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AT LEAST THREE U.S. SERVICEMEN KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN	Archived 4/15/02 7:47am Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n!
IT'S APRIL 15TH! IRS Audits Increase for Low-Income Taxpayers: Examination Rate for Affluent Filers Falls Again


TAX DAY SPECIAL: Where is the Leadership to Take on the Tax Cut Follies? 4/15 "President Chavez's comeback has also left Washington looking rather stupid" 4/15 White House Pushing Hard to Make the Federal Courts Another Branch of the Republican Party 4/15 Powell Meets Arafat, Makes Little Progress 4/15 BUZZFLASH BADGE OF HONOR: Richard Mellon Scaife's Newspaper Joins in Taking Its Potshot at BuzzFlash and Paul Begala for Telling the Truth 4/15 Support Independent News Sources! Available on BuzzFlash.com, "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock 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. U.N. Chief Adopting Harsh Stance on Israel 4/15 CHAVEZ FREED AND RETURNS TO CLAIM PRESIDENCY. CIA-BACKED "SILENT COUP" BACKFIRES. Big Jump in Spending Marks 2003 Budget 4/15 Powell pays dearly For his boss's failings 4/15 "The European Union, Japan and Canada, are avid supporters of the ideas of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, but only when it means liberalising the markets of smaller and weaker countries, not their own." 4/15 A Jubilant Chavez Reclaimed Power in Venezuela 4/15 Government Secrecy Won't Defeat Terrorism 4/15 Dissent is Not Disloyalty. We Figured that out a Long Time Ago. 4/15 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Fox News Chairman Says Crossfire, "Set Up To Have The Left Win." E-mail from Roger Ailes. U.S. inquiry tracks insiders at Enron 4/15 Arafat Won't Stop Suicide Bombings Until Israel Withdraws: Powell Presses Sharon on Pullback of Troops 4/15 More Sex Abuse Accusers Come Forward in Boston 4/15 Court: Israel Must Hand Over Bodies 4/15 "Thousands of black and Hispanic students across Florida are being left behind in the state's drive to boost reading scores, despite rosy assessments by Gov. Jeb Bush and top education officials." 4/15 "I don't care what anybody says," Gore said. "I think Bill Clinton and I did a damn good job." Al, if You Had Said that in 2,000, You Would Have Beat Bush by 2,000,000 votes, not 540,000. 4/15 Jeb Soft-pedals Tax Break. Oh Heck, He's Just Plain Lying. 4/15 Wave of Anti-Semitic Attacks Continues in France 4/15 BUY "THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY" AND HELP OUT BUZZFLASH.COM Tunisian Jews Stunned by Explosion 4/15 Instant messages aren't always fleeting 4/15 lllinois Panel Suggests Death Penalty Changes 4/15 Eyeing November, Democrats Intensify Attacks 4/15 Global Crossing Pressured Employees to Make Campaign Donations 4/15 Chinese Officials Confirm Air China Crash 4/15 Kids and guns: still a risky mix 4/15 GREAT ARTICLE: Texas GOP hypocrites are sent scurrying 4/15 Some Detect GOP Hypocrisy on Hispanics. No Kidding. 4/15 "Up From Conservatism" by Michael Lind. "BuzzFlash Gives It Two Thumbs Up and Four Stars" White House Warns Chavez to Respect "Process." Message to White House: Wouldn't Helping to Overthrow a Democratically-Elected Leader, Whatever His Policies, be a Violation of "Process." So Much for the Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP). 