Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:30 AM ET, August 8, 2009

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED:
Gateway Pundit:
Priceless.  Jamie Allman Confronts Russ Carnahan at Secret Press Conference on Beating Black Conservatives (Video)  —  Rep. Russ Carnahan held a secret press conference this morning to discuss the town hall meeting last night where tea party taxpayers were locked out, union thugs …
Dana Loesch / thedanashow.wordpress.com:
BREAKING: Carnahan staffer admits to causing trouble?  —  This woman was actually trying to start fights with people in line, waiting to get into the auditorium at the Rep. Russ Carnahan townhall forum on aging.  —  While Carnahan gave a press conference today blaming tea party people for the …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: SEIU activists try to set ObamaCare opponents straight  —  After the President himself talked about getting in people's faces when they oppose his policies and setting up snitch lines at the White House, the only shocker in this video is that it took so long for townhalls to turn violent.
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Palin: Obama's “Death Panel” Could Kill My Down Syndrome Baby  —  In a new posting on her Facebook account, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) made a dire statement about health care reform — that it could result in an Obama-created “death panel” killing her infant son with Down Syndrome:
RELATED:
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Embattled S.C. Governor Sanford, Wife Are Splitting Up  —  Jenny Sanford, the wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, announced Friday morning that she and their sons will leave the governor's mansion in Columbia and settle in the Charleston area, a split that comes after the couple tried for seven weeks to mend their marriage.
Discussion: Raw Story
RELATED:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Jenny Sanford Moving Out Of Gov. Mansion With Kids
Discussion: New York Times
CNN:
First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Florida, will announce that he is resigning his seat, three GOP sources tell CNN.  —  The sources said that Martinez will officially announce his intention to step down on Friday.
RELATED:
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Mel Martinez resigning
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Mel Martinez out, placeholder coming
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and TPMDC
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Americans for Prosperity Compares Health Care Reform To Holocaust, Tells Protesters To Put ‘Fear Of God’ In Members Of Congress  —  During the course of the last week, you may have wondered why anti-health care reform activists are so riled up—what buttons are being pushed by the people encouraging the town hall disruptions.
RELATED:
Ramesh Ponnuru / Time:
Obamacare's Fatal Flaw
Discussion: Hot Air and PrairiePundit
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Americans for Prosperity Compares Health Care Reform To Holocaust
Bill Maher / The Huffington Post:
New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart Country  —  New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country.  A few weeks ago I was asked by Wolf Blitzer if I thought Sarah Palin could get elected president, and I said I hope not, but I wouldn't put anything past this stupid country.
Fox News:
White House Move to Collect ‘Fishy’ Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say  —  The White House has been under fire since posting a blog on Tuesday that asks supporters to e-mail any “fishy” information seen on the Web or received electronically.  —  FOXNews.com  —  The White House strategy …
Martin Kady II / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
So where's your birth certificate, congressman?  —  From POLITICO's Kathryn McGarr:  —  Last week, POLITICO asked the 11 House Republicans co-sponsoring the so-called “birther” bill — requiring presidential candidates to prove they were born in the U.S.— for copies of their own birth certificates.
Discussion: Think Progress and 24Ahead
Felix Salmon:
Ben Stein finally Expelled from NY Times  —  You'll forgive me if I take some small measure of credit for this one: after something in the region of 35,000 words of the Ben Stein Watch, the world's worst financial columnist has finally been fired from the New York Times.  And I couldn't be happier.
RELATED:
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Pitchman Ben Stein Gets Economist Ben Stein Fired at the New York Times
Discussion: Townhall.com and Mediaite
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Rahm Slammed Dems Attacking Other Dems As “F-king Stupid,” Sources Say  —  The Politico's Jonathan Martin reported this morning that Rahm Emanuel warned leaders of liberal groups in a private meeting this week that it was time to stop running ads attacking Blue Dog and “centrist” Dems on health care.
Ezra Klein:
Is This Health-Care Reform's Worst Idea Yet?  —  The Senate Finance Committee does not want to propose an employer mandate to promote health-care coverage.  But it doesn't want to let employers entirely off the hook, either.  So it has come up with one of the worst ideas in recent memory: A so-called “free rider” tax.
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Another Hurdle for the Jobless: Credit Inquiries  —  Digging out of debt keeps getting harder for the unemployed as more companies use detailed credit checks to screen job prospects.  —  Out of work since December, Juan Ochoa was delighted when a staffing firm recently responded to his posting …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Better Plan for Health-Care Reform  —  In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle.  They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of the tax system.  With the resulting savings, they lowered tax rates across the board.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Reactions to Rush Limbaugh's Obama/Hitler comparison  —  [updated below (ADL) - Update II (Simon Wiesenthal Center) - Update III]  —  As I noted yesterday, the comparison of an anonymous person in the 2004 MoveOn.org ad contest of Bush to Hitler generated a massive media firestorm for a full week …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
What is progressivism?  —  Arnold Kling asks this question, so I thought I'd try a stab at it, but trying to cast progressivism in the best possible light.  Of course my answer is not exclusive to Arnold's, as we might both be right about the elephant.  From an outsider's perspective …
Michael Sokolove / New York Times:
What's a Big City Without a Newspaper?  —  LAST STAND?  —  On a recent trip into Philadelphia, after I exited the Interstate and coasted to a stop at the first traffic light, a man walked up to my car.  He wore a black apron with a change pouch and held aloft a copy of The Philadelphia Daily News, the city's tart, irreverent tabloid.
CNN:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver in critical condition  —  (CNN) — Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President Kennedy, is in critical but stable condition in a Massachusetts hospital with her family at her side, her family said Friday.  —  Members of her family flew in to Cape Cod Hospital …
Rasmussen Reports:
41% View Town Hall Protesters Favorably, 35% Don't  —  Forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. voters have a favorable opinion of the people opposing health care reform at town hall meetings now being conducted by members of Congress, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Discussion: Moe Lane
msnbc.com:
‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ for Thursday, August 6  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  —  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  Guests: Jonathan Alter, Ryan Lizza, Chris Kofinis  —  KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST (voice-over): Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Hullabaloo
Abf / We'll Know When We Get There:
Sincerely, John Hughes  —  I was babysitting for my mom's friend Kathleen's daughter the night I wrote that first fan letter to John Hughes.  I can literally remember the yellow grid paper, the blue ball point pen and sitting alone in the dim light in the living room, the baby having gone to bed.
Discussion: Shot in the Dark and Swampland
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:30 AM ET, August 8, 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: 
The Campaign Spot:
So What Kinds of Objections to ObamaCare Are Okay?
Discussion: Lance Mannion
The Note:
Hikers Who Crossed Into Iran Have Been Moved to Tehran
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Les Nessman / Washington Examiner:
Dana in NYC
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA SEES ‘A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL’.... It seems …
Discussion: The Plank
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Mike Ross Brags About Killing Single Payer
Discussion: TPMDC
Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Ex-DNC Chief on Obama's Problems (and How He Can Fix Them)
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Bill O'Reilly Puts His Love For Barack Obama Into A Parade Column
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Gawker
Jack Healy / New York Times:
247,000 Jobs Lost in July; Rate Falls Slightly to 9.4%
New York Times:
Taliban Leader in Pakistan Is Reportedly Killed
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user