THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE SEIZES DICTATORIAL POWERS,
BY WILLIAM SAFIRE

White House Bypasses Congress on Civil Liberties and Legal Rights Issues 11/15

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A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: WHAT HAPPENED TO FLIGHT 587? 11/15

Bush to New York: Listen to My Karl Rove Cliches About Your Heroism and My Compassion and Ignore How I Little Money You're Getting Because I Need Tax Cuts for the Wealthy 11/15

One transportation official described the investigation as filled with "head-scratching and bafflement and puzzlement." George W. Black Jr., the member of the safety board assigned to the crash, said the case was "weird." 11/15

The Right Wing Extremists in the U.S. House are Picking Our Pockets as We Speak 11/15

The November 14th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia

Government Seems to be Finding 101 Ways to Say there was no Explosion on Flight 587, But None of Them Seem to Make Sense. So Why are They Avoiding the Most Obvious Cause? 11/14

Good Read: A Primer on Conspiracies 11/15

Rattling Noise Heard in Cockpit, NTSB Says 11/14

Northern Alliance Say They Don't Want International Peace Keepers 11/15

Was Flight 587 a Victim of Mechanical Sabotage? 11/15

U.S. Official Says Airport Security Lapses Continue 11/15

Asa Hutchinson and John Ashcroft Tag Team to Waste Our Precious Law Enforcement Resources 11/15

Limbaugh deception on recount and Hillary Clinton 11/15

Thurmond moves into hospital for 'monitoring' 11/15

Taliban Forces Face Pashtun Rebels 11/15

House of Representatives Panel Shortchanges New York City, Per Bush's Wishes 11/15

Senior Al-Qaeda Headquarters Reportedly Bombed 11/15

Special Forces Set Up "Road Blocks" in Southern Afghanistan 11/15

GOP Seeks to Block Stimulus Package 11/15

Read Between the Lines: Engine Failure, Birds, Spontaneous Structural Collapse -- None of These are Likely Causes of the Crash of Flight 587. So What's Left? 11/14

Ashcroft Announces Restructuring of INS 11/15

Status of Kandahar in dispute 11/15

``Now, if I wanted to go spend a long weekend with a few friends on a pheasant hunt, it seems to me that's perfectly appropriate. And it's good for my psyche to get out and relax that way.'' Shoot One for Us, Dick. 11/15

Judge Hears Testimony on Removal of Students From Mo. School Facing Child Abuse Allegations. Head of School is Good Buddies with John Ashcroft. 11/15

Salvation Army Marches to the Right 11/15

Democrats are Showing Some Spine in Calling Dick Armey for the Radical Extremist He is, a Danger to Every Air Traveler 11/15

Pentagon: Taliban May Be Regrouping 11/15

Bush's Man in Madrid: He's an Insult to the Image of America Abroad 11/15

Bush Order on Military Tribunals is Further Evidence That Government is Abandoning Democracy's Checks and Balances 11/15

"Among the 50 largest school districts in the country, Houston ranked 43rd with a graduation rate of 52 percent." 11/15

Nuclear Papers Found in Kabul House 11/15

Senator Bayh Claims Treasury Department Knew About Terrorist Financing Business 11/15

How dishonest is Wes Pruden’s Times? "Pathological" would be a good place to start. 11/15

House G.O.P. Rejects Stimulus-Bill 'Summit' 11/15

Checked Luggage, Checked Bombs? And the Right Wing Taliban in the House of Representatives Fiddles While Airport Security Has More Holes Than Swiss Cheese 11/15

Bush Peace Corps Nominee Challenged 11/15

Taliban Defectors are Providing Important Intelligence 11/15

Miami upstart bests political veteran for mayor 11/15

Across Afghanistan, they are celebrating. But the women are still invisible. 11/15

A Canceled Flight, a Time to Reflect 11/15

There's only one word for the Washington Times. Their conduct is anti-American. 11/15

We Need to Expand Democracy, Not Contract It 11/15

When Will the Democrats Stand up for Civil Liberties, Freedom and Our Constitutional Rights? 11/15

Allies Hunting Osama In Central Afghanistan 11/15

Corporations Profit Under the Guise of Patriotism 11/15

Where's The Veep? Apparently, A Secure Duck Blind. 11/15

Just Another Day of Alleged Harrassment and Assault at FOX News 11/15

The people of Afghanistan do not accept domination of the Northern Alliance! Says RAWA 11/15

The Disintegration of Democracy Continues: Bush Issues Executive Order Allowing Closed Military Trials for Terrorists 11/14

Bushies Cynical 'Crisis' Agendas 11/15

John Ashcroft is Quickly Stealing Big Chunks of Our Constitution 11/14

"Over 100 economists, including eight Nobel Prize winners, signed a statement saying that the Bush tax cut is 'is too large, too skewed to the wealthy, and arrives too late to head off a recession.'" 11/14

What's Behind the FBI Search of Suburban Philadelphia Homes. More on this... 11/14

FEAR AND FRUSTRATION LEAD TO SUPPORT FOR THE UNTHINKABLE ACCORDING TO A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR POLL 11/14

