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How the Bush Administration Failed Us Before September 11th. The Clinton Administration Gave Them the Plans to Stop Al Qaeda, and the Bush Cartel Dropped the Ball. 8/5

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Translation of White House Response to Time Story that the Bush Administration Failed America in Pursuing Al-Qaeda: "Excuse us, We're Just Incompetent Zealots." 8/5

HOT AND SPICY: Sex, Adultery, Payroll Padding, a Zip Drive and the Illinois Grand Hypocrisy Party, Starring a Member of the Most Famous GOP Family in the GOP Vote-Rich DuPage County 8/5

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Biden Predicts War With Iraq 8/5

Daschle AND Lott Oppose Bush Use of FBI to Intimidate Congress by Requiring Polygraphs. The Bush Adminsitration Leaks Misinformation and Insider Information Everyday -- and Who is Giving Them Polygraph Tests? Start with Junior and Cheney. 8/5

Big Business Republican Types Support John "NRA" Dingell 8/5

5 People Dead, 1 Person Hurt in Dallas Shooting Police Call One of Worst Episodes of Domestic Violence 8/5

Will Katherine Harris Get Away With Breaking the Rule of Law? 8/5

The Source of the Sleaze, by Molly Ivins 8/5

How the Bush Team Financed the Riot that Gave an Unelected Man the White House in 2000 8/5

A Love Affair Gone Sour, Guns, and a Murder-Suicide Involving Alaska's Recent Top Law Enforcement Officer 8/5

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The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission told the state Republican Party it is bound by law to forfeit $6.6 million worth of campaign contributions it received from the national GOP since 2000. 8/5

Gore Makes His Former V.P. Candidate Look Like a Cautious Wimp. After Months of "Investigating Enron," Joe Lieberman Has Come Up With Almost Zip. That Should Tell You Something About Lieberman's (In)Ability to Take on the Republicans. 8/5

"The Bush administration contends that it cannot protect national security and also meet a judge's deadline to reveal names of those held in the investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." 8/5

Who in Our Government is Hiding the Truth Behind the Anthrax Terrorism?

A Highly Recommended Musical Revue Satire on Bush: Get the CD Now! "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years"

Halliburton Gets Military Contract Despite Being Under Investigation for Fraud 8/5

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Clear Skies, Not From Bush, by the Governor of Maryland 8/5

Pollster Frank Luntz foresees angry voters taking their frustrations out on the GOP in November 8/5

"Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S. fight against terrorism, is not convinced that Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks" 8/5

Double Warning to Bush Against Iraq War at This Time 8/5

Army Wives Sought Separations Before They Were Murdered by Their Husbands 8/5

Political Scuttlebut 8/5

Pakistan Will Question Camp X-Ray Inmates 8/5

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How did corporate icons become corporate criminals? Follow the money 8/5

Gun Violence Prevention and the PAC Option 8/5

Unwelcome plutonium may already be in S.C. 8/5

Turkey Abolishes Death Penalty 8/5

The Bush Administration is Engaged in an Unsettling Iraq War Game with Itself 8/5

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John Ashcroft, Son of a Preacher Man 8/5

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The FBI Anthrax Terrorist Search "Bungles" Along 8/5

Jordanian Prince Talks of Crisis in the Islamic World 8/5

Largest Black-Owned Bank Formed 8/5

The Caravan of Cause in Florida 8/5

From the Karl Rove Dirty Trick's Archive 8/5

Vietnam Redux Becomes Official 8/5

Mobilizations Hint at Date and Strategy for Iraq War 8/5

Boy Lights Shoe on Fire on Plan "As Joke"? Hmmm. 8/5

Insiders: HPL execs sold stock before probe 8/5

John Dingell Loves the Gun Lobby 8/3

China funds: Bush decision unbelievable 8/5

California Republican Donors Jump the Sinking Bill Simon Ship 8/5

Grand Hypocrisy Party Candidate for Governor of California Doesn't Remember $1.2 Million Loss 8/4

More on the So-Called "Anthrax Investigation" 8/4

9/11 Widows Press for an Independent Investigation 8/4

Bush's words cast an Orwellian shadow across America 8/4

What Would Your Pay be Like if It Had Grown at the Same Rate as the Average American CEO's? 8/4

The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller

Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question

Questionable FBI Anthrax Probe Stumbles Forward -- or Backward -- or Nowhere on Purpose 8/4

Media Whores Online is Back! 8/4

Who Declares a War? 8/4

Enron Gives Retirees the Shaft. When Will We See Ken Lay Handcuffed? Never, as Long as the Bush Cartel is in Power. 8/4