4/15 "Stupid White Men" on BuzzFlash.com, by Michael Moore. #1 On NY Times Best Seller List. MUST READ: Friday's Orwellian State Department Double Speak Statement on the Coup that Temporarily Overthrew the Duly Elected Venezuelan Government 4/15 More on the Florida Democratic Party Convention Held Over the Weekend 4/15 Adbusters 4/15 Cheney Radio Ad from GWBUSH.com 4/15 The Oil President Hits a Slick Spot 4/15 Some Senate Democrats Finally Realize that the Republicans Only Know How to Smear and Run. What Took the Dems So Long? 4/15 Bush Needs a 12-step Program to Ween Him Off of Polluting Our Nation 4/15 "The Bush administration is eliminating a respected fellowship program for graduate research in the environmental sciences, administration officials said this week." 4/15	REPOSTED: "President Bush is arming troops to protect Occidental Petroleum in Colombia. What next?" 4/15 U.S. Army to "Contract Out" Training of Afghan Army? Call It the "Dogs of War." 4/15 G8 in Open Disarray Over Kyoto Protocol 4/15 Bob Woodward's Pinocchio Problem 4/15 The Looming War With Iraq 4/15 "Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election" Michael Moore is Still Green 4/15 War on Terror Stirs New Activism 4/15 DR. STRANGELOVE ADMINISTRATION ALERT 2,516: Nuclear-Tipped Interceptors Studied 4/12 TOM RIDGE'S NON-TESTIMONIAL APPEARANCE BEFORE CONGRESS, by John Dean 4/14 Poll: Most Americans Want Israel to Withdraw from West Bank, but Brand Arafat a Terrorist and Enemy of the U.S. 4/14 Calif. officials: Enron is key in energy 'fraud' 4/14 Dick Cheney's high school alma mater hesitates to take his name 4/14 "I've Had It," Gore Says of Bush's Domestic Policies 4/14 The Venezuela (Spot the CIA Agents) Coup Was Mostly About Oil, Natch! 4/14 Bushes Paid $250,000 in Taxes, Poor Souls 4/14 The White House Must Have Taken a Poll on This One: Suicide Bombers Become Homicide Bombers 4/14 Why Won't the FEC Enforce the Nation's Campaign Finance Laws When It Comes to Ashcroft? 4/14 Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's Actual Statement on September 11th 4/14 Clinton Says Leaders' Obstinacy Is Harming Mideast's Children 4/14 "Souvenir" Photos of Lindh are Gross and Inexcusable 4/14 Bodies of Family Discovered in Nablus Rubble 4/14 Kissinger to Face Protests in London: Will Venezuela Become the Bush Administration's Chile? Stay Tuned. 4/14 Mexican clerics say church should not report sex abuse 4/14 Army to conduct simulated biological attack off Key West 4/14 A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT: RNC PREPARES PARTY FAITHFUL FOR DROP IN BUSH'S POLL NUMBERS 4/13 Did the Vatican Reject Cardinal Law's Resignation? What's More Important, Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse or Protecting the Man Who Protected at Least Two Priests Who Sexually Abused Children? 4/14 DEAR KATHERINE HARRIS, From a BuzzFlash Reader McKinney's Remarks Stir Up a Firestorm 4/14 Chavez Provoked His Removal, U.S. Officials Say. How do You Spell CIA Coup? 4/14 Where's the Press Been on Al Gore? 4/14 MLK Told LBJ He Feared a Race Riot in 1965 4/14 Republican Senator Bill Frist Recommends Building a Bioterror "Safe Room." Okey, Dokee, Lock the Door Folks and Kiss Your Butt Goodbye! 4/14 Another Indication of the Bush Administration Efforts to Block Superfund Clean-ups 4/14 Poster Child for the Grand Hypocrisy Party: Senator Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas, "Family Values" Man Who Divorced His Wife of 29 Years to Marry a Senate Staffer 13 Years His Junior. But He Blasted Clinton for Monica. 4/14 Gore Calls the GOP "the party of the pirates of Enron." 4/14 Op-ed by Ehud Barak, the Former Prime Minister (Labor Party) of Israel 4/14 Arafat's Wife Defends Suicide Bombings. The Truth Will Out. 4/14 "Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain has written a poem praising Palestinian suicide bombers that was published yesterday in a mass market Arabic daily." 4/14 Gore Tells Florida Democrats that the administration is "selling out the future in exchange for satisfying short-term political demands from special interests." 