CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Obama Sues For Peace.

JACKSON DIEHL: Obama’s Foreign Policy Stuck in 1983. “So has nothing changed in the past quarter-century? In fact, almost everything has – especially when it comes to nuclear arms control and Israel’s national objectives. What hasn’t changed, it seems, is Barack Obama – who has led his administration into a foreign policy time warp that is sapping its strength abroad and at home. . . . “I personally came of age during the Reagan presidency,” Obama wrote in ‘The Audacity of Hope.’ Yes, and it shows.'” Remember the fierce moral urgency of change? Nah, me neither.

Related: Obama’s Foreign Policy Time Warp. “Obama’s opposition to ‘unproven missile defense systems’ included the one the United States had committed to install in Poland, a commitment which Obama abrogated to please the Russians. What about the missile defense system NATO leaders agreed to last week? Has that one been ‘proven’? Someone who covers the Obama administration for a living really ought to ask him about it.”

TALKING TURKEY with Harold McGee.

“IT’S OUR BUSINESS TO TOUCH YOURS:” SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE parodies the TSA.

Plus, Dan Solove gets into the swing of things. “The point isn’t to catch terrorists. It’s to make flying so miserable that terrorists wouldn’t want to fly. Now please spread your legs.” Mission accomplished!

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

Leaking the Black Friday deals early.

What Gravitas Gets You.

Video Killed The Congressional Star.

Apparently, I don’t exactly have a sparkling personality. Sigh.

I report on the Roku Box.

Beware Global Aging.

An insufficiency of open-mindedness and empathy.

Holly Beck tries to help out a boy in Nicaragua.

Sleeping through the Bush Presidency.

Strangling innovation with red tape.

The racism of Britain’s elites.

SpaceShip Two Progress.

Chevy Nova fun.

ASTRONAUT “RUSTY” SCHWEICKERT wins the 2010 Guardian Award.

UBIQUITOUS VIDEO: A one-day only sale on the Flip Mino HD.

ADAM THIERER: The Sad State of Cyber-Politics.

I don’t know if it would make him smile or grimace, but someone should give T. J. Rodgers a prize for his predictive powers. Back in 2000, Rodgers, the president and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor, penned a prescient manifesto for the Cato Institute with a provocative title: “Why Silicon Valley Should Not Normalize Relations with Washington, D.C.”

“The political scene in Washington is antithetical to the core values that drive our success in the international marketplace and risks converting entrepreneurs into statist businessmen,” he warned. “The collectivist notion that drives policymaking in Washington is the irrevocable enemy of high-technology capitalism and the wealth creation process.”

Alas, no one listened. Indeed, Rodgers’s dystopian vision of a highly politicized digital future has taken just a decade to become reality. The high-tech policy scene within the Beltway has become a cesspool of backstabbing politics, hypocritical policy positions, shameful PR tactics, and bloated lobbying budgets.

Read the whole thing. But I’m not sure this could have been prevented. Every successful system accumulates parasites.

BOBBY JINDAL ON THE TSA: Feds Shouldn’t Care More About Terrorists’ Rights Than About Ours. “Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) blasted the Obama administration’s handling suspected terrorist and called the Transportation Security Administration’s controversial search procedures excessive during NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.”

UPDATE: Reader Ed Stephens emails:

Remember how not long ago the President was so upset about the possibility of people being stopped and asked for “their papers” while going to get ice cream? It was the height of living in a police state. Yet we’ve not heard a peep out of him while TSA goons grope the general public (including nuns and little kids) on the way to grandma’s house.

If we are expected to put up with this, asking to see “your papers” suddenly seems a less onerous request.

“Your papers, please” is disturbing, but “your testicles, please” is worse. . . . .

BAD NEWS FOR “HAIRSHIRT ENVIRONMENTALISM:” Berkeley: Dire messages about global warming can backfire, new study shows. “Dire or emotionally charged warnings about the consequences of global warming can backfire if presented too negatively, making people less amenable to reducing their carbon footprint, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.”

Hey, here’s an idea: How about leading by example instead? You first, Tom Friedman.

SISSY WILLIS: Gramsci’s long march through the institutions ends at the water’s edge.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Democrats’ Tax Dilemma. “Where are we on an extension of the Bush tax cuts? It’s hard to know, given that the Democrats have no game plan at this point . . . The lack of agreement is, at bottom, a sign of the mistrust that now characterizes the relationship between Obama and what is left of his Democratic allies in the House and Senate.”

PUSHING BACK twice as hard.