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"Make no mistake. This is a radical administration, not content simply with a little pro-business tilt in Washington." 4/17

Daschle Balks at Tax Cut's Future 4/17

Instead of Admitting His Incompetence at Acting the Role of President, Bush Urges "Patience" in the So-called "War on Terror." "Amid dubious results of his Mideast peace effort and fresh questions on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden..." 4/17

"Until the Democrats learn to fight for what they believe in as tenaciously as their opponents, they will never be an effective political force." 4/17

"Why has there never been a military coup in the United States? Answer: because there's no U.S. Embassy there." 4/17

Another Bush "I'll Get Osama Dead or Alive" War Failure: Administration Admits bin Laden Escaped 4/17

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Trent Lott: Read the Senate Rules Before You Slander and Smear with Taxpayer Money 4/17

It's the Bush "John Wayne Afghanistan Two-Step" All Over Again. Talk Tough, Act Weak. The 50-something Frat Boy Trying to Act Like a Cowboy, Then Retreating to the Television and Eating Prezels. 4/17

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: The Mideast and the Three Stooges 4/16

Israeli Independence Day: Reflection, Not Fireworks 4/17

South of the Border, Democracy Works 4/17

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The April 16th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American

Anti-Semitism in France Takes on a New Twist: Young Muslims Attack Jews and Jewish Buildings 4/17

Ari, There's Not a Single Person in Latin America Who Will Believe this Karl Rove B.S. About the Bush/Otto Reich Supported Coup in Venezuela 4/17

Katherine Harris Turns Sights on Congress. The Queen Cometh to Join Her King George. 4/17

In Massachusetts, Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Candidate for Governor Mitt Romney Won't Release His Tax Returns. Hey, Mitt, What are You Hiding, Shares in Enron? 4/17

Arafat Wants a Break 4/17

A Fox in the Electoral Hen House 4/17

Civil Rights to Sue John "NRA" Ashcroft 4/17

Available on BuzzFlash.com, "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock

Palestinians to be Held in Desert 4/17

Florida "Hootergate" Figure up to Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Business as Usual 4/17

D.C. Protesters Burn Copies of Taxes 4/17

Signs of GOP Desperation on ANWR 4/17

Bush's Enron Logic 4/17

One Flew Over the Coup Coup's Nest 4/17

Drug Tunnel Found Under U.S. Customs Lot in Arizona 4/17

Roger Ailes: Up Front and Personal 4/17

The Death and Resurrection of Hugo Chavez 4/17

Iraqi Clerics Decree Suicide Bombings Are Virtuous 4/17

British marines have begun an offensive to try to flush out remaining Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan 4/17

Michigan Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Decides Campaign Finance Reform is Good for Democrats, But Not Republicans 4/17

Millions strike in Italy "in protest at government plans to make it easier for employers to hire and fire workers." 4/17

Phyllis Schlafly, You're Such a Hoot! 4/17

Rush Limbaugh Shows Lack of the Most Basic Human Decency 4/17

How Enron made a killing in California: Selling energy at hefty premium, trader dominated market 4/17

After 9-11, Official Terror Kicks In 4/17

Court Strikes Down Child Porn Law 4/17

Drill in the Arctic? Bush ignores good alternatives 4/17

Democrats Criticize EPA on Utility Emission Rules 4/17

Tax Treaties With Small Nations Turn Into a New Shield for Profits 4/17

"Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala

America's Shooting Gallery: 3 Shot Dead in Store 4/17

Washington Monthly Proposes that the Democrats Should Draft McCain for 2004 4/17

Preserving the neutrality of the Supreme Court demands prudence from the justices -- and sometimes from their families 4/17

Dutch Government Collapses Over Srebrenica 4/17

Profiting from death? Lawsuit filed in Wal-Mart life insurance case 4/17

"Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election"

Hoaxer, 13, shuts US banks. Go FBI and Homeland Security Chief Ridge! Way to Protect Us From Those Teens in Netherland. 4/17

America's Shooting Gallery: Repub Candidate for Sheriff Arrested for Murder 4/17

"Up From Conservatism" by Michael Lind. "BuzzFlash Gives It Two Thumbs Up and Four Stars"

Enron is Rule, Rather Than Exception: Enny awards highlight bad corporate habits 4/17

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Top Ethanol Firm Owns 41% of the Market 4/17

Liberal Pride: Can the left wing learn from the right? 4/17

What progressives can learn from David Brock's account of the conservative movement 4/17

US gave green light to Chavez coup plotters 4/17

Doctors can work for U.S. agencies despite offenses, Criminal records not prohibited 4/17

"Stupid White Men" on BuzzFlash.com, by Michael Moore. #1 On NY Times Best Seller List.

