Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:10 PM ET, April 30, 2010

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card  —  A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation's immigrations laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.  —  Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker …
RELATED:
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Holy Loads of Tone Deaf  —  Talk about misreading the public mood.  The Democratic immigration reform bill contains the following: … Apparently they think the outcry over the Arizona “SHOW YOUR PAPERS” bill is that it will only be applied to Hispanics.  Polls pretty clearly demonstrate …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Ezra Klein:
Is a biometric, national ID card an immigration game changer?  —  The Democrats' immigration-reform proposal (pdf) is 26 pages long.  Pages 8 through 18 are devoted to “ending illegal employment through biometric employment verification.”  I don't think the Democrats are going to like me calling …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
Obama takes immigration reform off agenda  —  WASHINGTON - Immigration reform has become the first of President Barack Obama's major priorities dropped from the agenda of an election-year Congress facing voter disillusionment.  Sounding the death knell was Obama himself.
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Democrats unveil immigration-reform proposal  —  Senate Democrats officially unveiled a proposal to reform America's immigration system on Thursday, looking past the fact that no Republican has offered support for the effort and President Obama a day earlier played down the chances of legislation passing this year.
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Might Want to Rent, not Own, the House
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Administration Vows No New Offshore Drilling Until Investigation is Complete  —  Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Threatens to Jeopardize President Obama's Offshore Drilling Policy  —  As some Democratic lawmakers call on President Obama to suspend his plans to expand offshore oil drilling …
RELATED:
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Oil From Spill Is Reported to Have Reached the Coast  —  NEW ORLEANS —Coast Guard officials were investigating reports early Friday morning that oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico had washed ashore overnight, threatening fisheries and wildlife in fragile marshes and islands along the Gulf Coast.
Wall Street Journal:
Drilling Process Attracts Scrutiny in Rig Explosion
Discussion: Think Progress and Newshoggers.com
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Obama Administration Learns That Oil Leads to Oil Spills
Washington Post:
As oil spill hits Louisiana coast, critics assail Obama's offshore drilling plan
Peter Wallsten / Washington Wire:
Greene Enters Fla. Senate Race  —  Just when we thought the Florida Senate race couldn 't get any stranger...  No sooner did GOP Gov. Charlie Crist announce that he'll run as an independent, clearing the way for Marco Rubio to secure the Republican nomination, than billionaire credit default …
RELATED:
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Source: Greene to seek Fla. Senate seat
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Billionaire will seek Florida Senate seat
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner: GOP could pick up 100 seats  —  House Republicans could win 100 or more seats in this fall's elections, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Friday.  —  Boehner said he believes there is no seat that the GOP cannot win during this election cycle, judging by Sen. Scott Brown's …
Discussion: Pundits Blog
RELATED:
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BOEHNER TAKES CREDIT FOR DEMOCRATIC HEALTH CARE ADVANCES.... House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) spoke to NPR's Steve Inskeep this morning, and twice said Republicans would repeal the Affordable Care Act if given congressional majorities next year.  (thanks to reader A.D.)
Discussion: Think Progress, NPR and Daily Kos
NPR:
Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law
New York Times:
Prosecutors Said to Start Inquiry at Goldman  —  By LOUISE STORY and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED  —  Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into trading at Goldman Sachs, raising the possibility of criminal charges against the Wall Street giant, according to people familiar with the matter.
RELATED:
Marcy Gordon / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. opens criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs …
Scott / Power Line:
At some point you have grabbed enough power  —  Given that poorer citizens always outnumber the rich, the classic political philosophers held that government based on majority rule was untenable.  They were of the view that it would lead to organized theft from the wealthy by the democratic masses.
RELATED:
Michelle Malkin:
Barack Obama, America's Selective Salary Policeman
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies at 87  —  It was for decades the most enduring piece of ephemera in New York City and is still among the most recognizable.  Trim, blue and white, it fits neatly in the hand, sized so its contents can be downed in a New York minute.
Discussion: Tablet Magazine, Gothamist and Gawker
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Consumers Help Drive U.S. Economy to 3.2% Growth Rate  —  The United States economy continued to expand in the first quarter, but economists cautioned that the pace of growth is still not nearly fast enough to recover ground lost during the recession.  —  National output grew …
Ezra Klein:
Like it or not, the 2010 election is now (substantially) about immigration  —  The Democrats' immigration plan is based on a simple compromise: Restrictionists get increased border security, reformers get a path to legalization.  And the compromise is in that order, too …
Hendrik Hertzberg:
Debate, British Style  —  I started watching this debate hoping that Nick Clegg would wipe the floor with the other guys.  This is not solely because Pavlovianly, I salivate at any mention of the words “Liberal Democrat”; in the past (from a safe distance to be sure) I've always preferred Labour …
Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews:
Harrison Ford to Green Critics: 'I'll Walk Everywhere When They Walk Everywhere,' ‘I Only Fly One’ of My 7 Planes ‘At A Time’  —  (CNSNews.com) — Actor, environmental activist and pilot Harrison Ford, who owns seven airplanes, told his environmental critics that he will “start walking everywhere when they start walking everywhere.”
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Big Hollywood
New York Times:
Obama Criticizes Liberal Supreme Courts of '60s and '70s  —  WASHINGTON — In a seeming rejection of liberal orthodoxy, President Obama has spoken disparagingly about liberal victories before the Supreme Court in the 1960s and 1970s — suggesting that justices made the “error” …
Aliya Sternstein / Nextgov.com:
House transparency caucus vows to regain public's trust in government  —  Twenty-seven House Republicans and Democrats kicked off a congressional transparency caucus on Thursday with a panel discussion on how the government can earn back Americans' trust.  —  “We're going to do a review …
John F. Harris / The Politico:
The man in the middle  —  Back in 1987, the man hired to crack wise at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner had a case of jagged nerves.  —  Ronald Reagan was president, and Jay Leno was just turning 37 — already a celebrated comic, not yet one of the country's most familiar faces.
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Page
Los Angeles Times:
‘99ers’ dread future without jobless benefits  —  They've exhausted 99 weeks of unemployment checks.  Thousands are banding together to lobby Congress for another extension.  —  Becky Morgado talks with her daughter, Elysha, as she looks in the mirror in her bedroom.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:10 PM ET, April 30, 2010.

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: 
Alex Leary / The Buzz:
LeMieux ‘saddened’ by Crist's move, won't support him
Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Page and TPMDC
Silla Brush / The Hill:
For Wall Street, financial reform legislation takes a bad turn in Senate
The Smoking Gun:
Afghanistan Goes Gaga
Discussion: Federal Eye, Weekly Standard and Gawker
NPR Topics:
FBI Investigating Massey Energy, Safety Agency
Discussion: NPR and Balloon Juice
David Brooks / New York Times:
American Power Act
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project
 Earlier Items: 
Free exchange:
Roller coaster economics
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Mother Jones
WMUR:
Poll Shows Hodes Losing To Ayotte
Discussion: msnbc.com and Taegan Goddard's …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Euro Trap  —  Not that long ago, European economists used …
Discussion: Washington Post and EconLog
Joseph Abrams / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

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

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