Outside the Beltway

Ron Paul has introduced a law (the “American Traveler Dignity Act”) that would punish TSA agents for groping and x-raying Americans.

Within the first few months of 2011, Congress will be required to take another unpalatable vote to raise the debt ceiling. Already, some incoming Republicans are talking about waging an effort to block the vote. That would be politically, and financially, stupid.

Cathy Bossi, a U.S. Airways stewardess and cancer survivor, was forced to show her breast implants to TSA agents when her prosthetic implants triggered alarm during a pat-down.

The long awaited new strategic concept, launching what has been termed “NATO 3.0,” has been published under the banner “Active Engagement, Modern Defense.”

Democrats are now confident that they have the votes in the Senate to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but do they have enough time?

Afghans in two crucial southern provinces are almost completely unaware of the September 11 attacks on the United States and don’t know they precipitated the foreign intervention now in its 10th year, a new report showed on Friday.

Is the TSA groping passengers to force them into using intrusive scanners for which they’ve committed $173 million?

Are the American people finally waking up to the absurdity of TSA security theater? One can only hope they are.

The finger-pointing about the global economy continues.

A new poll about the proposals coming out of the Deficit Commission makes it clear that the American public needs to grow up.

The Denver Post’s Craig Walker has captured this image of a TSA agent performing an “enhanced pat down.”

Virginian Republicans have heard of George Allen and not Eric Cantor, Ken Cuccinelli, Bill Bolling, Tom Davis, or Bob Marshall.

Less than expulsion, but more than a slap on the wrist. The House Ethics Committee recommends that New York Congressman be censured for cheating on his taxes and breaking the rules of Congress.

Congress will vote on extending the Bush Tax Cuts in December, and new polling shows that the public agrees with Democrats that the cuts should be limited to the “middle class.”

Only 46 percent of Americans know that Republicans will have a majority only in the House when the new Congress convenes in January.

Because no one should live in a world where Han didn’t shoot first.

Unless there’s an emergency, is it proper for representatives who have been defeated in a mid-term election to be voting on controversial legislation?

The battle between social and fiscal conservatives continues, with the SoCons now saying that criticism of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint is now considered evidence of ideological impurity.

It’s quite possible that the delays spawned by airline security measures are killing more people than they’re saving.

Some Republican Senators-elect are imploring Harry Reid not to consider any treaties during the lame duck session.

The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee ends with the Defendant being acquitted on all but one charge, and shows us why the entire process is little more than a show trial.

TSA boss John Pistole has offered to give Senators a pat-down search so that they understand the controversial new procedures.

Rush Limbaugh is apparently not impressed with Barack Obama’s presidency. That doesn’t make him a racist.

The Washington Independent goes dark in December, failing to find profitability in three years.

Tonight’s topics: New airline screening measures, Karzai vs. Petraeus, political infighting among victorious Republicans, and the defeated Democrats keeping their leadership intact.