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Don't You Hate It When This Happens?

The other day, I got screamed at by a TSA employee at Logan Airport for trying to get a full-size tube of Crest past security. Wonder what she would think of Jim Webb aide Phillip Thompson, who "forgot" that he had the boss's loaded .45-caliber pistol, plus two magazines of spare ammo, in his briefcase when he tried to get through a Capitol X-ray yesterday. This, of course, comes just a couple of weeks after the D.C. Circuit struck down the district's gun ban.

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