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The Slippery Slope of Drone Warfare - Mother Jones
White House and CIA officials declined to speak for attribution for this article. The two bolded passages have long struck me as key, underdiscussed issues. I remain convinced that manned fighters would attract far more attention than drones, ...
Memo to Tea Party: The US Government's Budget is Not Like a Family's - Mother Jones
One man, who was volunteering for a tea party candidate running for a Virginia Senate seat and declined to give his name, even expressed deep cynicism that raising taxes would even do any good. Big companies like GE don't pay taxes now, he said, ...
Weiner Abandoned, Left for Dead - Mother Jones
“It's hard to trust in an individual who already lied,” said the official, who like others interviewed insisted on anonymity because of the sensitivities surrounding the matter. Is this the way Republicans normally act? It seems like they're usually ...
Mike Huckabee's Memory Hole - Mother Jones
A former high-ranking Arkansas Republican who was once close to Huckabee and who requested anonymity told Mother Jones that the destruction of the hard drives puzzled him. "I don't know what that was about, if they had things to hide or not," he says. ...
Obama Calls the Republican Healthcare Bluff - Mother Jones
Senior administration officials said Mr. Obama would reveal to the National Governors Association in a speech on Monday morning that he backs legislation that would enable states to request federal permission to withdraw from the law's mandates in 2014 ...
Haley Barbour's 2012 Money Machine - Mother Jones
"Barbour has a tremendous base of people who can raise $25000, $50000 and $75000,” adds one top GOP fundraiser who spoke on the condition of anonymity ...
TSA Misses Man's Loaded Handgun (VIDEO) - Mother Jones
The ABC report cites an anonymous source who says TSA workers fail 70 percent of their agency's routine spot checks and that "two weeks ago, ...
Herding Cats - Mother Jones
Differentiating Obama from congressional Democrats “was a positive byproduct” of the tax cut deal, a person close to Obama told Politico. ...
A Republican Walks Into a San Francisco Bar... - Mother Jones
One young Stanford grad, now a marketing professional, refused to give his name for fear a potential employer might someday see this story online and nix ...
Rand on the Run - Mother Jones
"We can't let you do that," said one, who declined to give her name. So I talked to the only person who would give me the time of day—a woman in a ...
NYT Rides The "Foreclosure Express" - Mother Jones
"They're too fucking old to understand what's going on," one defense attorney, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid damaging work relationships, ...
The Gnomes of Basel - Mother Jones
... alone could cost banks trillions of dollars in new funds, and officials could postpone or shelve the idea, people familiar with the matter said. ...
Climate Bill Damage Control - Mother Jones
"I haven't seen anyone locate any quote by Reid where he said he was going to do one before the other," said a Democratic aide, speaking on background. ...
Climate Chaos: Senators Meeting Soon - Mother Jones
... the demise of climate change legislation have been greatly exaggerated,” said a senior Democratic aide involved in the talks on condition of anonymity. ...