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Blogger Bob / The TSA Blog:
Response to “Young Boy Strip Searched by TSA” — A video is being widely circulated showing a shirtless boy receiving secondary screening from a Transportation Security Officer (TSO). A passenger filmed the screening with their cell phone and posted the video on the web.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Drudge wins — The weekend collapse of the Administration's airline screening policy is hard to understand as a matter of messaging, with Clinton undermining the TSA's screening regime and the relevant official sending a hazy mixed message on the subject, even as the screening policy remains in place.
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Mother Jones, Gawker, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Huffington Post and Venice For Change
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
Scientists say they have solution to TSA scanner objections — A cheap and simple fix in the computer software of new airport scanners could silence the uproar from travelers who object to the so-called virtual strip search, according to a scientist who helped develop the program …
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Outside the Beltway, Sunlight Foundation, Commentary, Don Surber and JustOneMinute
Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
White House Fights Pat-Down Backlash — The administration is quietly and aggressively defending airport security policies against what they see as a media frenzy of distorted information. — The White House and the Department of Homeland Security indicated today that they won't yield …
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The Atlantic Online and Emptywheel
ABCNEWS:
White House: Terrorists Have Discussed Use of Prosthetics to Conceal Explosives — TSA Under Fire for New Security Procedures, Administrator John Pistole Says Agency May Rethink Protocols — Sources tell ABC News that intelligence has picked up terrorists discussing the use of prosthetic or medical devices to conceal explosives.
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The Note, msnbc.com, The Hill, Gothamist, Hit & Run, Guardian, New York Magazine, Business Week, Sense of Events and I Will Opt Out Of TSA Scan
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
There Will Be Blood — Former Senator Alan Simpson is a Very Serious Person. He must be — after all, President Obama appointed him as co-chairman of a special commission on deficit reduction. — So here's what the very serious Mr. Simpson said on Friday: “I can't wait for the blood bath in April. ...
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Wall Street Journal, Firedoglake, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, The Mahablog, The Political Carnival, Maggie's Farm, The Confluence, Comments from Left Field, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Booman Tribune, FT Alphaville, Prairie Weather, Open Left, Dennis the Peasant, Daily Kos and skippy the bush kangaroo
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Left accuses GOP of economic “sabotage” — It looks like some folks on the right are purporting to be really, really surprised by the suggestion being made by some liberals that Republicans will actively try to sabotage the economy in order to increase their odds of taking the White House in 2012.
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Hullabaloo, Washington Monthly and Eschaton
Jason Zengerle / New York Magazine:
The Answer Is No — New Jersey governor Chris Christie is denying money to teachers and tunnels, oxygen to Democrats, and intentions to run for president in 2012. Which is only making him more popular. — C — hris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, was trolling for clicks.
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GayPatriot, Gawker, Weasel Zippers, Democracy in America and Salon
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Christie: All Sen. Lautenberg does is ‘blow hot air’
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Ben Smith's Blog
Associated Press:
Huckabee says ousting of Iowa judges historic move — DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Sunday that Iowa voters likely launched a national movement when ousting three state Supreme Court justices who agreed with a decision to strike a ban on gay marriage.
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Des Moines Register, Wonk Room, Ballot Box, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
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Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Sarah Palin drops 2012 presidency hint with staff visit to Iowa
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Mediaite, The Note, Raw Story, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Politico, Ben Smith's Blog, CNN, The Political Carnival, Taegan Goddard's … and ABCNEWS
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin v. Gawker
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Capital New York, Blog Law Blog, Gothamist, The Awl, The Confluence and Moe Lane
Ben Smith / The Politico:
View from Middle East: President Obama is a problem — JERUSALEM — Vowing to change a region that has resisted the best efforts of presidents and prime ministers past, Barack Obama dove head first into the Middle East peace process on his second day in office. — He was supposed to be different.
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CNN, Ben Smith's Blog, Jerusalem Post, Commentary, The Daily Dish, Israel Matzav, Right Wing News, Ruby Slippers, HotAirPundit and Left Coast Rebel
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Clint Hill / New York Times:
On Mrs. Kennedy's Detail — IT was with great trepidation that I approached 3704 N Street in Washington on Nov. 10, 1960. I had just been given the assignment of providing protection for the wife of the newly elected president of the United States, and I was about to meet her for the first time.
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ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, neo-neocon, American Power and The Confluence
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Jefferson Morley / The Atlantic Online:
The Kennedy Assassination: 47 Years Later, What Do We Really Know?
