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Unconscionable and Downright Evil: "As the Bush administration draws up plans to simplify the tax system, it is also refining arguments for why it may be necessary to shift more of the tax load onto lower-income workers." 12/16
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Why Gore Must Run -- And Will, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Posted Before His Announcement That He Will Not Run! 12/15
Stage Direction from Karl Rove to George W.: Remember to Touch the Black Kid and Smile! 12/16
The GOP is Still Dancing with the Beast of Racism 12/16
Despite Joe Lieberman's Odd Love for the Orwellian TIPS Program, It Didn't Make It Into the Homeland Security Bill. 12/16
Transcript Of Gore's 60 Minutes Interview
Maureen Dowd: Dunces of Confederacy 12/16
As BuzzFlash Editorials Indicated This Week, The Knives in the Back of Lott are Coming from Karl Rove, Not the Democrats (Who Remain Generally Mute). In This Case, Bush Cartel Surrogate Senator Don Nickles Calls for a New Vote. He's Not Freelancing!
Would You Trade Your Sons -- and Daughters -- for Oil? 12/16
Stephen Chapman: As of 1999, reports The Memphis Commercial Appeal, Lott "had only one African-American worker, a mail clerk, out of a staff of 65." Yet. Mississippi is 36% Black. 12/16
No Gore in 2004: BuzzFlash Has Three Words for Lieberman, Gephardt and Daschle About Running for the Presidency, "Forget About It!" 12/16
GunGuys.com for December 16: Where Everyone is a Straight Shooter 12/16
Louisiana Senator Arrested for Lewd Conduct Says He'll Run Again. Oh, the Grand Hypocrisy Party is At It Again! 12/16
A Great Holiday Gift: "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years." This is a Fantastic 15-song Satirical CD.
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The Gores Smooch It Up on Saturday Night Live 12/16
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Don't Forget December 12, 2000: Too Close Too Call
Can Judge Bates be Impeached? "When Bates was deputy to Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton's official tormentor, he definitely did not regard the White House as inviolate. He treated it like the public's closet, to be entered at will and rifled"
Guaranteed to Offend Everyone: The Trent Lott Christmas Greeting Card, For White Guys Only!
From the BuzzFlash Archives: Ashcroft, the Neo-Confederacy Movement, Bush and Orwell
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REPOSTED: More on Why Karl Rove is Conducting a Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Get Trent Lott to Step Down as Majority Leader, A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
A Speech by One of Lott's "Former" Friends 12/16
About that "Sexual Lawsuit" Against Bush in Texas, A BuzzFlash News Analysis
The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. Get It for the Holidays.
Reposted: The Esquire Article that Revealed the Partisan Inner Workings of the White House 12/16
Documents May Have Caused Cardinal Law to Quit 12/16
From the Archives: Just Remember that Trent Lott and John Ashcroft are Kindred Spirits When It Comes to Neo-Confederacy Sympathies 12/15
Canadians go to Baghdad as 'human shields' 12/16
Thousands of Anti-War Protestors Snarl Paris Traffic 12/16
"Daschle's willingness to give Lott a pass on this one is an extreme illustration of how defensive, denatured and defanged the Democratic establishment has become." Article from LA Times that Echoes a BuzzFlash Editorial from Several Days Ago. 12/16
Gore, Who Won the 2000 Election by More Than 540,000 Votes, Should be Running for RE-Election 12/16
Bush Cartel Plays Politics with Abortion at Overseas Conference 12/16
Lott is the Southern Republican Party of Bush, But He Made the Mistake About Being Open About the Racist Sentiments of the Grand Hypocrisy Party Southern Branch. Bush and His Cohorts Just Speak in Code Words Like "States Rights." 12/16
Depressed? Read "The Emerging Democratic Majority." Remember that the Democrats Won the Last THREE Presidential Elections. Republicans Can Only Win Through Campaign Deception and 5-4 Supreme Court Votes. This Book Will Cheer You Up!
Chicago Tribune Story on Al Gore Not Running Again 12/16
The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)
REPOSTED: Is the Drive to Replace Trent Lott as the Next Majority Leader Coming from the White House? A BuzzFlash News Analysis
Bush Cartel and Allies Will Censor Iraq Report So as Not to Reveal Western Companies Who Helped Arm Iraq 12/16
"Most people in the White House would favor a new Republican leader, according to conservative commentator Bill Kristol." Just as BuzzFlash Said. 12/16
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"Trent Lott, whose serial apologies last week were little more than a series of stale and witless cliches..." 12/16
Voodoo economics, 21st century style: Son of a Gingrich, grandson of a Reagan 12/16
Don't Stop Fighting! "The Conscience of a Liberal," by Senator Paul Wellstone. From BuzzFlash.com.
