memeorandum: The N.Y.P.D. Protests: An Officer's View (Steve Osborne/New York Times)

9:50 AM ET, January 8, 2015

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MUSLIMS ARE RIGHT TO BE ANGRY — Bill Donohue comments on the killing of 12 people at the Paris office of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo: — Killing in response to insult, no matter how gross, must be unequivocally condemned. That is why what happened in Paris cannot be tolerated.

Discussion: The Fiscal Times, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Financial Times, National Review, Friendly Atheist, Little Green Footballs, The Daily Caller and Hit & Run

George Packer / New Yorker:

The Blame for the Charlie Hebdo Murders — The murders today in Paris are not a result of France's failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies. They're not about French military action against the Islamic State in the Middle East, or the American invasion of Iraq before that.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Telegraph, Betsy's Page, Raw Story and Joanne Jacobs, more at Mediagazer »

USA Today:

People know the consequences: Opposing view — Why did France allow the tabloid to provoke Muslims? — Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air, PinkNews, Fox News Insider and Weasel Zippers

NBC News:

Paris Attack Suspect Dead, Two in Custody, U.S. Officials Say — One of the suspects in the Paris attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine has been killed and the two others are in custody, two senior U.S. counterterrorism officials told NBC News on Wednesday. — Authorities earlier had identified …

Discussion: Roger L. Simon, Voice of America, The Daily Caller, Rule of Law, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Ed Driscoll, Agence France-Presse and The Intercept

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

Europe Is Under Siege — The European Parliament complex in Brussels, where I happen to be sitting at the moment, is meant to be a monument to post-World War II continental ideals of peaceable integration, tolerance, free speech, and openness. All of these notions seem to be under attack at once …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Ricochet

Juan Cole / Informed Comment:

Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris — The horrific murder of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, aiming at polarizing the French and European public.

Discussion: The Agonist, Daily Kos, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, The Daily Caller, KFOR-TV, The Dish, Raw Story, Washington Monthly and Making Light, more at Mediagazer »

Ezra Klein / Vox:

Don't let murderers pretend their crimes are about cartoons — Yes, Charlie Hebdo was a magazine that delighted in controversy and provocation. Yes, it skewered religion and took joy in giving offense. Yes, the magazine knowingly antagonized extremists — Charlie Hebdo's web site …

Discussion: The Federalist, Althouse, Politico, Hot Air, Washington Post, Washington Center …, Hit & Run, The Daily Caller and The Dish, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

‘Dangerous Moment’ for Europe, as Fear and Resentment Grow — LONDON — The sophisticated, military-style strike Wednesday on a French newspaper known for satirizing Islam staggered a continent already seething with anti-immigrant sentiments in some quarters, feeding far-right nationalist parties like France's National Front.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, US News, Firedoglake, Hinterland Gazette and Althouse

Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Blasphemy We Need — In the wake of the vicious murders …

Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Is Islam to Blame for the Shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris?

Discussion: Guardian, New York Magazine, The Long War Journal, National Review, The Huffington Post and Newseum

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
23 Heartbreaking Cartoons From Artists Responding To The Charlie Hebdo Shooting

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Huffington Post, The Mahablog and Taylor Marsh

Arthur Goldhammer / Fact-Based, In-Depth News:
Let's not sacralize Charlie Hebdo

Discussion: The Glittering Eye, more at Mediagazer »

Associated Press:
FRENCH POLICE IDENTIFY 3 SUSPECTS IN ATTACK THAT KILLED 12

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN, Slate, Reuters, Scared Monkeys, TheBlaze.com, Telegraph, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, NPR, Weasel Zippers and The Right Scoop, more at Mediagazer »

Hadas Gold / Politico:
Internal CNN memo: ‘We are not at this time showing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons’

Discussion: CNN, Guardian, Mediaite, Friendly Atheist, Hot Air, Bloomberg View, New York Times, Telegraph, Washington Free Beacon, Weasel Zippers, Washington Post, The Daily Banter, The Huffington Post and TVNewser

