Byron York - Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening
Did you know that the nation's airports are not required to have Transportation Security Administration screeners checking passengers at security checkpoints? The 2001 law creating the TSA gave airports the right to opt out of the TSA program in favor of private screeners after a two-year period. Now, with the TSA engulfed in controversy and hated by millions of weary and sometimes humiliated travelers, Rep. John Mica, the Republican who will soon be chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, is reminding airports that they have a choice.
Julie Mason - Obama to meet with lawmakers about taxes, earmarks
"We have a chance to not only shine a light on a bad Washington habit that wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, but take a step towards restoring public trust," Obama said.
While acknowledging that earmarks "represent a relatively small part of overall federal spending," Obama said that "when it comes to signaling our commitment to fiscal responsibility, addressing them would have an important impact."
Sara Carter - Karzai's night mission ban would stop American momentum
President Hamid Karzai's call to eliminate U.S. Special Forces night missions in Afghanistan will give the Taliban an advantage on the battlefield and place American soldiers and civilians at risk, military and intelligence officials say.
NATO commanders have been touting the success of military operations that have led to the killing of more than 339 Taliban midlevel commanders and roughly 950 fighters in a three-month period -- many killed in the kinds of missions Karzai wants to stop.
Susan Ferrechio - Rangel ethics trial cut short, panel ponders his fate
The ethics case against Rep. Charlie Rangel concluded Monday, after the clearly angered Democrat from New York walked out of the hearing and the ethics committee decided that it already had enough "indisputable" evidence to decide quickly, and in secret, whether Rangle is guilty of 13 ethics charges against him.
Mark Hemingway - George Soros also profiting off controversial new TSA scanners
George Soros, the billionaire funder of the country’s liberal political infrastructure, owns 11,300 shares of OSI Systems Inc., the company that owns Rapiscan. Not surprisingly, OSI’s stock has appreciated considerably over the course of the year. Soros certainly is a savvy investor.
David Freddoso - Telling the Westboro Baptist Church to go to hell in La Plata
This morning in La Plata, Md., the hate group's parade of absurdity received quite a response: More than a thousand counter-demonstrators showed up early, established themselves on the rights-of-way around the church, and prevented the "God Hates Fags" crowd from getting anywhere near the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Terry Honeycutt.
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