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4:15 PM ET, November 16, 2010

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Robert J. Hawkins / SignOnSanDiego.com:
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.
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Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
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.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
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.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
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 …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Full-Body Backlash  —  As full-body scanners come into more widespread use in American airports (they will be phased in soon at the three major airports in the New York City metro region), they are also coming under more frequent criticism.  —  The objections are coming from many different quarters:
Ann Althouse / Althouse:   John Tyner, the young man who resisted the TSA's groin-grope, will now be probed.
Stable Hand / The Jawa Report:   We Look Forward To Seeing Your “Next” Vacation Photos!
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
GOP frosh: Where's my health care?  —  A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan from the government takes a month to kick in.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
HOUSE REPUBLICAN WANTS HIS GOVERNMENT-SUBSIDIZED HEALTH CARE NOW. …
Discussion: The Confluence
Ezra Klein:
GOP legislator frets over 28 days without insurance …
The Hill:
House ethics panel convicts Rep. Rangel on 11 of 13 counts  —  Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), once one of the most powerful members of the House, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of violating House ethics rules and now faces punishment.  —  Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) …
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Congressman Charles B. Rangel:
Rangel Deplores Ethics Committee Findings  —  Congressman Charles B. Rangel released the statement following the decision made by the Adjudicatory Subcommittee, on November 16, 2010.  —  Lawmaker Cites Committee Chief Counsel's Declaration That  —  There Was No Evidence of Corruption or Personal Gain
Andy Newman / City Room:
Rangel's Ethics Violations
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Angry left to Obama: Stop caving on agenda  —  Liberals furious with a White House they view as constantly telegraphing compromise with Republicans are pressuring President Obama to get tougher, arguing that is the only way he will win both progressives and independents in 2012.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Labor big: White House, Dem leaders seriously mulling middle class tax cut vote
Discussion: Open Left and Daily Kos
Lynn Sweet / Politics Daily:   Michelle Obama's Chief of Staff Susan Sher Leaving White House
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dem leader: Party ‘responded like Hoover’ to unemployment crisis  —  The Democratic Party's Herbert Hoover-like response to high unemployment cost them their majority, a member of the House Democratic leadership team said Tuesday.  —  Rep. John Larson (Conn.), the House Democratic Caucus chairman …
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The Politico:
Nancy Pelosi: GOP targeted me because I bring ‘the resources’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Murkowski passes Miller in vote count  —  The Division of Elections has counted 1,000 more votes for Lisa Murkowski than Joe Miller, and the absentees Miller was banking on didn't go his way.  —  The current count stands at 92,164 votes for Murkowski and 90,448 for Miller.
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Lisa Murkowski: Sarah Palin Lacks “Intellectual Curiosity” to be President
Paul Farhi / Arts Post:
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 …
David S Morgan / CBS News:
DeMint Sees Start of “Cultural Change” in D.C.  —  GOP Senator Sees Hope for Agreement over Ending Earmarks; Backs Making Bush Tax Cuts Permanent  —  (CBS) With a lot of new faces on Capitol Hill this week, as newly-elected Representatives and Senators - many of them backed by the Tea Party movement …
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Jim Inhofe says he'll keep earmarking
Discussion: USA Today
Mike Huckabee / Huck PAC:
TELL CONGRESS: STOP EARMARKS NOW
Discussion: CNN and GOP 12
Des Moines Register:
Gingrich making business arrangements to allow 2012 campaign  —  Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today he is making personal arrangements that would allow him to launch a campaign for president early next year, a move Gingrich's closest political adviser expects the Georgia Republican to make.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and GOP 12
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gingrich: Obama should take off most of the rest of the year
Discussion: Wonkette and TPMDC
David Brooks / New York Times:
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.
Kristina Wong / ABCNEWS:
Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta First Living Medal of Honor Recipient for Service in Afghanistan and Iraq  —  Giunta Receives the Nation's Highest Military Award for Actions on the Afghanistan Battlefield  —  Today 25-year-old Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta of Iowa became the first living Medal …
Discussion: Mediaite and RedState
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Bryan Fischer / The Moral Liberal:
The Feminization of the Medal of Honor
Discussion: Mother Jones
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
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 …
Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
Author of DOJ report targeting NJ Governor Chris Christie has history of using position for political purposes, sources say  —  The Daily Caller has learned that the author behind the recent report from the Department of Justice that targeted five former U.S. attorneys for excessive travel expenses has had …
Glenn Hubbard / New York Times:
Left, Right and Wrong on Taxes  —  GIVEN the furor from both the left and the right, one would be tempted to think that the initial proposal from the co-chairmen of President Obama's fiscal commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, must offer an excellent starting point for a discussion of deficit reduction.
Mark Penn / The Politico:
The big disconnect: D.C. elites think Obama will be re-elected, the public doubts it  —  The midterms not only dealt a big shock to the Democrats, but also sent a message to President Obama.  According to the new POLITICO “Power and the People” poll, only 26 percent of the public believes he will now be re-elected as President in 2012.
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Obama's Obsessive Focus  —  I assume the entire progressive blogosphere will agree with me that trying to pursue a more “bipartisan tone” in Washington is a substantively foolish idea for the White House to pursue.  But the fact of the matter is that I think the smart thing for any President …
Laura Rozen / The Politico:
Kyl leans against START vote in lame duck  —  Seemingly shutting the door on one of the Obama administration's key goals for the lame-duck session of Congress, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday he doesn't believe the Senate should move to ratify the New START treaty before the end of the year.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Deficit panel's Schakowsky wants defense cuts, higher corporate taxes  —  One of the most liberal members of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission unveiled her own plan Tuesday to balance the budget: Keep Social Security benefits intact, make deep reductions at the Pentagon …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Rahm: I never believed in bipartisanship  —  Is the left's enduring caricature of Rahm Emanuel — as the primary advocate for the White House's futile and self-damaging quest for bipartisanship — all wrong?  —  In a new book, Rahm claims he privately argued to Obama that he shouldn't pursue …
Americans for Financial Reform:
Letter Requesting Withdrawal of Rescission Rule  —  The Truth in Lending Act passed by Congress specifically provides consumers the right to  —  unwind an illegal loan through “rescission” for up to three years after the loan was consummated.  —  The statute - and current Board regulations …
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Huffington Post
 
 
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Jeff Winkler / The Daily Caller:
Secretary of Transportation LaHood: We're looking into technology …
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BBC:
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Capt. Sully: No Need For Junk-Touching
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking solid in Virginia
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Schumer: FDA will effectively ban Four Loko, other alcohol-caffeine drinks
Discussion: New Haven Register and CNN
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Tea party looks to build farm team
Discussion: Weigel
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Where Did Our Debt Come From?  —  Chuck Spinney …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems, GOP reelect leaders in orderly transition
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
David A. Patten / NewsMax.com:
Rand Paul: Talk of Shutdown ‘Government by Chaos’
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Church in Arizona protested because it looks like a mosque
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
How Partisanship Works.  —  Andrew Sullivan notes Ezra Klein's …
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