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Pesticide 'causes frogs to change sex'. But, Could It Make Bush a President? 4/17

Twisting Arms & Talking Heads: Every week, the White House plots strategy for dealing with the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Sunday talk shows. 4/17

Federal judge lifts busing order in Dayton, Ohio 4/17

IDF forcing Palestinians to enter suspected booby-trapped homes, from the liberal Israeli Paper Ha'aretz 4/17

Anti-Tax Activist Arrested for Fraud 4/17

Don't drop the dead donkey: The Democrats aren't quite as feeble as they look 4/17

Clarence Thomas and the Republican Right 4/17

GE takes gold for bad behaviour 4/17

Mushrooming Scandal Overhangs Illinois Politics 4/17

Housing Starts Plunge Nearly 8 Percent 4/17

UF Professor: Legislature May Not Have Solved State’s Election Problems 4/17

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Fox News Chairman Says Crossfire, "Set Up To Have The Left Win." E-mail from Roger Ailes.

Does Poppy Bush Have Money to Make in Columbia? Colombian Aid Limits Reviewed: Pastrana, Bush Ask a Skeptical Congress to Lift Restrictions 4/17

Illinois panel urges death penalty reform 4/17

Kuchma Approved Sale of Weapons System to Iraq. And Don't Forget that our Illustrious VP Cheney Helped Iraq Rebuild Their Oil Wells. Funny, Hunh? 4/17

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. 4/17

George is taking a nap 4/17

Republicans Mired Anew In 'Morality' 4/17

Israeli Tanks Roll Into Jerusalem Suburbs 4/17

Chavez Adopts a More Conciliatory Tone 4/16

Should History Record the Unvarnished Bush? 4/16

Bush Says that He Has Heard "Propaganda" About ANWR Drilling. He Must Be Listening to Himself Then. 4/16

Losing Latin America, by Paul Krugman 4/16

Industry's Resistance Stalls Bill to Protect Food 4/16

Thousands Rallied on Washington Mall to Support Israel 4/16

America's Shooting Gallery: Shooting Kills Four at Medical Center 4/16

"If there is anything that modern conservatives hate more than fair taxation, it’s a fair fight." 4/16

Pentagon No 2 ordered CIA to investigate record of UN agency chief 4/16

Venezuela Was Another Bush Betrayal of Democracy. The First One Was When the Supreme Court Felonius Five Annointed Him President, Despite a Democratic Vote in Which He Lost by More than a Half a Million Votes. 4/16

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: First Hand Account of This Weekend's Florida Democratic Convention 4/16

Congressman Waxman's Letter to CEO of JP Morgan Chase about Contact with Enron (pdf) 4/16

Chemical Coup D'etat 4/16

Oh, Brother! Pentagon Optimistic About Missile Shield 4/16

Vanessa Leggett Loses Supreme Court Appeal To The Court To "use her case to give writers and reporters more rights to protect the confidentiality of their sources." 4/16

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

After Failed Bush-Backed Coup Attempt, Chavez Wants Answers About Mysterious U.S. Plane 4/16

South Carolina Doesn't Want Plutonium Shipments. Can You Blame Them? But the Bush Administration Isn't Listening. 4/16

The Anything-But-Clinton Bush Middle East Policy 4/16

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Article Indicating the Bush Team Was Pulling Together Venezuelan Coup Plans Last December 4/16

The Congress Moves To Block A New King George 4/16

Alma mater won't carry Cheney name 4/16

The April 15th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)

Sobering Study of the Effects of Welfare Reform 4/16

More Right-Wing, GOP Lunacy -- MS Judge: Put Gays in Mental Institutions 4/16

GEORGIE GOES TO SCHOOL, From the Manila Times

"Legitimacy is something that is conferred not just by a majority of the voters, however." In short, in the Bush Doctrine, Democracy Doesn't Count. But we knew that in December of 2000.

BUZZFLASH TRAVESTY OF THE DAY: James "Bush Family Consigliere" Baker Says Government should not overreact to Enron scandal 4/16

BuzzFlash presents Fifth Columnist: "Light brown, please, and plenty of butter" 4/15

The Oil President Hits a Slick Spot 4/16

Unmarried Question Welfare Plan 4/16

TX Republican lieutenant governor candidate Dewhurst won't shed light on his CIA past, Candidate's years in Bolivia questioned 4/16

Rep. Conyers takes aim at GOP's ties to business 4/16

BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Smoke and Mirrors 4/15

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Oil addiction our weakness against terror 4/16

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling has nothing to do with the national security of the United States. Here's why: 4/16

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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

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Roe v. Wade attorney advocates renewed defense of abortion rights, from the Brown Daily Herald 4/16


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