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Right Wing Independent "Entrapment" Counsel Issues Final GOP Propaganda Shot at Clinton. Isn't Robert Ray Going to Run for the Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) New Jersey Senate Nomination? Coincidence? Just Asking. 3/6
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Rumsfeld Denies 'Black Hawk Down' Comparison 3/7
Ashcroft: No End Near For Alerts. Thankfully, He Didn't Sing the News. 3/7
Bush Waves To Stevie Wonder. Really. (See bottom of page) 3/7
"The Quinnipiac poll showed Torricelli holding a 53-28 percent lead over Republican Robert Ray, the independent counsel who investigated former President Clinton. Ray has not announced his candidacy." 3/7
Deported Israelis weren't spies, FBI says 3/7
The March 6th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Officials in Alaska are Told to Shut Their Traps About ANWR 3/7
The GOP "Aide-Gate" Scandal in Florida Continues... 3/7
The Bush Doctrine: War for the Appearance of Purpose, from the Daytona Beach News-Journal
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CBO Says Bush's Budget Numbers Don't Add Up: It Will Create MORE DEFICIT Next Year. GOP Says "But, In Ten Years Things Will Get Better!" TEN YEARS! 3/7
Pickering Vote May be Delayed 3/7
Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" as a "Twofer"!
Bush Rewards 43 Members of "Pioneers" Fund-Raising Club With Prominent Posts 3/6
"The FBI apologized Wednesday for shooting an unarmed man during a search for a bank robber as a lawmaker called for a thorough investigation of the incident." 3/7
Anthrax Probe Remains Slow Go 3/7
Actor Alec Baldwin Criticizes Gov. Bush Over Election Reform 3/7
Teachers Find Their Voice in Idaho 3/7
Everything's Coming Up Democratic in California 3/7
The March 6th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American
Davis' Brash Tactician Grabs National Notice 3/7
Veterans Sue to Protect Benefits 3/7
The Democrats Need a Long-term Strategy to Fight Bush Judicial Appointments 3/7
Regardless of Official Word, Things Aren't So Great 3/7
Five troops die in Kabul accident 3/6
Israel Continues Attack on Gaza 3/7
Powell Says Israeli Prime Minister's Declaration of War Will Not Work 3/7
"Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala
More Feeney News: "In an unusual arrangement, the Republican Party of Florida has agreed to pay all cellular phone charges for seven of House Speaker Tom Feeney's top-paid staff members." 3/6
JUDGE SETS TIMETABLE FOR THE BUSH/CHENEY REGIME TO RELEASE INFORMATION THAT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA 3/6
Bush's (Karl Rove's) Handpicked Candidate to Run Against California Governor Gray Davis Loses to "Conservative" Bill Simon. That Should Tell You Something. 3/6
House GOP Pushes New Recovery Plan, Democrats "Cautious," BuzzFlash Leery, Citizens Beware (Maybe We Need "Terror Alerts" For GOP Stimulus Packages) 3/7
Helms Clarifies That He Wished He'd Helped ONLY African AIDs Victims, Reassuring Us All That He's Still a Tiny-Minded Bigot Who We Wish Would Just Go Away. 3/7
Bush Administration Backing Return to Slave Wages for Welfare Mothers: "'Workfare' Participants Could Be Paid Below Minimum Wage" 3/6
Bush Joined Unit of Enron in '86 Venture to Seek Oil 3/6
Reno making tracks in Bush country 3/7
Does John Stoke's Radio Show Foment Extremism? 3/7
America's Shooting Gallery: Brothers fire shots after trade goes awry 3/7
Molly Ivins on A New Bush Book: "How Reporters Fall in Love: A Campaign-Trail Memoir" 3/7
Where There's Smoke: Enron = Teapot Dome and other interesting tidbits, like that Bush Lobbied Argentina on Enron's Behalf in 1988. Bush Says No, Argentinian Official Says Yes. 3/7
Sunshine vs. shadows: Cheney's war on the public's right to know, by Arianna Huffington 3/7
"The legal team supervising House and Senate mapmakers redrawing Florida's political districts is a conglomerate of Republican party loyalists and administration insiders even though they are paid by taxpayers." 3/7
The Core of Muslim Rage 3/7
Kentucky State Militia Leader Arrested for Gun Possession 3/7
Cut-Rate Welfare Jobs in Bush Plan (Bush Has Since Back-Tracked On This) 3/7
Publisher to Run for Idaho Governor 3/7
More Feeney News: "It reads like the plot of an old Marx Brothers comedy, but it's just another day in Tallahassee." 3/7
Judge says amateur news gatherers on public access TV have same rights as professionals 3/7
Bush Backtracks on Welfare Policy 3/7
Consider yourself influenced - The Office of Strategic Bald-Faced Lies: A case study 3/7
Has the US lost its way? 3/7
"Let's get one thing straight -- this is what it means to be "unpatriotic:" 3/7
Throw back the throwback Pickering: "Pickering is clearly not qualified for his current judicial post. Now, President Bush has nominated Pickering for elevation to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals" 3/7
Recount Expected in Maine Election 3/7
"Investigate Feeney's use of a key campaign aide" 3/7
Bush Steel Move "clearly driven by the U.S. domestic political agenda and the fact that there are mid-term Congressional elections later this year." 3/7
"Tensions over the Bush administration's sharing of information with Congress flared anew yesterday as the White House excluded the House Democratic leader from a confidential briefing" 3/6
Kerry Fires Back At G.O.P. Snipers, by Joe Conason 3/6
Well, Well, Well. Isn't That Sweet: The Carlyle Group Chosen as 'Deal Team of the Year 2001.' BuzzFlash Chooses Them as "The Scariest Team of the Year," Any Year It Exists. There's Nothing Like Profiting from War and Oil. 3/6
