Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain  —  Ginger White's exclusive interview with the I-Team  —  ATLANTA, Ga. - An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.

Chris Christie: President Obama's just a ‘bystander’  —  Gov. Chris Christie on Monday tore into President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the supercommittee's failure to reach an agreement on debt reduction last week, asking the president, “What the hell are we paying you for?”

Did you miss the Thanksgiving White House visitor log document dump?  —  Just like clockwork, the Obama administration never misses an opportunity to unload thousands of records it hopes no one will ever bother sifting through during the holidays.  —  On Black Friday, the White House released …

Telemarketer Abuse Statute Confounds Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON — “This is the strangest statute I have ever seen,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said near the end of a Supreme Court argument on Monday.  —  The justices had spent most of the previous hour trying to puzzle out the meaning …

Mission Not Accomplished  —  Matt Yglesias and Kevin Drum say the right thing about revelations that big banks got very easy terms during the financial crisis: the real scandal isn't so much that those banks got rescued as that the rest of the population didn't.

Iran protesters storm UK embassy in Tehran  —  Militant students are said to have removed the British flag, burnt it and replaced it with Iran's flag.  State TV showed youths smashing embassy windows.  —  The move comes after Iran resolved to reduce ties following the UK's decision to impose further sanctions on it.

Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor  —  Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party.

Arrest over video of ‘racist rant’ on Croydon to Wimbledon tram  —  The clip shows a woman swearing at passengers on the tram  —  A woman has been arrested after an online video apparently showed a woman abusing ethnic minority passengers on a packed south London tram.

Interior drilling regulators prepare new penalties over BP spill  —  The Interior Department's offshore drilling branch is preparing to issue a second round of regulatory violation notices to companies involved in last year's BP oil spill, a top official said Monday.

American Airlines Parent AMR Corp. Files for Bankruptcy  —  American Airlines parent AMR Corp. (AMR) filed for bankruptcy after failing to secure cost-cutting labor agreements and sitting out a round of mergers that dropped it from the world's largest airline to No. 3 in the U.S.

More On Climategate II  —  The Science & Environmental Policy Project comments on the Climategate II emails: … SEPP offers a series of links to commentators who have analyzed the Climategate II emails:  —  You can search the Climategate I and II emails here: http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php

Report: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility  —  Semi-official Fars news agency says blast heard distinctly in several parts of the western Iran city; a uranium conversion plant near Isfahan went online in 2004.  —  An explosion rocked the western Iranian city …

How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word  —  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stepped off the elevator into the Third Avenue offices of hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management LP in Manhattan.  It was July 21, 2008, and market fears were mounting.  Four months earlier …

Voting Rights Advocate Held At Gunpoint By SWAT Team With No Warrant  —  Last Monday, attorney Barbara Arnwine was rudely awakened by the sounds of a police raid on her home.  Arnwine is not really the type you'd expect SWAT teams to be targeting.  She's the Executive Director …

Congress Will Be a Better Place When Barney Frank Is Gone  —  It was because he was going to retire anyway, lost a favorite port town in redistricting and had a tough race last time.  —  Was this really why Congressman Barney Frank announced today he's retiring from the House of Representatives?

Obama administration, GAO appear to have ignored group's ACORN affiliation to award $700K  —  A newly released internal audit appears to indicate that the Government Accountability Office and President Barack Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development incorrectly argued that a specific organization wasn't ACORN-affiliated.

Politics: Inch by inch  —  While trying to motivate his team for a grueling second half in the film “Any Given Sunday,” Al Pacino implores them, “Life is just a game of inches.  So is football.  Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small.”  —  The same can be said about politics.

Obama Says U.S. ‘Stands Ready to Do Our Part’ for Eurozone Crisis  —  As the European debt crisis continues to escalate, President Obama urged European Union leaders today to act quickly to resolve the eurozone crisis, saying that “the United States stands ready to do our part to help them resolve this issue.

The Race-IQ ‘Blackout’  —  Andrew asserts that “pc egalitarianism” is strangling research into IQ.  To buttress this observation he points to a piece in Alternet that basically asserts the same.  The piece contains no numbers to back up the claim, and quotes only one scientist to evidence this scourge of manners.

Congress is close to destroying the internet (no hyperbole)  —  Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the verge of passing a bill that could very well destroy the social web, including Daily Kos.  —  This is no hyperbole.  Watch the video above.

Interview with Scott Olsen About His Injury from the Police Attack on Occupy Oakland: video … scottolsen-tristananderso...  [Pictured above: Scott Olsen stands with Tristan Anderson.  Tristan is currently suing the Israeli Defense Forces for a head injury he sustained in March 2009 …

In Gloomy Economic Times, Santas Learn to Help by Curbing Expectations  —  MIDLAND, Mich. — Here, at the nation's oldest, most celebrated, school for would-be Santa Clauses, much has stayed exactly the same over its nearly 75 years.  A proper Claus ought to have pleasant breath …