete Corruption of Our Ideals of Moral Behavior -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. The Politics of Luck -- and a Long Sad Goodbye, Episode 32.1 of the Last Chance Democracy Cafe by Steven C. Day Will Bush Face the Warlord Option? 4/3 Hallibacon: Cheney's Trough Coffin -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution from One Citizen Experience Shades Thinking: Conservative's Hypocritical "Intrinsic Value of Life" -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution Sign Up Your Opposition to .50 Caliber Sniper Guns Sold to Terrorist Suspects. The NRA Says Nothing Wrong with a Terrorist Suspect Buying a Gun that Can Shoot Down a Plane Landing or Taking Off. Tell the NRA You Want a Safe Flight. "The coverage of the Schiavo tragedy is just the latest example of how conservatives have established a permanent media infrastructure that lets them push a button to start a public furor over virtually any issue of their choosing." NYT Bestseller List: "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," by Jared Diamond Ronny Elliott's "Valentine Roadkill" -- New CD Review in Blue State Jukebox by Tony Peyser EU Mulls Nuclear Compromise with Iran; and more in the April 1st World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia With Recruitment Slumping Further, Army Appeals To Patriotism Of Parents -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser Held Over: Seymour Hersh: Bush is "Unreachable . . . He's got his own world. This is really unusual and frankly, it scares the hell out of me." -- A special contribution from BuzzFlash columnist Gloria Lalumia It's All Fun and War Games for the Unaccountable Bush, A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution Mr. Johnnie -- A BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Tony Peyser DVD: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition); "It's one of the greatest - and undoubtedly the most hilarious - antiwar statements ever put to film." 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