Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:20 PM ET, March 19, 2015

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Israel's shield no more?  —  Officials say they are revisiting the U.S. stance in light of Netanyahu rolling back his support of a Palestinian state.  —  In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decisive re-election, the Obama administration is revisiting longtime assumptions …
RELATED:
Foreign Policy:
From Tel Aviv to Turtle Bay  —  The White House hoped a new Israeli prime minister would resume peace talks with the Palestinians.  With Netanyahu holding on, the administration is weighing a turn to the U.N. to help force a deal.  —  After years of blocking U.N. efforts to pressure Israelis …
Yousef Munayyer / New York Times:
Netanyahu's Win Is Good for Palestine  —  WASHINGTON — IF anyone doubted where Benjamin Netanyahu stood on the question of peace, the Israeli prime minister made himself clear just before Tuesday's election, proclaiming that there would never be a Palestinian state on his watch.
New York Times:
Obama May Find It Impossible to Mend Frayed Ties to Netanyahu
Dylan Byers / Politico:
As ratings plunge, MSNBC faces shakeup  —  Insiders say to expect more news, less bombast and, fresh voices.  —  It would be hard to imagine a news event better tailored to MSNBC's Venn diagram of “lean forward” liberals and “place for politics” political junkies.
Amanda Becker / Reuters:
Democratic support for Hillary Clinton softens: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  (Reuters) - Democratic support for Hillary Clinton's expected presidential campaign is softening amid controversy over her use of personal email when secretary of state, but most Democrats are for now sticking by their party's presumed candidate.
RELATED:
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
A mighty fundraising operation awaits Clinton, as well as financial hurdles
Discussion: Progress Pond and ABC News
Gdrosenblum / CBS San Francisco:
Napolitano Says 'We Don't Have To Listen To This Crap' As Half-Naked Students Protest Potential UC Tuition Hikes  —  SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - University of California President Janet Napolitano remarked to a fellow regent that they “didn't have to listen to this crap” as underwear-clad …
Holly Yan / CNN:
Obama: Maybe it's time for mandatory voting  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)How do we offset the influence of big money in politics while fixing the country's abysmal voter turnout rate?  —  President Barack Obama suggests it might be time to make voting a requirement.
RELATED:
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Obama suggests mandatory voting might be a good idea
abc7.com:
Police: Baby cut from womb of pregnant woman responding to Craigslist  —  A woman responding to a Craigslist ad for baby clothes was brutally attacked and had her baby cut from her womb (KCNC)  —  A 34-year-old woman was accused of stabbing a pregnant woman in the stomach and removing her baby …
Discussion: Associated Press
RELATED:
David Mitchell / FOX31 Denver:
Pregnant woman's baby cut from womb after answering Craigslist ad; suspect ID'd, 911 tape released
Discussion: WTKR-TV and BuzzFeed
Tracy Walsh / Talking Points Memo:
White Parents On Fox News Condemn School's Black History Month Event  —  A segment on Thursday morning during the Fox News program “Fox & Friends” featured an all-white panel demanding an “apology” from a school district in Virginia for a Black History Month event about police brutality.
Discussion: Mediaite
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Fiscal hawks scuttle House Republican budget efforts  —  Negotiations to resolve a dispute over defense spending blew up Wednesday night in the House Budget Committee, as the panel came up short of approving a nearly $3.8 trillion Republican blueprint.  —  Budget Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) …
RELATED:
Manu Raju / Politico:
Budget debate could prove awkward for 2016 hopefuls
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hot Air
Billy House / Bloomberg Business:
Pelosi Says Republicans Will Keep Investigating Clinton, ‘Be It Her Hair or Her E-Mails’  —  The top Democrat in the U.S. House on Thursday said she believes Republicans are making a “mistake” politically in their pursuit of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's e-mails.
Discussion: Politico
RELATED:
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Jeb Bush's forgotten father-in-law  —  Bush says his Mexican father-in-law abandoned his family to work in the U.S. That's not how his other relatives remember it.  —  Aides to Jeb Bush have said that his wife Columba's father left her family in Mexico when he immigrated to America.
Discussion: Hot Air
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: March 2015  —  Bianca DiJulio, Jamie Firth, and Mollyann Brodie … Opinion Of ACA Five Years After Passage  —  The health care law has been politically divisive since its passage in March 2010.  However, the gap between favorable and unfavorable opinions …
USA Today:
Judge sends strong message with teacher's sentence  —  DETROIT — Saying there is no room for double standards, an Oakland County judge sentenced a 30-year-old female teacher to spend the next six to 15 years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a student.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Iran limited to 6K centrifuges in draft accord  —  6 photos  —  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — A draft nuclear accord now being negotiated between the United States and Iran would force Iran to cut the amount of hardware it could use to make an atomic bomb by about 40 percent …
Jeremiah Horrigan / Times Herald-Record:
Arabic version of Pledge of Allegiance at Pine Bush High School ignites furor  — What began as an effort to celebrate national Foreign Language Week at Pine Bush High School has imploded into a raging controversy that has divided the school into angry factions.  —  » RELATED CONTENT
Discussion: FOX31 Denver
Bloomberg Business:
Google, Intel, and TAG Heuer Team Up on Luxury Smartwatch  —  Watch industry, consider yourself warned … Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is creating a smartwatch in partnership with American technology companies Google and Intel.  The watch is an attempt to compete with devices by consumer-electronics makers …
Discussion: The Week and New York Magazine
RELATED:
Astrid Wendlandt / Reuters:
LVMH's Tag Heuer surfs wave of smartwatch partnerships
Discussion: The Verge, Mashable and Engadget
OHCHR:
ISIL may have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide: UN report  —  The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may have committed all three of the most serious international crimes - namely war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide …
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush and Ludacris Implore Georgia Lawmakers to Consider the Kids  —  The two crossed paths today in Atlanta.  —  They didn't arrive together, but potential Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush and rapper/actor Ludacris crossed paths in the Georgia Capitol on Thursday …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:20 PM ET, March 19, 2015.

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: 
Doyle Rice / USA Today:
Earth had warmest winter on record
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Week
Eric Walsh / Reuters:
Obama to sign order cutting government greenhouse gas emissions
Washington Post:
Sen. Ted Cruz seeks to upend D.C. laws on contraception coverage, gay rights
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Chloe Angyal / The New Republic:
Being White Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
Washington Post:
Jeb Bush's tie to fugitive goes against business-savvy image he promotes
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Men, Money and the Marriage Crisis
Discussion: Shakesville and The Week
Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
The Renewable Energy Fight
 Earlier Items: 
The Hill:
Warren has Fed chief's ear
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Mark Potok / Hatewatch:
Suspect in Arizona Shooting Spree a White Supremacist Skinhead
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. likely to delay planned closure of two Afghanistan bases
Discussion: Common Dreams
Arthur Chu / Salon:
RaceTogether is a debacle: The real reason why Starbucks, McDonald's and Coke keep failing on Twitter
Discussion: USA Today
Holly Otterbein / Philadelphia Magazine:
Member of Penn State's Kappa Delta Rho Defends Fraternity
Chloe Heskett / The Cavalier Daily:
University student, Honor Committee member Martese Johnson arrested