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2:33 AM ET, November 23, 2010

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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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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.
Blogger Bob / The TSA Blog:
Response to “Young Boy Strip Searched by TSA”
Washington Post:
Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support full-body scanners at airports  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the new full-body security-screening machines at the country's airports, as most say they put higher priority on combating terrorism than protecting personal privacy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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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 …
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Body scanner makers doubled lobbying cash over 5 years
Tony Pugh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
TSA chief admits he withheld information on pat-downs
Discussion: Emptywheel and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the repeated appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table …
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Sarah Palin: No time for Katie Couric  —  Sarah Palin isn't interested in going to the mat again with Katie Couric.  —  The former vice presidential candidate said she's willing to talk to reporters, just not the CBS News anchor, heading into the 2012 election cycle.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Hannity / Fox News Insider:
VIDEO - Palin: I Will Not Waste My Time With Katie Couric
Feifei Sun / The Page:   Palin Won't “Waste Time” With Couric
Fhardingj / CNN:   TRENDING: Palin won't ‘waste time’ on Couric
Michelle Singletary / Washington Post:
Woman who told Obama her financial fears has lost her job  —  Nobody is safe.  —  Velma Hart, who burst onto the media scene after telling President Obama she was scared about her financial future, has been laid off.  Hart was let go as the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a nonprofit Maryland-based veteran services organization.
Discussion: NO QUARTER, RedState and HotAirPundit
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Left's pressure moves Pelosi toward clashes with Obama  —  When President Obama meets with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi next year, he may face a lot more resistance than he's used to from his longtime ally.  —  The shift from Speaker to opposition leader will undoubtedly change Pelosi's …
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Fhardingj / CNN:
BREAKING: Sources: Plouffe to join White House staff, Axelrod …
Discussion: The Politico
Whoashep / The 1600 Report:
Plouffe to White House, Axelrod may exit sooner
Discussion: FrumForum
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Editorial Boards to the Little People Complaining About the TSA: Bend Over and Take it Like a Man!  —  More evidence for Radley Balko's thesis that the media is more statist than liberal (and for my contention that the unsigned newspaper editorial should go the way of the dodo bird):  —  Los Angeles Times:
Discussion: The Agitator
Zogby:
Zogby Interactive: Obama Falls to 39%, As Support from Democrats Continues to Slide; He Trails Romney, J. Bush & Gingrich in '12  —  Those Saying U.S. on Wrong Track Hits High Under Obama of 69%  —  UTICA, New York - President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped to the lowest point …
Mother Jones:
Sarah Palin's Mystery Research Firm  —  Why's an incendiary Dutch journalist on the payroll of the ex-Alaska governor's political action committee?  A Mother Jones investigation.  —  Post Comment  —  In recent months, Sarah Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Oliver Willis
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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Jefferson Morley / The Atlantic Online:
The Kennedy Assassination: 47 Years Later, What Do We Really Know?
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Chrisa / RADAR:
Charlie Sheen Files Extortion Lawsuit Against Porn Star Capri Anderson  —  Charlie Sheen is firing back at the porn star who claims he tried to choke her in a drug fuelled bender at a New York hotel last month.  —  RadarOnline.com has just obtained this paperwork filed in a Los Angeles court.
Discussion: PopEater and The Other McCain
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 …
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 …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Gore: On second thought, I was just pandering to the farm vote on ethanol  —  Too often, Americans punish politicians for reversing their previous and sometimes obviously wrong positions on policy.  They label such politicians as flip-floppers, and even when these officeholders switch …
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Emma Perez-Trevino / Brownsville Herald:
Ortiz concedes District 27 race to Farenthold  —  U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz conceded late Monday to Congressman-elect Blake Farenthold.  —  Noting that the recount of more than 106,000 votes had been completed in the district, Ortiz said: “Therefore, with great respect and admiration …
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.
Adam Levitin / Credit Slips:
The Big Fail  —  Last week the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey issued an opinion in a case captioned Kemp v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. This case looks like the first piece of evidence in what might turn out to be the Securitization Fail or, in homage to Michael Lewis, The Big Fail.
Discussion: Rortybomb and naked capitalism
William Bradley / The Huffington Post:
Jerry Brown and the California Exception  —  What's Your Reaction:  —  The prodigal son has returned.  Not that he ever really left for good.  Or was all that prodigal, for that matter.  —  Jerry Brown's long and winding road has led him back to the door to the suite of offices …
Discussion: MyDD
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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Introducing the Hack 30  —  Over the next three days …
Discussion: Mediaite
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Tea Party support grows; USA divided
Discussion: National Review
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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