Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:50 PM ET, June 21, 2010

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Alex Spillius / Telegraph:
Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House  —  Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job later this year after growing tired of the “idealism” of Barack Obama's inner circle.  —  Washington insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration …
RELATED:
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House dismisses critics, defends Obama's golf outings  —  The White House is dismissing criticism that President Barack Obama shouldn't play golf during the Gulf oil spill.  —  White House spokesman Bill Burton on Monday said the president deserves some time to relax, and he doesn't …
Discussion: Guardian, Raw Story and Gateway Pundit
Fox News:
White House Dismisses Emanuel Quitting Report as ‘Ludicrous’  —  File: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, left, stands with former White House Counsel Greg Craig and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at a White House briefing.  (AFP)  —  The White House Monday dismissed reports that Chief …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Adventures in British Newspapering
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
W.H. bends truth on Joe Barton
Discussion: CNN
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Budget Deficits: Spend Now, Save Later  —  Spend now, while the economy remains depressed; save later, once it has recovered.  How hard is that to understand?  —  Very hard, if the current state of political debate is any indication.  All around the world, politicians seem determined to do the reverse.
RELATED:
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID, CONT'D.... Another day, another piece …
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Daily Pundit
Arizona Republic:
Hayworth pitched ‘free money’ seminars in 2007 infomercial  —  Republican Senate challenger J.D. Hayworth appeared in a 2007 television infomercial in which he helped convince viewers that they could rake in big bucks by attending seminars that would teach them how to apply for federal grants that they wouldn't have to pay back.
RELATED:
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Hayworth Starred In Informercial Touting ‘Free’ Gov't Grant Money (VIDEO)
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
The End of the J.D. Hayworth Campaign?
Discussion: Hot Air
Paul Krugman:
Zombies Have Already Killed The Deficit Commission  —  It must have sounded like a good idea (although not to me): establish a bipartisan commission of Serious People to develop plans to bring the federal budget under control.  —  But the commission is already dead — and zombies did it.
RELATED:
John M. Berry / The Fiscal Times:
Simpson's Comments Undermine Commission Efforts
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Doctors limit new Medicare patients  —  WASHINGTON — The number of doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government payment rates is setting a new high, just six months before millions of Baby Boomers begin enrolling in the government health care program.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Republicans' Midterm Voting Enthusiasm Tops Prior Years  —  Relative enthusiasm advantage for GOP over Democrats largest in Gallup history dating to 1994  —  PRINCETON, NJ — An average of 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have said they are more enthusiastic than usual …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Angela Merkel Lucky the Bar for “Worst German Leader” is Very High  —  The government of Germany has taken a consistently unhelpful attitude since the outbreak of the financial crisis, and today is no exception: … I would categorically dispute that excessive public debts are one of the main causes of the crisis.
Discussion: Crooked Timber
RELATED:
Rainer Buergin / Bloomberg:
Germany Rejects Obama's Call on Growth, Stoking G-20 Conflict
Discussion: Free exchange
Ariel Levy / New Yorker:
PRODIGAL SON  —  Is the wayward Republican Mike Huckabee now his party's best hope?  —  Sun was bouncing off the miles of Jerusalem stone and the black hats of the Hasidim on the afternoon when Mike Huckabee went to visit the Wailing Wall, earlier this year.
Hillel Fendel / Arutz Sheva:
Tried to Boycott Israeli Ship, Blocked Chinese Ship Instead  —  Follow Israel news on and .  —  Some 500 anti-Israel protestors arrived at the Oakland, California port early Sunday morning, hoping to block an Israeli ship from unloading its cargo.  However, the ship did not arrive …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Pajamas Media
RELATED:
Zombie / Pajamas Media:
Radicals, Islamists and Longshoremen blockade Israeli ship in Oakland
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Mika Admits: I'm ‘Working With White House’ On Oil Spill Talking Points  —  Cut out the middle-woman and install Obama's teleprompter on the Morning Joe set . . .  Give her high marks for candor: on today's show, Mika Brzezinski admitted that she has been “working with the White House” on oil spill talking points.
Associated Press:
Supreme Court Affirms Ban on Aiding Groups Tied to Terror  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that bars “material support” to foreign terrorist organizations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups.  —  The court ruled 6-3 Monday …
RELATED:
The Hill:
White House jabs Hayward on attendance at yacht race  —  White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton on Monday made a pointed comment about BP CEO Tony Hayward's attendance at a yacht race in Great Britain this weekend.  —  “If Tony Hayward wants to put a skimmer on his yacht and bring …
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
RELATED:
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Obama's thuggery is useless in fighting spill
Discussion: Flopping Aces
New York Times:
Lax Oversight Cited in Failure of Oil Rig's Failsafe Device  —  It was the last line of defense, the final barrier between the rushing volcanic fury of oil and gas and one of the worst environmental disasters in United States history.  —  Its very name — the blind shear ram — suggested its blunt purpose.
Breitbart.tv:
EXCLUSIVE: KAGAN: Bork Hearings ‘Best Thing to Ever Happen to Constitutional Democracy’  —  Dateline:  —  From speech at Case Western Reserve, 1997: “And I, like Professor Toulouse, I loved what happened in the Bork hearings.  I wrote a review of Stephen Carter's book recently where I said, “no, he has it all wrong.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Associated Press:
Bork to publicly oppose Kagan for Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Failed conservative Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork is joining anti-abortion activists to publicly oppose confirming Elena Kagan as a justice.  —  Bork plans to detail his criticisms of Kagan during …
Discussion: Right Now and Main Justice
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
O'Reilly Grills Bachmann On BP's $20B Gulf Spill Fund: 'You're Dodging My Question' (VIDEO)  —  You know Rep. Michele Bachmann has crossed a line when Bill O'Reilly grills her, and even says: “You're dodging my question.”  —  That's what happened on O'Reilly's Fox News show Friday when Bachmann …
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Crist's edge over Rubio appears to be growing  —  Gov. Charlie Crist, running as an independent for the U.S. Senate, is 11 points ahead of Marco Rubio, a poll says.  —  A new Florida Chamber of Commerce poll suggests Charlie Crist may be widening his lead over Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek in the U.S. Senate race.
Fox News:
Saudi Arabia Beheads and Nails Murderer's Body to Cross  —  Saudi Arabia executed two murderers including a Yemeni whose body was nailed to a cross after he was convicted of killing a fellow countryman and his daughter, the interior ministry said on Monday.  —  Shaaban al-Nasheri was beheaded …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:50 PM ET, June 21, 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: 
ABCNEWS:
Top Catholic Priest Accused of Sexually Abusing His Own Sons
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Simon Johnson / The Atlantic Online:
The Quiet Coup  —  The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States.
Discussion: Ezra Klein
The FOX Nation:
Obama Labor Chief: Illegals Have a Right to Fair Wages
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Departing RNC staff chief got $100K payout
Discussion: CNN
James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Great jobs apartheid: Public sector staff spend nine fewer years …
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Large majorities on Hill back Israel's flotilla raid
Discussion: New York Times and Wake up America
MarketWatch:
Andy Stern Joins SIGA's Board of Directors
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and TPMDC
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Key Republican: Blow up the well
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
BP, Transocean tap a well of Washington lobbyists and consultants
Rasmussen Reports:
62% Say Politicians Want Government to Have More Power and Money
Discussion: FITSNews, Hot Air and YID With LID
Telegraph:
French prisoner ‘killed cellmate and ate his lung’
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

 
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