Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:50 PM ET, September 5, 2011

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
CBS News:
“Doesn't appear” Palin will run: DeMint  —  The Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial start of the presidential campaign season, and many of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination have started to take shots at each other, not just at President Obama, reports CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford.
RELATED:
Emily Schultheis / The Politico:
Rick Perry fires at Mitt Romney at S.C. town hall  —  CONWAY, S.C. — Rick Perry cut short a trip to South Carolina on Monday to head home to deal with wildfires in his state but got in a shot at Mitt Romney before he left.  —  “There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage …
Discussion: Online NewsHour
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Perry to skip DeMint forum  —  (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry will not attend the Palmetto Freedom Forum of GOP candidates Monday night, sponsored by Sen. Jim DeMint, and will instead return to Texas to deal with the wildfires in the state, DeMint and the Perry campaign told CNN.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Perry to skip DeMint's presidential forum, will return to Texas to deal with wildfires  —  Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry will detour from campaigning to return to his state to oversee relief efforts in the wake of devastating wildfires.
Discussion: CNN and Austin American-Statesman
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Bachmann bunked at S.C. gov's mansion
Discussion: The Raw Story and Daily Kos
Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Palin's Attack on ‘Corporate Crony Capitalism’ Spotlights Gap in GOP Field
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Poll finds Perry and Romney tied for lead with GOP Calif. voters
Discussion: gqrr.com and Los Angeles Times
Michelle Malkin:
Happy Labor Day: Top 10 union thug moments of the year  —  As the MSM whitewashes Big Labor's ugly threats, Tea Party smears, and history of coerced dues-subsidized racketeering this Labor Day, what better way to mark the holiday than with an illustrated list of top 10 union thug moments of the year.
RELATED:
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The last Labor Day?  —  Let's get it over with and rename the holiday “Capital Day.”  We may still celebrate Labor Day, but our culture has given up on honoring workers as the real creators of wealth and their honest toil — the phrase itself seems antique — as worthy of genuine respect.
Patricia Bosworth / Daily Mail:
Rebel without a bra: Jane Fonda said her biggest regret was not sleeping with Che Guevara... but that was to please her husband  —  One day, at the height of her fame in the mid-Seventies, Jane Fonda turned up on the doorstep of her ex-husband, Roger Vadim.  She was lugging a bulging sack.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount  —  The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month …
RELATED:
Christina Caron / ABCNEWS:
Going Broke: America Without a Post Office?
Washington Examiner:
You have a right to record the police  —  Tiawanda Moore was vindicated after a jury acquitted her of the “crime” of recording the police.  (AP photo)  —  All over America, police have been arresting people for taking video or making sound recordings of them, even though such arrests are pretty clearly illegal.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Don Surber
Wolfgang Schäuble / Financial Times:
Why austerity is only cure for the eurozone  —  In recent weeks, debt markets have undergone wild gyrations, leading some analysts and commentators to question the progress achieved in taming the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone.  More recently, economic data and forward-looking indicators …
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and Paul Krugman
RELATED:
Spiegel Online:
International Monetary Fund
Discussion: Guardian
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Fatal Distraction  —  Friday brought two numbers that should have everyone in Washington saying, “My God, what have we done?”  —  One of these numbers was zero — the number of jobs created in August.  The other was two — the interest rate on 10-year U.S. bonds, almost as low as this rate has ever gone.
A.Killough / CNN:
Bachmann: Why is there a Department of Education?  —  (CNN) - Painting herself as a “constitutional conservative” Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told Sen. Jim DeMint's forum Monday that if elected president she would look to get rid of the Department of Education, among other things.
Discussion: National Review
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Romney kicks off primary high season with pancakes  —  Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - Mitt Romney kicked off the primary high season looking well-placed at a GOP breakfast in his must-win state of New Hampshire.  —  The former Massachusetts governor and his wife served 1,500 pancakes …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Hill
RELATED:
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:50 PM ET, September 5, 2011.

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: 
NY Daily News:
Bloody weekend: 24 shot in 24 hours prompting Mayor Bloomberg to call for tougher gun laws
Ryan Avent / New York Times:
One Path to Better Jobs: More Density in Cities
Discussion: Daily Kos
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Pakistani forces capture senior al Qaeda leader Younis al Mauritania in Quetta
Christopher Hitchens / Slate Magazine:
A decade after 9/11, it remains the best description and most essential fact about al-Qaida.
Discussion: normblog
New York Times:
A Debate Arises on Job Creation and Environment
Mark A. Siegel / Washington Post:
How closed primaries further polarize our politics
Discussion: Don Surber and Hot Air
Globe and Mail:
China offered Gadhafi huge stockpiles of arms: Libyan memos
Discussion: Opinio Juris and Informed Comment
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Green energy and jobs will cripple the UK economy
Discussion: Right Wing News and Pirate's Cove
Guardian:
Libyan papers show UK worked with Gaddafi in rendition operation
Discussion: msnbc.com
ABCNEWS:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Jim DeMint
Discussion: Politics
ForexCrunch / Business Insider:
Senior IMF Economist Expects Hard Default For Greece. Soon.
 

 
From Mediagazer:

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

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:
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