Why Congress is Quiet on the Bush/Ashcroft/Cheney Attack on Civil Liberties. Maybe Because Most of the Members of Congress Need to Have Spines Transplanted Into Them. They Should Re-Read the Constitution Too. 11/16
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Was It Mechanical Sabotage? Just Asking? And How Did the Government Reach a Conclusion so Quickly. It Usually Takes Months or Years for this Sort of Finding. 11/16
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The BBC's Transcript of an Interview with Mullah Omar 11/16
Cheney Joins Bush Administration Effort to Intimidate Democrats Into Letting the Right Wing Control Two Branches of Government 11/16
The BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American
United Airlines is Putting Stun Guns in Pockets 11/16
For the Bushes, It's All in the Family, at the Expense of the American Public 11/16
The Latest Flight 587 Theory: Tail Section Cracked Off, Investigators Say 11/16
Gephardt Urges Swift Passage of a Strong Airline Security Bill 11/16
Aviation Bill to Federalize Workers 11/16
Iran Radio Says bin Laden May Have Fled to Pakistan 11/16
Peres Backs Palestinian State 11/16
Grand Jury Subpoenas Condit Documents 11/16
Even Some Right Wingers Break Ranks and Attack Bush Administration's Trashing of the Constitution's Guarantee of Civil Liberties 11/16
Arch-Conservative Columnist Cal Thomas says, "The Johnson tapes should also teach conservatives a lesson. Many anti-war activists love this country as much as those who supported the Vietnam War." 11/16
Suspicious Substance Dropped on Tennessee Town 11/16
THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE SEIZES DICTATORIAL POWERS, CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST WILLIAM SAFIRE CHARGES 11/15
Taliban Under Assault in Two Last Strongholds 11/16
Northern Alliance tanks crush 520 defiant Taleban fighters to death 11/16
Bush Administration and Republican Senators are More Concerned About Protecting the Chemical Industry Than Ensuring Our Safety in the Case of a Terrorist Attack on a Chemical Plant. Business as Usual for Bush Incorporated. 11/16
Was it Turbulence that Downed Flight 587? That Would be Pretty Unprecedented. 11/16
Ashcroft on the Line 11/15
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: WHAT HAPPENED TO FLIGHT 587? 11/15
Bush and Putin Can't Agree On Missile Reduction, But They're the Abbott and Costello of Grade School Classrooms 11/16
America's Shooting Gallery 11/16
Military Censorship Rankles Cronkite 11/16
Jobless Tax Cut on Businesses Might Return to Haunt Jeb 11/16
Memo to Dems: Little Guy Needs Help 11/16
House and Senate Reportedly Near "Compromise" on Air Safety 11/16
The Civil Liberties Watch, from the ACLU 11/16
Democrats, Robert Redford vow to stop Republicans opening Arctic to oil drills 11/16
Real Evildoer? The World's Nuclear Arsenal 11/16
Cheney hides as concern mounts over nukes 11/16
Court Approves Texas Redistricting Plan 11/16
Vincent Bugliosi: Still Time to Impeach the Supreme Court Five 11/16
Jobless Claims Fell in Latest Week 11/16
Right-wing media continue to savage Clinton 11/16
Al-Jazeera says correspondent in US detained 11/16
U.S Bombs Kunduz; Rumsfeld Narrows Down Location of Bin Laden to Afghanistan or "Another Country." 11/16
Proposed Missile Cuts Would Have Little Effect 11/16
2,000 U.S. Troops to Kuwait to Scare off Iraq? 11/16
According to Conservative Washington Times, White House Decides to Beat Its Breast a Little 11/16
"One day after the White House succeeded in scuttling a multibillion-dollar proposal by Democrats to beef up homeland security," Ridge Offers His (i.e., Republican) Plan 11/16
The House and Senate have reached a tentative deal on airline security legislation. 11/16
Bush, Putin Fail to Reach Agreement 11/16
Bizarre Politics: Senators and Congressional Representatives Weigh in on Whether bin Laden Should be Caught Dead or Alive 11/16
Poll Shows Growing Concern About Terror War; "the number of Americans saying the U.S. is doing all it reasonably can to prevent terrorist attacks has declined by 12 points, to 56 percent, from 68 percent in mid-October." 11/16
FAA Mandates Tail Inspections of All Airbus A300 Planes 11/16
Airline Security Bill to Be Voted on Friday 11/16
"Short-term outlook is grim, although long-term prospects remain good," Said Federal Reserve Bank of SF President Robert Parry 11/16
Poll: Americans Trim Holiday Spending 11/16
White House Reportedly Backs Senate Bio-Terrorism Bill 11/16
Official: Pilots of crashed jet unaware of missing tail 11/16
AID WORKERS HELD BY TALIBAN FREED! 11/15
AN FAA DIRECTIVE (FROM THE ARCHIVES) ABOUT TROUBLES WITH THE AIRBUS VERTICAL STABILIZER 11/16
Fewer Flights Take Toll on Smaller Airports 11/16
A Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan 11/16
The Last Battle in North at Kunduz 11/16
Omar Wants 'Extinction of America' 11/15
White House Bypasses Congress on Civil Liberties and Legal Rights Issues 11/15
Critics Attack Tribunal Proposal 11/15
Must We Sell Our Birthright for Security? 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
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
Bush Administration Decides to Keep Existing Small Pox Stock, Instead of Destroying It 11/16
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
House of Representatives Panel Shortchanges New York City, Per Bush's Wishes 11/15
Special Forces Set Up "Road Blocks" in Southern Afghanistan 11/15
GOP Seeks to Block Stimulus Package 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
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
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
Where's The Veep? Apparently, A Secure Duck Blind. 11/15
The people of Afghanistan do not accept domination of the Northern Alliance! Says RAWA 11/15
Bushies Cynical 'Crisis' Agendas 11/15
Corporations Profit Under the Guise of Patriotism 11/15
WHO IS REALLY RUNNING OUR PRESIDENTIAL POLICY? THE EXTREMIST REPUBLICAN MULLAHS FROM TEXAS, TO THE DETRIMENT OF OUR AIR SAFETY AND ECONOMIC WELL BEING 11/15
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A BuzzFlash News Analysis: Why Tom DeLay, Dick Armey and George W. Bush are Dead Wrong on Airline Security: Part 1 11/9
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THE CAMPUS VOICE: A More Secure Airport, from the University of Oklahoma "Daily Oklahoman" 11/16
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
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The Trent Lott Satan Homepage 11/15
Daily Feeding Frenzy 11/15
Betty Bowers Reviews Harry Potter 11/15
Northern Alliance Seize Control of Asian Continent. 11/16
The Putin-Bush Dinner Menu, for Real 11/15
GOP Anger at President Gore's War Actions 11/16
These are Ironic Times 11/13
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