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Kennedy: Bush Shortchanges Education


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A Metaphor for the Entire Republiican Party. 4/7 "The terrorists have definitely contaminated the water system of the [Florida] state House and Senate" 4/7 Friends of the CIA 4/7 Murder Report Set to Fuel Taiwan Navy Scandal 4/7 Gale Norton Has Report Critical of ANWR Drilling Rewritten to Reflect Pro-Oil Company Drilling Bias 4/7 "Venezuela's largest union federation has called a 24-hour general strike in a show of support for striking managers from the country's state oil company." 4/7 This Is Your Prison on Drugs 4/7 Zimbabwe Government Breaks-up Anti-Government Demonstrations 4/7 Specially-Trained Dogs Sense Seizures, Protect Owners 4/7 Agent: Man Tried 'Economic Jihad.' Can Someone Explain "Economic Jihad" to Us? 4/7 Secret Evidence Permitted: Critics Fear Rights at Risk 4/7 SHAMEFUL! OBSCENE! BUSH BLAMES CLINTON FOR MIDEAST VIOLENCE! WHAT A RECKLESS EVASION OF RESPONSIBILTY! George W. Welcomes Tony Blair to the Bush Family Grudge Match Against Saddam Hussein 4/7 Jeb Bush Wants Guns N' Religion in Schools 4/7 Now Bush Claims He Wasn't Criticizing Clinton. What a Doofus. 4/7 Bush's So-called "Job Safety Plan" (aka, the "Screw the Workers: They Can't Donate Big Bucks" Plan) Faces Criticism. No Kidding. 4/7 "Cold Mountain" Author Gets $8 Million Advance for New Book, Reports Say 4/7 Federalist Judge David Sentelle, Who Engineered the Appointment of Ken Starr, is up to No Good Again 4/7 Is the FBI a Leaky Sieve? 4/7 More Battles Loom Over Bush's Nominees for Judgeships 4/7 Vinson & Elkins to be added to Enron fraud case 4/7 Bush Mulls "Unsigning" Treaty for International Criminal Court 4/7 BUZZ INTO SPRING! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! "Behind Congress' Back While Capitol Hill was empty, Bush slipped a foe of affirmative action and the Americans With Disabilities Act into an important civil-rights post." 4/7 "A suspected Islamic militant planned to hijack a plane and crash it into Singapore's Changi Airport, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in a shocking disclosure to parliament." 4/7 "Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas founder, said the group would not stop attacks on Israelis, and he accused the United States of trying to weaken the Palestinians' resolve by renewing truce efforts." Say What? 4/6 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Check it Out! Watch Out for Human Chip Implants 4/6 "Stupid White Men" on BuzzFlash.com, by Michael Moore. #1 On NY Times Best Seller List. Mitch Romney's Star Shining Less Brightly 4/6 The April 5th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American The Lone Peacemaker on Capitol Hill 4/6 Cash Offered for Dead Westerners 4/6 Kathleen Willey, Go Away! 4/6 We Check Teddy Bears for Safety, Why Not Guns? 4/6	The April 5th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) 4/5 Labor Department to Offer "Voluntary" Workplace Injury Guidelines. Any Volunteers? 4/6 Iran Urges Ban on Oil to the West 4/6 The Jeb Bush Scandals Page 4/6 BuzzFlash Interviews: Moore, Brock, Palast, Waxman, Conyers, Hightower, Lyons. Read them all! Coming Soon: Paul Begala. Unemployment Rate Up to 5.7 Percent. Geez, Wasn't It Paul O'Neill Who Just Said That The Recession Didn't Really Happen? Just Asking. Hey, But What Does The Bush Administration Care, They HAVE Millions AND Jobs. 4/6 The polluters still rule in Washington 4/6 Concern about suicide bombers in U.S. 4/6 America's Shooting Gallery: Two Students Shot Outside Vocational School In Newark 4/6 More Links On The Bush-Enron Lovefest Connections Page in BuzzFlash Perspectives 4/6 Allegations of Sexual Abuse Hit the Los Angeles Archdiocese 4/6 Islamic states warn of 'all-out war' in Mid-East; split over terrorism 4/6 Christian Coalition and Republican-Led Teens Join Fight Against Campaign Finance Reform 4/6 Feds Said Squeezing Ex-Enron Lieutenants to Talk 4/6 Dear Walt Isaacson... 