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Before he became Herman Cain’s chief spokesman and a senior foreign policy advisor to his campaign, Jeffrey “J.D.” Gordon publicly accused a female reporter of sexual harassment while serving as an officer in the Navy. (more)

Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen delivered the Republicans’ response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union in Spanish, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. (more)

This was either an example of how great the Heat can become or an example of the Suns without a center. (more)

On Oct. 29, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent was going about his business when a middle-aged Jewish man in spectacles walked through his checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International airport. Unlike most passengers, the Atlantic’s Jeff Goldberg wasn’t in a hurry. In fact, he was a little hard to get rid of. He wanted to talk to the TSA agent and his colleagues about the new x-ray machines they were using to screen passengers, as well as the alternative: A physical search that requires agents to grope passengers’ thighs until they meet resistance. (more)

With the help of his family, Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne loaded up his crutches and hobbled into a champagne-colored Cadillac Escalade after Sunday’s game before being driven to a doctor’s office to undergo an MRI on his left knee. (more)

The tropical system formerly known as Gaston will likely live again, though forecasters say dry air seems to be foiling that scenario for now. (more)

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced today that he will not refund donations he received from Republican voters before he left the GOP in his bid for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. (more)

Multiple sources are reporting that Gov. Charlie Crist, Florida Republican, will announce Thursday that he will pursue his state’s open Senate seat as an Independent, leaving the Republican Party. According to the Miami Herald and FOX News, campaign insiders have confirmed that Crist will make a public statement at a 5 p.m. event in St. Petersburg, Fla. (more)

1.) No one does anything anymore now that health care has passed — In the weeks since ObamaCare passed, Congressional staffers have found time to go on that spirit quest in Wyoming and change out the spark plugs on dad’s Gremlin, FOX News reports. “After months of hand-to-hand legislative combat, the House could be a rather serene place. The House is now stocked with the equivalent of teenagers who moan to mom that they’re bored. Or that there’s nothing good on TV.” When asked what they’d be doing for the next, oh, eight months or so, one staffer answered, “Are you kidding me? I still haven’t recovered from health care,” while another simply said, “I’m golfing.” In other words, it’s all Nov. 2010 from here on out, baby! The Democrats did their thing with the unfunded spending and the Republicans did their thing (whatever it was), and now the only thing left for staffers to do is sit back and watch the boss smile and wave and deny that he ever meant to sleep with that woman/talk about the president’s negro dialect/vote for health care. (more)

Today, Ben Smith spent some time contemplating Marco Rubio’s bright sheen. “He’s already hearing every day (and brushing it off) that he should run for president in 2012,” Smith writes. “[A]t the inevitable moment in the cycle (as in every party, every cycle) when Republicans panic about their field of nominees, he’s likely to be uniquely attractive: young, conservative, Hispanic, and from a swing state besides.” (more)

It has before, according to the Miami Herald: (more)

Republican lawmakers pressed President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to El Salvador Wednesday over her former relationship with a Cuban national who may have had ties to Cuban intelligence. (more)

1.) Anticipating health care showdown, Republicans studying, slapping one another in the face — Congressional Republicans training for Thursday’s health care summit swallowed an extra raw egg and ran additional wind sprints upon learning Sunday night that Pres. Obama plans to further empower health care regulators. The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward reports that Obama plans to “include in a health care proposal new authority for the secretary of health and human services to veto insurance rate hikes that it deems excessive, and will create a federal panel that would set guidelines for health insurers to follow in determining their rates.” On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell went on the TV and asked a very interesting question: “If they are going to lay out the plan they want four days in advance, what are we discussing?” Answer: Open your mouth and close your eyes, and you will get a big surprise! (more)

Steve Corbett, author of “When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor … and Yourself,” has some advice for churches looking to get involved with earthquake-ravaged Haiti: “Don’t start something new right now.” (more)