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WHY IS THE WHITE HOUSE BLOCKING A FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN LAWSUIT? A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL


Campaign Finance Bill Sponsors Prepare for a Rush of Killer Amendments 2/13 Support Independent News Sources! 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. US seeks immunity deal with ex-Enron accountant 2/13 John Ashcroft Warns Americans to Report Anything "Suspicious" to the Proper Authorities": Okay, BuzzFlash is Officially Reporting a Suspicious Relationship Between the Bush Administration and Enron. Now Investigate! 2/13 The Axis of No Access, by Maureen Dowd 2/13 BUZZFLASH.COM IS NOW OFFERING "GRAND THEFT 2000: MEDIA SPECTACLE AND A STOLEN ELECTION." THE COVER OF THE BOOK IS WORTH THE PRICE OF THE CONTRIBUTION ALONE! DEA Chief Faces Protests in California 2/13 Bush Decides to Take Up Where Daddy Left Off and Oust Saddam Hussein 2/13 Calif. lawmakers seek contempt charge against Enron 2/13 Bizarre Headline of the Day: "Hitler Secretary Recalls Dictator as a Pleasant Man" 2/13 Congress in Search of Its Soul 2/13 FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS WHITE HOUSE TO SAVE ENERGY TASK FORCE RECORDS 2/13 Heroine of Enron Saga Will Testify Before Congress 2/13 The February 13th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Disgraced Enron Executives Want Bankrupt Company to Pay Their Legal Fees. BuzzFlash Says Stand in Line Behind the Employees and Investors Who Lost Their Money, You Creeps. 2/13 Bush's War Rhetoric Sounds Hollow, by Joe Conason 2/13 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! October Strike on Taliban Hit Civilians, Survivors Say 2/13 The State of the Gun Industry 2/13 Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" For Only $55! From the Curious Timing Department: FBI and Ashcroft Terrorist "Alert" Come on Same Day that "Kenny Boy" Lay Cops the Fifth and Questions About Afghanistan Bombing Failures and Treatment of Prisoners Reach a New Height. What a Coincidence! 2/13 Watch for the Timing of the Iraq Attack to Coincide with Revelations About the White House and Enron. Mark Our Words. 2/13 Bush Administration Wastes Taxpayer Dollars on Medicinal Marijuana Busts in California. But Who is Watching the Bush Offspring? Just Asking. 2/13 FBI Loses Blame Game in Lindh Case 2/13 "It is one thing to fight the enemy. It is quite another to fight like him." 2/13 "There's no better example than Kenny boy (of) cash-and-carry government," said Hollings 2/13 Funniest Headline of the Day: "Lay Drops Out of Think Tank" 2/13 Summary of Gore Foreign Policy Speech Delivered on Tuesday Night 2/13 Hostage Crisis at Connecticut University Ends 2/13 Ken Lay Keeps His Trap Shut (Takes the Fifth) for Himself and for Bush and Cheney 2/13 FBI Makes Military Labs Key Focus in Hunt for Source of Anthrax 2/13 China Deepens Assault on Faith, Group Charges 2/13 Pickering Hearing Focuses on Cross Burning Leniency Plea from Bush Nominee and Other Ethical Issues 2/13 "Quite simply, Ashcroft needs to be reminded he is there to serve, not to preach." 2/13 Our Patriotic Fervor is Starting to Ring Hollow 2/13 ""It is important that we bring people to justice according to the principles of our Constitution. The day we start giving up our freedoms, the bad guys have won," Janet Reno Said in Criticizing John Ashcroft 2/13 "Sponsors of a sweeping campaign finance bill agreed Tuesday to leave current free-spending rules in effect until after this fall's election as they labored to solidify support before a House showdown." 