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Senator Carl Levin Says Going to War With Iraq Might End Up Putting Us at Risk for Weapons of Mass Destruction Being Used Against Us 8/13
John Ashcroft crowed over the arrest of alleged ‘dirty bomber’ Jose Padilla. But do the Feds have a case? 8/13
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Sponsored by the GMAG Association (Guns Make America Great): An All New America's Shooting Gallery (Click and Scroll Down) 8/12
The BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 12th - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
Armed with the Constitution, the Bible and a Gun 8/13
Gracie Allen Meets Inquiring Minds, P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist 8/12
Novak: Bush hears war naysayers 8/13
The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers, A BuzzFlash Premium
Some GOP Candidates Resist Partial Privatization of Social Security 8/13
If John Derbyshire and Ann Coulter Were to Conceive a Child, Surely It Would be the Anti-Christ. 8/13
Professor W's Welfare 101 8/13
Tacky Use of September 11th for Bush Political Gain: U.S. to Begin Fingerprinting "Aliens" on September 11th 8/13
From the Archive: Green Party Candidate in Washington State Found Himself to be a Republican Pawn 8/13
Amazing: Some Prominent Republicans are Expressing More Concern About Iraq Than Democratic Presidential Hopefuls 8/13
Florida Gov. Bush chokes up when talking about daughter on campaign trail. Who is Praying for all the Drug Users that Jeb and George W. are Putting in Jails? 8/13
BuzzFlash World Media Watch for August 12th, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
Ashcroft Lackey Defends TIPS, Even While Admitting It Will Produce Little of Value 8/12
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight 8/13
Making Execs Give Back the Cash 8/13
Five former Enron executives who reaped millions seek extra pay 8/13
Are the Feds Closing in on Enron 8/13
Bush May Withhold Anti-Terror Funds 8/13
Must Read Letter: Analysis of Bush presidency suggests a nation overthrown 8/13
Iraq is Defiant on Weapons' Inspectors Returning 8/13
ABA Examines Selection of Judges 8/13
Two scribes finally admit that the corps borked Gore. But where were these scribes in real time? 8/13
Base Instincts: Servicing G.I.s With Women Sold Into Sexual Slavery 8/13
State Republicans keep tainted cash 8/13
Democratic Primary Foes of Katherine Harris Say They Have a Shot at Winning 8/13
Jeb Bush: If He Can't Change the Facts, He Changes the Subject 8/13
Federal mine official resists call for hearing 8/13
You Bought. They Sold. All over corporate America, top execs were cashing in stock even as their companies were tanking. Who was left holding the bag? You. 8/13
Poll: Politics, Money Erode U.S. Trust in Judiciary 8/13
Bush's snoopers plan hits backlash 8/13
Tom Paine.com Wants Your Best 300 Words 8/13
Social Security Shell Game, by Bob Kerrey and Warren Rudman 8/13
Florida pressured to do better job of finding missing children 8/13
SONICblue chief ousted after challenging insider loans 8/13
The Man Who Came From Nowhere: Van Hilleary's résumé is light, but his ambition is high 8/13
Bush Team Is Divided Over Getting Tougher With Saudis 8/13
Cloud Of Suspicion: "[Dr. Steven J. Hatfill] launched a public campaign this weekend proclaiming his innocence and trying to quell what he described as a humiliating "feeding frenzy" for information about his life." 8/13
Rights group: Yahoo! risks complicity with Chinese government if it keeps to Internet pledge 8/13
Lost kids easily found: Sun-Sentinel turns up nine of DCF’s missing children 8/13
Wash. Times: Pentagon battles waning morale 8/13
Test scores unreliable: Error margin means California can't precisely measure how schools are doing, but the cash still flows. 8/13
In any other administration, Bush's scandal-plagued Army secretary, Thomas White, would be history. But the rules have changed: "The "new tone" that George W. Bush brought to Washington isn't one of integrity, but of permissiveness." 8/13
Conservative Commentary in Washington Times Criticizes Bush's Iraq Policy 8/12
US allies leery of post-attack Iraq 8/12
California Finds Bush Indifferent 8/12
States raise taxes and boost fees to fill gaps. Of Course, This is, In Part, Necessary Because of Bush's Sham Tax Cuts. 8/12
Bush Threatens to Reject $5.1 Billion Package 8/12
The Selling of Water 8/12
Confidence Men 8/12
I.M.F. Loan to Brazil Used to Influence Political Direction of Country 8/12
