Need to Read, August 20, 2009

| Thu Aug. 20, 2009 1:00 AM PDT

Things you may have missed from around the web yesterday:

The most outrageous lies told about foreign health care.

McCain's voting record: not so maverick-y anymore.

Max Baucus does not like those people with "YouTubes" at health care town halls.

Did Mozart die of strep throat?

Novak, Corn, and Plamegate.

Are seniors really defecting from AARP to a conservative alternative?

Charlie Crist is a rare example of a green GOP governor—but for how long

Religious conservatives experience a conversion to Harry Potter fandom.

David Corn, Mother Jones' DC bureau chief, is on twitter, and so are my colleagues Daniel Schulman, Nick Baumann, and our editors-in-chief, Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein. You can follow me here. (The magazine's main account is @motherjones.)

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Rachel Morris is the articles editor in Mother Jones' Washington bureau. For more of her stories, click here. Follow her on Twitter here.

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