Body Scans, Pat-Downs Draw Complaints
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 18th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Body Scans, Pat-Downs Draw Complaints
Michael Tarm, Associated Press
CHICAGO "” An airport traveler who famously resisted a full-body scan and groin check with the words “If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested” has become an Internet sensation, tapping into rising frustration over increasingly invasive searches.John Tyner's online account "” complete with cell-phone video of the encounter "” has helped fuel a campaign urging travelers to decline the body scans next week during the busiest travel day of the year.
Meet the ‘New’ Donald Berwick
Hal Scherz, RealClearPolitics
Dr. Donald Berwick has his coming out party today in Washington. After President Obama snuck him into office during a recess appointment as the head of the second largest health insurance company in the world- CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) without so much as a single hearing, Senators finally have an opportunity to meet him during a Finance Committee meeting. The prepared transcript of Berwick's remarks at first glance, conveys a sense that he is a strong patient advocate and champion of patient rights. Were we to take these statements at face value, there would be much…
The Tax Rate Racket
William Murchison, Dallas Morning News
GOP’s Earmark Ban Is Doomed
Bradford Plumer, The New Republic
So how's that Republican war on pork holding up? All week, conservatives like Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn have been pushing their fellow senators to put a two-year moratorium on earmarks. They've managed to persuade Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and even Mississippi's prime porker, Thad Cochran, has just grudgingly acceded (“I remain unconvinced that fiscal prudence is effectively advanced by ceding to the Obama administration our constitutional authority to determine federal expenditures, but an earmark moratorium is the will of the Republican Conference.”)….