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered law enforcement officials to question more than 5,000 young men who entered the United States in the past two years 11/14

Government Says NYC Crash Likely Accidental, but Experts Say That What Happened is Highly Unlikely to be Accidental (Read Story Closely) 11/14

Ashcroft should fight terror, not laws OKd by state voters 11/14

Bush Gets All Weepy When He Visits New York, But He's Not Giving Them the Money He Promised, Just Like He's Holding Back On Airporat Security 11/14

U.S. Jets Target Retreating Taliban 11/14

Taliban Torturers on the Run 11/14

The BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American

Now Airlines Seek to Defer Billions in Taxes 11/14

Bush and Putin Agree to Cut Nuclear Weapons 11/14

Ashcroft's Power to Abuse is Alarming 11/14

National Salvation Army leaders rescind domestic partner benefits to Western employees 11/14

Ashcroft is Violating the Testimony He Gave in His Confirmation Hearing 11/14

Additional Anthrax Letter Likely in Unopened State Department Mail 11/14

Anti-Terror Courts in Britain to Have No Jury 11/14

As You Wave The Flag, Wave Goodbye To Our Freedoms 11/14

Guns, Teens and Suicide: An American Legacy 11/14

The Dream that Was America 11/14

Next Stop, bin Laden, U.S. Says 11/14

Afghan women find new freedom 11/14

"Spanish authorities arrested 10 people on Tuesday suspected of having links to the international network of Osama bin Laden" 11/14

State Dept. Mail Bldg. Has Anthrax 11/14

New Palestinian Official Puts His Feet to the Fire With Words of Moderation 11/14

Clinton's Name is Stricken from List of Lawyers Allowed to Practice Before the Supreme Court 11/14

Nuclear Waste Train Protesters Detained in Germany 11/14

The Other Ann Coulter 11/14

Bin Laden Aide Took Green Beret Plans 11/14

Rattling Noise Heard in Cockpit Seconds Before Crash; Second Black Box Found 11/14

Nuclear Weapons Available for $10 Million? 11/14

U.S. to Cut Arms, Russia Differs on Missile Defense 11/14

FBI Searches Homes Near Philadelphia, But Won't Say Why. No Arrests. Very Mysterious. 11/14

"The fate of Flight 587 is not just a free-standing tragedy, but almost the last thing we needed. Even if the cause remains a mystery, the edginess quotient just shot back up again." 11/14

FDR’s call to reduce poverty is needed more now than ever 11/14

If the American Petroleum Institute is for Bush's Plan, You Just Got to Wonder.... 11/14

Everything the New York Times Thinks About the Florida Recount Is Wrong! 11/14

U.S. Received Warning of Potential November 11th Terrorist Attack 11/14

YET ANOTHER AIRPORT SECURITY VIOLATION: WHILE TOM DELAY AND DICK ARMEY ENGAGE IN TOXIC PARTISAN POLITICS, AIRPORT SAFETY IS COMPROMISED 11/14

Texas to Hide Air Pollution Records from Public 11/13

Go Fly a Kite, Taliban, by Maureen Dowd 11/14

About a week ago, more or less, an Al Queda spokesperson said the following,"...look to the skies over America, there will be burning planes crashing to the ground." Let's Hope They Were Wrong. 11/13

[House Majority Whip] Tom Delay - who just doesn't want union workers - is holding up and holding hostage America's safety - and we are going to let everyone know that. 11/13

Even Though All the Signs of the Aircraft Break-up Could Point to an Explosion, Why are Government Authorities Insisting It was Likely an Accident? Just Call It Bush Administration Spin to Avoid Damage to the Administration's Waffling on Air Security.

DeLay, Bush and Armey Continue to Battle for Less Safe Sub-Contracted Airline Non-Security. They are Gambling With Our Lives. 11/14

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About the Carlyle Group and the Bush Administration....More Questions Need to be Asked 11/11

A BuzzFlash News Analysis: Why Tom DeLay, Dick Armey and George W. Bush are Dead Wrong on Airline Security: Part 1 11/9

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: A MODEST PROPOSAL: PART II 11/2

REPOSTED: BILL MOYER'S SPEECH, A MUST READ (LINK IS WORKING NOW, WE HOPE) 10/30

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Activists Gather at Berkeley In Effort to Form Anti-War Movement in U.S. 11/14

THE LIGHTER SIDE:

Dubya's Dayly Diary 11/15

"Still The Winner" by Bill Mitchell 11/15

War on Terror: Satirical News & Parodies 11/15

WAG THE DOG 11/14

The Trent Lott Satan Homepage 11/15

Daily Feeding Frenzy 11/15

Betty Bowers Reviews Harry Potter 11/15

Top Ten Conservative Idiots 11/12

The Putin-Bush Dinner Menu, for Real 11/15

FOR REAL COMMENTARY THAT'S WORTH A LAUGH: RIGHT WING WEBSITE SAYS GOP HAS SHIFTED TOO FAR TO THE LEFT 11/13

These are Ironic Times 11/13

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