Reason Morning Links: Rick Perry Entertains Idea of Deploying U.S. Troops to Mexico, TSA Bot Humiliates Another Cancer Survivor, Elizabeth Warren Catches up to Scott Brown in the Polls

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  • Rick Perry suggested Saturday that the U.S. may need to send troops to Mexico to stop the cartels. He should have said "more troops than we already have there." 
  • Universities and colleges react as you might expect to new state laws allowing students to carry anti-rape/personal protection devices. 
  • Colorado's public pensions are so secret that Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton "has had to file a lawsuit to find out how much top-tier earners are getting paid." 
  • NYPD arrested 700 protesters over the weekend after the marchers trespassed (some say led by NYPD) on Brooklyn Bridge. 
  • "Voodoo economist" Elizabeth Warren is in a dead heat with Sen. Scott Brown. 
  • Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is tanking in Iowa, the one state where she possessed anything resembling a lead. 
  • Woman who recently underwent a bilateral masectomy attempts to explain to a TSA-bot that the irregularities in her body scan image are tissue expanders. TSA-bot gropes her anyway (link fixed). 

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