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DON'T FORGET DECEMBER 12 ,2000: GET JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL"	Archived 12/12/01 3:34pm
BY ATTACKING LEAHY, THE RIGHT WING CONTINUES TO POISON THE WELL OF DEMOCRACY


B-1 Crashes in Indian Ocean; Crew Rescued 12/13 Enron Snubs Congress 12/12 BUSH TO WITHDRAW FROM ABM TREATY 12/12 On December 12, Remember the Rule of Law 12/12 ONE YEAR LATER: PROTEST THE SUPREME COURT COUP 12/12 Genies Hanging Out at Mecca, A BuzzFlash Contributor Exclusive 12/12 Does the Sudden Dick Armey Retirement Have Anything to Do With Enron? Just Asking? Congress Demands Enron Records, Hearing Set 12/12 The BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Get News Fast! Sign up for BuzzFlash Alerts, the fastest and easiest way to keep abreast of breaking news and commentary (see bottom of the right column). Click here for the latest alert. The December 12th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Bush Doesn't Get His Vouchers 12/12 BUZZFLASH Holiday Gifts For You -- Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! Send Us an E-mail With Delivery Gift Information to BuzzFlash@BuzzFlash.com. Perfect Holiday Gifts and You're Helping Support BuzzFlash! Update on the War in Afghanistan 12/12 Contribute to BuzzFlash.com and receive the #1 Bestseller: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War: Germs. Bone Up on Anthrax. Enron "Has the Makings of the Greatest Presidential Scandal Since the Teapot Dome" Another Day of Violence -- 4 Palestinians, 9 Israelis Dead 12/13 A sick health-insurance idea Pitting the ill versus the ill-nots 12/13 Environmental Group Sues for Records Of Energy Task Force 12/13 Case of ex-treasurer is subject of dispute in a local GOP unit 12/13 "'The people who have run Enron are crooks who have ripped off American consumers, they ripped off their employees and they're now in line for a welfare payment' from tax breaks in the economic stimulus package before Congress." 12/12 Most Americans Unprepared for Long-Term Care Costs 12/13 Head of the Afghan Social Democratic Party Explains Why He Turned Down a Position in New Afghan Gov't 12/13 Operation Diminishing Freedom 12/13 "To the uninitiated, it might seem strange that a Republican president would make an appointment so likely to weaken the SEC . . . But the Commission mainly defends investors." 12/13 Microsoft's partnership with Predictive Networks in its television venture will allow advertisers to monitor what viewers are watching. But honest, they won't know your name, they claim. 12/13 Is CIA Using Journalistic Cover In Afghanistan? 12/13 Antivirus Firms Say They Won't Create FBI Loophole 12/13 Louisiana school prayer law declared unconstitutional 12/13 "Deep" Bi-Partisan Skepticism of the Bush Administration's Proposed Settlement of the Antitrust Case Against the Microsoft Corporation 12/13 Man who sought flying lessons indicted in attacks; First Indictments From Sept. 11 Attacks 12/12 Democracy Now Interview with Prof. Marc Herold, Who Has Been Keeping Track of Civilian Casualties from our "War on Terrorism" -- 3700 Dead as of December 6th 12/13 FBI Arrests Two JDL Members in Bombing Plot 12/13 Newspapers Hope To Get Out Of Enron Contracts 12/13 Enron's Auditor Says Enron Hid Critical Information 12/13 Daschle Sees Compromise on Economic Stimulus 12/13 George W.'s escalation of the war will create more and more military contracts, boosting stocks in Carlyle portfolios, profiting the elder Bush and, eventually, George W. 12/13 Dick Armey: "To our spouses, our years of service seem an unbroken string of broken promises and disappointments." At Least His Constituents Aren't the Only Ones Who Feel That Way. 12/13 Bush Tries to Defang the Civil Rights Commission 12/12 Mr. Cheney: It's the Republicans Who are the Obstructionists and Smear Mongerers 12/11 Ashcroft Finally Delivers an Indictment 12/12 Postwar Confusions 12/12 Twaddle, Spin and Deception from Karl Rove 12/12 Mr. Ridge, We Hear You. But We Don't Understand. 