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WHITE HOUSE BITES THE BULLET AND ADOPTS CLINTON ARSENIC STANDARD
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BUSH TAKES ANOTHER STEP IN RETREAT FROM DEMOCRACY

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"While an additional, well-crafted shot in the arm would help, it's not worth enacting another huge chunk of the GOP's lunatic economic agenda that will burden the United States for decades to come." 11/2

Feds Can't Distinguish Anthrax 11/2

Better No Stimulus at All 11/2

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Cracks Show in Republican Assault on Better Airline Security 11/1

CIA Denies Agent Met Bin Laden 11/1

Indy found they had Anthrax like everyone else. On T.V.! And they are not happy. 11/1

Bush Clamping Down On Presidential Papers 11/1

Tom DeLay, George W. Bush and Dick Armey Want to Keep Dumbing Down Our Airlines Security. Remember Them Well When the Next Hijacking Occurs. 11/1

Why is the Number Two Person at the FBI Resigning Amidst a National Crisis? 11/1

NH Urges Purchase of Nuke Pill, Just in Case 11/1

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Consumer Spending Plunges in September; It "fell at its fastest pace in more than 14 years." 11/1

Pre-911 "Terrorist" Mail Came from Indiana 11/1

Anthrax Found at 4 FDA Mailrooms, Early Tests Show 11/1

Senate Debates Stem Cell Policy, Wants to Give Couples Chance to Donate Unused Embryos; Bush Says He'll Veto It. 11/1

Officials Say Relief Effort Is Falling Short of Afghans' Needs 11/1

Baffled physicians and vague, ever-changing medical advice leave people at risk for anthrax feeling they are on their own. 11/1

Reporters grow increasingly frustrated at Pentagon's denial of access to the battle against terrorism 11/1

Longest Period of Economic Growth Ends During Republican Administration. Hmm, I Wonder If There's a Connection? 11/1

Anthrax Reports Spread to Midwest 11/1

Russian-U.S. Arms Deal Likely, According to Reports 11/1

Tom "Former Bug Exterminator" DeLay Isn't Even Pretending Dennis Hastert is the Speaker Anymore: DeLay, the Man Who Literally Won't Talk to His Mother, is Leading the Charge to Keep Our Airport Screening Process Run by Mediocre Sub-Contractors. 11/1

Economy Shrinks, Steepest Fall Since 1991 11/1

Ashcroft Bans Members of 46 Terrorist Groups from Entering U.S. You Mean They Were Allowed in Before? 11/1

Is China Helping the Taliban? 11/1

U.S. Intensifies Bombing 11/1

Consumer Confidence is Lowest Since 1997 11/1

BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: WHY IS THE WHITE HOUSE DENYING THAT THERE WAS BENTONITE IN THE DASCHLE LETTER ANTHRAX? 10/31

More Cases of Anthrax Reported 11/1

Just Call It a Failure to Communicate 11/1

Operation Avarice, by Arianna Huffington 11/1

Pentagon Calls up More Reservists 11/1

WH Economic Advisor Says We Might Have a Recession. Wow! I Wonder What Tipped Him Off? Everything Seems to Be Going So Well. 10/31

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Bush Incorporated Wants to Stiff Poor People Having Trouble Paying Their Heating Bills. We Need the Money to Give Even More Tax Breaks to the Top 1% Income Earners. They are Having Trouble Paying for Servants in Their Third Homes. 11/1

Our Homeland Security Director Leaves It up to States as to How Much They Want to Tighten up Security Around Nuclear Power Plants. How About Trying Some Aggressive Federal Action, Mr. Ridge? Consider the Stakes. 11/1

Al Gore on His Own in New Hampshire 11/1

Over 100 Children Removed from Christian Academy Over Abuse Allegation 11/1

Will the Florida Consortium Recount Finally be Released? 11/1

"O'Bannon said neither postal officials nor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned the state of a possible anthrax threat." More Incompetence in How the Administration is Handling the Anthrax Crisis. 11/1

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Affirmative Action Weighed 11/01

It Appears a Microsoft Settlement Has Been Reached 11/1

Four Palestinians Killed in Reprisal Raid 11/1

"Top officials in the federal government seem incompetent to handle the crisis" 11/1

With Powers Like These, Can Repression be Far Behind? 11/1

New York Anthrax Death Mystifies Officials 11/1

The Inimitable Gene Lyons 11/1

Patriot Games, by Molly Ivins 11/1

Sara Jane Olson Pleads Guilty 11/1

Many lawmakers are questioning Jeb Bush's hands-off approach to the Florida budget crisis. 11/1

At least in the '50s we could duck and cover 11/1

It's a Republican Family Feud in Florida 11/1

Afghanistan as Vietnam: We're Not Winning Their Hearts and Minds 11/1

The Mini-Jihads of David Horowitz 11/1

Bush DEMANDS an Economic Stimulus Package. Message to the White House: The Economy Was Humming Along Just Fine Until January 20th. 10/31