2/13 Just Send the Entire Editorial Staff at the National Review to the Psycho Ward. Maybe They Can Get a Group Treatment Rate. 2/13 "Russia's defense minister said Tuesday that the United States should abandon its military presence in former Soviet republics in Central Asia once the war in Afghanistan is over" 2/13 Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should recuse himself from any Enron investigations because of entanglements with the company 2/13 Labor Department Starts the Ball Rolling on Faith-Based Funding 2/13 Bush and Andersen's Texas Two-Step 2/13 Kissinger, Nixon: Elder Bush 'Too Weak' for China 2/13 Dance the Samba with Barbara Bush! 2/13 Two Prominent Pataki Fundraisers Indicted for Grand Larceny and Insurance Fraud 2/13		Yes, It's Clear Now, Howard Kurtz Has Had a Brain Transplant. He Has Actually Written Several Columns that Weren't White House Propaganda. Amazing Things Happen. 2/13 Kaiser Aluminum Files for Bankruptcy 2/13 Jeb's election-year memory losses 2/13 "Tyco International Ltd.'s chief executive officer, Dennis Kozlowski, is the hands-down winner of my ``pay for non-performance'' contest." 2/13 Trying Milosevic 2/13 "Mapmakers plotting Florida's new House seats have bolstered the percentage of Republican voters in all but two of the 17 Republican-held House districts whose voters supported Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election." 2/13 Bush Says He Wants to Cut Illegal Drug Use. Maybe He Should Start With His Own Family. 2/13 And You Thought the Reagan Hangover Was Bad 2/13 The Rise and Fall of "Mark the Shark" 2/13 Check It Out at Tom Paine.com 2/13 Did President Bush Pass Up an Attempt to Get Bin Laden Before 9-11? 2/13 Bush Appointments Include Fewer Women 2/13 Donald Rumsfeld: Matinee Idol or Prevaricator-in-Chief? 2/13 Unequal Axis 2/13 Has Bush Administration Picked Saddam's Successor? 2/13 "In a defeat for the meat industry, the Senate refused Tuesday to kill proposed restrictions on processors' control of cattle and hog supplies." 2/13 Nearly $1 million in checks written from the Kmart Corp. treasury helped fill the war chests of national political parties, mostly the GOP, since 1997 2/13 "TV evangelist D. James Kennedy has launched a campaign to raise $200,000 for the legal defense of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was sued for erecting a Ten Commandments monument last year" 2/13 REPOSTED: Thrift Savings Plan managers: White House thwarting $350M lawsuit 2/13 Does the White House have a blacklist? 2/13 Israel Seizes Four Palestinian Areas 2/13 The CIA Unchained 2/13 C-Span is Not Planning to Air Gore's Speech on Tuesday Night, But You Can See It on the Web at This Site 2/13 Community Voice or Captive of the Right? 2/13 Watching the Conservative Web 2/13 Message to Ted Turner: The Terrorists Weren't Poor; They Were Religious Fanatics. Most of Them Were From Comfortable Saudi Arabian Families. 2/13 Ex-TVA director lobbied agency for Enron 2/13 Fleeing U.S. Bombs, Villagers Found No Place to Hide 2/13 Smokey Robinson joins Cosby in skipping Cincinnati 2/13 BUSH ADMINISTRATION ADMITS "FOG OF CONFUSION" IN AFGHANISTAN: TRANSLATION, "WE DON'T KNOW WHO THE HECK WE'RE KILLING ANYMORE" In Essence, Henry Waxman Asks Dan Burton to Stop Being a Hypocrite. Shouldn't "Watermelon" Burton Pursue Bush with the Same Zeal He Pillaged the Clintons? That's Buzz's Opinion, Anyway. 2/12 KOCH INDUSTRIES AND THE POLLUTION OF THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE 2/12 "During a tussle with Congress last summer, President Bush cracked that ''a dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier'' than negotiating the maze of American democracy." 2/12 HAVE THE DEMOCRATS FINALLY BECOME ANGRY ENOUGH TO PUT UP THEIR DUKES? THE BUSH CON GAME ON UNDERCUTTING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM 2/12 MUST READ: Sleeping with the Terrorists 2/12 MUST READ: Business vs. Bizness, by Paul Krugman (or the corrupt ethics of Bush Style government to benefit the pocket book of cronies) 2/12 His master's voice: The press laps up the White House war scare political strategy 2/12 "Cardinal Bernard F. Law, faced with polling indicating that nearly half of Boston-area Catholics want him to quit over his handling of clergy sexual abuse, yesterday said that he respects those who want him out, but he does not intend to resign." 2/12 Jerry Falwell, Get Back in Your Closet! 