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BuzzFlash Needs Your Support to Expand Its Services. Do it Now. Click Here. Yes, You Can Sign Up to Automatically Support BuzzFlash Monthly. (See Bottom of Premium Page.) We Accept No Advertising, Don't Charge a Subscription and Don't Charge for Our E-mail Alerts. Invest in Democracy. (Not Tax-Deductible) Outfoxed (The Book): Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. "An obsessively researched exposé... an unwavering argument against Fox News." Free Subscription to BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Sign Up Now! Tom DeLay, Ethically Challenged and a Clear and Present Danger to Our Constitution and Democracy 4/4 Bid on Tickets to Margaret Cho's Late Night D.C. Concert on May 14th and Support BuzzFlash.com! We Guarantee Bush Won't be There. This is an Auction Item, With Bidding Ending on April 8th. Only 10 Prime Seats Available. The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. Fourth man indicted in Republican phone-jamming scheme 4/4 The Pope Opposed the Iraq War 4/5 Advance Orders for "Hotel Rwanda" DVD Right Here, And Help Support BuzzFlash.com. 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 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute DVD: Lewis Black on Broadway. He's Brilliant as the Last Angry Man, With a Pitch-Perfect Sense of Timing. It's the Oil Stupid -- and the Profiteering! Crude Futures Near Record-High Levels. Bush and Cheney Got What They Wanted. The Law of the Land -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser Dear America, It's Time for Change -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution The Endgame -- Has Iraq's Insurgency Run Out of Steam?; and more in the April 4th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia Judith Miller's UN Reporting; "Given the consequences of Miller's shilling for Bush Administration," why should we trust her now? 4/5 Bush's "4 Parents" Is 4 Ignorance; the website "relies on fear to motivate and contains many errors and biases that undermine its intent of encouraging parent-child communication around sex and sexuality." 4/5 Vandals desecrate Rabin's grave 4/5 Aide: Giuliani can’t do senate or governor run next year 4/5 Soldier disabled by anthrax vaccine is recalled to serve 4/5 GAO Report (criticizing bloated Pentagon weapons programs) Smoothed Over, Another Ignored 5/4 Foes to razz Schwarzenegger as he's putting on the Ritz 4/5 Two U-S service members killed in Iraq 4/5 Judge blocks northern timber sales; Ruling requires review of bird habitat 4/5 Sharon braces for showdown with settlers 4/5 Bush to Lead U.S. Delegation to Pope's Funeral. International Embarrassment to Follow His Lead. 4/5 Cynthia Tucker: Religious extremists seek their own 'activist' judges 4/5 Bush: U.S. to Bear Burden of Iraq Costs 4/5 ACLU: Urge Congress to Fix Flaws in the Patriot Act 4/5 Dancing with the Wolf; What did Wolfowitz know with regard to Halliburton's inside advantage in gaining Iraq contracts, and when did he know it? 4/5 MoveOn Alert: $82 Billion More for Iraq; "Congress must insist that America have an exit strategy from Iraq with a timeline, that we do not construct permanent bases and that we end war profiteering by corporations." 4/5 Net Aids Access to Sensitive ID Data; Social Security Numbers Are Widely Available 4/5 More sickness in Freeperland over Indiana Planned Parenthood fires 4/5 Africa spurns female circumcision; A program in Senegal, which has led 1,527 villages to stop circumcising girls, is becoming a regional model. 4/5 "The RESPECT Gap"; How do the Democrats fix this problem? By NOT caving in to Bush and the GOP on core issues. 4/5 IRS will risk using private collectors; Bill "allows the IRS to share confidential taxpayer information with third parties whose own computer security systems may not be as stringent as the federal government's." 4/5 How Germans Fell for the 'Feel-Good' Fuehrer 4/5 DLC Still Pushing the Losing Position of Republican-Lite; "I can't tell the difference between the positions the DLC puts forward and Republican policy" 4/5 Hannity on Pope: "Wild-Eyed Liberal Loon" 4/5 Homo-bigot South Carolina Senator gets a slap down by a House Blender 4/5 It's called a "Draft." Support grows for beefing up U.S. forces; Some see situations where volunteers may not be enough. 4/5 Courtesy of NCLB, A Lucrative Brand of Tutoring Grows Unchecked 4/5 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 US Taxpayers Give Lion's Share To Military 4/5 Blogging, Money and Elections 4/5 Stop the Arctic Refuge Land Grab. 4/5 Tomgram: Nick Turse on U.S. military weaponry of the near future 4/5 The Limbaugh Code: The New York Times best seller no one is talking about: "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America" 4/5 Al Qaeda Says 7 Suicide Bombers Struck Abu Ghraib, Wounding 44 U.S. soldiers 4/4 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 PM Carpenter: The Anarchy of Losers 4/4 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." 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" GOP Sen. Burns Gets Earful of Angry Responses from Constituents about Bush's Social Security Privatization Plan 4/5 Bush's Downhill Social Security Express 4/4 Kuwait lawmakers complain U.S. military, Halliburton subsidiary not cooperating with probe 4/4 'Curveball' Debacle Reignites CIA Feud 4/4 "You tell Tony Blair we're going alone!" Britain pulling 5,500 of 9,000 troops from Iraq		Joe Conason: It's all the CIA's fault; What a surprise -- Bush's Iraq commission absolves his administration of rushing to war on false pretenses that Saddam Hussein had WMD. 4/5 Shame on Charles Schwab -- Don't Pick Our Pockets to Line Yours 4/5 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 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 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 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 William Lind on Lebanon baloney: U.S., you will recall, welcomed Syria's invasion of Lebanon 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 Politics of Luck -- and a Long Sad Goodbye, Episode 32.1 of the Last Chance Democracy Cafe by Steven C. Day 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 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 Ms. Rice, You've Inspired the "Sophisticated-Weapons/Precarious Relationship Solution Bill!" -- Letters from Ethan Are the Ditto Heads Imploding? -- BuzzFlash Columnist P.M. Carpenter Where's Terri -- A BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Steve Bradenton THE LIGHTER SIDE: Tom DeLay Leads This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 4/4 Pickles and the Preacher Man 4/4 Karl Rove's "The Birds" 4/4 The Field Guide to Magnetic Ribbons 4/5 These are Ironic Times 4/4

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