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Taylor Marsh
Whoashep / The 1600 Report:
Plouffe to White House, Axelrod may exit sooner — Washington (CNN) - President Obama is planning to bring former campaign manager David Plouffe onto the White House staff at the beginning of January to work alongside senior adviser David Axelrod for a brief time before Axelrod moves …
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The Political Carnival
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Gerard Wynn / Reuters:
U.S. corn ethanol “was not a good policy"-Gore — * U.S. ethanol consumes about 40 pct corn crop — Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was “not a good policy”, weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.
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Fox News, Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, The Powers That Be, The Jawa Report, The Daily Caller, Moe Lane, Sweetness & Light, OpenMarket.org, Gawker and Hit & Run
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John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Mosque Money Shocker — The so-called ground zero mosque recently applied for a $5 million federal grant from a fund designed to rebuild lower Manhattan after 9/11, reports The Daily Beast's John Avlon. — Developers of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and mosque located …
Feifei Sun / The Page:
Palin Won't “Waste Time” With Couric — Alaskan tells Hannity she wouldn't do another interview with CBS anchor should she run in 2012. — Full interview to air tonight at 9 p.m. — Sarah Palin on whether she would do an interview with Katie Couric if she ran for President:
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The Politico and The Atlantic Online
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Expansion of Bike Lanes Brings Backlash — Over the last four years, the streets of New York City have undergone a transformation: More than 250 miles of traffic lanes dedicated for bicycles have been created, and several laws aimed at promoting cycling have been passed.
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Runnin' Scared and City Room
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Tom Perrotta / Wall Street Journal:
Cycling's New Rules of the Road
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Gothamist and New York Magazine
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bombshell evidence may make Waters an ethics nightmare for Dems — Apparently, the Charlie Rangel ethics trial was just the warm-up act. The New York Times reported over the weekend that the House Ethics Committee suddenly postponed the trial of Maxine Waters on ethics violation because it found …
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YID With LID, Weasel Zippers, Moe Lane, TPMMuckraker, The Other McCain, Wake up America, Commentary and Power Line
Ashby Jones / Law Blog:
November Raid: After WSJ Story, Feds Step Into High Gear — Well, that didn't take long. — Less than one business day after the WSJ broke news of a huge insider-trading investigation, the FBI has really stepped things up. — FBI agents on Monday raided the Connecticut offices …
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Wall Street Journal and Crooks and Liars
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
WHAT GOOD IS WALL STREET? — Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless. — A few months ago, I came across an announcement that Citigroup, the parent company of Citibank, was to be honored, along with its chief executive, Vikram Pandit, for “Advancing the Field of Asset Building in America.”
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National Review, Felix Salmon, The Future of Capitalism, DealBook and Money & Company
David Frum / CNN:
The right way to honor Ronald Reagan — President Ronald Reagan speaks at a rally February 8, 1982. He was born on February 6, 1911. … Washington (CNN) — We're approaching the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Ronald Reagan: February 6, 2011. It's time to begin thinking seriously …
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GayPatriot and sisu
Wall Street Journal:
Some States Weigh Unthinkable Option: Ending Medicaid — Huge budget shortfalls are prompting a handful of states to begin discussing a once-unthinkable scenario: dropping out of the Medicaid insurance program for the poor. — Elected and appointed officials in nearly a half-dozen states …
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The Moderate Voice, Colorlines, Hit & Run, ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Susan M. Cover / Portland Press-Herald:
Snowe: Constitutionality of care law is arguable — and Rebekah Metzler rmetzler@mainetoday.com — Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are co-signing an amicus, or friend of the court, brief to be submitted to the federal court in Florida that will hear a constitutional challenge of the federal health care reform law.
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Boston Globe, Washington Post, USA Today, The Atlantic Online and AMERICAblog News
Washington Post:
Chandra Levy verdict: Ingmar Guandique is guilty of murder — A D.C. Superior Court jury on Monday found Ingmar Guandique guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of former federal intern Chandra Levy. — The jury of nine women and three men reached its verdict after 3 1/2 days of deliberations.
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Politics Daily, ABCNEWS, Michelle Malkin, The Other McCain, Crime Scene, Outside the Beltway and Patterico's Pontifications
BBC:
Saudi school lessons in UK concern government — Panorama went undercover to obtain the books — The government says it will not tolerate anti-Semitic and homophobic lessons being taught to Muslim children in the UK. — BBC Panorama found that more than 40 Saudi Students' Schools …
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Atlas Shrugs, Harry's Place and Advocate
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