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According to Proposed Bush Administration Military Tribunal Standards, They Won't Have to Prove You're Guilty to Find You Guilty. It's Becoming More Kafkaesque Every Day. It is Time for Those Who Believe in Democracy and Justice to Protest Loudly. 4/21

Will the Senate Investigate the Bush Administation/Otto Reich Involvement in the Venezuelan Coup that Failed (You Know the Bushies Were Involved, Prima Facie, Because It DIDN'T Work)? 4/21

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Tom DeLay Claims that God is using him to promote "a biblical worldview" in American politics. He Also Admits that He Wanted Clinton Impeached Because He Held a Different "Worldview." DeLay is a Dangerous Man, Subverting Our Cherished Democracy. 4/21

DeLay was expelled from Baylor in '67. Then He Proceeded to Dodge the Draft in Order to Avoid Service in Vietnam. He Had More Important Things to Do: Kill Bugs. 4/21

Houston Chronicle Calls Tom DeLay a Fanatic. BuzzFlash Calls Him a Dangerous Nut Job. 4/20

INSTANT REPLAY: Tom DeLay, the Grandest of the Grand Hypocrisy Party Hypocrites! "What the Sugar Land Republican and house majority whip did not say is that he was kicked out of Baylor in 1967." Oh, And He Evaded Service in the Military to Boot. 4/19

REPOSTED BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Of All The Republican Chicken Hawks, Tom Delay Takes The Cake 4/21

Bush Rebuffs Clinton Because the Big Dog Would Just Show How Incompetent Boy George is -- and Bill Might Actually Bring Peace, Which Would Mean Bush's Military Suppliers Might Not Get as Many Orders for War Supplies 4/22

It's Back! Get Your Copy of "Fortunate Son"

Fetch Me Barney, by Maureen Dowd 4/22

Bush's High Poll Numbers Drift Down 4/21

Israeli Troops Begin Nablus Pullout 4/21

FROM THE BUSH FAMILY VALUES ARCHIVES: "Gov. and Mrs. Bush still don't seem to get it. Columba Bush's decision to mislead U.S. Customs officials was not merely "bad judgment" or a "mistake." It was an attempt to defraud the government." 4/21

The American President has a singular view of democracy. After all, look what happened in Florida. 4/22

Justice Vs. John Ashcroft 4/22

The Dick Cheney Watch: "He was here and gone, and no one who didn't pay at least $500 a plate for lunch ever knew" 4/21

Bombs Kill at Least 14 in Philippines 4/21

The Bush Brothers Know How to Help Each Other in Shaking the Money Tree! 4/22

Otto Reich and Elliot Abrams: Enemies of Democracy 4/21

Up to 50,000 Protest in D.C. 4/21

IMF claim on US deficit irks Washington 4/22

Otto Reich's Propaganda is Reminiscent of the Third Reich 4/21

Henry Waxman Fears the Justice Department May be Mishandling a Bank Case 4/21

BUSH STUMBLES WITH
MIDEAST RHETORIC 4/21

Question: Why Did the Bush Administration Sound Another Bank Alarm? Answer: the Failed Venezuealan Coup, No Progress in the Middle East and Boy George's Poll Numbers are Starting to Fall 4/21

Bush Turns Down Offers of Help in the Mideast, Including Clinton's. That's Because Bush is Doing Such a Fine Job All by His Little 'Ol Self, Right? God Help Us. 4/21

REPOSTED FROM THE ARCHIVES ONE MORE TIME: "Political scandal in US as Bush advisers tell Israelis to be ready to walk out of Camp David negotiations" 4/21

Justice Department Offers $1 Million Reward for Information Relating to Murder of Assistant U.S. Attorney and Gun Control Advocate in Washington State. Investigation is Focusing on "is a gun enthusiast who owned numerous firearms" 4/21