2/12 Daschle: Bush's 'Axis' Phrase Wrong 2/12 Ken Lay's sister's business receives Enron money 2/12 "During a tussle with Congress last summer, President Bush cracked that ''a dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier'' than negotiating the maze of American democracy." 2/12 Mitch Daniels, a P.R. Shill 2/12 It's Amazing! Whenever an American Military Plane Crashes in Afghanistan, It's Never Due to Hostile Fire. We Need Some New Mechanics or Planes Then. Or Is It Just PR Spin to Dampen Any Criticism of the War Without End? 2/13 Battling Over Records of Bush's Governorship 2/12		A NATIONAL DISGRACE: "Several of the 27 former prisoners, who were released Wednesday, said U.S. soldiers treated them so harshly that two men lost consciousness during the beatings while others suffered fractured ribs, loosened teeth and swollen noses." Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Says Oregonians Should Decide on Assisted-Suicide Law 2/12 Have You Hugged the Pentagon Today? 2/12 Is God on Ken Lay's Side? 2/12 Andersen is Auditor for Federal Thrift Savings Plan 2/12 Will Campaign Finance Reform Pass Unamended? 2/12 Bush Sr.'s ties to Global Crossing 2/12 Landmines: The invisible enemy in the Kashmir conflict 2/12 REPOSTED: Carlyle's Way 2/12 Our New Bill of Rights 2/12 FROM THE ARCHIVES: The White House connection: Saudi `agents' close Bush friends 2/12 Ashcroft "Clarifies" His Remarks About Islam 2/12 Afghanistian: Oil Execs Revive Pipeline From Hell 2/12 US army tactics at Cuba 'to shock' 2/12 A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Bush Incorporated, In Bed With the Enron Bandits from Day One: PART II 2/11 Isn't Rush Like One of Those Poor Psychotic Guys You Pass on a New York Street Corner. He Gets More Demented Everyday. 2/12 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jeffrey Skilling, An Aspiring Hugh Hefner? 2/12 "This is really kind of sad," Lockhart said. "The core right-wing of the Republican party is refusing to let go of an issue that was fully resolved last year." 2/12 Accept No Substitutes 2/12 U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah has been named "Porker of the Month" by Citizens Against Public Waste 2/12 Microsoft's Lobbying Efforts Eclipse Enron 2/12 "A driver's license examiner charged in a scheme with five men to sell fraudulent licenses died in a fiery car crash the day before her first court appearance, a crash the prosecutor called "most unusual and suspicious," from Memphis 2/12 The February 8th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American. The BuzzFlash Mailbag Is On Vacation Until Valentine's Day. A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Bush Incorporated, In Bed With the Enron Bandits from Day One 2/8 BuzzFlash Interview with Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for the BBC and the Observer SIMULTANEOUS TO ENRON DICTATING WHITE HOUSE ENERGY POLICY, ENRON LOBBYIST, TIED TO THE WHITE HOUSE, PLOTTED AGAINST DEMOCRATS THE COMPANY PRESIDENCY 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) FROM THE ARCHIVES: Stunning Palast Indictment of Bush-Bin Laden Complicity (9 min. video, req. Real Video Player) Palast's New Book Will Soon Be Available As A BuzzFlash Premium. 2/7 BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Henry Waxman on Enron: Part II, Conducted January 30th by BuzzFlash.com "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." BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman John Conyers, Jr., About the Justice Department Investigation of Enron THE CAMPUS VOICE: Bush worries about the fetus, ignores the child, from the University of Texas Daily Texan 2/12 THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots for the Week 2/11 The Real Axle of Evel 2/13 This Modern World 2/12 Nothing But the Spin for Bob Woodward 2/13 PRESIDENT BUSH ANNOUNCES AGGRESSIVE PLAN FOR PRIVATIZATION OF OLYMPIC GAMES 2/13 Bush Earmarks 1.5 Million Gold Stars for Education 2/12 Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 2/11 These are Ironic Times 2/11 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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