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For a Second Time, Judge Orders Cheney to Turn Over the People's Papers to the People, But Cheney, Thinking He is Responsible Only to the Bush Cartel, Demurs 10/18
DC Sniper -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
"Iraq's main opposition group says a post-Saddam government would review existing oilfield development deals with French and Russian companies and could favour U.S. firms instead." 10/18
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Tear Down Those Walls, Mr. President, A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary on Bush's NRA Ties, by Tom Diaz 10/18
"After backing away from a demand that a new U.N. resolution explicitly authorize military force against Iraq, the Bush administration made clear it already has the authorization it needs to attack." 10/18
Congress, Bush Spar on Vet Benefits 10/18
What is War? -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Judge sentences Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter to 10 days in jail: Neither Jeb Nor Mom Were in the Courtroom, Which Tells You a Lot 10/18
A Challenge To The Opposition -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
The Emperor's New Clothes -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
The Right to Fair Arms 10/18
Veterans irked by Rep. Sen. Susan Collins no-show for Candidates forum held in Augusta 10/18
Iran, Iraq, Whatever 10/18
Mitt Romney: The Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Role Model of the Day. "Gubernatorial hopeful Mitt Romney helped a shamed business ally land in a new corporate suite ... amid claims he fraternized with and assaulted a secretary." 10/18
Bush is Cautious About North Korea, But Obsessed About Iraq. Can Someone Explain? 10/18
Dim Son Travels to Florida. He Desperately Needs Jeb in Office to Help Him Steal the Election Again in 2004. 10/18
BuzzFlash interviews Ruy Teixeira, Co-Author of "The Emerging Democratic Majority"
Racicot’s Deregulation, Enron and Chickenhawks 10/18
Local PBS Stations to Air Documentaries on the Theft of the Presidency in Florida 10/18
McBride for Governor
A Must Read: "Wealth and Democracy" by Kevin Phillips. A BuzzFlash Premium. The influence of money on government is now, more then ever, a hot political issue.
Chirac denies Iraq-al-Qaeda link 10/18
Politics, Money and Guns 10/18
"Low Key" Bush Cartel Approach to North Korea's Intentions of Building the Big Bomb Show How Political Bush's Iraq Obsession is 10/18
"Facing Strong Opposition From Dozens of Nations," Bush Backs Down from its Demand for a New U.N. Resolution. 10/18
Joe Conason's Journal 10/18
"Senate Democrats and Republicans yesterday blocked each other's moves to force votes on legislation creating a Department of Homeland Security, dimming if not dooming prospects for action on the measure before the Nov. 5 midterm elections." 10/18
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The Choice, By BuzzFlash's Rebecca Knight
Account of DC Sniper May Be Phony Story 10/18
Geraldo signs backsides yards from sniper site 10/18
Bush Cartel Still Obsessed with the Iraq Thing, "Negotiating" with the U.N.? 10/18
Rod Gets the Nod in Illinois 10/18
The Game Show Administration -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Court Orders Vice President Cheney To Turn Over Documents In Energy Task Force Case; Cheney Lawyer Admits VP’s Office Has Not Searched For Documents Despite Months Of Litigation – Judge Calls Revelation "Startling" 10/18
Judicial Watch Sues Jeb Over Records 10/18
Latest Missle Defense Test is RIGGED. Shameful. How Many School Lunches Are Being Wasted on This Stupid Program? 10/18
Warning Notice to NRA Members: You Are Already a Registered Gun Owner 10/18
Bob Novak: GOP wary of Chafee defection 10/18
Illinois Dems Angered by Taped Bush Calls Urging Absentee Balloting Because It's "Convenient" 10/18
Armey: Justice 'out of control,' violating rights. 10/18
More on Jeb's Cash-and-Carry Governorship, Or Buying a Piece of the Government Bush Style 10/18
Pat Robertson Counts His Federal Blessings; Reverend's Controversial Charity Awarded Faith-Based Grant From HHS 10/18
Allies Must Prepare for Long Stay in Iraq 10/18
Cato Institute: It's Not About Oil? 10/18
Hundreds Gathered to Protest Bush's Visit to Atlanta 10/18
Ira Einhorn Found Guilty of Murder 10/18
BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing!
