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Now in: Get "Hotel Rwanda" DVD, And Help Support BuzzFlash.com. World Let More than a Million Die in Rwanda Without a Wink. "Culture of Life" Doesn't Include Africans, Apparently. Watch this Incredible Film. "The Corporation" DVD Gets Four Stars From BuzzFlash. Buy It From Us And You Support the Site. Is a Corporation a Person? Find Out. Free Subscription to BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Sign Up Now! "Sideways" DVD: If you want a contemporary comedy that never ceases to surprise, with four extraordinarily engaging characters, along with lush cinematography, then you'll love this "road trip" film come of age. The Bush Legacy to the American Worker: Inflation has outpaced the rise in salaries for the first time in 14 years. And workers are paying a bigger share of the cost of their healthcare. 4/11 After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order -- Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Democratic "leaders are increasingly making the case that in 2005, it is Congressional Republicans who are drunk with power, overreaching on issues like Social Security and judicial nominations, ethically challenged, and profoundly out of touch" 4/11 Iraq's new president, Jalal Talabani, said U.S. forces could leave in two years, the time it will take to rebuild security forces and defeat the insurgency. Sure, Gotch You. 4/11 Harry Reid stands tough in the great American filibuster face-off 4/11 John Kerry wants you to help end trickery and intimidation in the American voting process. Better late than never. 4/11 Why are the Dems silent on Bush's infamously fraudulent "town hall" meetings? 4/11 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! Senior GOP advisor called a hypocrite after gay wedding 4/11 Military spending bill is ripe for the stuffing 4/11 Bolton, a Jesse Helms Protege, Wants to be Ambassador to the U.N. to Undercut It and Close It Down, If Possible. Just Another Cynical, Dark Humor Bush Appointment That Can Lead to World Tragedy. 4/11 Inquiries of Top Lobbyist Shine Unwelcome Light in Congress. DeLay May Just be the Tip of the Iceberg. 4/11 Rolling Stone: Here come the Dominionists 4/11 GOP chair Mehlman, a boss in a party that demagogues against gays for cheap votes, refuses to answer questions about his sexuality 4/11 Springtime is Here so It's Time to Play Ball! -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution from One Citizen TomDispatch: Blood, oil and Iran 4/11 Data Show African Americans, Hispanics Pay More to Borrow for Home, Refinance 4/11 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute To hide maimed troops, U.S. flies them home under cover of darkness, UK Independent reports The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers. Krugman: Ailing health care 4/11 Arnold on the Ropes. Reality Catches Up to the Gropinator. 4/11 Obama's online pitch gives Byrd's campaign a big boost 4/11 More Tantalizing Indicators that the Busheviks are Abandoning DeLay in the Face of Mounting Signs of Illegal and Unethical Activity. He's Become a Liability to the White House. Rove Knows When to Toss a "Made Man" to the Sharks. Oh, Yeah, Does Bush Remember North Korea? 4/11 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." Democratic Underground unveils list of Top Ten Conservative Idiots 4/11 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. Outfoxed (The Book): Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. "An obsessively researched exposé... an unwavering argument against Fox News." Postcards: Bush Lied and Soldiers Died. Unfortunately, They are Back, Because Our Deaths in Iraq Have Only Gotten Worse. Buchenwald horror revisited 60 years after liberation 4/11 Sign Up to Receive Gun Guy E-mails Five Days a Week! And It's Free, Such a Deal. New Iraqi president calls for amnesty for insurgents 4/11 Now Rick Santorum has joined the shipmen hoisting Tom DeLay overboard 4/11 Top U.S. scientists call for end to missile defense spending 4/11 U.S. turns away Mexican-bound Dutch plane because of mysterious, undesirable passengers aboard 4/11 What will 56 million Americans have in common by 2013? 