Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:30 AM ET, December 1, 2006

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
U.S. Considers Ending Outreach to Insurgents  —  The Bush administration is deliberating whether to abandon U.S. reconciliation efforts with Sunni insurgents and instead give priority to Shiites and Kurds, who won elections and now dominate the government, according to U.S. officials.
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Iraq Panel to Urge Pullout Of Combat Troops by '08  —  The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend withdrawing nearly all U.S. combat units from Iraq by early 2008 while leaving behind troops to train, advise and support the Iraqis, setting the first goal for a major drawdown of U.S. forces …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
This Is Realism?  —  Iran and Syria Won't Be Riding to Our Rescue  —  Now that the "realists" have ridden into town gleefully consigning the Bush doctrine to the ash heap of history, everyone has discovered the notion of interests, as if it were some new idea thought up by James Baker and the Iraq Study Group.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Idea of Rapid Withdrawal From Iraq Seems to Fade  —  In the cacophony of competing plans about how to deal with Iraq, one reality now appears clear: despite the Democrats' victory this month in an election viewed as a referendum on the war, the idea of a rapid American troop withdrawal is fast receding as a viable option.
New York Times:
Bush, Maliki and That Memo  —  President Bush's news conference yesterday with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq had an even greater than usual sense of unreality about it, with Mr. Bush insisting that Mr. Maliki is "the right guy for Iraq" and that American troops will stay …
Laura Rozen / American Prospect:
Get the Memo  —  A readers' guide to Stephen Hadley's reflections on Iraq.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
New York Times:
Bush, in Meeting on Iraq, Rejects a Quick Pullout
Discussion: NewsHog
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Bush v. Baker
Discussion: Daily Kos and The American Scene
Sky News:
Radiation Hits Second Man  —  An Italian academic who met a former Russian spy on the day he was allegedly poisoned has tested positive for radiation.  —  Mario Scaramella was found to have isotope Polonium-210 in his body.  —  He had lunch with ex-security agent Alexander Litvinenko …
Discussion: Hot Air
RELATED:
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Courts Crucial Support of Governors  —  Last anyone checked, Senator John McCain of Arizona is not — and has never been — a governor.  —  But no matter.  Mr. McCain turned up on Thursday morning at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa here for a guerrillalike visit to the annual meeting of the Republican Governors Association.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and First Read
RELATED:
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
GOP Must Correct Its Mistakes, Mehlman Says
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
USA Today:
TSA's revealing X-ray screening raises privacy concerns  —  WASHINGTON — The federal government plans this month to launch the nation's first airport screening system that takes potentially revealing X-ray photos of travelers in an effort to find bombs and other weapons.
RELATED:
Boston Globe:
Illegal immigrants toiled for governor  —  Guatemalans say firm hired them  —  This story was reported by Jonathan Saltzman and Maria Cramer of the Globe staff and by Globe correspondent Connie Paige and was written by Saltzman.  —  SUCHITEPEQUEZ, Guatemala — Outside his aqua-colored concrete house here …
Discussion: The Corner and Pam's House Blend
Kristin Roberts / Reuters:
U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government warned American private financial services on Thursday of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning on Friday, a source said.
Discussion: Daily Pundit
RELATED:
Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
U.S. rates travelers for terror risk
Discussion: On Deadline
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Democratic Power Struggle  —  The most important tension within the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is not between liberals and conservatives or free traders and fair traders.  It is between older members who once enjoyed the power and perks of majority status …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Associated Press:
Calderon takes oath as Mexican president amid catcalls … MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — Felipe Calderon took the oath of office as Mexico's president Friday amid jeers and whistles in a chaotic ceremony reflecting a divided nation.  —  Physically protected by ruling party lawmakers and flanked …
Discussion: Hot Air
Richard Beales / Financial Times:
Dollar slides as US business slows  —  The dollar suffered sharp falls on Thursday, hit by reports of weak US business activity and a benign inflation picture.  —  The euro rose .7 per cent against the dollar to $1.3247 by late afternoon in New York after data from Chicago purchasing managers indicated …
Ali Bubba / Alabama Liberation Front:
MSM bias: "Everybody knows ..."  —  Michelle Malkin, Flopping Aces and many others have spent days chronicling how the Associated Press has been bamboozled into reporting an apparently fictitious (or, at least, greatly exaggerated) atrocity in Iraq.  Yet AP continues to defend both its dubious story and its equally dubious sources.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Political Constraints  —  Josh Marshall is chronicling the rapidly emerging rightwing "stab in the back" meme in which George W. Churchill was betrayed by both the American and Iraqi people.  Big surprise.  It's an interesting series of posts and I urge you to read them all.  Here's an excerpt from one:
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
It's losing we hate, not war  —  Those who compare the lengths of WWII and Iraq ignore the real thing we don't like in far-flung wars.  —  ONE THOUSAND three hundred and forty seven days.  —  That's how long the United States was involved in combat in World War II, and Monday …
Discussion: Daimnation!
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:30 AM ET, December 1, 2006.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Sam F. Ghattas / Associated Press:
Hezbollah, allies protest in Beirut
James Fallows / The Huffington Post:
Getting Out of Iraq: What's the Right Idea When All Ideas Are Bad?
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Harper's:
Lost in the Valley of the Wolves
Discussion: Facing South
Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Dean bashes Fox News in Canada, reporter responds — in French!
Sarah Womack / Telegraph:
Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth'
Discussion: Tim Worstall
Cameron W. Barr / Washington Post:
Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and The Agonist
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
The Coalition to Preserve Civilization
Frank Dwyer / The Huffington Post:
Do You Want the United States to Win in Iraq? Yes or No?
 Earlier Items: 
Multi-National Force:
11 high level Ansar Al Sunna terrorists captured
Discussion: The Fourth Rail
Ali Eteraz / eteraz.org:
Call For Action Against Iranian Death Fatwa Upon Journalist
Discussion: Daled Amos and Dean's World
Nora Boustany / Washington Post:
U.N. Official Calls Violence in Darfur 'Horrific'
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
'Fair Trade' Foolishness
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Court Hears Global Warming Case
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann's Special Comment on Gingrich: "We fight for liberty …
 

 
From Mediagazer:

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land:
Google blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B ads and 6.7M advertiser accounts in 2022

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page