Headlines @ Closin’ Time (Dec. 3)

* Thompson quits HHS with ominous warning: Can’t ‘understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply’ /WorldNetDaily: Shhhh.

* No-recruiting policy aimed at Scouts: Literature sent home with students must warn group’s value may be ‘offensive’ /Associated Press: And who’s going to warn us about the creeps sliming the venerable Boy Scouts?

* Navy probes new prisoner photos: Appear to show abuse of detainees last year /Associated Press: For some reason, I believe that filming someone being beheaded and then sending the video to al-Jazeera is far worse than anything we did to the, ahem, innocent detainees.

* Powell calls Annan ‘good’ secretary-general: Says probe targets oil-for-food program, not U.N. chief /Reuters: Betcha Dubya’s not going to miss this guy — Powell, that is, not “See No Evil” Annan.

* Kerry supporters meet for group therapy: Voters shout epithets at Bush during counseling session /Boca Raton News, Florida: I simply can’t believe that Republicans would act this way if Flipflip would have won.