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Bush Picks "SWAT DOC" as Surgeon General. Another Bush Administration Gift to the Gun Lobby. 3/27 "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast, with Foreward by Joe Conason, Now At BUZZFLASH.COM America's Shooting Gallery: A retired sheriff's deputy shot and killed his 5-year-old daughter and his three stepchildren today while his ex-wife was out for a walk, then committed suicide 3/27 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. Arafat Not Going to Arab Summit 3/27 FROM THE "AIN'T IT THE GRAND REWARD YOUR FRIENDS PARTY"? "Florida Republican Party Chairman Al Cardenas' law firm is being considered for a lucrative state contract suing the money manager in Florida's $325 million loss in Enron stock." 3/27 GOP Sex, Lies and a Videotape in Waco, Texas 3/27 "Stupid White Men" on BuzzFlash.com, by Michael Moore. #1 On NY Times Best Seller List. Don't Forget Kenny's Kids 3/27 "Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala Arthur Andersen CEO Resigns 3/27 Eight Dead, 30 Wounded in Paris Gun Spree 3/27 Suspected JFK-To-Israel Suicide Attack Plot Thwarted 3/27 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Check it Out! The March 26th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American New Column! BuzzFlash presents Fifth Columnist: "Close, But No Havana" 3/26 THE BUZZFLASH "NOT-SO-FAST DEPARTMENT": "Concealed weapons carriers are the most law-abiding folks in Utah." Yeah, Right! 3/27 Reality, Pentagon style 3/27 Support Independent News Sources! Nuclear-test pact looks shaky after withdrawals 3/27 Lawsuits Seek Reparations for Slavery 3/27 Paying Twice for the Same Drugs 3/27 Available on BuzzFlash.com, "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock We Never Thought We'd Say This, But Things are Bad When Larry Klayman Looks Good 3/27 JUSTICE WON'T PROSECUTE ALLEGED TERRORIST WHO TRIED TO BUY AN AK-47 AT A GUN SHOW. IS THAT BECAUSE JOHN "GUN LOBBY" ASHCROFT DOESN'T WANT TO UPSET THE NRA? US paves way for war on Iraq: Attack base to be moved into Qatar to bypass Saudi objections 3/27 For Once, the EPA is Actually Enforcing Clean Air Measures 3/27 Boston Area Priest Could Face Criminal Charges 3/27 "Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election" Don't Forget "Too Close to Call," Available at BuzzFlash.com Bush's Nuke Bandwagon 3/27 DOD budget request blasted in wake of fraud, waste and abuse charges 3/27 Rant Against Bush Becomes U.S. Bestseller 3/27 Afghanistan food drops found to do little good 3/27 Neighbors certain they can pinpoint location of 'shadow' government 3/27 Media Bias Keeps Whitewater Exoneration Off Front Pages 3/27 A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: Republicans Who Like Children 3/26 Tales from the Dark Side: "Blinded by the Right" 3/27 Man Crashes Truck Into Fla. Mosque on a "Christian" Mission 3/27 Army Secretary Discloses More Phone Calls on Enron 3/27 "Republican national committeeman Chuck Yob said he will not resign after saying women running for statewide elective office are best suited for secretary of state because ``they like that kind of work.''" 3/27 When is a Scandal Not a Scandal? When It's a Republican Scandal! 3/27 If You Believe this Claptrap Excuse, BuzzFlash Wants to Sell You the Brooklyn Bridge 3/27 Two international observers killed in West Bank 3/27 A class-action lawsuit aimed at overturning Florida's 134-year-old lifetime voting ban against convicts took one step closer to going to trial on Monday. 3/27	Unsuccessful Boca candidate sues, alleges problems with new vote machines 3/27 Caspian Pipeline Construction Efforts Move Forward 3/27 British Columbia Forests Minister Mike de Jong has called the United States a "hostile foreign power" that is attacking forest-dependent communities and families in B.C. 3/27 The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that government agencies can use aggressive eviction policies to get rid of drug users in public housing. 3/27 Ex-legislators renounce ban on gay adoptions they passed in 1977 3/27 Playboy Seeks Full Disclosure From Enron's Women 3/27 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! THE NEXT WORLD ORDER: The Bush Administration may have a brand-new doctrine of power. 3/27 Two Republican U.S. Senate candidates in North Carolina walked out of a GOP dinner Monday night after a party official refused their request to speak. 3/27 Empty American Promises Embitter an Afghan Village 3/27 "Saddam Hussein: America's Worst Enemy...or Cheney's Best Customer?" A Radio Ad from GWBush.com 3/27 Librarians: Internet Filters Put "unconstitutional restraints on free speech." 3/27 School tax credits fail poor 3/27 Attacks on Journalists, Press Freedom Rise in 2001 3/27 "It has been over a year now since Bush took over the White House. And with Republicans now suddenly willing to talk about presidential approval ratings, lets take a look at what the Bush administration has done the past year." 3/27 White House on defensive about energy meetings 3/27 U.S. Is Examining Whether Donations by 2 Wealthy Saudis Indirectly Aided Terrorism 3/27 Sen. Wants Pakistan to Seal Borders 3/27 Favor of the Month: ". . .Alastair Wood, who was the leading candidate to take over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until the White House pulled his name from contention last month." 3/27 Reality, Pentagon style 3/27 "Wersal's free speech claim comes before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, where justices will be asked to weigh the traditional goal of an impartial bench against judges' right to speak their minds." 