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.

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.

Frank: Gingrich against Obama ‘best thing’ for Dems since Goldwater  —  Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said the Democratic Party would benefit from Newt Gingrich winning the GOP 2012 presidential nomination.  —  “He would be the best thing to happen to Democrats since Barry Goldwater,” Frank said at a press conference on Monday.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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

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.

Washington Post Blogger Asks for Dirt About Newt Gingrich on Twitter  —  Still in the camp that doesn't believe the media are liberally biased?  —  Check out what the Washington Post's Aaron Blake tweeted moments ago on Twitter:  —  For those unfamiliar, Blake writes for the Post's The Fix political blog …

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.

Senate congressional map has big - and not-so-big- changes  —  The Florida Senate's Reapportionment Committee released its long-awaited maps drawing new districts for the state Senate and adding two congressional seats to Florida's existing 25.  Eyeballing the congressional maps (available here) …

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.

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.

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 …

Radiation Covers 8% of Japan, Fukushima Crisis “Stunting Children's Growth” … Fukushima, like most international stories, has a very short half life in the U.S. media — a lot shorter than that of radioactive cesium.  As the NY Times noted back in March, “Over the long term …

Image shows Iranian missile site was destroyed  —  (Courtesy DigitalGlobe — Institute for Science and International Security) Two weeks after a mysterious explosion at an Iranian missile base, a Washington-based research group has released a satellite image showing extensive damage to the site.