Bush Policies Have Been Good to Energy Industry. No Kidding. 4/21

White Man's In Perfect Place to Rip on His Race 4/22

Peru Cancels Joint Military Exercise 4/22

Enron President Quits 4/21

Time Is Running Out for Thousands on Welfare in California 4/21

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THE BUZZFLASH GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY MONTANA GOVERNOR JUDY MARTZ WATCH, In which Martz compares anti-gay violence to tree-spiking by environmentalists who want to halt logging projects 4/21

Venezuela General Dies in Crash 4/21

Silence Greets the New Anti-Semitism 4/21

Labor Department Makes the Appearance of Getting Tough on Enron, But Too Little, Too Late to Save Pensioners 4/21

Jimmy Carter's Proposal for Peace in the Middle East 4/21

REPOSTED BUZZFLASH MUST READ: "LYING IN STYLE" 4/20

How Many Times Have Bush Shifted His Rhetoric on the Mid-East? Instead of Terror Alerts, Tom Ridge Should Issue Bush Middle East Stance Alerts to Let Us Know Where Bush Stands TODAY. 4/21

The Bush Administration's Cover-up Story on Venezuela is Shot Full of Holes 4/21

All the Country's Ills Cannot be Blamed on Bill Clinton 4/21

America's Shooting Gallery: In South Georgia, 3-year-old Puts Gun in Mouth and Accidentally Shoots Himself Dead. Look at His Photo and Remember that the NRA is Hip-locked with Bush. 4/21

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: THOSE WILD AND CRAZY GUN GUYS STRIKE AGAIN 4/20

Tenet's Mideast Role Again Brings Questions 4/21

Is the Next Step a CIA/Right Wing Attempt to Knock Off Chavez? We Hope Not! 4/21

Simply Molly Ivins! 4/21

Did the Department of Defense Intentionally Lie to a Congressional Delegation Visiting Afghanistan? 4/21

New Mexico Democratic Senate Candidate Charges TV Stations Won't Air Ads in Spanish 4/21

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Hey Jeb, Those 18,000 Kids Were Here Just a Moment Ago! 4/21

Houston companies see offshore reincorporation as way to boost profits 4/21

Dems Seek to Boost Registered Voters 4/21

Japanese Prime Minister Visits Controversial Shrine 4/21

`What kind of war is this?' An Israeli Paper Reports from Jenin 4/21

Ft. Dietrick, Supposedly the Location Where the Unarrested Anthrax Terrorist Worked, Confirms an Anthrax Exposure. Very Curious Indeed. 4/20

Sharon Wants to Expel Arafat 4/21

Progressive Blooms 4/21

How Hamas Controls the Israeli Government 4/21

Israel's Invasions, 20 Years Apart, Look Eerily Alike 4/21

Why Bush Will be a One-Term President 4/21

Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Indiana State Senator Says that He Has Learned that He Shouldn't Drive When Drunk. What Revelations These Republicans Have! 4/21

Film-maker describes the overthrow and return of Chavez 4/21

Houston Chronicle: Bush's clumsy handling leaves U.S. to damage control 4/20

Grand Hypocrisy Party Posturing on Abortion 4/21

Diary of a Young Palestinian Girl 4/21

Latest on Venezuela and Oil 4/21

BuzzFlash Supports GWBush.com! 4/21

Fire Burns on Oil Platform in Alaskan Inlet 4/21

Pope: Priests Must Stay Celibate 4/21

A State Contract for Contributions in Jeb's Grand Hypocrisy Party Florida? Is It Really Possible Jeb? Imagine that. 4/21

The Return of an Ancient Hatred: Anti-Semitism 4/21

US steel tariffs row escalates 4/21

Chavez fell foul of Bush's Oil Doctrine 4/21

Emails with Roger Ailes, Part V. How Weird Can This Get? 4/19

If Bush is Honest About Being a Proponent of Stable Marriages, He Should Support Gay Marriages 4/21

US and oil lobby oust climate change scientist 4/21

Environment: The White House wants to restrict protections for marine mammals. Changes are being sought to six laws. 4/21

Europe plans $300m sanctions retaliation on US 4/21

"Prominent University of Utah Law Professor John Flynn vowed Wednesday he will resign if the school is forced by the Legislature and Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to accept concealed guns on campus" 4/21