The Sordid Tale of GOP "Uber" Hypocrite and Grand Hypocrisy Shill John Fund Continues (Read Down) 3/6
Seeking retribution for Enron's losses won't be easy 3/6
FROM THE ARCHIVES: "Who's leading the anti-war movement? Congressional Republicans." Don't You Love Rank (and File) Hypocrisy? It's Part of the Foundation of the GOP Platform. 3/6
"Shovelful by shovelful, the Bush administration is digging itself a deeper hole in its relations with Congress by playing the executive privilege and secrecy cards." 3/6
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Condit is History as He is Easily Defeated in Democratic Primary 3/6
Study Ties Pollution, Cancer Risk 3/6
Justice Department to Hijack Authority Over Media Mergers and Other Areas from FTC. Watch Out for this One! 3/6
AS MIDDLE EAST CAREENS OUT OF CONTROL, WHITE HOUSE SITS ON ITS BUTT 3/6
FBI Warned of Hijack Risks Years Ago 3/6
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: Like a Stripteaser, the Right Wing GOP Has to Have a Gimmick 3/5
Disinformation Follies 3/6
ABC News Division is Plunged Into Disarray 3/6
"The Securities and Exchange Commission, demoralized by budget constraints imposed by Congress and the Bush and Clinton administrations, says it will be unable to handle a record number of enforcement cases spawned by the collapse of Enron Corp." 3/6
Bush Won't Seek Bailout for Steel Retirees 3/6
Why Did the Washington Post Go Soft on the Pentagon? 3/6
World Threatens Reprisals Over U.S. Steel Tariffs 3/6
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"The Environmental Protection Agency wants to let power plants and other industrial facilities pay to replace fish sucked into their cooling water intakes as an alternative to installing equipment to keep them out." 3/6
BUSH IMPOSES COSTLY STEEL TARIFFS 3/6
Everything's Coming up Shell Oil in Afghanistan 3/6
Bush's Little Shop of Horrors 3/6
"The Bush administration wants to overhaul the nation's unemployment insurance system by shifting administrative costs to the states while cutting payroll taxes that businesses pay." 3/6
Daschle Left in the Dark 3/6
MUST READ: Who Served Their Country -- A List of Top Democrats and Republicans 3/5
Bush, Who Avoided Service in Vietnam, Says We Should Prepare for More Military Casualties 3/5
The political fallout from a nuclear-waste decision 3/6
New Inspector General for the CIA to be Nominated. Hmmm. 3/6
Selma marchers salute past: Civil rights figures, others remember Pettus Bridge heroes 3/6
Office of Strategic Lying: A classic Rumsfeld maneuver 3/6
"Funeralgate" Now Involves Georgia, Too 3/6
The pseudo-patriotic hypocrisy of Trent Lott and Tom DeLay 3/6
"It's been more than a month now since the Justice Department pulled off the Great Aluminum Boob Caper" 3/6
Credibility is ammunition in wartime, by Helen Thomas 3/6
Officials Question if Recession Was Real. Wanna Bet Those Officials Are Millionaires (Can Someone Say "Bush and Friends"?) and Haven't Had to Look For a Job in the Last Six Months? 3/6
The Patriot Act: Last Refuge of a Scoundrel 3/6
"[T]he U.S. government is drafting a plan that would give Florida officers the federal authority to arrest illegal immigrants deemed threats to national security." 3/6
New York Nuclear Weapon Plot Deemed Not Credible, Said "Official Sources." How Come They Couldn't Find a SINGLE Person to Go On The Record for This Story? 3/6
California Supreme Court Decision Narrows 4th Amendment Rights Against Unreasonable Search. Somewhere, Hunched Over In a Dark Closet, John Ashcroft Shrieks In Delight. 3/6
Bully Brigade: Limbaugh, Novak and Hannity smack down dissenters: Dare to disagree? You're helping the enemy! 3/6
Wanna Know What Motivates The Bush Administration? Follow the Oil: "US seeks Pakistan’s oil nod" (from Jan.) 3/6
Bush's Social Security is Both Voodoo Economics and Fuzzy Math 3/6
President Assures Voters: Shadow Rulers Bred Exclusively From Blue-Ribbon 3/6
The Supreme Court's decision to intervene in a 4-year-old dispute between the FCC and wireless carrier NextWave Telecom could have a heavy impact on how the government administers sales of valuable telecommunications spectrum 3/6
Bush's bunker presidency 3/6
WEDDING BELLS: JEFFREY SKILLING Takes a Bride 3/6
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: New Wine in Old Bottles 3/5
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Two Quite Different Stories about Cheney's Daughter's New Job 3/5
BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Social Security Reform, Part I: Bush is Lost in Des Moines 3/4
MUST READ: A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: WHY DID BUSH SIT NEXT TO SASHA COHEN AT THE OLYMPICS? Just Ask "Where's the Beef"?
Media Watch Special Report: The Daily Show with Guest Michael Moore 2/22
BuzzFlash Interview with Douglas Kellner, Author of "Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election."
THE CAMPUS VOICE:
" Resident Assistants and Community Development Assistants at the University of Massachusetts voted 138-88 to form the first undergraduate labor union in the country," from the Massachusetts Daily Collegian 3/7
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
The George W. Girls: Not for the Squeamish 3/7
This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 3/4
Bush and His Shadow 3/7
What Gives Democrats The Right to Ask Questions? 3/5
Watch John Aschroft Sing A Song He Wrote About America. Really. We're Not Kidding. 3/6
Your Horoscope, by Tom Ridge 3/5
Applications Are Now Being Accepted for Feeney's Assistant 3/6
"I Helped Kill A Poet in Nigeria!" 3/5
Bush, The Cheerleader 3/5
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