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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.
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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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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.
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Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening
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Charisse Jones / Associated Press:
Napolitano ‘open’ to fliers' gripes over screening
Napolitano ‘open’ to fliers' gripes over screening
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Peter Baker / The Caucus:
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.
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Obama wants DREAM Act in lame duck — President Barack Obama told Democratic members of Congress Tuesday he wants the DREAM Act passed in the lame duck session as a “down payment” on substantial immigration reform, according to members at the meeting. — And, he said, he'd call resistant senators to get them on board.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
KYL INTENT ON DESTROYING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY.... This isn't just political madness; this is petty partisanship that literally puts American national security interests at risk. … The issues that Kyl describes as “unresolved” have, in fact, been resolved — leading administration officials …
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Laura Rozen / The Politico:
Kyl leans against START vote in lame duck
Kyl leans against START vote in lame duck
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Sarah Palin's Daughter Uses Homophobic Slurs — Sarah Palin's 16-year-old daughter Willow Palin used multiple homophobic slurs — including the word f**got — to attack a Facebook user who criticized her mom's new reality show .... TMZ has learned. — During the premiere of “Sarah Palin's Alaska” …
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Boehner Challenges Constitutionality of Health Reform Law — ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports: — Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner, R-Ohio, filed an amicus brief Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law passed by Democrats earlier this year.
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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.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Angry left to Obama: Stop caving on agenda
Angry left to Obama: Stop caving on agenda
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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.
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Sen. Murkowski on verge of win in Alaska
Sen. Murkowski on verge of win in Alaska
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The Politico and Associated Press
Jeremy P. Jacobs / Hotline On Call:
Cornyn To Lead NRSC Through 2012
Cornyn To Lead NRSC Through 2012
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Hot Air, The Other McCain and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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 …
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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.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dem leader: Party ‘responded like Hoover’ to unemployment crisis
Dem leader: Party ‘responded like Hoover’ to unemployment crisis
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Rep. Gene Taylor: Pelosi should ‘walk away’
Rep. Gene Taylor: Pelosi should ‘walk away’
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The Hill:
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.) …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE LATEST (AND PROBABLY) FINAL ATTEMPT TO EXTEND JOBLESS AID.... Here we go again. … The larger dynamic is practically Dickensian — Republicans are fighting tooth and nail for $700 billion in tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country, but they're very likely to kill extended unemployment benefits …
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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Bachmann Supports Tax Cut Compromise, But Not if Tied to Unemployment Benefits
Bachmann Supports Tax Cut Compromise, But Not if Tied to Unemployment Benefits
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McConnell: GOP won't allow split-up votes on tax cut extensions
McConnell: GOP won't allow split-up votes on tax cut extensions
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
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.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wonk Room
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Rahm: I never believed in bipartisanship
Rahm: I never believed in bipartisanship
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
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 …
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Obama's Obsessive Focus
Obama's Obsessive Focus
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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 …
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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 …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
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.
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
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.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bush and Cheney, Together Again at Groundbreaking
Bush and Cheney, Together Again at Groundbreaking
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Joshua Melvin / Mercury News:
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.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
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 …
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