A Race Against Time 11/1

Just Another Story of Intolerance in Florida 11/1

Did Senate Frank Murkowski of Alaska Violate Senate Ethics Rules and Federal Law 11/1

The Cost of Fear Exceeds All Else 11/1

Experts Warn Bioterrorism Could Expand 11/1

Being Here is the Most Miraculous Event of All 11/1

Federal Lawsuits Challenge Display of Lawsuits in Alabama Supreme Court 11/1

About Kathy T. Nguyen, Victim of Anthrax 11/1

A Labor Union Strikes a Deal with the Devil 11/1

State Dept. Concerned About Nuclear Weapons 10/31

Why is Tommy "Peter Principle" Thompson Stockpiling Enough Anthrax Vaccine for Only One Million People? 11/1

Anthrax cure better than the disease but has its own dangers 11/1

A Nation of Immigrants Begins an Immigration Crackdown 11/1

House Democrats lost an effort Tuesday to add money to a program aimed at keeping Russian nuclear weapons away from terrorists. 10/31

15 of the 19 September 11th Hijackers Got Their Visas in Saudi Arabia 11/1

Tony Blair's Mideast Diplomacy 11/1

BUSINESS WEEK: "THIS STIMULUS PLAN PUSHES THE WRONG BUTTONS" 11/1

Congressional Lawmakers Critical of Terror Alert 10/31

NY Hospital Worker Dies of Anthrax 10/31

BuzzFlash Loves Paul Krugman 10/31

After All the Pious Homage to the Heroes of New York and Photo-ops, Bush Prepares to Shortchange the State by a Few Billion Dollars 10/31

The $212 Billion Gift to the Wealthy and Big Business, at Our Expense 10/31

Wisconsin learned its lesson about Tommy Thompson long ago 10/31

Remember What BuzzFlash.com Has Been Posting About the Vulnerability of Nuclear Power Plants. Finally, the Government is Placing Flight Restrictions Around Them. (See Our Report on Flight 93) 10/31

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Republican Vision? Keep Shopping 10/31

The federal response to the anthrax attack has been inept, a NEWSDAY Editorial 10/31

More About the Carlyle Group... 10/31

BUZZFLASH.COM PRESENTS A MODEST PROPOSAL TO TOM DELAY 10/30

Last Week Rumsfeld Was Screaming About Reports of Ground Troops, Now He Can't Stop Talking About Them 11/2

This War Just Keeps Getting Bigger and BIGGER. Can Someone Say "Vietnam"? 11/2

White House Hedges On GOP Fundraiser 11/2

Clean Energy Offers 1.3 Million Jobs and a Better Environment. Republicans Offer You Coal. 11/2

Nuclear plot suspects freed after mix-up 11/2

If Anthrax is Domestic, Likely Suspects Abound 11/2

Extremists Challenge Pakistan: The rebels have given the president a Nov. 7 deadline to end his support of US airstrikes on Afghanistan. 11/2

Jetliner Diverted to Detroit after Note is Found Claiming a Bomb on the Plane. Some Idiot Played a Hoax. 11/2

Japan Considers Sending Warships 11/2

Republican Senators Who Can't Stop Being Small, Petty and Harmful, Even When the World is Burning 10/31

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: FLIGHT 93, FIGHTER JETS, AND THREE MILE ISLAND 10/30

Who's More Important? Cheney Moved to Secure Location; Bush Throws Out First Baseball. 10/31

Bush's post Sept. 11 honeymoon may be ending 10/31

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: Tommy Thompson, Cipro and the CDC: Part II 10/29

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REPUBLICAN ZEALOTRY THAT PUTS OUR AIR SAFETY AT RISK: IT'S AN OUTRAGEOUS VIOLATION OF OUR RIGHTS TO SECURITY 10/29

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR THE WHITE HOUSE 10/28

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IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP AND STRAIGHT TALK ON ANTHRAX, YOU WON'T FIND IT COMING FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION 10/25

THE CAMPUS VOICE: White House Weighs In On Student Visa Controversy, The Daily Pennsylvanian 11/1

THE LIGHTER SIDE:

"Nite Lies" Report on the War against Terrorism 10/31

The Top Ten Conservative Idiots 10/30

"Are We There Yet?" 10/31

How to Catch a Terrorist 10/30

That's a Touching Display of Patriotism 10/30

Our Responsible Media 10/29

Rush Limbaugh Online 10/29

Privileged Children of Millionaires Square Off on World Stage 10/30

The Administration Responds 10/31

God Bless The Small Cute Dog 10/31

George W. Bush Throws Out the First Pitch Just Before He Announces that Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Taxpayer Subsidy of CEO Salaries of Failing Corporations Will be Necessary to Win the War Against Terrorism 10/31

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