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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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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 …
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Cubachi, Hot Air, protein wisdom, CNSNews, The League of Ordinary … and Hit & Run
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:
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Investigate the TSA, Not Tyner
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Pajamas Media, ComPost and Beltway Confidential
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.... It perfectly reasonable for Andy Harris, like all Americans, to want health care coverage. He's a husband and father of five, and I'm sure he worries about his family losing their health insurance, just like everyone else.
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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
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Charlie Rangel guilty on 11 ethics charges
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
House Panel Finds Rangel Broke Ethics Rules
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Andy Newman / City Room:
Rangel's Ethics Violations
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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.
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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
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Rebecca Kaplan / NationalJournal.com:
Murkowski Swipes at Palin's Intelligence
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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 — 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 …
Evan Glass / CNN:
Congressional Black Caucus Witholds Support For Pelosi — Washington (CNN) — The Congressional Black Caucus has decided to withhold its approval for the House Democratic leadership team, denying Speaker Nancy Pelosi full support of the 42-member organization as she campaigns to remain leader.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dem leader: Party ‘responded like Hoover’ to unemployment crisis
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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.
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Taegan Goddard's … and GOP 12
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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 …
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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.
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Ezra Klein, JustOneMinute, The New Republic, The Other McCain and Paul Krugman
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 …
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Washington Post:
Don't underestimate foreclosure crisis, watchdog to warn — A congressional oversight panel is set to warn on Tuesday that a widespread problem of flawed and fraudulent foreclosure paperwork could upend the housing market and undermine the nation's financial stability, just as the issue …
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Congressional Oversight Panel Report Highlights Systemic Risk of Foreclosure Fraud
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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.
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Ezra Klein, The Atlantic Online, Washington Post, National Review and Daily Kos
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 …
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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 …
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TigerHawk, NewsBusters.org, Betsy's Page and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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Wake up America, theblogprof, Hot Air, Don Surber, Weasel Zippers and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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 …
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Bloomberg and The Huffington Post
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking solid in Virginia — Barack Obama was the first Democratic Presidential candidate to win Virginia in a generation in 2008 and a new PPP survey finds that with the most mentioned possible 2012 GOP hopefuls viewed dimly in the state he'd probably do it again if he had to stand for election today.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems, GOP reelect leaders in orderly transition — Senate Democrats and Republicans reelected their leadership teams Wednesday in an orderly post-election transition to the 112th Congress. — Senate Democrats, however, are still searching for a volunteer to chair …
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CNN and The Politico
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
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 …
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Mediaite and Boing Boing
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Schumer: FDA will effectively ban Four Loko, other alcohol-caffeine drinks — Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration would issue a ruling effectively banning alcoholic drinks infused with caffeine. — Schumer said the FDA would rule beverages such as …
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