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TSA to investigate body scan resister — Oceanside man took a stand against security, went viral — The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, the Oceanside man who left Lindbergh Field under duress on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Associated Press, Another Black Conservative, Left Coast Rebel, Big Government, Weasel Zippers, CrunchGear, The Gateway Pundit, Sweetness & Light, The Agonist, RedState and Don Surber

Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:

One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans — At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, CrunchGear, The Consumerist, Boing Boing and AMERICAblog News, more at Techmeme »

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

The Full-Body Backlash — As full-body scanners come into more widespread use in American airports (they will be phased in soon at the three major airports in the New York City metro region), they are also coming under more frequent criticism. — The objections are coming from many different quarters:

Discussion: The Huffington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, Asylum, The Atlantic Online, The Confluence, ComPost, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Prairie Weather, CBS News and AMERICAblog News

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening

Discussion: protein wisdom, The League of Ordinary …, CNSNews and Hit & Run

Ann Althouse / Althouse: John Tyner, the young man who resisted the TSA's groin-grope, will now be probed.

Glenn Thrush / The Politico:

GOP frosh: Where's my health care? — A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan from the government takes a month to kick in.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Little Green Footballs, The Plum Line, Mario Piperni dot Com, Wonkette, The Mahablog, The Maddow Blog, Shakesville, Parker Spitzer, Gawker, Daily Kos and The Awl

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

HOUSE REPUBLICAN WANTS HIS GOVERNMENT-SUBSIDIZED HEALTH CARE NOW.... It perfectly reasonable for Andy Harris, like all Americans, to want health care coverage. He's a husband and father of five, and I'm sure he worries about his family losing their health insurance, just like everyone else.

Discussion: The Confluence

Ezra Klein:

GOP legislator frets over 28 days without insurance — but what about 30 million he'd leave uninsured? — It's worth dwelling for a moment on the reaction of Rep. Andy Harris, an incoming legislator who staunchly opposes the new health-care law and ran promising its repeal …

Discussion: The Incidental Economist

Josh Marshall / TPMDC:
Freshman GOPer: Hey, Where's My Health Care?

Discussion: First Draft and Balloon Juice

The Hill:

House ethics panel convicts Rep. Rangel on 11 of 13 counts — A House ethics panel has convicted Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on 11 of 13 counts of violating House ethics rules. — Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the adjudicatory subcommittee and the full House ethics committee …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, New York Post, The Nation, Hot Air, Pajamas Media, JammieWearingFool and The Hill

Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:

House Panel Finds Rangel Broke Ethics Rules — WASHINGTON—A House ethics panel found senior Democratic lawmaker Charles Rangel violated House ethics rules, on 11 of the 13 counts lodged against him. The New York congressman wasn't in the hearing room when the announcement was made.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Runnin' Scared and Gawker

Andy Newman / City Room:

Rangel Convicted of Ethics Violations — A House ethics panel has convicted Representative Charles B. Rangel of all but one of the 13 ethics violations he faced, for offenses ranging from accepting a rent-stabilized apartment from a Manhattan developer to failing to pay taxes on rental income …

Discussion: New York Magazine

CNN:
House panel finds Rangel guilty of ethics violations

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Weasel Zippers

Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:

Murkowski passes Miller in vote count — The Division of Elections has counted 1,000 more votes for Lisa Murkowski than Joe Miller, and the absentees Miller was banking on didn't go his way. — The current count stands at 92,164 votes for Murkowski and 90,448 for Miller.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, The Politico, TPMDC, Wonkette, Ballot Box, Weigel and Outside the Beltway

Brian Montopoli / CBS News:

Lisa Murkowski: Sarah Palin Lacks “Intellectual Curiosity” to be President — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowki told CBS News' Katie Couric today that she would not support Sarah Palin for president because Palin lacks the “leadership qualities” and “intellectual curiosity” to craft great policy.

Rebecca Kaplan / NationalJournal.com:
Murkowski Swipes at Palin's Intelligence

Discussion: protein wisdom, The Atlantic Online, Ballot Box and CBS News

The Note:
The Note: Setting The Agenda

Discussion: CNN and gopleader.gov

David Dayen / Firedoglake:

Congressional Oversight Panel Report Highlights Systemic Risk of Foreclosure Fraud — “Clear and uncontested property rights are the foundation of the housing market. If these rights fall into question, that foundation could collapse.” -Ted Kaufman, Congressional Oversight Panel, November 16, 2010

Discussion: CNBC

Washington Post:
Don't underestimate foreclosure crisis, watchdog to warn

Discussion: The Big Picture

cop.senate.gov:
Examining the Consequences of Mortgage Irregularities for Financial …

Discussion: DealBook and Emptywheel

Evan Glass / CNN:

Congressional Black Caucus Witholds Support For Pelosi — Washington (CNN) — The Congressional Black Caucus has decided to withhold its approval for the House Democratic leadership team, denying Speaker Nancy Pelosi full support of the 42-member organization as she campaigns to remain leader.