A New Florida Election Mystery Unfolds: Voter signatures lost in Broward County 8/5

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Democratic Trio Tangle in Michigan, for Governor's Nomination 8/4

GOP Calif. Governor Hopeful Falters 8/4

Musical Chairs on Tax Havens: Now It's Ireland 8/4

Amid the clouds of deception, US speeds along road to war 8/4

Potassium iodide tablets to be distributed for Residents Near Nuclear Power Plant 8/4

The Administration Has Not Made the Case for Invading Iraq 8/4

Hardliners In Iran Want to Down U.S. Jets 8/4

Executive Compensation Search Engine 8/4

Germany Cautions U.S. on Iraq Action 8/4

Pitiful job gains fuel recovery concerns 8/4

Florida Bank Closed After Suspicious Envelope Found 8/4

Turnover Hinders Recasting of FBI 8/4

Was Food Cart Used to Thwart the Hijackers? 8/4

Anxiety Felt in Louisiana After 4 West Nile Deaths 8/4

Sign of the Times: Nine Rescued Coal Miners Sell TV and Book Rights to Disney 8/4

Tim Hutchinson, Poster Boy for the Grand Hypocrisy Party: Impeach a Democratic President for Sex, But "Forgive a Christian Right Wing Republican"

"And Richard Nixon was not a crook." 8/4

After Sept. 11, a Legal Battle Over Limits of Civil Liberty 8/4

Bush is a One Man Country Wrecker, and It's Our Country, Including Foreign Policy: Bush's Support For Reformers Backfires in Iran 8/4

Rumsfeld Moves to Strengthen His Grip on Military Intelligence 8/4

Let's Be Perfectly Clear About This, Dingell is an NRA Democrat. He Even Was on Their Board of Directors for Many Years. 8/4

Bush Heads North to Raise Funds for the Grand Hypocrisy Party 8/4

Koreas to Hold High Level Talks 8/4

GOP Candidate for Governor in California is the Poster Boy for GOP Business Fraud 8/3

"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

Will the FBI Investigate the White House for All of Its Leaks? We Hope The FBI Starts Today? 8/3

The Saddam in Rumsfeld’s Closet 8/3

Sounds Like the Noelle Bush Judge Was Reading From a Script. Imagine That. 8/3

Questionable Motives, by BuzzFlash's Rebecca Knight

The Angry Liberal - Bush's Sleight of Hand on Corporate Reform: Now You See It, Now You Don't 8/1

Noelle Bush Continues to Get Special Treatment in Florida, While Her Uncle and Father Continue to Preach a Get Tough Policy on Drug Offenders 8/3

Bush Reacts to Bumping His Head on Marine One 8/3

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Bush Bumps His Head on Marine One Helicopter, Pulling a Gerald Ford 8/3

McCain Seeks Answers About "Resignation" of Special Trustee for American Indians (.pdf file) 8/3

United Airlines' long-descending stock plunged another 20 percent Friday after the airline confirmed it had hired bankruptcy attorneys months ago. 8/3

Strong-arming Iraq: Preventing terrorism or just perpetuating it? 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

Kerry Scores an Early Coup 8/3

Bush, Father in Tow, Raises Cash for Republicans. It's All About Money and Oil.

Bizarre Twist in Bizarre and Suspicious FBI "Investigation" of Anthrax Terrorism 8/4

Bush's Shame -- And Hypocrisy 8/4

Bush Prepares to Pull His Butt Out of the Fire By Unilaterally Declaring War 8/4

Once Again, Katherine Harris Causes Confusion on the Florida Ballot 8/4

Nine Israelis Killed in Suicide Bus Bombing 8/4

"But ask Mr. Meaker about the Bush administration's not-so-veiled hints of plans to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, and party loyalty evaporates in the afternoon heat." 8/4

Foreign Investors Turning Cautious on Spending in U.S. 8/4

Healthcare for Veterans is Jeopardized by Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich 8/2

Pawnshop Owners Accused Of Selling Guns To Convicts: Oh, Those Law-Abiding Gun Guys! 8/1

The NRA Poster Boy is Our Attorney General (See America's Shooting Gallery) 8/1

Bush Pretty Much Only Rubs Elbows with the Wealthy 8/4

Everybody Needs a "Committee for the Right to Arm Bears" Bear. (Click and Scroll Down) Get Yours Now! 8/3

Houdini or George "Hoover" Bush? We'll Take Houdini.

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

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Teens Grade Adults for a Change, Give Them a National Report Card 8/1

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The Quackery of Bipartisanship, P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 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

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Dick's on the Lam 8/5

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