12/12 NEW YORK POLICE COMMISSIONER: FBI SHOULD START SHARING ANTI-TERRORISM INFORMATION 12/12	Terrorists evolved in U.S.; Two Egyptians Set Stage For Attacks Almost 15 Years Ago 12/12 VOTE FOR BUZZFLASH - Best Site for Political News and Entertainment Sen. Durbin Says The Bin Laden Tape Could Put to Rest Our Doubts. BuzzFlash Hopes The Tape Delay is Not Some PR Gimmick. 12/12 Enron's CFO Cannot be Found 12/12 Release the Tape Already! 12/12 Investigating Art: This Passes for Anti-terrorism Work Under the Ashcroft Regime 12/12 House panel wants to see SEC reviews 12/12 FROM THE ARCHIVE: MEET ENRON, BUSH'S BIGGEST CONTRIBUTOR 12/12 2 Nuclear Experts Briefed Bin Laden, Pakistanis Say 12/12 As we remember Pearl Harbor, let's not forget what followed 12/12 British Life Is Fractured Along Racial Lines, a Study Finds 12/12 The Only Amendment John Ashcroft Cares About is the Second Amendment 12/12 If You are an Attorney, Join the Antidote to the Federalist Society 12/12 Powell Loses Power Over Pentagon 12/12 Powell: Britain Will Lead Peacekeepers 12/12 Merry Christmas From Your Colombian Death Squad 12/12 Fed Cuts Interest Rates a Quarter Point 12/12 From the Archives: George W. Bush Gets Layed 12/12 America's Shooting Gallery: Justice Goes Easy on a Gun Guy 12/12 "We want to bring more transparency as to how we handle detainees in this war." Can You Translate That For Us, Mr. Rumsfeld? 12/12 For the First Time in Two Decades, Texas is Number 2! In Executions, That is. 12/12 Bankruptcy is the Tip of the Iceberg for Enron 12/12 Enron Fallout Hits Florida State Pension Fund 12/12 We'll Probably Be Seeing Even More of Tom DeLay: The Real Rocky Horror Picture Show 12/12 Secret Guards for a Secret Nevada Site Go on Strike, It Appears 12/12 R.I. Man Shoots Son Who Took Off Hunter's Vest. 12/12 Clinton Takes Smoothly to Role of Elder Statesman 12/12 Anthrax cleanup of Hart Building not entirely effective 12/12 BuzzFlash Is Happy to Report that NY State Supreme Court Says Online Journalism Is the Same as Print, Radio, and TV When It Comes to Free-Press Protections Against Charges of Libel 12/12 Austin, TX police cooperate with terrorism interrogations; Critics say decision violates policy against racial profiling 12/12 "Reports that Democrats will be running ads blaming President Bush for the recession are greatly exaggerated. In fact, they're false." 12/12 Defiant Nigeria to import cheap copies of HIV drugs 12/12 More Reasons Why Ashcroft's Detention Policies Are Just Plain Wrong 12/12 Ashcroft's gun-coddling hypocrisy 12/12 Investing in the Public, Not Just Giving Taxpayer Money Away to Corporate Welfare 12/12 Some Americans remain skeptical about U.S. security 12/12 The White House connection: Saudi `agents' close Bush friends 12/12 STIMULUS FOR WHOM? Police searches without warrants of probationers upheld by court 12/12 "Social Security Administration officials admitted Monday that a printing error caused more than 10,000 people last week to receive other people's benefit notices in several cities." 12/12 Gore Vidal tells Rory Carroll why he's taking America to task over Afghanistan 12/12 Enron Japan units file for bankruptcy in Tokyo 12/12 Justice Dept. Files Lawsuit to Seat Bush Rights Panel Choice. BuzzFlash Wonders if Rhenquist Will Get Involved. 12/12 Investigation into Responsibility for Recent Anthrax Incidents 12/12 FDA Issues Nuclear Antidote Guidelines. Hmm, So a Big Part of the Bush Energy Policy Requires an Antidote? That Doesn't Sound Like Sound Policy. 12/12	Rudy, Rudy, Rudy 12/12 All the president’s businessmen: Enron warrants the investigation that Whitewater needlessly withstood. 