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...infamous non-believer, the talk show host, comedian and political agitator Bill Maher regularly skewers religion on his HBO show, Real Time With Bill Maher. Movie audiences can expect more of the same in his new documentary Religulous, which opens in select theaters Oct. 1 and across the country two days later...
...there's a catch: taxpayers are already on the hook for the failures of financial institutions, and it's possible that the bill will actually be larger without bailout legislation than with it. That's because the regulators who mind the financial industry - the Federal Reserve, Treasury and FDIC - will keep doing what they've been doing: stepping in to prevent the chaotic failure of banks and other large financial institutions. This means continuing to put hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars at risk, but in a way that adheres to no clear plan of action and doesn't require...
...Monday afternoon, Wall Street basically stopped trading to watch TV - mainly CNBC - to see how the House of Representatives would vote on the $700 billion bailout package. When it first started looking like the bill would fail, the Dow plummeted 389 points, or 3.6%, in just seven minutes. If it had continued at that pace for much longer, this would have been perhaps the most harrowing day in stock market history. It didn't, but things were still really, really bad. The Dow ended the day down 778 points, or 7%, and the S&P 500 - a better measure...
...will have a vote number in it. You can pull up the text of the bill and the vote on it. You can read the amendment and you can read the debate...
...have any examples? This liberal group called VoteVets ran ads against [Virginia Senator] George Allen and several other senators in different states saying that they voted against body armor for the troops and they gave a vote number. You looked at that vote number and it was a general bill to give an extra billion dollars to the National Guard and Reserves for equipment. But there wasn't any mention of body armor in it. It was an absolutely, 100% false ad. Case closed...