"Democrats, who frequently cannot match Republicans' deep-pocketed donors, have virtually erased the traditional GOP fundraising advantage in many key races. In some states, they have pulled ahead." 10/18
US grants N Korea nuclear funds; "In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors" 10/18
LI man arraigned after mailing protest with utility bill 10/18
Lawrence of Nashua: New Hampshire's all-Arab-American Senate race 10/18
Sniper Shooting Updates on GunGuys.com
Texas Yellow Dog Democrats 10/18
BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word!
Divided within their own ranks, House Republicans on Wednesday shelved an investor tax cut and unemployment benefits extension that GOP leaders had been touting as an answer to Democratic election-year criticism on the economy. 10/18
Krugman: Springtime for Hitler 10/18
Plant peace and nurture justice 10/18
Kristof: The Bush Cartel's Bait and Switch About "Democracy" in Iraq 10/18
Clinton to Enter Black Hall of Fame 10/18
Who is Better at Running the Economy? 10/18
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute Will Only Take a Second!
Bush Garners Little Support at U.N. for an Attack on Iraq 10/18
The BuzzFlash Mailbag for October 17th - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american
Noelle Bush Jailed for 10 Days 10/18
Transcript of Larry King Interview with Harry Belafonte 10/18
"Moral Clarity" Gets More and More Complicated for the Bush Cartel. Report: Pakistan Gave Technology to North Korea. 10/18
Dick Cheney, Dove; More on why Bush père's defense secretary didn't want to go to Baghdad 10/18
Sleazebag Republican in Michigan Who Uses Racist Code Words Tries to Catch Up in Governor's Race 10/18
Key Enron trader pleads guilty to fraud charge 10/18
Must View Flash: Wag the Dog 10/18
More Anti-War Activists Snagged By "No Fly" List 10/18
Democratic Newcomer Besting GOP Warhorse for Congressional Seat in South Dakota 10/18
How Bush Gets "Free rides" to Fundraisers Using Our Tax Dollars: "Congressional appropriators and taxpayers who pick up the tabs for executive branch travel during this political season should pay heed to what’s going on." 10/18
Son of Colorado Governor Charged with Vandalism 10/18
New Yorker: "The Bush vision is in the end a profoundly pessimistic one, and, as such, more than a little un-American. It is, among other things, a vision of perpetual war." 10/18
Impending Ban Hasn't Stopped Soft Money Rush by Presidential Hopefuls 10/18
Heaven Help Us: The Utterances Of God's Court Jester: Jerry Falwell 10/18
Congress May Regret War Resolution 10/18
Figures don't lie -- tax cuts hurt Jeb Bush's chances 10/18
Ashcroft’s Wife says Republican Talent would back 'strict constructionist' judges. He's Challenging Jean Carnahan, Who Voted AGAINST Ashcroft's Nomination. Help Carnahan Beat This Right-Wing Whacko. 10/18
A Highly Recommended Musical Revue Satire on Bush: Get the CD Now! "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years"
I'm an American tired of American lies by Woody Harrelson 10/18
The Rehnquist Choice by John Dean -- The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy.
Upcoming Protests
Read This Book on Iraq! Scott Ritter Interviewed: "War On Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know" By William Rivers Pitt with Scott Ritter. Just Published. (Includes BuzzFlash Bumper Sticker, Button and Postcard with Order.)
Must Read: "Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law." Become a Reader Supporter of BuzzFlash.com.
Mary McGrory: Mistaken Patriots 10/18
More Protests
Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles Calls for Probe Into Alaska Weapons Tests 10/18
America's first-strike nuclear weapons: How they work. Who's in the crosshairs. 10/18
Jeb Bush Goes on the Defensive 10/18
Jeb and George MUST Be Brothers, They Both Enjoy Stabbing Vets in the Back 10/18
In Oregon: Trial date set "for 36 construction workers who say they were exposed to toxic nerve agents while building a chemical incinerator." 10/18
Registering to Vote in 50 States
Nothing fond about farewell to Armey 10/18
ACLU Runs First Paid TV Ad, but "The ad is not running on New York ABC, NBC, and CBS stations, which refused to run the ads" 10/18
Berkowitz: Falwell's follies; When the Rev. speaks, s**t happens 10/18
Continental pilot tests positive for alcohol. And Now He Can Have A Gun. 10/18
Massachusetts Candidate Mitt Romney Pulls TV Ads With Opponent's Comments Edited 10/18
Are Bush Officials Exploiting Bali Blast...And Leaning on CIA? 10/18
Defense Bill Has Millions in Florida-Related Projects. Can you Say, "War Profiteering"? 10/18
Politics at FL Library Association: Speaker Out 10/18
Tearful relatives of Sept. 11 victims urged White House officials Wednesday not to block Congress' plans to create an independent commission to investigate the attacks.
Vatican balks at policy on sex abuse (10.18)
Whack back on Nov. 5 10/17
'You're Either With Us, Or You're Whacko', An Enlightening Peek at Bob Novak's Nuts -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
Another Missing in Action Republican. This One is Running for Governor of Oklahoma. 10/17
Report: Terror Funds Flow Through Saudi Arabia. Proof That Bush's "War on Terror" is More Politics Than Substance.
Must Read: "I'm not sure which planet they live on." Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy. 10/17
10 Reason Why Jeb Bush MUST NOT Be Reelected -- A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
"Florida schools are too mediocre to be palatable to the public" 10/17
Bush's Karen Hughes Leads Nasty, Desperate Republican Campaigns In Texas 10/17
Some Democratic Congressional Candidates May Prove that Gephardt's Politics of Appeasement (with Bush) is Not the Ticket to Victory 10/18
MyDD.com, Due Diligence of Politics, Election Forecast & the World Today 10/17
Bush Says He'll OK Election Overhaul. Yeah, Sure, Just Like He Said He'd Back an Independent Investigation of 9-11. Don't Believe The HYPE! 10/17
Weird. 4 in 10 Americans support annexing Canada: Poll 10/17
Mystery of Long Island Sniper Grows. Do we have a series of Domestic or International Sponsored Terrorist Attacks on our Hands? Or Just Copycats (There Were Highway Shootings in Ohio Too) 10/17
GOP Tops Democrats in Fundraising, Cash on Hand 10/17
Romney May be Losing His Touch in Massachusetts 10/17
Swifty's Brain is Working Overtime Again. God, He Has Insight That None of Us Can Come Close To: "Israel will retaliate if attacked, Bush says." 10/17
Helen Thomas: Don't give Bush imperial presidency 10/17
Stopgap Spending Bill Passes 10/17
A BuzzFlash Must Read: As Bush Marshals America for War Against the Axis of Evil, American and British Arms Companies are Showing Them Our Weapons
Jeb's Cash and Carry Reign in Florida 10/17
Jeb Decides to Play Politics with His Daughter on National T.V. 10/17
BuzzFlash World Media Watch for October 16th, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
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.
Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question
The "Bush Knew" Bumperstickers, A BuzzFlash Premium
Go See "Bowling for Columbine"! It opened in NY and LA last Friday and opens this Friday, October 18, in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC, Phoenix, Seattle and San Diego. BuzzFlash saw it. GO SEE IT!
The Truth About Bush's Alleged Accomplishments
Safe-haven Duplicity, For Some -- P.M. Carpenter's Fifth Columnist
Bush to Saddam: "This Here Planet Ain't Big Enough for the Two of Us." - The Angry Liberal
How Much More Evidence Do We Need? Bush Should Have Known, Could Have, Might Have.
BuzzFlash interviews Martin Garbus, Author of "Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law." Read About the Right Wing Takeover of the American Judiciary.
"The Calm Before The Storm" -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight
THE LIGHTER SIDE:
Reposted: A Speech by First Lady Laura Bush 10/18
Slouching Toward Election Day 10/15
The White House is HIRING! 10/18
The Third Edition of Liberty Man! 10/18
Bush Seeks Support for "U.S. Does Whatever It Wants" Plan 10/16
Is Every Day Starting To Feel Like Halloween? 10/17
Bush Clarifies Administration's Position on Ballistic Fingerprinting of High-Powered Sniper Rifles 10/18
Why We Must Go To War (Mark Fiore Flash cartoon) 10/18
The Downside of Gentrification: Not Enough Young People Die 10/15
The Top 17 Rejected Slogans for The Altria Group (potential new name for Phillip Morris) 10/15
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