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BUSH RESUMES CASE AGAINST IRAQ. GET A LIFE GEORGE! OSAMA BIN LADEN, MULLAH OMAR, THE ANTHRAX TERRORIST, ALL STILL AT LARGE. NO CEASEFIRE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. FAILED U.S. SPONSORED COUP IN VENEZUELA. YOU ARE A FAILURE.

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Is Whitman Seizing EPA Files that May Embarrass Her Husband, Or, Perhaps, Even Put Him in Legal Jeopardy? Why is She Abolishing the EPA Ombudsman's Office? More Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Personal "Save My Butt" Politics at Work.

ASHCROFT DENIED! Judge Upholds Oregon Assisted Suicide Law Ashcroft Challenge Called Attempt to Usurp State Rights. 4/18

FURTHER PROOF OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION INVOLVEMENT IN VENEZUELA COUP AGAINST DEMOCRACY: "The U.S. diplomat said Soto and Molina each received $100,000 from a Miami bank account for denouncing Chavez." Washington Post Buries this Tidbit in Story. 4/18

Errant U.S. Bomb Kills Canada Troops 4/18

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Powell to "Report" to Bush on Mideast. What a Joke. Keep It Simple, Colin. Just Tell Him Who's "Good" and Who's "Evil." 4/18

Former King Returns to Afghanistan 4/18

Bankruptcy Judge Approves Enron Request to Pay Severance and Retention Bonuses 4/17

On Jew-hatred in Europe, by Oriana Fallaci 4/18

The Canadian Catholic New Times on the Church Pedophile Scandal 4/18

Cardinal Law Must Answer Questions About Why He Covered Up for a Pedophile 4/18

Flunking Foreign Policy 4/18

Bush Administration takes an Undemocratic Backwards Step in Venezuela 4/18

"A Spanish judge is seeking to question former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in London about crimes committed during the military dictatorships that ruled several South American countries in the 1970s and 1980s." 4/18

Tom DeLay is Certifiable 4/18

Bush Orwellian Alert of the Day: "The time is now for all to make the choice for peace," Mr. Bush told the cadets 4/18

US diplomats flee Venezuela amid fears of growing violence 4/17

Say It Ain't So, Joe! 4/18

Powell's Trip Leaves Mostly Doubts 4/18

Don't believe everything you read in the papers about Venezuela, by Greg Palast 4/18

Roger Ailes, Head of FOX News Network, Vs. BuzzFlash.Com:
We'll Take You on With One Hand Tied Behind Our Back, Roger 4/18

Anti-Globalization Protestors Object to Route in D.C. 4/18

Democrats.com Challenges Roger Ailes to a Debate. BuzzFlash Will be on the Progressive Debate Team! 4/18

Right Wing Bonghead 4/18

Daschle Balks at Tax Cut's Future 4/17

How Bush Charges Taxpayers While Raising Money for the GOP 4/18

Democrats' Removal From Pentagon Boards Criticized 4/18

Bush and Daschle Set Terms for Their Battle on Budget 4/18

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

Andersen's Splintering Accelerates 4/18

Cheering on Democracy's Overthrow 4/18

Bin Laden Hails Sept. 11 Attacks in New Tape 4/18

Scientists Unearth Thousands of Inca Mummies 4/18

Weather radar might detect terrorist front 4/18

Give Us a Break! The Pentagon's Propaganda Machine In Full Swing: Marines face up to 20,000 al Qaeda 4/18

U.S. Companies Hired to Train Foreign Armies 4/18

George W. Bush: Statesman or Dog Trainer? 4/18

Is The Conservative Movement On the Verge of Exploding? Oh Please, Oh Please, Oh Please, Let the Answer Be "YES." 4/18

My Man Pervez! How Bush makes foreign policy too personal. 4/18

Some Colleges Rebel Against Hypocritical Bush Action that Bars Aid to Students Convicted of Using Marijuana and "Drugs." It Applies to All Students Except the Extended Bush Family, We're Sure. 4/18

42 Failing Schools in Philadelphia to Be Privatized 4/18

Daschle Balks at Tax Cut's Future 4/18

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Study Sees 6,000 Deaths from Power Plants 4/18

Republicans in the House voted Wednesday to make it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for an abortion to circumvent parental consent laws. 4/18

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The April 17th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American

For Bush, a lesson in limitations: President distances himself from earlier Mideast stance 4/18

Democrats Say Bush Revisions Ruin Medical Privacy Rules 4/18

Imprisoned Muslims Sue After Post-Sept. 11 Arrests 4/18

The April 17th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)

Nuclear Waste Move Spews Political Fallout in 2 States 4/18

Candidates and Tax Returns: "One thing wealthy people often fail to understand when they run for high public office is that they forfeit a share of their personal privacy." 4/18

Mother of teen-age suicide pilot files suit against drug company 4/18

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

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In BuzzFlash Perspectives: Media Liberal Bias, GOP ChickenHawks, Bush's Accomplishments and the Bush-Enron Lovefest Connection

William Bennett Chases His Tail: Self-criticism is bad for us, good for them 4/18

Lawmakers Tackle Corp. Tax Breaks 4/18

Look Out, Here Comes The House GOP Agenda: Make tax cut permanent; override Nev Gov's Yucca Mtn. veto; reauthorize welfare reform; and other bills masquerading as good legislation. 4/18

On the domestic front, the future is looking bleak 4/18

Democrats: Oil Firms Don't Need Refuge to Drill 4/18

Rejection of world court shows contempt for justice 4/18

Skirmish on Iraq Inspections: Wolfowitz Had CIA Probe U.N. Diplomat in Charge 4/18

Priests I have known: The Catholic Church contains the good, the bad and the ugly 4/18

America's Shooting Gallery: Man shoots wife, kills self in front of children 4/18

"As the machinery of American capitalism undergoes a tune-up, a 45-year-old Democrat with no significant private-sector experience is emerging as the Bush administration's resident mechanic." 4/18

Unjust Rewards: The government continues to award federal business worth billions to companies that repeatedly break the law. 4/18

Wallowing In Deficit: "The economy is barely out of recession and the federal budget is going into the red. But that isn't stopping President Bush and the House leadership from pushing the tax cut button." 4/18

It’s God they thrust: In search of 'moral clarity' through prayer in school 4/18

His Poll Numbers Are Down, Watch Out for More War on Terra: Bush Says War Against Terror Far From Over 4/18

The Taxonomist: The Unrelenting Corporate Welfare Lobby 4/18

Bush's Betrayal of Democracy 4/18

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

Military Command Structure to Change 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 Pretzels. 4/17

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

South of the Border, Democracy Works 4/17

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

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

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

Roger Ailes: Up Front and Personal 4/17

The Death and Resurrection of Hugo Chavez 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

Court Strikes Down Child Porn Law 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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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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

Anti-Tax Activist Arrested for Fraud 4/17

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

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

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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.

BuzzFlash interviews Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Author of The Popular "Prayer for America" and Advocate for Creating A Department Of Peace.

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:

"The Bush administration is using Sept. 11 as a way to line defense contractor's coffers — buying weapons developed in the Cold War, for use in the Cold War," from the University of Illinois Daily Illini 4/18


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Bush Middle East Foreign Policy 4/18

Typo or Intentional? Yahoo Calls George Bush the "resident" 4/16

This Week's Edition of Top Ten Conservative Idiots 4/15

These Are Ironic Times 4/16

So Where's the Controversy? 4/18

The Dubya Chronicles 4/15

Dubya's Dayly Diary 4/15

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