Lawmakers Want to Hear Justification for Invading Iraq 8/12
Fund Gap in California is Evidence of a GOP in Disarray 8/12
Leading US pension funds will on Monday consider cutting links with companies that move offshore to tax havens. 8/12
Peacefully, Nigerian women win changes from big oil 8/12
Troops as Strikebreakers? 8/12
Urban Combat Likely in an Iraq War 8/12
Dems Finally Take the Gloves Off 8/12
"Two George Bushes," Sample Song from "Hail to the Thief CD" (See Above, Requires Audio)
What's Up With the Pentagon Budget? By Congressman Peter De Fazio 8/12
First They Came for Others... by Molly Ivins 8/12
From the Grover Norquist Archives: Bush Was "Elected" President Because of the Muslim Vote 8/12
South and North Korea Resume Talks 8/12
Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question
A new survey of Palestinian public opinion due to be released today shows a further hardening of attitudes and a rise in support for an Islamic political system over a democratic one. 8/12
Bush Raises Record $100 Million 8/12
"Vice President Dick Cheney told Iraqi opposition leaders today that the Bush administration was determined to oust Saddam Hussein from power and replace him with a democratic government" 8/12
"Unless someone can stop this relentless and manic rush to war, there will be bad times ahead, very bad times," by Andrew Greeley 8/12
Kerry campaigns for House, Senate candidates 8/12
Reflections in a Gentle Mirror 8/12
Longshoremen Accuse Bush Administration of Management Bias. Imagine That. 8/12
"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock
Bush, Ashcroft, TIPS and FOX, a Match Made in Right Wing Heaven -- or is It Hell? 8/12
Attack Iraq and save the world? Bush is dreaming 8/12
God, Death and Justice Scalia
You Can See Cheney, But You May Not be Able to Find Him 8/12
The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller
Billionaire to Challenge Pataki for Third Party Nomination Slot 8/12
McAuliffe Says Democrats are Debt Free 8/12
A "New Freedom Ride" for Immigrants and Family Members 8/12
From the Archives: Greens reject GOP cash to recruit candidates 8/12
Rumsfeld Covert U.S. Assassination Units 8/12
Military Spending Clock 8/12
Tax Bill Exceeds Award to Police Officer in Sex Bias Suit 8/12
The Merchants of Bigotry 8/12
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.
Disabled are Prisoners in Their Own Homes Under Bush Medicare Rules 8/12
Did California GOP Congressman Meet with the Taliban in 2001? 8/12
A BUZZFLASH.COM INTERVIEW WITH THE CO-AUTHOR OF “Forbidden Truth: U.S. Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden"
Karl Rove's Safety Net 8/12
A Highly Recommended Musical Revue Satire on Bush: Get the CD Now! "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years"
Bush Administration Nears Nuke Waste Transfer Decision 8/12
Domestic, Personal Issues May Sway Bush on Iraq 8/12
Democratic Chair: Gore "was robbed, and that's a fact." 8/12
American Soldier Dies of Afghan Gun Wounds. 8/12
When the Truth Had Consequences 8/12
Greed Undermines War on Terrorism in England 8/12
Norway says it will reject a request by the United States to sign an agreement not to hand over Americans to the International Criminal Court, set up to try crimes against humanity. 8/12
"It seems Utah Republicans aren't as confident in their redistricting plan as they were a year ago." 8/12
Meeting of Priests and Brothers Voted Not to Defrock Pedophile Priests 8/12
Migrant Smuggling Grows More Ruthless, Deadly 8/12
Has Harvey Pitt Made a Deal with the Devil? 8/12
Hiroshima's Lesson 8/12
Training camps offer gun and grenade training for boys preparing to defend Iraq 8/12
Ralph Nader Claims to Support Wellstone, but His Green Party Candidate May End Up Tipping the Senate to the GOP. You Still Have to Wonder if the GOP is Secretly Funding the Green Party. 8/12
My Island, My Country - A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary from Novelist John Westermann
A BuzzFlash Interview with Anti-Jeb "Caravan of Cause" Organizer, Suni Haught 8/8
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison - Full Frontal 8/6
The Angry Liberal - The Angry Liberal's Interview with Katherine Harris 8/5
Read if You Haven't Already: "Call Me Liberal" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight
A BuzzFlash Interview with Mark Crispin Miller, Author of "The Bush Dyslexicon"
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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