4/11 Don't be the last to know. Subscribe to BuzzFlash Alerts Here. Phill Kline is Kansas's theocratic attorney general 4/11 Toledo Blade: Now that he's made his asinine comments about the SS trust fund, what's next: a press conference about the worthlessness of paper money? 4/11 Fire and rage in the shadow of Abu Ghraib 4/11 Charles Geyh: Enough is enough. It's time for moderates to demand Congress stops using judges as chess pieces. 4/11 Strong objections raised against bully Bolton 4/11 America's broken election system: Get over it, says mainstream press 4/11 Rockeymoore: The plot to destroy social insurance as a whole 4/11 Not such a popular investment these days: The Tom DeLay defense fund 4/11 Group of the rich say "no thanks" to Bush tax cuts 4/11 Unintended Schiavo side effect: Questioning the death penalty? 4/11 Report all teen sex as abuse? Kansas's attorney general believes this is a sensible idea, though it hinders tracking of real abuse. 4/11 Schwarzenegger in full-throated girlyman retreat as realization sets in that public hates his agenda, loved "Commando" 4/11 NYT op-ed page presents a wonk's guide to revising the Patriot Act 4/11 The real complexities of life and choice 4/11 Lizz Winstead's recommendation for a new and popular CBS News: Cover the mendacity of other networks 4/11 Second day of anti-Japan protests rock China 4/11 Truck drivers scrounge for armor in Iraq as Rumsfeld holds onto his job 4/11 Col. Hackworth keeping heat on Navy officials with Web site's expose of incompetence coverup 4/11 He claimed Republicans hired him to write vote-stealing software. And now he's passed a polygraph test, reports BradBlog. 4/11 Congresswoman asking for end to "don't ask, don't tell" 4/11 Absolutely unbelievable footage of Jeff Gannon asking, what's wrong with just repeating what the president says? 4/11 U.S. blocks debt relief plan for beating poverty 4/11 Coke fiend physicians given breaks as medical boards let drug habits slide, WaPo investigation discovers, unearthing more proof that malpractice laws are just fine the way they are, thanks 4/11		The currency of access in Washington 4/11 People For the American Way has asked Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) to withdraw his sponsorship of a Capitol tour for Senators and their spouses led by a right-wing advocate for judicial intimidation and impeachment. Extending hospitality to U.S. forces despite hostility in the streets, new Iraqi president proclaims: Stay another two years, I insist 4/11 Disreputable immigration-loathers are back with another grab for control of the Sierra Club 4/11 DeLay's hot water churning towards the boiling point, Newsweek reports after chat with lobbyist 4/11 Scuzzy USA Next, which lowered itself to using gay-phobia to attack AARP, is profiled in Chicago Tribune 4/11 Seniors slam Bush's Social Security con 4/11 Christian nation? "My own mind is my own church," said Tom Paine, rejecting organized religion. Why do fundamentalists hate America? 4/11 A big hand, please, for the completely legitimate and not-at-all-ineffectual new Iraqi Prime Minister -- uh, what was your name again? Swearing-in bloopers. 4/11 Sweeping the WMD investigation under the rug 4/11 Bill Maxwell: Black churches' bad tradeoffs 4/11 Texas Republican Ron Paul blasts war as ends-define-the-means blunder that left the Iraqi people worse 4/11 Daschle, Thune and the blog-storming of South Dakota 4/11 Springtime for military contractors as Lockheed sells deadly air weapons to Pakistan, India. Come on down! 4/11 Bush praises Pope for standing up to tyrants, not catching on to the fact that they included him too 4/11 Mystery over Afghan black box 4/11 Eric Margolis: Bush rewards his failures 4/11 Bush's stealth tax raise will ensnare tens of millions of moderate-income families 4/11 Turkish loathing for U.S. is formidable 4/11 Now a Pakistan embassy official has been seized in Iraq 4/11 TV news buries Iraqi civilian deaths Yet another Social Security putsch set for next month, in new clothes. Watch for W. popularity numbers in the 30s. 4/11 Decreasingly popular Bush tries to babble his way out of bad numbers: "You can pretty much find out what you want in polls, is my point." 4/11 New quake near Sumatra 4/11 Sharon heading for a meeting with Bush 4/11 Republican Shays jumps ship and calls DeLay an "embarrassment." 4/11 Bush admin blows $2.2 million of your money on campaign to leave you with less Social Security money 4/11 Israeli ultranationalists less of a hassle than expected 4/11 The murder of an American war widow 4/11 Where Saddam's statue fell, tens of thousands protest U.S. presence Frank Rich: Culture of death Iraqi lives two years after Saddam: "The Americans brought the terrorists here." 4/10 Bush Hails Pope's Stand Against Communism. Sorry, George, Wrong Decade. This Decade, the Pope Was Vehemently Against the Iraq Invasion and Capital Punishment. Are You Listening, George? Of Course Not, You're a Little Eddie Haskel! 4/10 Haitian cops kill rebel leader who overthrew Aristide 4/10 Bush admin wants access to int'l banking records 4/10 John Cornyn is Our Latest BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week On Our New Site! Stalin-quoting crackpots seize control of GOP asylum. "Death solves all problems - no man, no problem." 4/10 Millions of taxpayer dollars wasted on Iraq's poorly-maintained water and sewage plants 4/10 Aggressive media game plan launched to save corrupt, besieged DeLay 4/10 Lobbyists: the $13 billion, fourth branch of our corrupt government 4/10 DeLay delusional: We fear meddling GOP, not judges 4/10 Reading the Constitution, A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution 4/10 Reid: GOP wants to turn Congress into a mere rubber stamp for the president 4/10 D.C.'s terror defense worst in the nation 4/10 Victims' advocate to protest ousted cardinal's role in services 4/10 Questioning Iraq media killings 4/10 I.R.S. to Close Walk-In Centers as Agency Faces Tighter Budget 4/10 Remembering Afghanistan 4/10 Killing of teens shatters Mideast calm 4/10 Meet new Bush speechwriter Bill McGurn, sure to be a name affixed to useless, bestselling sentimental twaddle for years to come 4/10 Add Your Name to People Saying No to Terrorists Buying 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles, Courtesy of the NRA. Two Women Bound by Sports, War and War Injuries 4/10 NYT Bestseller List: "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," by Jared Diamond BuzzFlash Needs Your Support to Expand Its Services. Do it Now. Click Here. GOP chief's feeble plea for African-American support 4/10 Pulitzer shortage in Iraq 4/10 Border town sees passport requirement as unhappy development 4/10 Bush can't stop appeasing Christian Right talking points, calls Pope a proponent of "Culture Of Life" (not addressing, of course, the Pope's opposition to the Culture Of Bombing Iraq For No Immediately Apparent Reason) 4/10 Top nurse: Schwarzenegger's "reforms" are an attack on fundamental values 4/10 In one of the most corrupt countries in the world, the Iraq PM has promised "clean" government 4/10 Eric Alterman: "Case Closed" -- the WMD fiasco 4/10 Republican Congress is starving the civil rights agency so it can't do its work 4/10 Convicted sex offenders want to shrink government, too 4/10 Marines don't want to re-enlist 4/10 KKK auction canceled over recruitment fliers. Don't believe anyone who tells you racism is dead. 4/10		Unearthed footage captures Hitler nightmare in full color 4/10 Unanswered questions: Who forged the Niger docs? A former counterrorism chief says they were forged right here in the U.S. 4/10 Little military tribunal Napoleon blubbers: "I don't care about international law. I don't want to hear the words 'international law' again" in newly emerged, un-American Gitmo horrors. None dare call it treason. 4/10 Sudan's Darfur is today's version of Rwanda: human tragedy that is woefully undercovered despite its vast scale 4/10 Far-right leader Le Pen calls for rejecting EU constitution. Something tells us he'd get along well with G.W.B. 4/10 29 killed on the second anniversary of Saddam's fall while Iraqis burn U.S. flags and protest occupation 4/10 Peers outraged as popular Harlem girl, 16, is arrested as terrorist threat 4/10 Clinton plans two year term as U.N. envoy 4/10 G.O.P. Attack Dog Consultant Who Aided the Rise of Jesse Helms and Al D'Amato Marries His Male Partner. "Mr. Finkelstein has frequently come under criticism by gay rights groups for representing politicians who have been ardent foes of gay rights." A million voices for a fair and independent judiciary, as People For American Way delivers petition to Capitol Hill 4/10 Shiite Iraqis not greeting U.S. with flowers, so much as calls for death to American "Satan" 4/10 DeLay ally literally quotes Stalin ("No man, no problem") in calling for violent overthrow of judges. And some think our use of "Bushevik" hyperbolic. 