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After Much Criticism for Doing Nothing, Bush Finally Sends "Envoy" to the Middle East 3/8
House Approves Tax Cuts, Benefits 417-3; Gephardt: "We've reached a tenuous consensus"; Daschle Wants To See Details, But Said Bill Appeared to "deserve our support." 3/7
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Agriculture Nominee Faces Contentious Senate Hearing 3/8
Is Alaska Drilling a Smokescreen? 3/8
Israeli Troops, Tanks Invade Bethlehem 3/8
"Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala
Bush Zigzags After Choice Loses in California Primary 3/8
"Bush says being a single mother is "the toughest job in our country." So why does he want to make it tougher?" 3/8
Whoa! Ex-Afghan King Says U.S. war is ‘stupid and useless’ 3/8
Health Problems Bedevil Welfare-to-Work Moms 3/8
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: "The 'War on Terrorism' for Dummies" 3/8
Rove's Embarrassment 3/7
Bush’s secrecy leaves presidential historians out in the cold 3/8
"Bell said Parker resigned about noon after being given about 30 minutes to choose between resigning or being fired." Off With His Head, George the Second Decreed! 3/8
GOP Forces Delay On Pickering Vote. Perhaps, In a Week's Time, Karl Rove Can Erase Much Of Mr. Pickering's Unpleasant Past. What's That Saying About Putting a Dress on a Farm Animal? 3/7
"An inquiry into exactly what caused the twin towers to collapse after they were hit by hijacked jetliners may have been undermined by the hasty recycling of steel wreckage that could hold vital clues, experts told Congress yesterday." 3/8
Testing His Metal, by Paul Krugman 3/8
Southern Republican Gets the Boot from Bush Royal Court for Criticizing the Emperor's Budget
Rumsfeld Denies 'Black Hawk Down' Comparison 3/7
In Colorado, "About a half-dozen state senators walked out of Tuesday's morning prayer after a pastor asked for God's help to make abortion illegal and to make the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools mandatory." 3/8
Stripping the West 3/8
Bush Administration Proposes Regulations to Give Away Public Lands in Utah 3/8
Data Show World Awash in Stolen Nuclear Material 3/8
In the "We'll Believe It When We See It, Because Last Time You Lied" Category: Bush to Propose More in Aid to NYC 3/8
Groups sue to open terrorism investigation hearings 3/8
Progressive Radio Programs 3/8
The Daily Enron 3/8
BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - OIC Has Evidence that Clinton Tried to Hide that He and Lewinsky . . . Dated. 3/7
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Why "Sharing the Blame" Is Wrong 3/7
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The 10 Commandments Must be Moved from Courthouse in Pennsylvania 3/8
The March 6th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia
SECRETARY OF THE ARMY WHITE SLOW TO CUT HIS TIES WITH ENRON
The Urge to Converge. "Since when is bigness goodness?" by William Safire 3/7
Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" as a "Twofer"!
Players on a rigged grand chessboard: Bridas, Unocal and the Afghanistan pipeline 3/8
"President Bush is returning to Florida, where brother Jeb is seeking re-election as governor, to raise money for Republicans." 3/8
Out of Step, but With a Big Swagger 3/8
U.S. Pressure on Cuba May Increase 3/8
Idea: Let's not invade Iraq right now 3/8
"Before getting his current job as president of Afghanistan, the elegant Hamid Karzai worked for [UNOCAL], as did Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington's emissary to the new government in Kabul." 3/8
Not the People's Choice: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. on How to democratize American democracy 3/8
Florida House speaker's aide tried to delete e-mails. Another move from the Katherine Harris playbook? 3/8
Radioactive fallout from 1950s above-ground nuclear weapons testing spread farther than researchers previously realized and most increased cancer rates in the United States, according to a scientific report. 3/8
The Mouth That Still Roars: Michael Moore takes on "Stupid White Men" with his usual outrage--and humor. 3/8
Carlyle Group Trying to Bed British Ministry of Defense Company, QinetiQ 3/8
Quietly, US firms penalized 3/8
"There is a technical legal term for prosecutors who publicly claim that they had enough evidence to prosecute and win a conviction and yet decided not to do so. They're called liars." 3/8
Military officers criticize rush to use ground troops 3/8