Sean Penn Follows His Own Script on Iraq and War 12/16
No Room for Dinosaurs in Alleged Republican Big Tent 12/16
About That Clinton Speech... 12/16
Bush Cartel Orwellian Logic on the Environment: To Save the Forest, the Trees Must Go 12/16
The military could be called on to keep order and quarantine affected areas if there were a smallpox outbreak in the United States 12/16
At the Corner of Hate and Free Speech 12/16
America's defeated Democrats need to deepen the analysis of their election post-mortem. American democracy is in danger if they fail to remake the culture of politics 12/16
NY Transit Strike Deadline Passes, No Walkout 12/16
Young and old protest war against Iraq 12/16
Health Care is a Big Profit Business 12/16
Barriers Rise on the Internet 12/16
Critics Attack Suspension of 33 Philadelphia Kindergartners 12/16
Canadian Activist Detained in Israel 12/16
Loose Lips Should Sink Lotts Leadership 12/16
In Louisville, Suspect with Handcuffs on Shot 11 Times 12/16
All Eyes on Our Military Tribunals 12/16
French Marketing New Kind of Gay Paree 12/16
Bin Laden hiding behind Palestinian cause: Arafat 12/16
From the Archives: Is John Ashcroft Just as Racist as Trent Lott? 12/16
"I recommend this book to everyone with a brain -- and Republicans too," Says James Carville. "It's Still the Economy Stupid," by Paul Begala. Your Purchase of This Book Supports BuzzFlash.Com
Trent Lott is Republican Party's Monica Lewinsky, By Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.
The Racist Council of Conservative Citizens, With Whom Lott Has Been Associated, Comes to Trent's Defense! But Criticizes Him for Apologizing About His True Beliefs.
Confederates in the Attic: The Southern Partisan Interview with John Ashcroft (From the Archives). 12/16
"The Defense Department is considering issuing a secret directive to the American military to conduct covert operations aimed at influencing public opinion and policy makers in friendly and neutral countries" 12/16
"Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate," by Naomi Klein
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Republicans the Party of Lincoln? Honest Abe Left Your Party Back in 1948 - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
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Trent Lott: Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Antiwar Signs are All the Rage in Duluth, Minnesota 12/16
REPOSTED: Tom Daschle, Too Little, Too Late, As Usual -- A BuzzFlash Editorial
Bring on the House of Hate in Arkansas 12/15
Low-Income Programs Face Cuts When Congress Completes Work on Appropriations Bills in January 12/15
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.
It's Time to Stand Up to the New GOP Thuggish McCarthyism -- Or Lose Our Democracy 12/15
"Nonetheless, there arguably is broader opposition to war with Iraq today than there was opposition to the war in Vietnam even a few years into that enterprise." 12/15
Report: U.S. Firms on List Aided Iraq Weapons Development 12/15
Helen Thomas: White House Steps Over the Line. This is the Speech Tom Daschle or Nancy Pelosi Should Make, But They Won't Because They Don't Have the Guts (Buzz's Comment). 12/15
Karl Rove Claims that the Bush Cartel Wants the Black Vote. That's B.S. The Bush Cartel is Desperately Fearful of Losing the Republican Women's Vote and the Vote of Indepedents if They Appear Hostile to Blacks. It's All for Show. 12/15
Bush Cartel Steps Up Its Pandering to the Cuban Exile Vote: U.S. may tighten Cuba travel 12/15
Right Wingers Upset Trent Took His White Sheet Out of the Closet and Wore It In Public. Their Tacit Rule is to Wear Their White Sheets Only in Private.
Bush Now Says He is For Extending Unemployment Benefits, But Ari Refuses to Release Details. Watch Out for the Fine Print. 12/15
With Republican Control of Congress, Bush Cartel Unlikely to Face Any Probes. But, Heck, When the Dems Controlled the Senate, the Bush Cartel Didn't Face Any Serious Probes Either. 12/15
Trent Lott's Coded Message. It's Really Just an Extension of the Republican "State's Rights" Code Language for Establishing a Neo-Confederacy With Guaranteed Affirmative Action for White Guys. 12/15
Ari Needs a History Lesson: NEW BuzzFlash News Analysis, in Which Ari Doesn't Know That There Was Something Called the Korean War
Bush Has Widened Authority of C.I.A. to Kill Terrorists 12/15
Trent Lott, Cross Burning and the Council of Conservative Citizens 12/15
Americans Need to Speak Out in Anger 12/15
Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question
In Lott's Life, Long Shadows of Segregation 12/15
The He-Man Clinton-Haters' Club 12/15
Md. Indictment Says People Were Paid Illegally to Help GOP 12/15
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Howard Kurtz Says Mainstream Press Caught Napping on Lott Racism Story: So What Else is New for the D.C. Stenographer Corps? They are Regular Rip Van Winkles. 12/16
Abortion bill would require women to obtain death warrant 12/15
A Grand Hypocrisy Party Federal Court Switcheroo: Bush to Fill Two Vacancies on Important Appeals Court that Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch Said Didn't Need to be Filled Under Clinton 12/15
Arming Iraq: How George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan helped Iraq Develop their Weapons of Mass Destruction 12/15
For a second day in a row, demonstrators marched in front of Louisville police headquarters yesterday to protest the Dec. 5 fatal shooting of a handcuffed man by a detective. 12/15
Rebel flags abound in Lott's old hometown 12/15
How Iraq Got Its Weapons: We Sold Them 12/15
Watch What You Post 12/15
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Oil is Only One Agenda, Not the Only Agenda - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary
The Selective Conscience of the Bush Cartel 12/15
Homeland Security Duties Hurt Ability to Provide Normal Public Safety and Will Lead to Cuts in Services in Many Cities 12/16
A new breed of activists put the ‘pro’ in protest 12/15
Keeping Track of John Poindexter 12/15
Teacher Who Protested the School of the Americas is Fired After Serving Time in Prison for Her Advocacy 12/15
In Vaccination Plan, A World of Unknowns 12/15
The "Clarion Ledger" of Mississippi: Since the beginning of his political career, Sen. Trent Lott has had ties with segregationists. 12/14
New! "Nuttin' For Christmas" Flash Animation Starring Scrooge BUSH, from Symbolman 12/14
Barf Bag Alert: Bob Dole May be Appointed Head of 9/11 Commission. 12/16
Trent Lott -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison
From the Archives: The Homophobia Problems of Sen. Don Nickles, Lott's Possible Replacement 12/14
The December 13th BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American
Lott's Despicable Record on Civil Rights: Last year, Lott was the ONLY senator to vote against President Bush's nomination of Roger Gregory to be the first black judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. 12/14
From the Archives: Father Bush and Junior Yuck it Up with the Mississippi Mop Head (Trent Lott) and Thurmond as the GOP's Oldest Skirt Chaser Gets a Hero's Send-off -- and Praise for Leading a Pro-Segregation, Pro-Lynching Party from Trent Lott. 12/14
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute Will Only Take a Second!
The December 13th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.)
It's the Economy, Stupid: How Bush Has Made Our Lives Worse
"Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg
Is the Bush Cartel Covering up the Saudi Relationship to 9/11. Read "Forbidden Truth" Now.
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.
Back in February, BuzzFlash Called Judge Bates a Partisan Hack and Said That the Fix Was In On the GAO Suit: From the BuzzFlash Editorial Archives
Why Did Bush and Cheney Stop The Investigation Into 9-11?
The Case Against the Bush Cartel War on Iraq. Scott Ritter Interviewed: "War On Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know" By William Rivers Pitt with Scott Ritter. (Includes BuzzFlash Bumper Sticker, Button and Postcard with Order.)
The Truth About Bush's Accomplishments (Or, Lack Thereof)
Trent Lott and the Wellstone Memorial. Ah, the Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP). You Got to Admire Them in a Perverted Way. They Are So Shameless in Their Hypocrisy. A BuzzFlash Reader Comment.
Must Read: "Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law." Become a Reader Supporter of BuzzFlash.com.
Lessons To Be Learned -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight
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Trent Lott Apologizes for His Apology 12/16
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Trent Lott Special 12/16
Breaking News: Cardinal Law Appointed to Replace Kissinger as Head of 9/11 Commission 12/14
Is 'mooning' a constitutional right in Australia? 12/14
A Christmas Card from Jesus to George 12/15
Transcripts from Saturday Night Live 12/16
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