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Bill Maher v. Religion Caustic comedian Bill Maher on his new movie Religulous, bargaining with God, and why Christianity is just as crazy as Scientology. —By Elizabeth Gettelman MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: The Campaign Goes Christian Jesus Is Magic The MoJo Interview: John Cusack The MoJo Interview: David Sedaris A McCain Flip-Flop on bin Laden? In August, McCain decried Clintonites and others for not treating al Qaeda as a serious threat after the 1998 embassies bombings. But weeks after those attacks, McCain told Mother Jones he wondered if bin Laden was "really the bad guy that's depicted." —By David Corn MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: McCain Strategy for the Home Stretch: Get Nasty Should Vietnam's Forgotten POWs Be Off Limits? McCain Seeks Surge in Afghanistan; Commanders Do Not Down in Polls, McCain Pulls Plug on Michigan Supreme Court Snapshot Your guide to the notable cases on the high court's docket. —By Stephanie Mencimer MORE FROM MOTHER JONES: Courting Disaster Have You Signed Away Your Right to Sue? Supreme Court Overturns DC Handgun Ban Supreme Court Overturns Exxon Valdez Verdict Top Stories 1 2 3
A Setback for Nonproliferation? The Senate greenlights the Bush administration's plan to supply nuclear technology to India, despite warnings that doing so could send the wrong signal to Iran and other atomic aspirants. —By Bruce Falconer Veep Debate: Ending the Palin Reality TV Show The polls gave Biden the win, but Palin stopped her political free-fall. Now McCain can reclaim his own campaign's spotlight. —By David Corn The Future Behind Us Spying on the Future: The U.S. Intelligence Community as Seers Without Sizzle. —By Tom Engelhardt Swift Boaters Start Your Engines If Obama is hit with an attack ad fusillade, this secretive GOP operative will likely be behind the onslaught. —By Stephanie Mencimer Fireside Chat As the financial crisis snowballs, Sarah Palin sits down to calm the nation's nerves. Donchya worry. —By Mark Fiore McCain Exaggerating Past with Palin? Asked if he can rely on foreign policy advice from Palin, McCain says he has "turned to her many times in the past." But he only talked to her three times before putting her on the ticket. —By David Corn Poker, Hookers, and Black Contracts: Or How To Make a CIA Trial Go Away It wasn't the staff mistress that concerned Langley's spymasters when CIA official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo pled guilty to wire fraud this week. It was the 27 other charges he faced. —By Laura Rozen Wall Street and the Return of the Repressed With history marching forward in seven league boots, we are about to revisit a time when the Street functioned as the country's lightning rod. —By Steve Fraser Do Taxpayers Need Marriage Workshops? Rabbi Stephen Baars is here from the government to help your love life. —By Stephanie Mencimer The Bailout Blame Game Why did the Wall Street bailout bill collapse? Nancy Pelosi hurt our feelings, says the GOP. —By David Corn Why the Bailout Sells America Short As the House says no to the Wall Street rescue package, a former Wall Streeter explains why the plan was a bad deal. —By Nomi Prins The Palin Fear Factor Some voters are scared of the prospect of a black president. Can Obama convince them that they really should be petrified of a Palin vice presidency? —By James Ridgeway Zip It, Soldier! More enlisted are speaking out against the Iraq War—and facing harsh consequences. —By Justine Sharrock Five Alternative Bailout Plans Are there other approaches to the problem besides putting the Treasury in charge of a $700 billion fire sale? Yes. Here's a quick roundup. —By Nick Baumann Reality Trumps Politics in First Debate The first Obama-McCain face-off yielded little excitement and not much reason to pronounce a winner. —By David Corn The Pentagon Bailout Fraud How the military-industrial complex may bankrupt the United States. —By Chalmers Johnson Two Staffers Violating McCain's Conflict Rules? The McCain campaign says aides are banned from working with outside groups that run political ads. But two McCain officials lobby for the NRA, which has slammed Obama in TV spots. —By David Corn Brzezinski Talks Bases The former national security adviser on the Bush Pentagon's spending binge: "Do we really need that for our security?" —By Michael Mechanic The Spies Who Love Obama Why some of Bush's intel professionals are now working for a Democrat—and how they'd reform the CIA. Part Two in a series on the candidates' national security