Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:25 PM ET, August 31, 2015

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Nick Gass / Politico:
GOP blasts Obama's Denali name change  —  <p>Republicans are criticizing President Barack Obama's decision to rename the tallest mountain in the United States to Denali, after the peak bore the name of Republican President William McKinley for more than a century.</p><p>The outcry …
RELATED:
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Mount McKinley Will Again Be Called Denali  —  President Obama announced on Sunday that Mount McKinley was being renamed Denali, restoring an Alaska Native name with deep cultural significance to the tallest mountain in North America.  —  The move came on the eve of Mr. Obama's trip to Alaska …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Ohioans fuming over Mt. McKinley name change  —  Ohio lawmakers are voicing disappointment with President Obama's decision to rename Alaska's Mount McKinley to Denali, the name used by nearby natives.  —  “There is a reason President McKinley's name has served atop the highest peak …
Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:   Obama Renames Mount McKinley ‘Denali’
Nick Gass / Politico:
Steve Schmidt: Donald Trump ‘emasculating’ Jeb Bush  —  <p>Donald Trump is "emasculating" former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with his attacks and his performance in state and national polling, prominent Republican strategist Steve Schmidt said Monday.</p><p>" Look …
RELATED:
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Heckuva Job  —  There are many things we should remember about the events of late August and early September 2005, and the political fallout shouldn't be near the top of the list.  Still, the disaster in New Orleans did the Bush administration a great deal of damage …
John King / CNN:
1. A glaring omission as Obama's party holds its summer meeting
Discussion: Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Carson catches Trump in Iowa  —  Donald Trump and Ben Carson are tied for the lead of Republican presidential candidates in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Monday.  —  The survey found Trump and Carson taking 23 percent support each.
RELATED:
Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson ties Trump at the top in Iowa poll  —  <p>Ben Carson and Donald Trump are tied at the top of the Republican field in a new survey of likely Iowa caucus-goers with 23 percent each, according to the results of a <a href="http://www.monmouth.edu/assets// 32212254770/32212254991/32212254992 …
Washington Post:
What happened to Scott Walker?
Anne M. Tompkins / USA Today:
Petraeus prosecutor: Clinton has committed no crime  —  Unlike Petraeus, Clinton did not “knowingly” store or share classified information in violation of the law.  —  Former attorney general Michael Mukasey recently compared the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server …
Discussion: Hit & Run and RedState
RELATED:
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:   Mystery deepens into how classified emails got onto Clinton's unclassified server
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
State marks 150 more of Clinton's email as classified
Discussion: ABC News
Ali Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Next Stop for Kanye West: FEC Paperwork?  —  Not quite.  —  t alielkin  —  Though perhaps overshadowed by the Nicki Minaj-Miley Cyrus feud, Kanye West tried to become the take-home story of Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards by announcing that he will seek the nation's highest office.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
RELATED:
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Kanye West: I'm running for president in 2020
Deena Zaru / CNN:
Kanye West declares 2020 presidential bid at VMAs
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: 'There's not a smidgen of evidence' that I'm anti-semitic  —  President Obama said he is personally hurt by the anti-semitism accusations he has faced since signing the nuclear deal with Iran.  —  Obama told the Jewish publication Forward “there's not a smidgen of evidence” to back up the charge.
RELATED:
Nick Gass / Politico:   Obama: It hurts when people call me anti-Semitic
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Rehabilitationists … IN NOVEMBER 2013, a who's who of America's conservative legal establishment descended on the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting of the Federalist Society, the most influential conservative legal organization in the country.
New York Post:
Developer slammed Porsche into pole, left friend to die, cops say  —  Sean Ludwick was involved in a deadly crash in Sag Harbor on Sunday.  —  A Manhattan developer who drunkenly slammed his Porsche into a utility pole in Sag Harbor, killing his passenger, was held on $1 million bond Monday, police said.
Discussion: Gothamist
Los Angeles Times:
China and Russia are cross-indexing hacked data to target U.S. spies, officials say  —  Foreign spy services, especially in China and Russia, are aggressively aggregating and cross-indexing hacked U.S. computer databases — including security clearance applications, airline records …
RELATED:
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. developing sanctions against China over cyberthefts
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
How Trump could turn the presidency into a ‘litigation circus’  —  Yahoo illustration (Photos by AP, Getty)  —  Kathleen Meese, an upstate New York schoolteacher, plunked down $25,000 five years ago for “Gold Elite” courses at Trump University — a for-profit educational outfit owned …
Discussion: Hudson Institute and Rush Limbaugh
Orange County Register:
IRS scandal: Time to fish or cut bait  —  Four months ago, Loretta Lynch was sworn in as U.S. attorney general, replacing the feckless Eric Holder.  —  We think that's more than sufficient time for Ms. Lynch to have completed her onboarding.  The no-longer-new AG should get on with the business Mr. Holder left in her inbox.
The Sunday Times:
Golden Hynde  —  She ran wild with the Sex Pistols, topped the charts with the Pretenders and bared nearly all with Vivienne Westwood.  Chrissie Hynde's shocking new memoir is a raw account of the booze-fuelled life of the ultimate rock goddess  —  Krissi Murison  —  Portrait by Dean Chalkley
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:25 PM ET, August 31, 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: 
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Attack Video Hits Jeb On ‘Act Of Love’ Remark: ‘FORGET LOVE’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg Business:
Wal-Mart Cuts Some Workers' Hours After Pay Raise Boosts Costs
Juan A. Lozano / Associated Press:
SUSPECT IN AMBUSH OF HOUSTON-AREA DEPUTY HELD WITHOUT BOND
Discussion: National Review
CNN:
Dick Cheney addresses Clinton controversy
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Blames Gun Violence On ‘Diversity In America’
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and Daily Kos
Des Moines Register:
Last Slide  —  Presidential candidate Rick Perry now has just …
 Earlier Items: 
Adam Withnall / The Independent:
Isis releases graphic video showing four Shia ‘spies’ being burned alive in Anbar, Iraq
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Anger builds at EPA over radioactive landfill
 

 
From Mediagazer:

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

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens

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

 
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