4/10 How Republicans blamed the Democrats for their own cynical memo exploiting a brain-damaged woman 4/10 Florida Sen. Martinez, denying responsibility for Schiavo memo, has done more buck-passing in his lifetime than that basketball team from Milwaukee 4/10 Black Commentator: Race hatred and war crimes revealed in the military 4/10 The legal society that could wreck the William Pryor nomination preaches extreme doctrine: that perfectly normal law school education, despite cranking out plenty of corporate lawyers, is too liberal for them 4/10 L.A. Times could lose $20 million from General Motors ad yank. Write them and thank them for not caving in. 4/10 Islamic Jihad says truce is still on 4/10 Raving Republican anarchists want to impeach judges for banning under-18 electric chair. Hey, didn't activist judges choose the president? Just asking. 4/10 Moonie Times asserts that Bush is counting on comparing himself favorably to Bill Clinton in the foreign policy department 4/10 A brief photographic history of "toppling" in Iraq: Then and now 4/10 Gaza violence jeopardizes truce 4/10 Immigrant deportation rights: the civil rights issue of our time 4/10 Chinese protests besiege Japanese embassy over revisionist WW2 history 4/10 EPA decides against testing pesticides on children to "fill data gaps" 4/10 Schiavo case unloosed Pandora's Box of extremists to ravage GOP unity 4/10 Overextended Guardsman loses fight to escape "backdoor draft" 4/10 Sen. Jim Jeffords, recovering ex-Republican, on the war: â€œI think it was all done to get oil...And the loss of life that we had, and the cost of it, was to me just a re-election move." 4/10 "Liberal" NYT resurrects Reagan-era distortions of Ortega and the Sandinistas 4/10 Digby: What's wrong with Joe Klein's head, that he wants us to pay "careful consideration" to what DeLay is saying about judges? 4/10 Did you know: Saddam offered surrender before the war. We could have achieved regime change without the cost in lives and stability 4/10 Scientists won't testify in Yucca scandal 4/10 NYT names the worst W. nominee ever 4/10 Wal-Mart's union-busting payments may have broken law 4/10 Reporting the news is now a "threat to coalition forces" 4/10 The irony: We need more judicial checks on PATRIOT power 4/10 U.S. military death toll climbs to 1,545 4/10 Losing Our Heads Over the Brain-Dead: A Psycho-Cultural Post-Mortem on the Terri Schiavo Case -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution from Stephen J. Ducat, author of The Wimp Factor Yes, You can sign up for monthly donations to BuzzFlash! 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(Not Tax-Deductible) Hunger-Based Lines Lengthen at the Faith-Based Soup Kitchens Sniper Rifle Manufacturer Boasts That 50 Caliber Sniper Rifles Are Capable of 'Destroying Multi-Million Dollar Aircraft With a Single Hit' Congress Fetches for the Gun Lobby 4/10 Dissecting a Right-Wing Smear: How Conservatives Used Questionable Evidence to Blame Democrats for Schiavo Memo Voices in Wartime: The Movie The Invisible War for Right-Wing Dominance -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution A Poignant Episode About the Heartlessness of Republican Policies. Part 2 of The Politics of Luck -- and a Long Sad Goodbye. Last Chance Democracy Cafe by Steven C. Day The One and Only, "Orwell Rolls," a Film About Our Orwellian Media In Bushworld, the Truth Hurts: Liars move up as straight shooters take the hits. The Politics of Luck -- and a Long Sad Goodbye, Episode 32.1 of the Last Chance Democracy Cafe by Steven C. Day It's the NRA or Terrorists with Guns That Shoot Down Landing Planes. Join the Movement. 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