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Florida woman who registered pet poodle to vote as a Republican no longer facing felony charges 12/16

Book Says FBI Was Told in '90 Hanssen Might Be Spy 12/16

Ashcroft Ambivalently Thanks Italy 12/16

Requiring General Electric to remove PCBs from the river bottom is the right thing to do 12/16

The Taliban Reign of Terror 12/16

Hail, Farewell and Thank You Anthony Lewis! 12/16

If This be Treason... 12/16

Is bin Laden Directing the Last Ditch Al-Qaeda Defense Efforts? 12/16

Is Enron Getting the D.C. Cold Shoulder? What's Going on Behind the Scenes? 12/16

Misusing Executive Privilege 12/16

Protestors Greet Jeb Bush 12/16

Spiritual Missile Shield 12/16

Marines Hurt at Kandahar Airport 12/16

Oh Those Young Republicans in Omaha 12/16

Pakistanis Welcome al-Qaeda And Taliban 12/16

Reticence on a Failure of Intelligence May End 12/16

Censure the Supreme Court Five 12/16

Equal Opportunity Recession: Almost Everyone Is Feeling It 12/16

Chemical plants are feared as targets 12/16

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If You Don't Want American Flag Stamps, Watch Out! 12/16

Newspaper Report: Al Qaeda planned attack on London 12/16

After Two-Decade Halt, Marijuana Research Is Set 12/16

Is a GOP Revolt Against Lott Imminent? 12/16

Rumsfeld in Afghanistan 12/16

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

Chuck and Hillary for New York 12/16

Stalling on Nuclear Waste 12/16

Above the Law: An Interview with Greg Palast 12/16

Hillary Clinton urges Congress to pass tax relief bill for terror attack victims 12/16

Afghan Courts a Broken Nation 12/16

The Coldest Warrior 12/16

ENRONGATE 12/16

The Waterford crystal ball that drops in Times Square to ring in the new year will memorialize victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 12/16

This Time, Dissent Stops at the White House Door 12/16

Enron Employees in the Northeast Picking up the Pieces 12/16

Anthrax Shots Considered for Some Civilians 12/16

Was bin Laden Tape the Result of a Sting 12/16

Bush Administration Strips More Business Tax Restrictions, Makes it Easier to Qualify for "Research Tax Credits." The Administration Of Companies, By Companies, and For Companies Strikes Again! 12/15

Ashcroft Praises German Law Allowing Crackdown on Religious Organizations Deemed Extremist. Do You Think Ashcroft Will Crack Down on Falwell and Robertson? BuzzFlash Doubts It. 12/15

US recalls Mid-East envoy 12/15

U.S. Troops Secure Kandahar Airport 12/15

Growing Conflict Over Presidential Powers: Senate Leaders Ask EPA For Clean Air Documents 12/15

As the War Shifts Alliances, Oil Deals Follow 12/15

E.P.A. Reconsiders Human Tests of Pesticides, for the Moment 12/15

Bush, Daschle Spar Over Stimulus Bill 12/15

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Bush Offers China Talks on Arms as U.S. Pulls Out of ABM Treaty 12/15

Hey, Mr. Ridge, We Had Alert Fatigue a Long Way Back, Given That the Alerts Offer Meaningless Advice, Like "Look Over Your Shoulder to See if an Evil Doer is Following You" 12/15

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Another Stopgap Spending Bill 12/15

Feds Raid Islamic Charity Groups 12/15

Chairman of Texas Public Utility Panel Discloses Multiple Roles at Enron 12/15

F.B.I. Queries Expert Who Sees Federal Lab Tie in Anthrax Cases 12/15

Those Hutchinson Brothers Can't Get It Right! (Read Down) 12/15

ARCHIVE:Kenneth L. Lay 12/15

Intelligence Scandal in Northern Ireland 12/15

Newspaper Says Judge's Order Is Censorship 12/15

Update on U.S. Intelligence Gathering in Afghanistan 12/15

"Why are various conservatives and other voices of the political right irresistibly driven to draw ing up enemy lists?" 12/15

VOA chief restricts airing of interviews 12/15

Is The Constitution Being Replaced With The Ashcronstitution? 12/15

Two-faced on Campaign Finance Reform in the House of Representatives 12/15

Enron: Pulling the Plug on the Global Power Broker 12/15

The Distorted Numbers at Enron 12/15

Murkowksi won't rule out federal role for Alaska gas line 12/15

Sudan, Our Terrorist Comrade 12/15

Condit Falls Short of Signatures, But Will Still Run 12/15

Feds Plan $6 Billion Bailout to Tech Company 12/15

The Carlyle Group Revisited 12/15

The Euro Hits the Streets 12/15

The More Bush Grows, the More He Stays the Same 12/15

The Enron Outrage 12/15

Bush Crew and Enron: Conflict Of Interest and Reality 12/15

USAPA Sunset Provisions Could Leave Congress in the Dark 12/15

2 U.S. Soldiers Wounded at Tora Bora 12/15

It's the Enromony, Stupid 12/15

The nation's most influential state-level, air-quality agency unanimously approved a policy aimed at focusing more effort on pollution problems in predominantly poor neighborhoods and on areas whose residents are more likely to be sickened by toxins.12/15