"A new poll from Democracy Corps (D), a group run by Democratic activists including James Carville, found voters are concerned about a return to deficit spending, and more favor canceling or delaying President Bush's future tax cuts" 3/8
Neighborhood Watch to Shift Focus and Become "Watch Your Neighbors" 3/8
Wind Power Winding 'Round World. With An Oilgarchy In the White House, It Won't Happen in the U.S. Although We Bet You Could Run New York City on the Hot Air Coming from Washington 3/8
WSJ Article on Pickering and The Right's Main Squeeze in the White House 3/8
U.S. to show images incriminating Iraq 3/8
Can't Find an Alternative to the Conservative Blowhards on the Radio These Days? Try One of These 3/8
How gullible are you? How big a sucker are you for spin? How willing are you to believe everything your government tells you without thinking for yourself? You're about to find out. 3/8
The Road to Enron: Robert Kuttner on the ideological collapse of deregulation. 3/8
Bush Opposes Raising Ceiling for Insuring Bank Deposits, Set 20 Years Ago. 3/8
More On White/Enron: Army Official Kept Options on Enron Stock Until January 3/8
GOParty Animals (second to last story) 3/8
"Andersen, the auditing firm accused of helping Enron hide massive losses from investors, could play a key role in the proposed seven-year, $278 million [Florida] contract." 3/8
President of Amtrak Is Resigning 3/8
Enron To Give Senate Tax Records 3/8
Bedtime for Rudy, Judi, Kids Is a No-Go 3/8
Bush Waves To Stevie Wonder. Really. (See bottom of page) 3/7
Tariffs, popular in Rust Belt, may spark trade war 3/8
Ireland Abortion Vote Decided 3/8
Hear It For Yourself: Bush Prides Himself In Hitting the "Trifecta" 3/7
Deported Israelis weren't spies, FBI says 3/7
Venezuelan Leader on Bush Administration Bad Guy List 3/8
Senators admonish secretary of Army over Enron holdings 3/7
Whitman Sends Message to Utility Companies that It's Okay to Keep Polluting for Now 3/8
Chicks with Guns 3/8
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Oh Brother Where Are Thou?: Bush Brother Pushes Education on Sales Campaign Trail 3/7
Landscapes Under Siege 3/7
"Do not read his lips, read his actions." Bush caves to politics of "opportunism," by George Will? Yep. 3/7
Homeland security - pork or protection? 3/7
Judge Denies Giuliani's Request for Joint Custody 3/7
Greenspan Says Recovery Has Started. So If One Follows the GOP Logic (Read: Spin) on the Recession, The Recovery Must Be Clinton's Doing, Too. 3/7
Senate OKs Alaska Pipeline Changes; Gas Will Go South Through Alaska Instead of East Through Canada; Cuts Into ANWR Drilling "Creates Jobs" Argument. 3/7
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Officials in Alaska are Told to Shut Their Traps About ANWR 3/7
The March 7th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American
The GOP "Aide-Gate" Scandal in Florida Continues... 3/7
Pickering Vote May be Delayed 3/7
"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
"The Israeli government refused to allow Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Daniel Barenboim to give a master class and solo piano recital Wednesday in the West Bank town of Ramallah" 3/7
Actor Alec Baldwin Criticizes Gov. Bush Over Election Reform 3/7
Teachers Find Their Voice in Idaho 3/7
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
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Powell Says Israeli Prime Minister's Declaration of War Will Not Work 3/7
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 AID's Victims, Reassuring Us All That He's Still a Tiny-Minded Bigot Who We Wish Would Just Go Away. 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
Does the American government have the right to lie? 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
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: Like a Stripteaser, the Right Wing GOP Has to Have a Gimmick 3/5
MUST READ: A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: WHY DID BUSH SIT NEXT TO SASHA COHEN AT THE OLYMPICS? Just Ask "Where's the Beef"?
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:
Ted Koppel Goes for the Laughs 3/8
Bush Calls on Business Leaders to Create 500,000 Crummy Jobs by 2003 3/8
Bush and His Shadow 3/7
Fox Apparently Takes Humor Site Seriously 3/8
Back Into the Muck 3/8
Watch John Aschroft Sing A Song He Wrote About America. Really. We're Not Kidding. 3/6
Applications Are Now Being Accepted for Feeney's Assistant 3/6
PRESIDENT ASSURES VOTERS: "SHADOW RULERS BRED EXCLUSIVELY FROM BLUE-RIBBON CONSERVATIVE GENETICS" 3/8
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