Discussion: Politics Daily, CBS News, Hot Air, The Politico, Outside the Beltway, Another Black Conservative, Sister Toldjah, The Hill, HotAirPundit and Beltway Confidential

Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN Poll: Democrats divided on Pelosi as party's House leader

Discussion: The Politico, America's Voice Blog, Wake up America and The Washington Independent

Myglesias / Yglesias:

Obama's Obsessive Focus — I assume the entire progressive blogosphere will agree with me that trying to pursue a more “bipartisan tone” in Washington is a substantively foolish idea for the White House to pursue. But the fact of the matter is that I think the smart thing for any President …

Discussion: TalkLeft, Eschaton and Grasping Reality …

Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Finally Snares Beatles — Steve Jobs is nearing the end of his long and winding pursuit of the Beatles catalog. — Apple Inc. is preparing to disclose that its iTunes Store will soon start carrying music by the Beatles, according to people familiar with the situation …

Discussion: New York Times, News Desk, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, PopEater, American Power, MyFox Philadelphia, The Big Picture, Gawker, Plunderbund, TechCrunch, Pajamas Media, CrunchGear, msnbc.com and The Wire, more at Mediagazer »

Tom Neumayr / Apple:
The Beatles Now on iTunes

Discussion: Guardian, more at Techmeme »

Sam Youngman / The Hill:

Angry left to Obama: Stop caving on agenda — Liberals furious with a White House they view as constantly telegraphing compromise with Republicans are pressuring President Obama to get tougher, arguing that is the only way he will win both progressives and independents in 2012.

Discussion: AMERICAblog News and JammieWearingFool

Ezra Klein:
Four possible deals on the Bush tax cuts

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, TalkLeft, The Huffington Post, Left in the West, The Plum Line, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

Gingrich: Obama should take off most of the rest of the year — President Obama should take off most of the rest of the year to concentrate on the lessons of the 2010 election, former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Tuesday. — Gingrich urged the president to take some time away …

Discussion: Wonkette and TPMDC

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Senate Dems and GOP re-elect leadership teams in orderly transition to 112th — Senate Democrats and Republicans re-elected their leadership teams Wednesday in an orderly post-election transition to the 112th Congress. — Senate Democrats, however, are still searching for a volunteer …

Discussion: The Politico

Jessica Taylor / The Politico:
Democrats' losses ran wide, deep

Discussion: Wake up America and Liberty Pundits Blog

Igor Volsky / Wonk Room:

Powell: Advocates Should Not Pressure Congress To Repeal DADT Before It Is Ready, Study Completed — This evening, during an interview on CNN's Larry King Live, Gen. Colin Powell reiterated his belief that repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell must “take into account the views of our military leaders …

Discussion: Pam's House Blend, DISSENTING JUSTICE, The Politico, Shakesville and Towleroad News #gay

CNN:
Colin Powell: Obama lost focus

Discussion: Politics Daily and The Gateway Pundit

Glenn Hubbard / New York Times:

Left, Right and Wrong on Taxes — GIVEN the furor from both the left and the right, one would be tempted to think that the initial proposal from the co-chairmen of President Obama's fiscal commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, must offer an excellent starting point for a discussion of deficit reduction.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, National Review, Washington Post and Daily Kos

David Brooks / New York Times:

The Two Cultures — Many of the psychologists, artists and moral philosophers I know are liberal, so it seems strange that American liberalism should adopt an economic philosophy that excludes psychology, emotion and morality. — Yet that is what has happened.

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman

Mark Penn / The Politico:

The big disconnect: D.C. elites think Obama will be re-elected, the public doubts it — The midterms not only dealt a big shock to the Democrats, but also sent a message to President Obama. According to the new POLITICO “Power and the People” poll, only 26 percent of the public believes he will now be re-elected as President in 2012.

Discussion: theblogprof, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Don Surber and Lawyers, Guns & Money