From the Archives: Playing politics with talk about war plans 4/21

"George Bush didn't think to bring it up until Canadian reporters stormed him at an afternoon photo op -- his fourth public appearance of the day. He explained that, after all, he'd already phoned the PM the night before." That's Boy George For You! 4/21

Argentina orders bank freeze 4/20

Real Security is Hard to Find, by Jimmy Breslin 4/22

BUZZFLASH GUN NUT OF THE MONTH: Montana Gun Dealer Upset with State Hunting License Software Shoots Up Computer with a 20-Gauge Shotgun. An NRA Poster Boy in the Making! 4/20

CANADIANS WERE INSULTED BY BUSH'S INDIFFERENCE. MESSAGE TO OUR DEAR FRIENDS UP NORTH: HE'S INCOMPETENT TOO!

Fatah Militants Headed for the Underground 4/22

America's Shooting Gallery: Gun left in oven fires, killing baby 4/20

Canadians Voice Their Anger and Sorrow 4/20

Canadian Casualties, First Combat Deaths Since Korean War 4/20

"A more timely public expression of sorrow from U.S. President George W. Bush would have been appreciated by the families of Canada's dead soldiers, Deputy Prime Minister John Manley said Friday." And Now Bush Alienates Our Closest Ally to Boot. 4/20

The Bush Administration's Environmental Nibbling 4/20

If You Want to See Cheney in Public, You'll Have to Become a Republican Contributor 4/20

Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Candidate for Governor in California Won't Say if He Paid State Income Taxes for 2001 4/20

The April 19th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)

Antonin Scalia: How the Courts Will Look When Packed With Bush's Right Wing Federalist Appointments 4/20

"A funding crisis in Alabama’s court system may delay thousands of cases statewide, including the upcoming murder trial of the final suspect in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls" 4/20

THE ROVE/HUGHES/FLEISCHER WHITE HOUSE TRASHING LIES COST THE TAXPAYER $200,000 4/20

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

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Democrats Question Bush Policies on Workplace Injuries 4/20

Transcript of DeLay's remarks at Pearland church: "don’t send your kids to Baylor. And don’t send your kids to A&M." 4/20

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL: Katherine Harris Says She Upheld The Rule of Law in 2000 -- NOT!

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

Hamas Vows to Continue Suicide Bombings 4/21

It was a really bad day for [Bush] to forget about Canada again 4/20

Oil President and Oil Industry Succeed In Getting "Global Warming Expert" Kicked Off Int'l Panel 4/20

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BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Heritage Foundation Encourages Overthrow of Bush Admin; Condoleeza Rice Gives Tacit Approval 4/19

The Sky is Falling! The FBI Announced They Rec'd "a new, UNSUBSTANTIATED terrorist threat against U.S. financial institutions" 4/20

L.A. cardinal's role outrages abuse victims 4/22

The Doctrine: "a hypocritical, childish game of cowboys and Indians disguised as foreign policy." 4/20

MUST SEE! BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison (req. flash plugin) 4/18

The owner of a sporting goods store got so fed up with glitches in the state's automated system for selling hunting licenses that he used a 20-gauge shotgun to blast a hole in his computer monitor. That's Our Kind of Gun Guy! 4/19

BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Bush's New Hole in Border Security: Big Enough to Drive a Truck Through 4/18

The April 19th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American

BuzzFlash Reader Commentary: What Katherine Should Have Said 4/18

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

"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock

"Too Close to Call," Available at BuzzFlash.com

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

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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.


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THE LIGHTER SIDE:

Senate Defeats Arctic Drilling: Seething Bush Vows To “Kill Every Goddamn Caribou Anyway” (Satire) 4/21

Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Tax Cut Fairy Tale 4/21

Bush or Chimp.com 4/19

Did Gore Commit Verbal Terrorism? 4/21

So Where's the Controversy? 4/18

Nixon Meets Elvis (for real) 4/19

What Does the Emperor Wear? 4/19

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