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More Proof that the Democrats in the Senate -- and Any Decent Republicans Concerned About Their Country -- Need to Investigate Intelligence Agency Failures Now 5/15
When It Comes to John Ashcroft and the Second Amendment, Follow the Money 5/15
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Treasury Again Taking Steps to Avoid Debt Limit 5/15
The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex by Dr. Helen Caldicott
Former Boston Priest Accused of Serial Sexual Abuse of Children was Found "Beyond Repair" and Reassigned Anyway 5/15
The White House Says It's Okay For the GOP To Profit From A Photo of Bush on 9/11. Hey, What's Wrong with a Little Profit-Making from Tragedy, Right? Those People Who Died Sure Don't Care, Why Should the Republicans? Disgusting. 5/15
Photo of How Bush Incorporated is Profiting from September 11th Photo of Bush on Air Force One Running Away from Washington, D.C. 5/15
Unocal Will Get What It Wanted in Afghanistan (See Sub-Headline Story). It's About Oil. 5/15
Text of Jimmy Carter's Speech in Cuba 5/15
Bush's Foreign Policy Rogues Gallery 5/15
US Shifting Funds to Dodge Default 5/15
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Hijackers Travel to and Within the United States 5/14
FBI Director to Propose 'Super Squad' for Terror 5/15
FBI CHIEF ADMITS WARNING OF POSSIBLE WTC-AIRPLANE ATTACK
Anti-drug ad campaigns a flop: A Waste of $1 Billion 5/15
The Great Corporate Tax Evasion, by Paul Krugman 5/14
Bush Concerned About Carter in Cuba. No Kidding: Jimmy Shows What a Competent Man of Integrity Can Accomplish. 5/15
GOP Raises Record Amount Amidst Uproar on Making Money Off of Our Nation's Grief 5/15
Arafat Okays Judiciary Independence 5/15
CBS Airs Part of Pearl Videotape 5/15
Democrats Decry Congressional GOP's Use of Bush 9-11 Photo for Fund-Raising; RNC Seeks $30M 5/15
Two men were shot and wounded early Monday after they were mistaken for a wild turkey by two other hunters (read down headlines) 5/15
A "Slate" Writer Who Believes that Israel's War on Terrorism is Working 5/15
"House Democrats have hired Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) former top political adviser to spearhead efforts to attract Republican and independent voters in the run-up to the November elections." 5/15
Jeb Bush Calls Democrats "Sinners" 5/15
Big Media Mergers Raise Big Doubts 5/15
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz!
The Axis of Nonsense 5/15
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
The May 14th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American
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Two men were shot and wounded early Monday after they were mistaken for a wild turkey by two other hunters. Catch it on GunGuys.com. 5/15
Nuclear Plant Threat Called Unreliable 5/15
CARTER ACCUSES BUSH ADMINISTRATION OF HAVING NO EVIDENCE OF CUBAN BIOTERRORISM THREAT: ADMINISTRATION "SOURCE" THEN HEDGES. BUSH INCORPORATED WANTS THOSE FLORIDA CUBAN EXILE VOTES ENOUGH TO LIE.
The Republican's Privatized School Plan is In Deep Doo-Doo. Bush Wants More Doo-Doo For Our School Children. We Think Bush Should Keep His Doo-Doo. 5/14
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The Washington Post Must be Reading BuzzFlash.com: Crusader a Boon to Carlyle Group Even if Pentagon Scraps Project (see BuzzFlash Commentary Below) 5/14
BuzzFlash Beats the Washington Post on How the Bush-Related Carlyle Group Won on the Crusader Even When It was Canceled 5/15
"Where will an administration that claims to love states' rights stand when the NRA uses the Justice Department's language to bring suits against the toughest local gun control laws?" 5/15
America's Shooting Gallery: Homicide's tragic toll: 10 children in 16 weeks 5/15
In Texas, Bus Driver is Arrested for Alleged Student Sexual Abuse 5/15
Lawyers Seek Release of American Held Without Charge 5/15
What's Happening with that Virginia GOP Eavesdropping Case? 5/15
More of Marc Racicot Did to Montana: Budget cuts would tax safety net 5/15
Senate Defies Bush on Trade Bill, Sort of 5/15
Murdoch Posts $4 Billion Loss 5/15
Jeb Bush plays with fire in touting his schools record 5/15
Democrats Back More Law Enforcement 5/15
House Tells Pentagon to Drop Saudi Robe Policy 5/15
"The United States has ruled out any prospect of signing up to the Kyoto Protocol for the next ten years, its chief climate change negotiator said yesterday." 5/15
Bush Handed Reins to Energy Firm. United States of Enron 5/15
The Daily Brew 5/15
Bloomberg to Raise Big Bucks for GOP 5/15
Politically Incorrect Cancelled 5/15
State college costs too expensive for many 5/15
Lights Out on Bush's Excuses; He left California hanging in the energy crisis. 5/15
John Fund, "He's such a good liar" 5/15
Airline security could curb privacy 5/15
Low-Class Act: Russell Harding on Blacks, the Poor, and the Clintons 5/15
Florida Republican lawmakers Monday pushed through a measure retroactively legalizing their party's efforts to bypass the state's Democratic attorney general in the fight over Florida's new congressional map. 5/15
Another Texas Company With Problems Telling the Truth: Houston energy company Reliant Resources Inc. admitted Monday that it used phony trades to inflate the company's revenue by about 10% during the last three years 5/15
"President Bush to date has neatly taken advantage of the war against terror, surrounding himself with emergency response personnel on fundraising roadtrips to bolster his own poll numbers and his party's financial coffers for 2002" 5/15
Priest Who Admitted Sex with Teen Shot in Baltimore 5/15
Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet. How the Bivings Group Manufactured Dissent and Got "Nature" To Pull and Article Unfavorable to Monsanto. 5/15
NATO, Russia Reach Historic Deal 5/15
Once again, Soc Sec is up for review. Will the press corps again try to nap? 5/15
Miranda Foe Confirmed by Senate as Federal Judge. If They Stack the Courts with Freaks, Justice Will Become a Memory. 5/15
G.O.P. Proposes Block Grants to States for Feeding the Poor 5/15
Federal budget deficit rose to more than a half-trillion dollars last year. 5/15
Probe launched into GOP voter drive in Modesto, CA 5/15
"A smaller group paid $25,000 a piece to be photographed with the president." 5/14
Duncan testifies he broke the law; Ex-Andersen exec says order to shred came from others 5/14
Who's Pulling the Foreign Policy Strings? 5/14
More on the Bush Administration "Permanent War on Terror" Disinformation Campaign: The Cuban Chapter 5/14
Bush and the Politics of Not Having Principles 5/14
Arms blown up by Marines were mine, says Afghan ally 5/14
The United States Commission on Civil Rights announced today that it planned to ask the Supreme Court to overturn a court decision seating a Bush administration appointee on the panel. 5/14
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Now Tom Ridge is Giving us a Warning About Potential Terrorism on July 4th! How About a Prediction for 2010, Tom! 5/14
Smoking Gun Shoots Down Bush View of Power Crisis 5/14
Reversing Course, Bush Signs Bill Raising Farm Subsidies 5/14
BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Newt Gingrich, Maximum Hypocrite 5/14
Bush Family and Republican Corruption 5/14
From the Archives: An Interview with Right Wing Shill for Hire David Horowitz 5/14
Tom DeLay's Axis of Influence 5/14
Bush Fundraises for GOP by Selling September 11th Photos of Him on Air Force One Running Away from D.C. Hard to Believe Anyone Could be So Cynical. 5/14
The May 13th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
From the Archives: The Two Faces of Newt 5/14
Boston Archdiocese Paid Legal Fees for Accused Priests 5/14
Strom Wants a Word With You! (quicktime movie) 5/14
What is Going on with the Anthrax Investigation? And Why are the Democrats Not Screaming to the High Heavens for an Answer? 5/14
Nuclear Industry Spends $5 Million to Woo Senators 5/14
Morale Problems Arising Among Reservists in Tampa 5/14
Expert Warns World Warming Faster Than Expected 5/14
Joke of the Day: State Department Says It is "Investigating" U.S. Role in Venezuelan Coup 5/15
Republicans Suckle Lobbyists at the Expense of Elderly Drug Benefits 5/14
Reliant Resources admits to using fake trades 5/14
ARCHIVES: Dick Cheney's Pipe Dream 5/14
An Hour With Limbaugh (scroll down) 5/14
Bypassing a Drug-Law Boondoggle 5/14
Former Reagan-Era FEMA Colonel Says, "Restore the Militia for Homeland Security" 5/14
The former president of the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority lavishly treated Enron executives and lobbyists to about a dozen lunches, dinners, and late-night drinks on the agency's credit cards. 5/14
The Great Liberal Hope For '04 5/14
The Bush Admin's change in Mining Rules "represents perhaps the most significant rollback of the Clean Water Act since it was passed, in 1972, and . . . is of dubious legality." 5/14
Bush Administration Kills Safety Regulation Opposed by Donors 5/14
Bush Aide Says Trade Law Amendment Could Bring Veto. Great, We Don't Bush to Have Fast-Track Trade Authority Anyway. Go Ahead and Veto It. What a Numbskull. 5/14
BuzzFlash presents The Fifth Columnist: "Footnoting Major-Policy Changes" 5/13
A BuzzFlash Interview With U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Democrat and Progressive
BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Estate Tax Repeal: Republicans Fight for an American Aristocracy 5/7
REPOSTED: BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right.
BuzzFlash Interviews Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founder Of The Modern Antinuclear Movement
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.
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Columbia TAs, RAs strike for union 5/14
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This Week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots 5/13
These are Ironic Times 5/13
Peggy Noonan's Uncommon Sense 5/14
Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Requires Adobe Reader) 5/14
History: The Subject American's Cannot Learn, by Tom Toles 5/15
Dubya's Dayly Diary 5/15
At Last We Have An Attorney General Who Stands For Guns and Not Silly Laws 5/11
Bush Wants Some Civics Education 5/15
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