Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:35 AM ET, September 20, 2013

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
David Weigel / Slate:
Welcome to the Republican Party's make-believe fight to defund Obamacare.  —  If you're in a hurry, and you can only memorize one fact about the coming congressional debt and budget war, try this: There will be no “defunding of Obamacare.”  It's impossible for Republicans to admit it …
RELATED:
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
House Republicans Pass Deep Cuts in Food Stamps  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans narrowly pushed through a bill on Thursday that slashes billions of dollars from the food stamp program, over the objections of Democrats and a veto threat from President Obama.
Bryan Koenig / CNN:
Rep. King on defund plan: ‘Custer, Kamikaze’
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate sees way forward on funding bill
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
McCain: To Think We Can Repeal Obamacare ‘Is Not Rational’ (VIDEO)
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner To Cruz: Time To Put Up Or Shut Up On Defunding Obamacare
Discussion: National Review, CNN and Balloon Juice
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Some House GOP conservatives want Cruz-Paul-Rubio-Lee filibuster on Obamacare defunding
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Spitting on Their Graves: Democrats Leave Benghazi Hearing Before Testimony From Families of Victims  —  During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused …
RELATED:
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Hillary Clinton's image control: Security swipes man's phone, erases pic of her at speech
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and The Hill
Laura Collins / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Two decades after her affair with Bill Clinton, Gennifer Flowers reveals they'd be together now if it wasn't for Chelsea and how former president confided in her that Hillary was bisexual  — She bitterly regrets rejecting him when he last begged to see her and says he's the ‘love of her life’
RELATED:
Politico:
2016 far away, but Hillary keeps running  —  Dismissive sighs, weary eye-rolls, mocking rejoinders: these have been the favored tactics of Hillary Rodham Clinton's team of aides and allies when confronted with questions about the state of her thinking on whether to run for president again in 2016.
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Blair's fight to stop Brown's coup  —  Exclusive: Like a script for The Thick of It - the messages that show how the PM's team fought in vain to prevent Brown's coup  —  Read the leaked emails detailing the battle in Downing Street  —  Downing Street emails detailing the rearguard battle …
Discussion: Spectator, BBC and Telegraph
RELATED:
James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Poison at the heart of Labour: Damaging questions for Miliband and Balls as explosive book reveals Brown's spin doctor ran smear campaigns from Downing Street  —  The toxic culture of spin, smears and feuding at the heart of New Labour is laid bare today in an explosive political memoir.
Discussion: Spectator and BBC
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control  —  Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Roman Catholic church on Thursday with the publication of his remarks that the church had grown “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception …
RELATED:
America Magazine:
A Big Heart Open to God
CNN:
Pope Francis: Church can't ‘interfere’ with gays
Discussion: The Dish
Associated Press:
Warming lull haunts authors of key climate report  —  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.
Discussion: PlanetSave
RELATED:
Tamara Cohen / Daily Mail:
World's top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ …
Wall Street Journal:
Pricing Glitch Afflicts Rollout of Online Health Exchanges  —  Less than two weeks before the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the federal health overhaul, the government's software can't reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage, according to insurance executives and people familiar with the program.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Corrente
Dylan Byers / Politico:
DOJ spox to USA Today: ‘I will save what I have for another outlet’  —  A Department of Justice spokesperson who initially offered to provide sources to USA Today has reversed that decision on the grounds that the reporter was “biased” and would not forego his story even if the sources undercut its premise.
RELATED:
Brad Heath / USA Today:
Justice Dept. watchdog never probed judges' NSA concerns
Discussion: Hit & Run and emptywheel
Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP plans ‘one man, one woman’ law in wake of same-sex marriage ruling  —  A group of Republicans in the House is set to unveil a proposal aimed at protecting conservative groups in the wake of the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.  —  Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) …
RELATED:
Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
Horrifying Anti-Obamacare Ad Warns That Uncle Sam Wants In Your Uterus  —  As the October 1 enrollment date for the Affordable Care Act creeps closer each day, one had to expect some feeble pushback from conservatives upset that a black liberal passed a healthcare bill they actually kind of like.
RELATED:
Yahoo! News:
Creepy Obamacare ad hits college campuses and your nightmares
Dan Primack / Fortune:
AllThingsD parting ways with Dow Jones  —  AllThingsD and The Wall Street Journal call it quits.  —  FORTUNE — The team behind influential tech site AllThingsD is severing ties with founding owner Dow Jones, a subsidiary of News Corp. (NWS).  A formal statement is expected later today.
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Two Men Dead In Michigan Road Rage Shootout, Police Say  —  Police said two men died Wednesday after a shootout allegedly motivated by road rage, the Grand Rapids Press reported.  —  The initial police investigation showed Ionia, Mich. residents James Pullum, 43, and Robert Taylor, 56 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
RELATED:
Andrew Krietz / MLive.com:
Road rage shootout: 2 men killed identified after evening incident in Ionia
Discussion: The Raw Story
First Read:
Rand Paul says recent GOP wins a roadmap for party's future  —  CHANTILLY, Va. — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Thursday said Republicans have been “winning” recent Washington battles and laid out a roadmap  —  for how the party can use the victories to appeal to key voting blocks that fueled President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Colorado House Republicans Unanimously Support Flood Relief, Unanimously Opposed Sandy Aid  —  As historic floods of “biblical” proportions continue to ravage Colorado, President Obama signed an emergency declaration on Sunday — a move that was encouraged by a bipartisan letter last week …
Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Syria's Assad: Removing chemicals a sensitive operation  —  Syrian President Assad said the cost for removing chemicals from Syria would be $1B.  —  CONNECT  —  Syrian President Bashar Assad wants to cooperate with diplomatic agreements that would compel his country to be rid …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Texas Court Overturns Conviction of DeLay  —  Tom DeLay was the very symbol of Congressional power and, in the view of his detractors, excess.  His political career collapsed in 2005 when Mr. DeLay, a Texas Republican who was the House majority leader, was indicted on money-laundering charges …
RELATED:
Houston Chronicle:
DeLay conviction overturned
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:35 AM ET, September 20, 2013.

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: 
Marc Graser / Variety:
‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Earns $800 Million in a Day, More than Worldwide Haul of ‘Man of Steel’
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Pundit
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
Navy Yard rampage began with gunman's colleagues, sources and witnesses say
Discussion: WJLA-TV and The Hill
NY Daily News:
EDITOR'S PICKS  —  Bill de Blasio already knows one person …
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
My Shutdown Lament
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 Earlier Items: 
Guardian:
Syrian government says civil war has reached stalemate
New York Times:
Frisking Tactic Yields to a Focus on Youth Gangs
Discussion: Colorlines, Gawker and Althouse
Sarah Ditum / Guardian:
Why women have a right to sex-selective abortion
 

 
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

Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land:
Google blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B ads and 6.7M advertiser accounts in 2022

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