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GOP Candidate for Governor in Florida is the Poster Boy for GOP Business Fraud 8/3
A BUZZFLASH.COM INTERVIEW WITH THE CO-AUTHOR OF “Forbidden Truth: U.S. Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden"
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Larry D. Thompson, head of the federal task force on corporate fraud and former director of Providian Financial Corp., made a profit of between $1 million and $5 million when he exercised his Providian stock options in July 2001 8/2
"The president could not have reassured anybody yesterday when he said he remained committed to making his fiscally disastrous 10-year tax cuts permanent." 8/2
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"There hasn't been anyone in handcuffs from Enron, and we don't know the reason why," Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic leader, told reporters. 8/3
Katherine Harris Resigns After Goofing Up. Harris said she thought the law did not apply to her. That's Kind of the Republican Credo in a Nutshell.
Rumsfeld Wants More "Covert Actions" That are Conducted Outside of the Law 8/2
Bush Campaign Flew Enron, Halliburton Jets During 2000 Recount 8/3
Everybody Needs a "Committee for the Right to Arm Bears" Bear. (Click and Scroll Down) Get Yours Now! 8/3
The Bush-Cheney recount fund filed disclosure forms plagued with errors and omissions 8/3
From the Archive: "The Bush administration Friday ordered the suspension of a Clinton rule that would have significantly strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that have violated workplace safety" and other laws 8/2
The Angry Liberal - Bush's Sleight of Hand on Corporate Reform: Now You See It, Now You Don't 8/1
Bush Reacts to Bumping His Head on Marine One 8/3
Brilliant Internet Cartoon Series Continues: Part 3 of the Harvey Pitt Chronicles! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison - NOTE: Turn Volume Down At Work 8/1
Weak job growth fuels recession talk 8/3
Bush Bumps His Head on Marine One Helicopter, Pulling a Gerald Ford 8/3
Forget Congress, Let's Give Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld Lie Detector Tests. 8/3
John Dingell Loves the Gun Lobby 8/3
FBI "Leak" Probe Irks Lawmakers 8/2
Bush's Corporate Reform Should Start with Enron and Halliburton 8/2
The Poor in Florida are Feeling the Medicaid Cutbacks 8/3
Solidarity Helps Ensure Security 8/3
America's National Embarrassment Strikes Again: Bush denounces 'false religion' of terrorists. Nothing Like a Guy in the White House Who is Building Bridges to the Muslim Community. 8/2
Republicans May be Battling Their Way Into a Right Wing Corner 8/3
U.S. Holding Canadian In Alleged Embassy Bomb Plot 8/3
Just Call Her Katherine the Fool 8/2
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
A Highly Recommended Musical Revue Satire on Bush: Get the CD Now! "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years"
Sample Song from "Hail to the Thief CD" (See Above, Requires Audio) "The Corporate Welfare Song"
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Bush's "Show Corporate Fraud Arrests" Spare His Big Contributors Like Ken Lay and His Secretary of the Army, Thomas "Enron" White 8/3
"One of the federal judges who petitioned for an investigation of Kenneth Starr has taken the unusual step of expressing "vigorous disagreement" with another judge's order keeping the petition secret." 8/3
More Harken Documents 8/2
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Kerry Scores an Early Coup 8/3
Centrist Dems, Labor Oppose Bush 8/3
Gore Seeks to Mend Fences At Lunch for Union Leaders 8/3
San Francisco May Ban Paid Corporate Names on Public Buildings 8/3
The Fort Bragg Motors 8/3
U.S. pilots stay up taking 'uppers' 8/3
Global War on Global Warming Heats Up 8/3
Kenny & Co. living the high life 8/2
Using the FBI to Intimidate a Congressional Investigation of September 11th. This from an Administration that Leaks "Terror Alerts" Right and Left for Political Gain. 8/2
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September 11 hijacker questioned in January 2001 8/2
Grover Norquist's "K Street" Project 8/2
Senate Democrats Attack Bush Environmental Record 8/2
Independent Commission Needed to Probe September 11th 8/2
The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller
Healthcare for Veterans is Jeopardized by Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich 8/2
Two Former WorldCom Execs Arrested 8/2
Pawnshop Owners Accused Of Selling Guns To Convicts: Oh, Those Law-Abiding Gun Guys! 8/1
Senate Grants Bush "Fast Track" Authority 8/2
The Ongoing "Anthrax Investigation" Continues 8/2
Looks Like the Bush Cartel is Pushing O'Neill off of the Plank 8/2
The NRA Poster Boy is Our Attorney General (See America's Shooting Gallery) 8/1
Bush and Cheney Under Fire for Setting up Offshore Tax Evaders
Bush's Grim Vision for America 8/2
The John Birch Society Vs. William F. Buckley. We Want Ringside Seats. 8/2
Max Cleland Wants to Know, "Where is bin Laden, Mr. Rumsfeld?" 8/2
The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers, A BuzzFlash Premium
Jenna Bush on a Mission to Get Very Drunk? (See Bottom of Column) 8/2
Rounding up the Enemy 8/2
Bush Cartel Wants to Eliminate the Government Printing Office 8/2
Foreign students take heavy toll in university terror blast 8/2
"The Senate approved Pennsylvania Judge D. Brooks Smith's promotion to the U.S. Appeals Court Wednesday, despite some Democratic complaints that he didn't deserve to be elevated to the nation's second highest court." 8/1
Nuclear Waste Makes Haste 8/2
Pennsylvania Woman Denied Right to Abortion 8/2
It's Back! Get Your Copy of "Fortunate Son." The Original Expose on George W. that the Bush Family Had Temporarily Banned Before the Election.
Ashcroft friend, adviser signed up OKC victims with promise of winning federal aid 8/2
Townsend Calls Probe 'Political Garbage' 8/2
A Dangerous Darkness 8/2
The Climes They Are A-Changin' 8/2
Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle 8/2
Give It Back Mr. Bush 8/2
Iraq Says That It Wants to Resume Inspection Talks 8/2
Volcanic Hazard At Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Greater Than Previously Thought 8/2
Montana's Governor is a Poor Choice to Lead the West 8/2
Agents leaving Border Patrol in droves, union says 8/2
Louisiana Governor Can't Do His Law Enforcement Job, So He Shills for the NRA 8/2
Detroit Area Offficers Accused of Abusing Anti-Terrorism Law 8/2
Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question
Houdini or George "Hoover" Bush? We'll Take Houdini.
If we must go to war, for God's sake tell us why 8/2
Bill Simon, Another Enronomics CEO, Just Like Bush and Cheney, Gets His Day in Court, So to Speak 8/1
Bush and King of Jordan Disagree on Iraq 8/2
US judge rejects Cuba prisoners' claim 8/2
Barons of Bankruptcy 8/2
Death of a Vehicular Dinosaur 8/2
Stupid is, Stupid Does 8/2
Can You Spell Enron, by Gene Lyons 8/1
Rehnquist is a Friend of "Big Brother" 8/1
20 Things We've Learned Nearly a Year After 9/11 8/1
7 Die in Hebrew University Blast 8/1
Carville Firm Urges Broader Attack on Corporate Accountability 8/1
It Looks Like a Democratic Year in Illinois. Dems Likely to Take Governorship and both Legislative Chambers. That's a Buzz Prediction. 8/1
Read this Account of a 2001 Speech by Ann Coulter in Which She Condones the Killing of Physicians Who Perform a Legal Procedure (Third Paragraph from the End) 7/31
Fathers, Sons and Guns, by Mike Magnum
Top Interior Official Resigns Because of Bush Administration Incompetence on Indian Trust Fund Management
Read if You Haven't Already: "Call Me Liberal" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight
Angry Crowd Kills Two After Their Van Accidentally Hit Three Women in Chicago 8/1
Swedish Weapons Inspector Charges Iraqi Inspections Were Manipulated for Political Purposes 8/1
Jeb Bush's "Pumpgate": From the Archives 8/1
By Attacking Bush, Kerry Sets Himself Apart 8/1
Message to Dianne Feinstein: Vote "No" on Owen 8/1
At Odds With the Real World 8/1
Will the Democrats Miss This Golden Opportunity? 8/1
Racist Lawman of the Year 8/1
Citing Qualms, Lawmakers Seek Details on Iraq 8/1
Remarks of "Clodhopper" O'Neill Steam Brazil 8/1
Hush Money for Halliburton? 8/1
From the Archives: Halliburton Profits Off of the War on Terror 8/1
Democrats Zing Bush on Market-Scandal Response 8/1
According to Right Wing Washington Times, Oily Republicans Will try to Link ANWR to Iraq 8/1
Is the New York Times a Tool of the Pentagon When It Prints Alleged "Plans" for Invading Iraq? 8/1
Financing the Bush Cartel Tax Cut for the Rich:Treasury to Raise $40B in New Debt 8/1
Teens Grade Adults for a Change, Give Them a National Report Card 8/1
Learning from Mandela, a BuzzFlash Reader Contribution 8/1
Bush Florida Recount Challenge Funded in Part by Halliburton and Enron 8/1
Lawmakers Decry Bush Duplicity on Corporate Fraud 8/1
Jeb Continues to The Tradition of Bush Family "Pond Scum" Campaigning 8/1
West Virginia Environmentalists Boycott Publicity Gimmick Meeting with Gale "Screw the Environment" Norton 8/1
Women Against Gun Control, Read About Them on GunGuys.com 7/31
The Bush Cartel Grand Hypocrisy Party Brazen Hypocrisy on Offshore Affiliates 8/1
The Quackery of Bipartisanship, P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 7/31
Teens See Adults as Improving 7/31
A BuzzFlash Interview with Mark Crispin Miller, Author of "The Bush Dyslexicon" 7/19
A BuzzFlash Interview with Joe Conason, columnist with the New York Observer and Salon, and co-author of The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. On Vacation This Week!
The BuzzFlash Mailbag is On Vacation this Week - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
BuzzFlash World Media Watch is On Vacation This Week, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
Bush or Chimp is Back! 8/3
Message to Harvey Pitt: You Pass Gas from the Other Side 7/31
This Modern World 8/1
Dubya's Dayly Diary 8/1
Did You Ever Eat a Burrito This Big? 8/2
Reposted: Bush and Mini-Me 8/1
Traficant Wears a Toupee 8/2
Bush Outlines Faith-Based Economic Initiatives 8/1
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