12/12 U.S. State Department Contingent in Northern Iraq to Stir Up Opposition to Hussein 12/11 A LEADING REPUBLICAN BONEHEAD MIGHT RETIRE FROM CONGRESS. WE CAN ONLY HOPE. Flight 587 Crash Probe Puts Focus on Visual Inspections 12/12 Oil Dispute Grips Iran: Corruption, or Politics? And Is a Bush Involved? 12/12 State Department Accused of Misusing Funds Meant for Iraqi Opposition 12/12 Crooks, scams and Enron 12/12 Norton accused of misleading judge 12/12 Message to Roger Ailes: There is a Real War Going on, Not Your Silly Little Competition with CNN 12/12 "[Michael Bloomberg's] spending has left the campaign finance system broken and that anyone opposing Bloomberg in the 2005 mayoral race would be foolish to enter the campaign finance system," says Mark Green's Campaign Chairman 12/12 Environmental Protections Are Working in UK. Don't Expect Bush to Care -- He's Anti-Kyoto. 12/12 Study: Racism Not Hard-Wired in Brain. 12/12 "Enron is Whitewater in spades." Connect the Enron Dots to Bush. 12/12 Clinton Will Speak at University of Buffalo for Free 12/12 Professor Reprimanded for Joke; Assaulted in Front of His Home; Received Phone Threats. C'mon People, LIGHTEN UP! The Ghost of McCarthy Grows Stronger Each Day. 12/11 Bush and GOP Want More Money to Wage War, But Don't Want More Money to Help People Out of Work During the Holidays 12/11 Witnesses Recount Taliban Dying While Held Captive 12/11 Some Receive Food, but Others Can Only Watch 12/11 Oh Where or Where Can the FBI be? Oh Where, Oh Where Can It be? 12/11 "A group of Polaroid retirees filed court papers Monday opposing the bankrupt company's plan to give top executives millions of dollars in bonuses." 12/11 "We will maintain a constant barrage of criticism against the Left. We will attack the very legitimacy of the Left. We will not give them a moment's rest." A MUST READ MANIFESTO FROM PAUL WEYRICH'S FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION. CHILLING! 12/10 ESSENTIAL READING: BUZZFLASH CHILLING ALERT ABOUT A KARL ROVE/BUSH ADVISOR'S PLANS FOR NEUTRALIZING "LIBERALS" 12/10 A BUZZFLASH HYPOCRISY WATCH SPECIAL EDITION 12/9 1972 National Guard Document Showing George W. Bush Grounded from "Protecting Texas from Enemy Attack" for Failure to take Medical Examination (scroll down) 12/10 A BuzzFlash Editorial Commentary: TO APPEASE THE GUN LOBBY, ASHCROFT BETRAYS THE WAR ON TERRORISM News Alert: BuzzFlash Adds Content, Thanks Readers! "But if more people intended to vote for Gore than for Bush in Florida -- as they surely did -- then it is a crime against democracy that he did not win the state and thus the presidency." FOR $35.00, RECEIVE JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL." RECEIVE "TALIBAN: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia" With a $30 Voluntary Subscription to BuzzFlash.com. Yale University Press, #1 on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List (Paperback Nonfiction) A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: THE ORWELLIAN WORLD OF JOHN ASHCROFT 11/27 CONTRIBUTE HERE: HELP KEEP BUZZFLASH A VOICE OF REASON AMIDST A CLAMOR OF RIGHT WING MEDIA SHILLS AND WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARIES TELLING AMERICA TO "SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP" -- AND GET A FREE BUZZFLASH T-SHIRT THE CAMPUS VOICE: Panel Condemns Lethal Injection, from the University of Texas Daily Texan 12/12 THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots 12/10 These are Ironic Times 12/10 Dream On 12/12 Doonesbury 12/10 The Dubya Chronicles 12/10 A Very Special Greeting from the First Lady 12/10 Ashcroft Detains Olympic Torch 12/11 Terry McAuliffe Live! (bottom article) 12/13 Civil Libertarians are on the run! 12/10 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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BY ATTACKING LEAHY, THE RIGHT WING CONTINUES TO POISON THE WELL OF DEMOCRACY