Pete Williams / NBC News:
Confusion as French Hunt Magazine Attack Suspects

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, ABC News, New York Magazine, The Other McCain, Mediaite, Heavy.com, Hit & Run, Poynter and The PJ Tatler

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Many Outlets Are Censoring Charlie Hebdo's Satirical Cartoons After Attack

Bernie Becker / The Hill:

Support builds for medical device tax repeal — A bipartisan group of lawmakers predicted Wednesday that the House could repeal ObamaCare's tax on medical device sales by the end of March. — Republicans have pushed to roll back the tax for years, and have insisted for months …

Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:

Durbin: ‘Now is the time’ to raise gas tax — Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says he thinks “now is the time” to raise the gas tax, which hasn't been touched by Congress in over 20 years. — “I think now is the time to do it, but we ought to do it in a thoughtful way,” Durbin said on Wednesday.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:

John Cornyn Steps Up, Says He'll Spare the Whip … WASHINGTON, D.C. — For several years now, the most powerful Texan in Washington has been the Senate's No. 2 Republican, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. When Republicans took control of the Senate on Tuesday, he became even more so.

Discussion: ABC News

New York Times:
On Day 2, Senate Democrats Vow Aggressive Battle Against Republican Agenda

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, U.S. Senate Democratic … and Daily Kos

Scott Wong / The Hill:

Boehner defends retribution — A day after winning his third term as Speaker, John Boehner (R-Ohio) said his conference had begun a “family conversation” about how to respond to the 25 conservatives who revolted and voted against him on the floor. — Boehner confirmed that the Rules …

Discussion: Hot Air

Jake Sherman / Politico:
Boehner may let dissenters off the hook

Discussion: BarbWire.com, Daily Signal, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos

Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:

It's All Right with Sam — Samuel A. Alito Jr. may be the least recognizable of Supreme Court justices. I doubt if one American in a thousand could pick him out of a lineup. Those who do know the name, if not the face, of the 64-year-old justice most likely lump him with the other conservatives …

Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Election Law Blog

San Francisco Chronicle:

IMAGE 1 OF 15 — Menus across the Bay Area were being hastily rewritten Wednesday after a federal judge struck down California's ban on foie gras, allowing restaurants to serve up the delicacy for the first time in two years. — U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles ruled …

Discussion: Guardian, New York Times, The Toast, Reuters, Inside Scoop SF, PETA, Washington Times and Bloomberg Politics

Steve Osborne / New York Times:

The N.Y.P.D. Protests: An Officer's View — ON Sunday, at the funeral of the slain New York City police officer Wenjian Liu, his grieving father described how his son would call him at the end of each day's tour of duty, just to let him know he was O.K. — This sort of habit is familiar to many cops.

Discussion: Unfogged

Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:

Christie's Re-Election Campaign Gets Subpoena — Prosecutors Seek Documents Relating to Meetings Allegedly Canceled With Jersey City's Mayor — Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have subpoenaed Gov. Chris Christie's re-election campaign for documents relating to government meetings …

Discussion: susiemadrak.com and Politico

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

In G.O.P., a Divide of Ideology and Age — WASHINGTON — Three years before he ran for president in 2008, a newly slim Mike Huckabee peddled a book with a title that doubled as a lecture: “Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork.” Now, as Mr. Huckabee considers a second White House run …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Political Wire

Mario Trujillo / The Hill:

Tech group finds firm legal footing for reclassifying Web — A trade group representing major technology companies said the Federal Communications Commission would be on firm legal footing if it reclassified the Internet as a public utility. — The Internet Association said changes …

Discussion: Re/code

RealClearPolitics Videos:

Howard Dean on Paris Attack: “I Stopped Calling These People Muslim Terrorists” — Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean responds to those whose are afraid of “Islamic radicalism” in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hedbo in Paris on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning. HOWARD DEAN: You know, this is a chronic problem.

Discussion: Reuters