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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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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, JustOneMinute, Commentary and Don Surber
ABCNEWS:
TSA Pat Down Went Too Far, Agency Chief Says
TSA Pat Down Went Too Far, Agency Chief Says
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Federal Eye, Guardian, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Business Week and Sense of Events
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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Washington Post, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Political Carnival, Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, Maggie's Farm, Booman Tribune, Open Left, The Confluence, Comments from Left Field, No More Mister Nice Blog, Prairie Weather, FT Alphaville, Dennis the Peasant, Daily Kos and skippy the bush kangaroo
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, Commentary, Israel Matzav, Right Wing News, Ruby Slippers, Left Coast Rebel and HotAirPundit
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Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Obama's foreign policy needs an update — For help understanding the foreign policy headlines of the past week, let's return, briefly, to the spring of 1983, when Barack Obama was a student at Columbia University. What were the burning international issues of that time?
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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Democracy in America
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Christie: All Sen. Lautenberg does is ‘blow hot air’
Christie: All Sen. Lautenberg does is ‘blow hot air’
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Weasel Zippers and Ben Smith's Blog
Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Sarah Palin drops 2012 presidency hint with staff visit to Iowa — Palin scouts for office space in early voting state, suggesting next week's visit will be ‘more than just a book signing’ — Sarah Palin has dropped another hint of her intention to run for the White House in 2012 …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, CNN, Mediaite, Ben Smith's Blog, The Political Carnival, Raw Story and ABCNEWS
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The Note:
Mike Huckabee: Divided Government May Boost Obama's 2012 Re-Election Chances
Mike Huckabee: Divided Government May Boost Obama's 2012 Re-Election Chances
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Talking Points Memo, Ballot Box, Weigel, Weasel Zippers, USA Today and TPMDC
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Poll finds Obama, Romney deadlocked in 2012 matchup
Poll finds Obama, Romney deadlocked in 2012 matchup
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The Politico, American Power, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, The Political Surf and Liberty Pundits Blog
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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TPMMuckraker, YID With LID, Weasel Zippers, Moe Lane, The Other McCain, Wake up America, Commentary and Power Line
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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The Powers That Be, Moe Lane, Sweetness & Light and OpenMarket.org
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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, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Huffington Post and Venice For Change
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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Michelle Malkin, The Other McCain, Crime Scene, Outside the Beltway and Patterico's Pontifications
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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The Future of Capitalism, DealBook and Money & Company
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
When politics of Israel, Cuba collide — The incoming chairwoman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs helped shut down an unexpected diplomatic opening between Cuba and Israel earlier this year, sources in Jerusalem and Washington confirmed. — Israeli leaders reacted warmly …
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Yglesias and The Atlantic Online
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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msnbc.com
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, The Atlantic Online and AMERICAblog News
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Trains, Planes, and Pollution — Fun chart from my colleagues: — What's more, not only is intercity rail energy efficient compared to other means of transportation but it's typically electricity which can be produced with much less pollution per unit of energy output.
Jefferson Morley / The Atlantic Online:
The Kennedy Assassination: 47 Years Later, What Do We Really Know? — Despite the enduring popularity of conspiracy theories about President John F. Kennedy's death on November 22, 1963, it's a mainstream consensus that these theories have always been essentially the work of cranks …
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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Colorlines, Hit & Run and Shakesville
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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Crooks and Liars, Wall Street Journal, The Consumerist and New York Magazine
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Suck on This — Thomas Friedman, July 1, 2005, “Follow the Leapin' Leprechaun”: … As I've said before, the problem with this kind of punditry is that regulating your financial sector poorly so as to generate lots of bum real estate lending really does seem to be a can't lose path to growth in the short term.
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Marginal Revolution and Eschaton
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Meghan McCain: 'Kick Obama's ass' … No comments yet. Be the first!
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The Daily Caller, Gawker, Sister Toldjah and Weasel Zippers
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Further thoughts on the TSA debates — The biggest flying/airport outrages are a lack of markets in allocating scarce resources, and the resulting unacceptable airport and flight delay problems in places such as JFK and LaGuardia. Next come airlines which ruthlessly screw you over, repeatedly, and lie to you and mistreat you.
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Mother Jones