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Cathy Bossi / WBTV-TV:
Cancer surviving flight attendant forced to remove prosthetic breast during pat-down … Most Viewed Stories — RSS Feeds — Get sports stories via RSS. — Add headlines to your RSS news reader. More>>
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Suzanne Choney / msnbc.com:
TSA forces cancer survivor to show prosthetic breast
TSA forces cancer survivor to show prosthetic breast
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Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
This Is Not Your Grandmother's Megyn Kelly — Nearly three years ago, we predicted that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly would be a rising star through the election and beyond. And we've been proven right: She's gone from co-anchoring America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer to hosting her own two-hour show in the middle of the afternoon.
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Molly Stark Dean / mediabistro.com:
Fox News' Megyn Kelly in GQ: 'You may have heard that we're number one' — TVNewser learns that “America Live” anchor Megyn Kelly is in the 2010 GQ Men of the Year issue, which hit newsstands this week. Kelly is the only tvnewser to be selected for the 2010 media personality.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Joe Scarborough suspended from MSNBC for campaign donations — MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Huh? President Obama Tells Volunteers That In Midterms “You Guys Turned ‘Yes We Can’ Into ‘Yes We Did’ — Members of Organizing for America - the president's former campaign committee - received a text message today asking them to call 888-206-1431 “to hear a special message from President Obama.”
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Citing Reagan, Obama pushes to move stalled arms treaty — President Obama cited a Republican hero Saturday as he called on senators to approve a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia. — In his weekly radio address, the president said having the Senate ratify the START Treaty before the end …
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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
Religious Group: Pass Nuke Treaty or We All Burn
Religious Group: Pass Nuke Treaty or We All Burn
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Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and McClatchy Washington Bureau
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. in Vast Insider Trading Probe — Federal authorities, capping a three-year investigation, are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders and analysts across the nation, according to people familiar with the matter.
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msnbc.com and naked capitalism
Dallas Blog:
Ron Paul to TSA: Stop Irradiating Our Bodies and Fondling Our Children! — Ron Paul introduced legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees conducting screenings at the nation's airports: — A BILL - HR 6416
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William Yardley / New York Times:
Naming of Alaska Winner Delayed — A federal judge in Alaska on Friday placed a conditional hold on the certification of the results of the contentious Senate race between Joe Miller and Senator Lisa Murkowski, telling the Miller campaign to take its legal challenges to state court.
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Washington Wire, Raw Story and Associated Press
The Note:
Fmr Sen. Alan Simpson Predicts Govt. Shutdown — ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: — Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, the top Republican on the President's bipartisan debt commission, painted a vivid picture of what Washington will look like when the national debt limit must …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Alan Simpson: Deficit Plan Can Pass After Debt Limit ‘Blood Bath’
Alan Simpson: Deficit Plan Can Pass After Debt Limit ‘Blood Bath’
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BBC:
Spain ‘orgasm’ video criticised by politicians — An excerpt from the video shows the woman getting ‘excited’ about voting — Spanish politicians have criticised a video by the Young Socialists in Catalonia in which a woman simulates an orgasm while casting her vote.
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American Power, The Reaction and iOwnTheWorld.com
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Washington Times editor out — Sam Dealey will be stepping down as editor of the Washington Times, following the sale of the paper to a group led by members of the paper's old guard who were ousted a year ago, sources close to the paper tell POLITICO. — Dealey was informed this afternoon.
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New York Times:
Minority Report — As the speaker of the House of Representatives, where Democrats just lost 60-odd seats as well as their controlling majority, you led your party into the worst electoral defeat in decades. And yet you chose to run for Democratic leader in the next Congress. Why not just step down?
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Another Black Conservative, Hot Air, theblogprof, The Politico and Weasel Zippers
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Emily Goodin / Ballot Box:
Pelosi: Boehner is ‘known to cry’
Pelosi: Boehner is ‘known to cry’
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JammieWearingFool and The Gateway Pundit
Mona Charen / Townhall.com:
Why Sarah Palin Shouldn't Run — By telling Barbara Walters that she thinks she can defeat President Obama, Sarah Palin has dimmed hopes cherished by sensible Republicans that she might decide against a run for the White House in 2012. Here are just some of the reasons she should not run.
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Hit & Run and The Moderate Voice
Agence France Presse:
Obama's ‘Beast’ of a limo stands out at green NATO summit — LISBON (AFP) - The Portuguese hosts of Friday's NATO summit hoped to use the event to promote clean-energy and electric cars, but all eyes were on US President Barack Obama's diesel-guzzling “Beast” instead.
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Howard LaFranchi / Christian Science Monitor:
At NATO summit, Obama's ride is talk of the town
At NATO summit, Obama's ride is talk of the town
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Sify.com:
Top Al Qaeda leader killed in US drone attack — Islamabad, Nov 19 (IANS) A senior Al Qaeda leader, Mufti Ali Muhammad, has reportedly been killed along with two of his accomplices in a US drone strike Friday in Pakistan's North Waziristan district along the Afghan border.
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Kimberly Schwandt / Fox News:
White House Press Secretary Scales Back On-Camera Briefings — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has scaled back his on-camera daily briefing schedule compared to last year and also has only given 10 of them in October and November combined. — His last and only on-camera briefing at the White House this month was November 4.
Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
FEC won't punish Ensign for cash to mistress — WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint against Sen. John Ensign over a $96,000 payment his parents made to his former mistress and her family. — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington …
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TPMMuckraker, Balloon Juice, Politics Daily and The Plum Line
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
FEC dismisses complaint against Sen. Ensign over payments to former mistress
FEC dismisses complaint against Sen. Ensign over payments to former mistress
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The Politico
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Rep. Etheridge hits ‘distortions’ and ‘dirty politics’ in concession — In conceding defeat to Republican Renee Ellmers Friday, Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) blamed his loss on a bad environment for Democrats and “dirty politics by Washington D.C. partisan operatives.”
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Renee Ellmers for Congress and Riehl World View
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Tim Sahd / Hotline On Call:
Etheridge Concedes To Ellmers
Etheridge Concedes To Ellmers
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