policies. —By Laura Rozen Flight of the Diplomats Midlevel foreign-service officers are fleeing the US State Department in droves. Guess who's taking their place? —By Joshua Kurlantzick The $700 Billion Bailout Plan's Fine Print A reformed Wall Streeter sifts through the details of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. —By Nomi Prins Senate Panel to Paulson: No Blank Check Appearing before the Senate banking committee, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was greeted with bipartisan skepticism on his plan to avert financial Armageddon. —By Jonathan Stein The Next Prez's Superpowers Will a new president give back the authority that Bush and Cheney grabbed for the executive? —By David Cole Top Alaska GOPer Hits McCain-Palin Campaign on Troopergate A leading Republican legislator in Alaska says she is "absolutely disgusted" by the McCain campaign's efforts to shut down an investigation into Sarah Palin. —By David Corn Party Favors: Land Handouts Are a Gas A late-term ploy by the Bush team and its consultants is giving oil and gas developers right-of-way on millions of acres of public land. —By Keith Kloor A Democratic Rebellion? With the administration urging immediate action on its $700 billion plan, skeptical House Dems are saying not so fast. —By David Corn Wall Street vs. Congress As Congress hammers out the terms of the bailout, it's worth considering who got us into this mess. —By James Ridgeway The McCain Campaign's Latest Target: The New York Times Responding to a critical article a top McCain aide lashes out at the Times, claiming it's an Obama organ that has "cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition." —By David Corn Will the Government Bailout Work? A reformed Wall Streeter explains the latest Treasury-Fed-SEC plan to revive the markets. —By Nomi Prins Is McCain Out-Populisting Obama? McCain is positioning himself as the scourge of Wall Street greed-meisters and Washington influence-peddlers—and it just might be working. —By David Corn Fed Up With the Fed Take the Fed public, and Wall Street's Wild West days would be numbered. —By James Ridgeway McCain's 83 Wall Street Lobbyists The GOP candidate has denounced Wall Street lobbyists. But McCain's campaign is loaded with them. —By David Corn, Jonathan Stein, and Nick Baumann Return of the Geeks For eight long years, the Bush administration has trashed and politicized the government's science agencies. How to kick out the flat-Earthers and let the nerds reign. —By Chris Mooney more...				Sarah Palin, Unguarded McCain Has a Decision to Make on Jeremiah Wright Taliban Sues For Peace, Says It Has Split With Al Qaeda Half of The World's Mammals Are in Decline, Says Study Contractors Investigate Contractors In Iraq Doonesbury Reads Mother Jones Wildlife Preservation: A Cheney Tale A McCain Flip-Flop on Osama bin Laden? Springsteen Does an Obama for Obama Study: Toxic PBDEs Are 10 Times Higher in California more... Tompkins Square Park (PowerHouse book excerpt) Homeless people and their supporters protest for affordable housing on Avenue A. July 1989 Summer, 1988. Tompkins Square Park, which long served as a makeshift home for the homeless and a center for social unrest, erupted in violence when the New York City Police and hundreds of protesters clashed over ideological differences... (continued) Submit a photo RE: "Another Walter Reed-Type Scandal" In 2002 I had open heart surgery at the VA Medical Center in La Jolla, California. That VA facility gave me the best medical care I have ever received in my life and their computerized medical records system impressed the hell out of a long time IT man like myself. My medical care is now provided by Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and is inferior to the care I received at the VA. Kaiser Permanente Southern California has implemented a computerized system similar to the one I saw in action at the VA when I was there. Since Kaiser has implemented their computerized patient records system I've noticed a significant improvement in the medical care I now receive from them. They haven't reached the quality of care and service I received at the VA, but they are getting close. Posted by: Fred Scholl September 15, 2008 9:08 PM Supreme Court Snapshot Mission Creep: Military Dispatches The MoJo Interview: Bill Maher Bill Maher’s Top 12 Pals and Punching Bags Inside the Firefox's Den A Taste of the Glass-Steagall Lash for Lehman Vaccine Skeptics vs. Your Kids Strains of Resistance Is the Fannie/Freddie Bailout "Socialism"? 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