3/27 "When HBO airs "Lumumba" starting this Saturday, viewers won't get the whole story. That's because former U.S. Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci has succeeded in getting the film's distributor to bleep out his character's identity from the film." 3/27 Atlantic Richfield Co. and five other mining companies have agreed to an $87 million settlement to control the 30 billion gallons of toxic water in the Berkeley Pit 3/27 Using CAFE confusion: "Contrary to the propaganda, a higher CAFE standard would not force Americans into smaller cars." 3/27 Left-Coast Primary: GOP candidate Bill Simon's waking nightmare -- California. 3/27 Military vs. media; Some things never change 3/27 A Troubling Money Trail: "The group, the Islamic Institute, which operates out of the same D.C. office suite as GOP activist Grover Norquist" 3/27 Bank of America delays cancellation of Army travel cards 3/27 Values Fall Prey to Hypocrisy: "A rowdy parade of right-wing pundits has used those of us who refuse to wear our religion on our sleeves as scapegoats for all that ails the United States and the world." 3/27 America's Shooting Gallery: 2nd-grader is arrested for having gun on bus 3/27 What a Difference a President Makes 3/27 U.S. Orders Checks for Corrosion at Nuclear Reactors 3/26 The Washington Post Should Let Readers Write Its Editorials: A Timeout for Senator Lott 3/26 James Carville Lets Loose on the Washington Post 3/26 BuzzFlash Interviews: Moore, Brock, Palast, Waxman, Conyers, Hightower, Lyons. Read them all! Coming Soon: Paul Begala. Bush Administration Releases "Blanked Out" Energy Task Force Documents 3/26 Bush Started Tariff Wars with Canada: Canada Slaps Steep Tariff on U.S. Tomato Imports 3/26 Report: U.S. Troops Use Honduran Child Prostitutes 3/26 Bogus Cliche: Liberals Run the Media 3/26 The National Rifle Association, Unacceptable Extremism in Order to Raise a Buck 3/26 "Less than a week after Andrea Yates began serving life in prison for killing her children, the Harris County district attorney's office said it is looking into whether her husband had any culpability in the drownings." 3/26 "Uneasy over the increasingly partisan atmosphere in the Senate, Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) has refused to take part in a GOP leadership effort to force quick action on the defense appropriations bill." 3/26 "The target of an anti-terrorist raid in the United States last week provided funds for an Islamic group with close ties to the Republican party and the White House." 3/26 The Afghan authorities are struggling to deal with the capital's massed ranks of child beggars. 3/26	"Whitegate"? 3/26 LOCKHEED DIRECTOR IS UNDER FIRE BECAUSE OF ROLE ON ENRON BOARD 3/26 The March 25th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia I Don't Approve 3/26 Pentagon juggles politics of creating North American command 3/26 'Crown jewels' of U.S. parks endangered 3/26 Documents to fault nuclear agency 3/26 Life Ain't Sweet for Workers at Lifesavers' Plant 3/26 Fired and Blamed in January, Enron Auditor Duncan Meets With Prosecutors 3/26 Big drug scandal grips Air Force Academy 3/26 "Unlike the beloved Hope-Crosby 'road' pictures, the Iraq adventure will not be funny," by Chris Matthews 3/26 Houston Judges Got $200,550 3/26 Rumsfeld says he discussed Enron scandal with Army Secretary 3/26 I.R.S. Says Offshore Tax Evasion Is Widespread 3/26 California Congressman Pete Stark Tells It Like It Is 3/24 Energy Contacts Disclosed: Consumer Groups Left Out, Data Show 3/26 What's behind the resignation of a top official in the Commission's corporation finance office? One Congressman would apparently like to know. 3/26 Easy visas put business profits before security 3/26 Security at U.S. Reactors Criticized by Congressman 3/26 The DynCorp-government connection: Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business. 3/26 Troubling terror trials. "Bush has given himself not only the right to put some 500 Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners on trial in special "military commissions," but also power of life and death over them." 3/26 With help from a friend, Enron fleeces South America 3/26 'Ethnic Cleansing' video earmarked for the white 'revolution' 3/26 BuzzFlash interviews the Legendary Jim Hightower About The Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal: OIC Makes It Official: Whitewater is Now a Republican Scandal 3/21 BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right. BuzzFlash interviews Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. NEW INTERVIEW! BuzzFlash interviews Michael Moore, Filmmaker, TV Host, and author of Stupid White Men . . . And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation. Another List of GOP Chickenhawks 3/20 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! THE CAMPUS VOICE: Speak Up! From the University of Texas Daily Texan 3/25 THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Oscar Special 3/25 What color is today? Tom Ridge’s dumbed-down approach to national security 3/23 These are Ironic Times 3/25 Dr. Bush by Bill Mitchell 3/25 Cartoons About Homeland Security Terrorism Color Chart 3/19 What a Difference a President Makes 3/26 Dubya's Dayly Diary 3/23 Oil Does the Talking in U.S-Saudi Dialogue 3/26 While This Shouldn't Be in the Lighter Side, It's Really Funny When You Compare It to How the Bush Administration Has Conducted Itself Since Bush Released This "Standards of Official Conduct" 3/26 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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