4/14 A Coup By Any Other Name. Well, It's Not a Coup When It's About Oil, Eh? 4/14 Bush is Darling of Cable TV News, Democrats Complain 4/14 PUPPET "BUSINESSMAN" RESIGNS AS VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT AFTER ONE DAY. JUST REMEMBER, LIKE IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, U.S. OBSESSION WITH CHAVEZ IS ABOUT OIL. THE BUSHIES WANTED CHAVEZ'S OUSTER, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED, SOMETHING BUSH WASN'T. Stewart Indictment Shows Ashcroft Policy Is Overkill 4/14 Bomber Unleashed Secret Rage: Woman's Mother Says Sharon Won't Deter the Quiet Ones 4/14 Democrats blast GOP on pension fund bill 4/14	THE SNAKE OIL SALESMAN TRIES TO STOP HIS POLL STANDINGS FROM DROPPING MORE BY OFFERING FUNNY MONEY TO AMERICANS 4/14 "Venezuela would not tolerate an autocracy," Mr Chavez said, once inside the palace. Too Bad BuzzFlash Can't Say the Same for Residents of Our Own "Land of the Free." 4/14 Controversy Swirls Over Jenin Battle 4/14 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Check it Out! In Pakistan, a Troubling Victory in Hunt for Al Qaeda 4/14 Another Bush Administration Regulatory Attack on the Environment 4/14 Don't Forget "Too Close to Call," Available at BuzzFlash.com "In a preview of mounting health care costs, the California Public Employees' Retirement System said it faces HMO price increases of as much as 41.1 percent next year." 4/14 The April 12th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Help Honor Julie Hiatt Steele BUZZ INTO SPRING! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! The Truth About Bush's Accomplishments UPDATED 4/13 MUST READ: The Bush Doctrine, R.I.P., by Frank Rich A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Demand An End to Bush's Secrecy 4/12 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Ed-Biz Wolf In Educational Sheep's Clothing 4/12 The April 12th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) BUSH ADMINISTRATION HYPOCRISY CENTRAL: U.S. Tied to Ransom Deal with Bin Laden Allies, One that Apparently Failed 4/12 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! NEW CONTENT - BuzzFlash Cartoons by Eric Harrison 4/10 BuzzFlash Media Watch Special: It's The Format, Stupid . . . 4/10 The White Stuff, by Paul Krugman 4/12 A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Secretary of the Army White: Give Away Your Ill-Begotten Gains from the Enron Ponzi Scheme BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Investigate This (The Hypocritical Morals of the Right-Wing) 4/11 "Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala Part Two of the BuzzFlash interview with Paul Begala, Famed Democratic Political Strategist and Co-author of Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up. Part One of the BuzzFlash interviews Paul Begala, Famed Democratic Political Strategist and Co-author of Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up. A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: Yes, Virginia, There Is A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 4/10 BuzzFlash presents Fifth Columnist: Good and Bad, Plain and Simple 4/8 BuzzFlash interviews Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Author of The Popular "Prayer for America" and Advocate for Creating A Department Of Peace. BuzzFlash interviews the Legendary Jim Hightower About The Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour 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. THE CAMPUS VOICE: Florida State University Students Protest Sweatshops 4/14 THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Keystone Cops Administration 4/15 This Week's Edition of Top Ten Conservative Idiots 4/15 I'm Dubya the President (sung to the tune of "I'm Popeye The Sailor Man") 4/11 President Announces New Sentencing Guidelines For Nationalized Capital Punishment 4/11 President Moe Bush 4/12 Just Like Poppy Said 4/15 The Dubya Chronicles 4/15 Dubya's Dayly Diary 4/15 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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IT'S APRIL 15TH! IRS Audits Increase for Low-Income Taxpayers: Examination Rate for Affluent Filers Falls Again