Germany To Phase Out Nuclear Plants 12/15

Arab Newspapers Downplay Bin Laden Tape; Many Arab TV Viewers Unconvinced 12/15

With a Vulnerable Airline System, Why Would Anyone Think of Breaking up Amtrak? But this is the Bush era, When Stupid Ideas are the Rage. 12/15

Bush Halts Inquiry of FBI and Stirs Up a Firestorm 12/15

Mystery sheikh fuels Saudi jitters 12/15

India Blames Pakistani Group for Parliament Attack 12/15

Falwell Is Raising Money to Press Conservative Family Agenda 12/15

Execution First, Trial Later 12/15

Trace Anthrax Amounts Still Found in Senate 12/15

Anti-terror chief hails Indian Point security 12/15

ABM Treaty Withdrawal an Attack on American Security; Statement by the Federation of American Scientists 12/15

U.S. Hangs On in Mideast 12/15

Baggage-screening plan short billions 12/15

Ultra-conservative activist David Horowitz shot through North Carolina last week to take aim at his favorite target: left-wing college students and professors. 12/15

Don't Abandon Our Civil Liberties 12/15

Kicking the Petroleum Habit 12/15

''The divide between the United States and Europe is growing'' 12/15

Alliance battles al Qaeda and the cold 12/15

Students at historically black college object to TV ad campaign limiting hairstyles 12/15

Number of Executions Falls for Second Straight Year 12/15

Justice releases statistics on subpoenas of reporters 12/15

California Jobless Rate Tops 1 Million 12/15

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: WHAT A COINCIDENCE? 12/14

BuzzFlash News Alert: A Message From Jerry Falwell. This is an actual e-mail sent out this week to Falwell's Internet list of subscribers. 12/14

"But Rove was not called to account; Bush isn't, either. His poll ratings cow Congress. The Republican in-your-face approach further freezes Democrats." 12/14

Ashcroft's Refusal to Investigate Terrorist Gun Records Draws Strong Outcry 12/14

National Defense Council Foundation: One of the Foot Soldiers of Fascism 12/14

BUSH ADVISORS CASHED IN ON SAUDI GRAVY TRAIN 12/13

IT IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE THE ANTHRAX "EVILDOER" IS MADE IN THE U.S.A., AND POSSIBLY CONNECTED TO THE MILITARY

Anthrax Hoax Suspect Says He Considered Killing Abortion Doctors Until Sept. 11

"If there was no Afghanistan story, for example, the press would be going nuts over Enron." 12/14

Judge kicks Boy Scouts out of Oregon schools for religious bigotry 12/14

BUSH GETS HIS PR SPIN AND THE WIDOW OF A HERO IS LEFT HIGH AND DRY 12/14

Ashcroft Has No Moral Ground to Attack Dissenters as Aiding the Enemy: He Ran Away from the Vietnam War 12/14

Worth Remembering: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba 12/14

Absurd suspicion of art detracts from anti-terrorist effort 12/14

Another Possible Anthrax Terrorist Profile 12/14

DESPITE FAILURE OF THE NAVY'S OWN MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAM, BUSH WILL FORGE AHEAD WITH WASTING OUR MONEY

B.S. from an Oil Industry Shill 12/14

ABM-potence: Bush Pulls Out Early 12/14

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY ABOUT PAT ROBERTSON 12/13

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BY ATTACKING LEAHY, THE RIGHT WING CONTINUES TO POISON THE WELL OF DEMOCRACY 12/12

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"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

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


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A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: THE ORWELLIAN WORLD OF JOHN ASHCROFT 11/27

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ROBERTSON STEPS DOWN FROM CHRISTIAN COALITION TO ENJOY PRIVATE LIFE OF INTOLERANCE 12/13

No Evacuation Plan for Washington and more... 12/13

Buyer Turns GOP Convention Website into Smut Stop 12/14

FOR REAL: PAPA BUSH "IN HIS OWN WORDS," WORTH A LAUGH 12/13

Enron Admits It's Really Argentina 12/13

Dubya's Dayly Diary 12/14

FROM ENRON: It Cost Us So Much Money to Get Bush Into Office, We Went Bankrupt 12/14

Terry McAuliffe Live! (bottom article) 12/13

"Dr. Greenspan" by Bill Mitchell 12/14

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