Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:10 PM ET, April 19, 2009

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Patterico's Pontifications:
CNN the Latest Corporate Thug to Use Copyright As a Weapon to Eliminate Embarrassing Clips from YouTube  —  I'm sick of people knocking embarrassing videos off YouTube with bogus copyright violation claims.  —  The latest culprit is CNN, a network that was recently embarrassed by a video …
RELATED:
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Why We Should Get Rid of West Point  —  Want to trim the federal budget and improve the military at the same time?  Shut down West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy, and use some of the savings to expand ROTC scholarships.  —  After covering the U.S. military for nearly two decades …
RELATED:
The Local:
Sweden to boycott UN racism conference  —  Sweden will not send any ministerial officials to the UN conference on racism in Geneva on Monday, said Swedish Integration Minister Nyamko Subini.  —  “This has been a difficult and problematic negotiation that has certainly become more constructive …
CNN:
U.S. to boycott U.N. racism conference
Discussion: PrairiePundit and Jihad Watch
Fox News:
Report: Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking  —  Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.  —  The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Bigots' Last Hurrah  —  WHAT would happen if you crossed that creepy 1960s horror classic “The Village of the Damned” with the Broadway staple “A Chorus Line”?  You don't need to use your imagination.  It's there waiting for you on YouTube under the title “Gathering Storm” …
Ana Marie Cox / Washington Post:
Why We Should Get Rid of the White House Press Corps  —  Intense interest in the Obama administration has swelled the ranks of the White House press corps.  Outlets such as Politico have thrown a basketball team's worth of bodies at the project, and outlets that didn't even exist until recently …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Senator says Obama's appearance with Chavez ‘irresponsible’  —  (CNN) - Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada, told CNN Sunday it was “irresponsible” for President Obama to been seen “laughing and joking” with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas on Friday.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and MyDD
Major Garrett / Fox News:
Obama Endures Ortega Diatribe  —  Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega lashes out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America.  —  FOXNews.com  —  PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan …
RELATED:
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Warming Relationships in a Warm Locale
Discussion: TIME.com
New York Times:
No Country for Close Calls  —  ELECTION junkies like us can't help but savor the excitement of races where the advantage shifts with nearly every click-refresh of the Board of Elections' Web site.  —  Right now, there's plenty to savor: the courts are still hammering out the Senate race in Minnesota …
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
BBC:
Nato foils Somali pirates' attack  —  An attempted attack by Somali pirates on a Norwegian tanker was foiled by Nato warships and helicopters after an overnight pursuit in the Gulf of Aden.  —  Nato said a Canadian warship caught the pirates before releasing them after the gang attacked the MV Front Ardenne.
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
FEDS HIT REV. AL WITH RECORD 285G ELEX FINE  —  The Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network have been slapped with a record $285,000 fine for violating a slew of federal election rules during his 2004 bid for president, the Post has learned.  —  In a decision to be made public next month …
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
New York Times:
The Torturers' Manifesto  —  To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush's Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity.  —  Their language is the precise bureaucratese favored by dungeon masters throughout history.
RELATED:
Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
Arguing the size of the “tea party” protest  —  In any case, experts see it as democracy in action, and that's a good thing.  —  ATLANTA -  —  How big was the Tea Party?  —  By some estimates, over half a million Americans took to the streets last Wednesday to protest taxes and Washington spending …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:10 PM ET, April 19, 2009.

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: 
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Army More Selective as Economy Lags
Discussion: TIME.com
Newsweek:
The Long Arm of the Law
Discussion: RedState and PointOfLaw Forum
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
High Court Poised To Closely Weigh Civil Rights Laws
 Earlier Items: 
Chicago Tribune:
Makeover debate fires up over ‘Idol’ sensation Susan Boyle
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
It might already be too late for the right-wing blogs
Discussion: PERRspectives