Top Items:


One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans — At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images.
Discussion:
TalkLeft, ABCNEWS, The Jawa Report, Hot Air, Left in the West, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Runnin' Scared, msnbc.com, Blog of Rights, Threat Level, The Snitch, The Gateway Pundit, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Consumerist, CrunchGear, New York Magazine, Boing Boing and AMERICAblog News, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:


TSA to investigate body scan resister — Oceanside man took a stand against security, went viral — The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, the Oceanside man who left Lindbergh Field under duress on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan.
Discussion:
The Moral Liberal, The Moderate Voice, Patterico's Pontifications, Shakesville, The Confluence, Another Black Conservative, American Power, Hullabaloo, Left Coast Rebel, Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report, RedState, Outside the Beltway, Big Government, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, Sweetness & Light, The Gateway Pundit, The Agonist, Daring Fireball, Don Surber and FiveThirtyEight


Investigate the TSA, Not Tyner … The TSA is opening an investigation targeting John Tyner, the man who earned himself an aggressive “pat down” at the airport when he refused to go through the TSA's new AIT “porno scanners.” — But it's the TSA that should be investigated, not Tyner.
Discussion:
Threat Level, CNET News, Pajamas Media, Asylum, epic.org, No More Mister Nice Blog and Salon


Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening — Did you know that the nation's airports are not required to have Transportation Security Administration screeners checking passengers at security checkpoints? The 2001 law creating the TSA gave airports the right to opt out of the TSA program …
Discussion:
Cubachi, The League of Ordinary …, CNSNews, Hot Air, Liberty Pundits Blog, protein wisdom, Hit & Run and Instapundit


Napolitano ‘open’ to fliers' gripes over screening
Discussion:
USA Today, Gizmodo, Federal Eye and CrunchGear

John Tyner, the young man who resisted the TSA's groin-grope, will now be probed.
Discussion:
Don Surber

Senate Leader Deals Blow to President on Arms Treaty — The Senate should not vote on a new arms control treaty with Russia during the lame-duck session that opened this week, a Senate Republican leader said on Tuesday in what could be a devastating blow to President Obama's most tangible foreign policy achievement.
Discussion:
Politics Daily, Eunomia and Prairie Weather
RELATED:

KYL INTENT ON DESTROYING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY.... This isn't just …
Discussion:
Guardian, CNN, Eunomia, democracyarsenal.org, The Reality-Based Community and Crooks and Liars


Obama wants DREAM Act in lame duck
Discussion:
protein wisdom and Weasel Zippers

Obama, Hispanic caucus push for DREAM Act passage before year's end
Discussion:
CNN

Kyl leans against START vote in lame duck
Discussion:
CNN, The Note and Mother Jones


Jim Inhofe says he'll keep earmarking — Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe is going down swinging, insisting he'll still send earmarks to his state even though his fellow Senate Republicans are poised to adopt a two-year ban on pet projects. — “I'm going to look out for my state of Oklahoma,” Inhofe told POLITICO.
Discussion:
The New Republic, CNN, The Note, Another Black Conservative, USA Today and Hot Air
RELATED:

Angry left to Obama: Stop caving on agenda
Discussion:
The Politico, CNN, The Huffington Post, Weasel Zippers, AMERICAblog News and JammieWearingFool

Senate Republicans back earmarks ban in voice vote
Discussion:
Taxpayers Against Earmarks and National Review

House ethics panel convicts Rep. Rangel on 11 of 13 counts of rule violations — Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), once one of the most powerful members of the House, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of violating ethics rules and now faces punishment. — Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) …
Discussion:
Crew of 42, Salon, Scared Monkeys, New York Post, Crooks and Liars, Another Black Conservative, OpenSecrets.org, Sister Toldjah, The Nation, Pajamas Media, Taylor Marsh, NO QUARTER, The Jawa Report, Hot Air, Liberty Pundits Blog, The Politico, The Hill, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Indecision Forever, Booman Tribune, The Other McCain, Patterico's Pontifications, TPMMuckraker, JammieWearingFool and Sunlight Foundation …
RELATED:


Democrats in chaos over Nancy Pelosi power — The Democratic old guard will try to hold the line Wednesday against a rank-and-file rebellion intent on winning some concession — no matter how small — from a leadership team seeking reelection despite having presided over the loss of at least 59 Democratic seats earlier this month.
Discussion:
CNN, Hot Air, USA Today and Sister Toldjah
RELATED:

Dem leader: Party ‘responded like Hoover’ to unemployment crisis
Discussion:
Firedoglake, The Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Moderate Voice

Rep. Gene Taylor: Pelosi should ‘walk away’
Discussion:
The Politico and Weasel Zippers


The Bald Racism Of Rush Limbaugh — The image above appears on Rush Limbaugh's Web site. Is any American more adept at exploiting racial dog whistles? It's always egregious enough to be calculatingly offensive, but never quite an open and shut case, because most of all the talk radio host revels …
Discussion:
JustOneMinute, Wonkette, Hullabaloo, Little Green Footballs, Weasel Zippers, Colorlines and Mediaite


