Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:55 PM ET, May 24, 2010

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED:
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama White House probe of Obama White House finds no Obama White …
Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:   A Deal on DADT?  —  The Advocate has learned that concurrent …
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Lawmakers divided on 'don't ask, don't tell' as votes near
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
NBC's Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger, twitterer
Discussion: Wonkette and NewsBusters.org
Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Gibbs on Sestak's Claim of a Job Offer
FITSNews:
Will Folks: Letting The Chips Fall  —  Since I founded FITSNews three-and-a-half years ago, I've made more than my fair share of powerful enemies in this state.  —  One reason for that?  I call it like I see it - whether you like it or not, agree with it or not, or even believe it or not.
RELATED:
Logan Smith / WIS-TV:
Blogger, fmr. Sanford aide claims past affair with Nikki Haley  —  COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A political blogger and former aide to Gov. Mark Sanford claims to have had a past romantic relationship with Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley.  Haley, who is married and has two children …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Obama Versus the Corporations  —  So here's how it is: They're as mad as hell, and they're not going to take this anymore.  Am I talking about the Tea Partiers?  No, I'm talking about the corporations.  —  Much reporting on opposition to the Obama administration portrays it as a sort of populist uprising.
RELATED:
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus  —  Psychoanalyzing one of America's most dysfunctional relationships.  —  Thirty-eight hours after Scott Brown's smack-upside-the-head victory in the race for Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat, Barack Obama took the podium in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House.
David Frum / CNN:
Just saying ‘no’ won't win it for GOP
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and FrumForum
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Principles of Rand Paul  —  No ideology survives the collision with real-world politics perfectly intact.  General principles have to bend to accommodate the complexities of history, and justice is sometimes better served by compromise than by zealous intellectual consistency.
RELATED:
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Despite Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead  —  WASHINGTON — In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig …
RELATED:
Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
Eric Massa's Secret  —  Long before the Eric Massa scandal broke, the congressman carried the lonely burden of another secret that, if revealed, would turn his world upside down.  An extraordinary look inside the mind of a man in the crisis of his lifetime.
Daniela Altimari / Capitol Watch:
Blumenthal: “I have made mistakes and I am sorry.”  —  After nearly a week of criticism following revelations that he misrepresented his military record and five days after a press conference in which he expressed regret for his misstatements, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Richard Blumenthal apologized.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Clinton to DoD?  —  As DiMascio, Rozen and I report this morning, some of Clinton's allies are talking her up as the next Secretary of Defense:  —  Gates, for his part, has saved Clinton from a different kind of marginalization by a powerful White House staff, which has a sometimes-rocky relationship …
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
RELATED:
The Politico:
The Gates-Clinton axis  —  The White House likes to release images …
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
The gathering revolt against government spending  —  his month three members of Congress have been beaten in their bids for re-election — a Republican senator from Utah, a Democratic congressman from West Virginia and a Republican-turned-Democrat senator from Pennsylvania.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Hit & Run
RELATED:
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Perry Up by 9 in New UT/TT Poll
Discussion: Off the Kuff
William Yardley / New York Times:
For Roaming Palin, Home Base Is Still in Alaska  —  WASILLA, Alaska — Stepping quickly toward his big black Dodge Ram truck, Todd Palin offered a few highlights of the weekend ahead.  —  His youngest daughter, Piper, had a dance rehearsal.  His oldest son, Track, would be helping …
The Politico:
Reid angles for tea party foe in Nev.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has knocked down his leading Republican challenger, paving the way for a potential fall fight with a tea party favorite who may be easier to beat.  —  Reid's unceasing attacks on his biggest-name challenger …
RELATED:
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE OTHER REPUBLICAN IN NEVADA.... As of a couple of months ago …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction  —  If the trouble starts — and it remains an “if” — the trigger may well be obscure to the concerns of most Americans: a missed budget projection by the Spanish government, the failure of Greece to hit a deficit-reduction target, a drop in Ireland's economic output.
Guy Adams / The Independent:
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all  —  The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now  —  Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
US Pavilion at Expo 2010 is a National Humiliation  —  Our group was briefly taken today to visit Shanghai's Expo 2010, which is kind of like a World's Fair.  The whole concept seems a bit goofy to my eyes, but it's caused a lot of excitement in China and I think the way you have to understand …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Jamellebouie / Matthew Yglesias:
Liberals have been pretty successful  —  I need help understanding how OpenLeft's Paul Rosenberg can credibly argue that Barack Obama has manically embraced “discredited conservative ideas” and “helped enormously in extended the hegemonic continuity of [the] Nixon-Reagan Eara.
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Ben Smith's Blog
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:55 PM ET, May 24, 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: 
Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
The Politics of an Aging Population
Derrick DePledge / Honolulu Advertiser:
Djou heading to D.C.
Discussion: The Fix, Daily Kos and Wonkette
Reuters:
Court to hear Texas death row inmate DNA case
John Steele Gordon / Commentary:
Look Who's Coming to the Tea Party
Jay Heflin / The Hill:
Report: Healthcare law tax credits encourage small businesses …
Latoya Peterson / American Prospect:
Better Farmer's Markets
Discussion: Examiner and Eschaton
 Earlier Items: 
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fannie, Freddie Fix Is Federal Hot-Potato
Discussion: Hit & Run, DealBook and Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
More mischief in Illinois race
Discussion: Commentary and Jumping in Pools
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Evidence of Israel's nuclear arsenal