4/6 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! College costs spiral, leaving low-income families in lurch 4/6 Snowmobilers in Yellowstone set record for citations 4/6 BuzzFlash Florida "Hootergate" Watch: Feeney's wrong answer on state phone records 4/6 The state Democratic Party chairman called yesterday for the FBI to take over the investigation into possible wiretapping of two Democratic conference calls by a Republican official. 4/6 Judges Blast Library Filtering: "The U.S. Congress' third assault on Internet pornography appears likely to meet the same ignoble end as the previous two." 4/6 So Much for Justice! "A federal judge refused Friday to rule out secret evidence presented by the government in a lawsuit brought by an Islamic charity suspected of ties to terrorism." 4/6 Alan Colmes responds to [The Hamster's] editorial and criticizes the left-wing's "obsession" with the stolen election, and calls himself a "moderate." 4/6 "The war on terrorism is far from over, and American remains under threat, Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday as he stumped for freshman Congressman Sam Graves and tried to drum up support for President Bush's new military spending plan." 4/6 A C-Span discussion with Greg Palast, author of (as C-Span puts it) "a new book critical of globalization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)." 4/5 Fresh row over Bush's links to gas companies 4/6 Don't Forget "Too Close to Call," Available at BuzzFlash.com Retail job cuts this year could be the worst in at least two decades 4/6 "If you've been laid off or think you might be and plan to raid your 401(k) or other retirement account to cover emergencies, you'd better come up with a contingency plan." 4/6 The Carlyle Group's Competition in War-Profiteering 4/6 Australia green-lights stem-cell research 4/6 The Pentagon's appalling record on "friendly fire." 4/6 Handicapping McCain-Feingold 4/6 "Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala Bush Admin Wants To Oust Head of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. BuzzFlash Wonders Which Company is Pulling Bush's Strings This Time? 4/6 Enron plaintiffs to sue Wall St. 4/6 Your Cell Phone Is Watching You 4/6 FL State Univ. President Won't Give 1% of Licensing Sales to Help Sweatshop Workers. Students Arrested While Protesting. 4/6 Judiciary Complains Bush Won't Meet Security Needs. Has He Met Anyone's Needs Yet? Well, Anyone Other Than Corporations? 4/6 Drug Busts Gone Bad, Then Worse: Dallas is hit by claims of planted, fake cocaine and corrupt cops and informants. 4/6 Ridge Plans to Issue Sweeping Safety Guidelines. Anyone Know What They Are or How Much He's Spending on Them? Just Asking. 4/6 "Supporters of campaign finance reform may want to hold off before popping those corks." The McConnell and Starr "case was assigned to newly minted conservative Judge Richard Leon -- a recent George W. Bush appointee." 4/6 Israel: Mastermind of Passover Massacre is Killed 4/6 KEN LAY PROBED FOR ALLEGED INSIDER TRADING 4/6	China Asks Bush Why He Called Taiwan a Country. Because, He's a Dim Bulb, That's Why. Don't Take It Personally, China. 4/6 The Masters of Mean 4/6 Blair's Ties to Bush: Partner, or 'Poodle'? 4/6 GOP, declining to shed Enron aid, is picketed 4/6 "President Bush today gave the clearest sign yet that the US is preparing for military action against Iraq, declaring "Saddam needs to go"." 4/6 Bush, Missing in Action. See How He Spent March While the Middle East Went up in Flames. 4/6 North Korea to Open Dialogue with U.S. 4/6 Fighting Spreads Through West Bank 4/6 The Post, Susan Schmidt and Coordinated Responses: "Before their reporters lose it, the paper needs to get a blog." 4/6 "Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election" "The Republican National Committee raised a record $31.7 million in the first three months of the year, collecting three times as much money that can be spent directly for candidates as the Democrats." 4/5 U.N. Endorses Powell Mideast Mission 4/5 How Much Does the NRA Contribute to Florida Legislatures to Get This Kind of Insane Response? Lawmakers change school code to allow guns locked in cars 4/5 Army Secretary Thomas E. White Plugs For the Carlyle Group's Weapons. 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Kennedy: Bush Shortchanges Education