Lisa Murkowski: Jim DeMint cost us Senate majority — 'So the real question is, what's his desire?' Lisa Murkowski (left) said about Jim DeMint. AP Photos — After ripping Sarah Palin, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski isn't mincing words about another one of her high-profile GOP critics: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint.
Discussion:
Anchorage Daily News, Iron Mill News Service, Newshoggers.com, The Gateway Pundit and GOP 12
RELATED:

Murkowski passes Miller in vote count
Discussion:
The Politico, Wonkette, TPMDC, The Atlantic Online, Conservatives4Congress, msnbc.com, Ballot Box, Weigel, Hotline On Call, Outside the Beltway and CBS News

Labor big: White House, Dem leaders seriously mulling middle class tax cut vote — This is encouraging: One of the most powerful labor leaders in the country just said that he's in direct talks with the White House and Dem leaders about throwing down the gauntlet and holding a vote …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Ezra Klein, TPMDC, Guardian, PERRspectives, Open Left, Daily Kos and MyDD
RELATED:

Bachmann Supports Tax Cut Compromise, But Not if Tied to Unemployment Benefits
Discussion:
WSJ Blogs - WSJ, Daily Kos, The Note, The Hill and ThinkProgress

GOP's Camp Calls for Tax-Cut Extension for Wealthy
Discussion:
TPMDC

No, Obama's Problem Is Not that He “Focused Obsessively” on Policy, It is that He Got the Policy Wrong — Duncan Black on the Obama Administration: … He is commenting on Matthew Yglesias: … Duncan and Matthew are right. The Obama Administration was blindsided by the seriousness …
Discussion:
Marginal Revolution
RELATED:

Obama's Obsessive Focus
Discussion:
Hullabaloo, Eschaton, TalkLeft and Dennis the Peasant

In testy exchange, Chuck Grassley told Obama: No deal! — Here's another fascinating nugget from journalist Richard Wolffe's new book. If true, it really blows up the ridiculous claim that Obama never made any genuine effort to attract bipartisan support for health reform.
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wonk Room
RELATED:

Rahm: I never believed in bipartisanship
Discussion:
Taegan Goddard's … and Ben Smith's Blog


Top RNC aide quits, blasts Michael Steele — Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins resigned from his post Tuesday morning with a stinging indictment of Chairman Michael Steele's two-year tenure at the committee. — In a four-page letter to Steele …
Discussion:
The Note, The Fix, Power Line, Politics Daily, Hotline On Call, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers, TPMDC, Hot Air, CNN, FishbowlDC, Beltway Confidential and Gawker

No Early Front-Runner for 2012 GOP Presidential Nomination — Romney, Palin, Huckabee get greatest support at this point — PRINCETON, NJ — Rank-and-file Republicans have no clear favorite for the party's 2012 presidential nomination when asked to choose among a large field of potential candidates.
Discussion:
The Daily Dish, MyFox Philadelphia and GOP 12
RELATED:

Neil Young warehouse blaze started in hybrid ‘LincVolt’ car — The three-alarm blaze that caused $1.1 million in damage to a warehouse filled with rock legend Neil Young's music equipment and memorabilia appears to have started in a one-of-a-kind hybrid car stored at the site, a fire official said Monday.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, GigaOM, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Snitch and Michelle Malkin


PBS edits Tina Fey's remarks from Twain event — Tina Fey got a little political airbrushing from PBS Sunday night during its annual broadcast of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. — Fey, this year's recipient of the prize, caused a few ripples during her acceptance speech …
Discussion:
NewsBusters.org, Gawker, Mediaite, Mother Jones, Crooks and Liars, Raw Story, PopEater and Towleroad News #gay

Dick Cheney: History “Beginning to Come Around” on Bush — At groundbreaking ceremony in Dallas for the George W. Bush Presidential Center today, former Vice President Dick Cheney said “history is beginning to come around” to a more positive view of former President George W. Bush.
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit and CBS News
RELATED:

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney Share Stage for First Time Post-Presidency
Discussion:
CNN


Capt. Sully: No Need For Junk-Touching — Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger has weighed in on airport junk-touching: Don't do it. — On CNN's American Morning Tuesday, anchor Kiran Chetry asked Sullenberger what he thinks of the pat down policy, paraphrasing John Tyner's concerns this way …
Discussion:
Firedoglake and Boing Boing
RELATED:

When Memes Collide: Capt. Sully Says There's No Need For Junk Touching At Airports
Discussion:
Don Surber and ComPost

The Two Cultures — Many of the psychologists, artists and moral philosophers I know are liberal, so it seems strange that American liberalism should adopt an economic philosophy that excludes psychology, emotion and morality. — Yet that is what has happened.
Discussion:
Modeled Behavior, The Other McCain, The New Republic, JustOneMinute, Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman