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GOP Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) says violence against judges is understandable. He should resign forthwith. The GOP Now Officially Condones Violence. He's a Rove/Bush Texas Protege, Cornyn is. He's Their Boy. He Should Go! BuzzFlash Needs Your Support to Expand Its Services. Do it Now. Click Here. Gonzales to Defend "Violation of Our Constitutional Rights" Act. What Did You Expect? (AKA, Cynically Packaged as "The Patriot Act," When It is Really the "UnPatriot Act" 4/5 Outfoxed (The Book): Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. "An obsessively researched exposé... an unwavering argument against Fox News." 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. 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) Free Subscription to BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Sign Up Now! An Iraqi general working for the country's Interior Ministry was kidnapped Tuesday morning in the al-Mansur neighborhood of Baghdad. 1540 GIs Now Killed in Iraq War. 4/5 10 reasons not to like apparent Matthew Hale sympathizer Sen. John Cornyn 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 Oil prices soar above 58 dollars for first time: Bush/Cheney "Mission Accomplished" Paul Krugman: An Academic Question 4/5 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. Social Security protesters in Illinois target Hastert's office. Hastert was hiding behind the sneeze guard of an all-you-can-eat buffet. 4/5 The Texas Smith Brothers (Satire) 4/5 The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. "The RESPECT Gap"; How do the Democrats fix this problem? By NOT caving in to Bush and the GOP on core issues. 4/5 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! 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 One and Only, "Orwell Rolls," a Film About Our Orwellian Media Al Gore launches TV channel for young viewers with more participatory format 4/5 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. Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute 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 US Taxpayers Give Lion's Share To Military 4/5 Ronny Elliott's "Valentine Roadkill" -- New CD Review in Blue State Jukebox by Tony Peyser The Bush administration's Afghan spring: drugs, bases and jails 4/5 On Friday, the day of the Pope's funeral, high-priced male escort "Jeff Gannon" will be on a panel on journalism at the National Press Club. It shows you the standards of the National Press Club, doesn't it? 4/5 Hannity on Pope: "Wild-Eyed Liberal Loon" 4/5 Don't be the last to know. Subscribe to BuzzFlash Alerts Here. An image of the culture of life Bush and the neocons are building in Iraq 4/5 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." Children who watch TV more likely to bully. The White House staff and Pentagon civilians must have been a bunch of latchkey kids. 4/5 Ad campaign to rip Bush on Social Security 4/5 Iraq north pipeline hit, oil exports at standstill 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 It's called a "Draft." Support grows for beefing up U.S. forces; Some see situations where volunteers may not be enough. 4/5 Pope's funeral poses logistical challenge for media. Apparently ABC has scored the best camera angle for the event. 4/5 How Germans Fell for the 'Feel-Good' Fuehrer 4/5 The Politics of Luck -- and a Long Sad Goodbye, Episode 32.1 of the Last Chance Democracy Cafe by Steven C. Day The Law of the Land -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser Russian Report on 1980 'October Surprise' Case 4/5 Young teens learn from the White House that blow jobs are safer. That's the Bush White House, mind you. 4/5 Bush denounced for Social Security analogy 4/5 Homo-bigot South Carolina Senator gets a slap down by a House Blender 4/5 Stop the Arctic Refuge Land Grab. 4/5 Tomgram: Nick Turse on U.S. military weaponry of the near future 4/5 Caution: foul language, courtesy of the good Christian, Sean Hannity 4/5 Vandals desecrate Rabin's grave 4/5 Another Marine Killed in Iraq. This War Sponsored by Hallliburton and Its Texas Oily Corporate Buddies. 4/5 Aide: Giuliani can’t do senate or governor run next year 4/5 GAO Report (criticizing bloated Pentagon weapons programs) Smoothed Over, Another Ignored 5/4 Soldier disabled by anthrax vaccine is recalled to serve 4/5 DeLay is Finding Out that People Just Don't Like Snakes, Even in His Home District The Republicans' phony investigation of Henry Cisneros has cost taxpayers $21 million, rivaling the cost of real scandals like Iran-Contra. 4/5 NYT Bestseller List: "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," by Jared Diamond Dear America, It's Time for Change -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution Postcards: Bush Lied and Soldiers Died. Unfortunately, They are Back, Because Our Deaths in Iraq Have Only Gotten Worse. Mr. Johnnie -- A BuzzFlash Editorial Cartoon by Tony Peyser The Limbaugh Code: The New York Times best seller no one is talking about, except the black helicopter GOP loons: "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America" 4/5 Shame on Charles Schwab -- Don't Pick Our Pockets to Line Yours 4/5 The Endgame -- Has Iraq's Insurgency Run Out of Steam?; and more in the April 4th World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia Bush pal and fascist sympathizer Berlusconi "massacred" in regional elections 4/5 Pope's final message calls for a more accurate media. He was sick of Berlusconi, the Rupert Murdoch of Europe. 4/5 Bush's solution to mercury poisoning: don't eat tuna 4/5		Bush says US to bear burden of costs in Iraq, insinuating that "the coalition" will eventually be non-existent 4/5 DVD: Lewis Black on Broadway. He's Brilliant as the Last Angry Man, With a Pitch-Perfect Sense of Timing. Judith Miller's UN Reporting; "Given the consequences of Miller's shilling for Bush Administration," why should we trust her now? 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 A dope smoking skater turned soldier in Iraq tells all 4/5 The Right Wing Smear Campaign Against the U.N. The Pope Opposed the Iraq War 4/5 Biblical prophecies lead an evangelical American to drill for oil in Northern Israel. Someone should drill for holes in his head. 4/5 Democrats hit road in Social Security battle 4/5 Student protest stops CIA recruiting event at New York University. Maybe those feisty liberal student activists don't want to allow their peers to become scapegoats for Bush and Cheney's ineptitude. 4/5 A contrarian view of the pope, by a former Catholic priest 4/5 Cheney, brought in to defuse Schiavo political stinkbomb, speaks out against acts of vengeance against judges. Isn't that nice of him. 4/4 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 It's the Oil Stupid -- and the Profiteering! Crude Futures Near Record-High Levels. Bush and Cheney Got What They Wanted. Will San Francisco regulate blogging? 4/5 Top Iraq rebels elude intensified US raids. Freedom must be on the march. 4/5 "It now appears that longstanding rules of government are worth preserving only to the extent that they fit the ruling party's agenda." 4/5 Molly Ivins: Oil-for-food is small potatoes 4/5 Iraq, summed up in an image 4/5 A new breed of leadership is working to make Buenos Aires, Argentina, a local, transparent economy and a model for the rest of the world 4/5 The GOP's war on local control 4/5 Churches council backs bill protecting gays 4/5 The filibuster: good for Iraq, but not America? 4/5 Foes to razz Schwarzenegger as he's putting on the Ritz 4/5 Alaska slashes money for public TV 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 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 Courtesy of NCLB, A Lucrative Brand of Tutoring Grows Unchecked 4/5 Blogging, Money and Elections 4/5 Al Qaeda Says 7 Suicide Bombers Struck Abu Ghraib, Wounding 44 U.S. soldiers 4/4 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 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 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 Fourth man indicted in Republican phone-jamming scheme 4/4		Tom DeLay, Ethically Challenged and a Clear and Present Danger to Our Constitution and Democracy 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 Achilles Heal? 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 Yes, You can sign up for monthly donations to BuzzFlash! 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 Hallibacon: Cheney's Trough Coffin -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution from One Citizen Did Bolton try to intimidate spies? Experience Shades Thinking: Conservative's Hypocritical "Intrinsic Value of Life" -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution 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 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 The Persistent Vegetative Stattes of America 4/5 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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