Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:40 PM ET, November 16, 2015

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Reuters:
Islamic State threatens attack on Washington, other countries  —  Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.  —  The video, which appeared on a site used …
RELATED:
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Obama adviser: Refugee plan proceeding despite Paris attacks  —  President Obama still plans to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country over the next year, despite terrorist attacks in Paris, at top aide said Sunday.  —  “We're still planning on taking in Syrian refugees,” …
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Cruz: ‘No meaningful risk’ of Christians committing terrorism  —  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz Sunday continued to call for Muslim refugees from Syria to be barred from entering the United States but opening the borders to displaced Christians, arguing there is not a “meaningful risk” that Christians will commit terrorist acts.
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Obama rejects calls for change in anti-ISIL strategy  —  President Barack Obama on Monday pushed back against calls for a dramatic rethink in the operation against the Islamic State, ruling out U.S. ground troops despite the “terrible and sickening setback” of last week's terrorist attacks in Paris.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
GOP governors reject Syrian refugees  —  At least ten Republican governors are moving to block Syrian refugees from entering their states after Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris that killed at least 130 people and wounded hundreds more.  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker …
Max J. Rosenthal / Mother Jones:
President Obama Calls Rejection of Syrian Refugees a “Betrayal of Our Values”  —  President Obama said on Monday morning that the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed more than 100 people on Friday should not affect the small intake of Syrian refugees into the United States.
New York Times:
Belgian Who Fought for ISIS Masterminded Paris Attack, Official Says  —  BRUSSELS — The French authorities have concluded that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 27-year-old Belgian man who has fought in Syria for the Islamic State, was the mastermind of the Paris terrorist attacks.
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
McCain, Graham urge American boots on the ground against ISIS
Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Beast
Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama scolds those calling for ‘religious test’ of Syrian refugees
Discussion: CBS News, Vox and ABC News
Regina Zilbermints / Sun Herald:
Phil Bryant will refuse Syrian refugees
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Jennifer Ardis / Office of the Governor of Alabama:
Governor Bentley Refuses Syrian Refugees Relocating to Alabama
Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: Email Reveals Top Aide Huma Abedin Warning State Department Staffer That Hillary Clinton Is “Often Confused”  —  (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today released more than 35 pages of emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin revealing …
RELATED:
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Huma: Hillary ‘Often Confused’  —  In new State Department emails obtained by Judicial Watch, Hillary Clinton's close personal aide, Huma Abedin, is seen warning another aide that Clinton is “often confused.”  —  The watchdog organization Judicial Watch explains in a press release:
Ben Domenech / The Daily Beast:
Why Can't the Dems Say ‘Radical Islam’?  —  How Saturday night's debate displayed a party both at odds with reality and the popular will when it comes to terrorism.  —  Saturday night's Democratic presidential debate offered the country a moment of clarity that exposes just how brittle …
Washington Post:
9/11 hero's husband returns award given to late wife after Caitlyn Jenner gets same award  —  Yanan Wang  —  After the 9/11 attacks, no one disputed that Moira Smith was a hero.  The 38-year-old police officer led over a hundred bleeding people out of the World Trade Center, one after another …
Discussion: Daily Mail and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
Larry Celona / New York Post:
Husband of 9/11 hero sends award back over Caitlyn Jenner
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fearing Fear Itself  —  Like millions of people, I've been obsessively following the news from Paris, putting aside other things to focus on the horror.  It's the natural human reaction.  But let's be clear: it's also the reaction the terrorists want.  And that's something not everyone seems to understand.
Discussion: Guardian and The Mahablog
RELATED:
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
ISIS Is Not Waging a War Against Western Civilization … At least Marco Rubio didn't answer the attacks in Paris by demanding that the United States accept only Christian refugees.  He left that to Ted Cruz.  —  But given the Florida senator's reputation in GOP circles as a foreign-policy wonk …
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Botches Wall Street Questions  —  Hillary Clinton should have seen that Wall Street shot coming.  Instead, she compounded the damage.  —  The former secretary of state was off to a sound outing in Saturday night's debate against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland.
RELATED:
Max Abelson / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton's Wall Street Donors Say More Than 9/11 Built Their Bond
CNN:   How Bernie Sanders has already won
Joe Trippi / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Fear (or its absence) is driving the GOP and Democratic presidential campaigns
Discussion: New York Times
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Calling in to MSNBC's Morning Joe on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “strongly consider” shutting down mosques with suspected terrorist ties and slammed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for discontinuing surveillance of them.
RELATED:
Politico:
The Belgian radicals' den  —  Paris investigation leads to run-down Brussels neighborhood notorious for jihadi recruitment. … “We don't have a grip on the situation in Molenbeek.”  —  A confession — a mea culpa almost — summed up the Belgian government's reaction to the links discovered between …
RELATED:
Paul Glastris / Washington Monthly:
News About Ed Kilgore, Don't Freak Out  —  I have some news to share: chief Political Animal blogger Ed Kilgore has accepted a new job, at New York magazine.  Friday is his last working day here at the Washington Monthly.  —  This is obviously a blow to our readers, including me …
Discussion: Horizons
Stephen BattaglioContact / Los Angeles Times:
John Dickerson keeps Democratic debate on track despite last-minute shuffle  —  CBS News political director John Dickerson had just finished his first rehearsal Friday for the Democratic primary debate when the words “this just in” came through his earpiece.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Wall Street Journal:
Europe's Terrorist War at Home  —  Learn from Israel, end the open-borders policy, and dig in for a long war of ideas against Islamists.  —  French President François Hollande declared the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris an “act of war” by Islamic State, and he was right, if belated …
Discussion: VodkaPundit
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:40 PM ET, November 16, 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: 
CBS News:
Sarah Palin's view
Discussion: Political Wire and Slantpoint
Ilan Ben-Meir / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul: “You Don't Have A Right To Pants”
Discussion: Mediaite
Millennium / Before It's News:
This Is Exactly Why They Perpetrated the Fake Paris Terror Show
Star Tribune:
Anger builds after police shoot assault suspect in Minneapolis
 Earlier Items: 
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Life after power: John Boehner's uneasy adjustment to retirement
Discussion: Political Wire
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
O-Care repeal teeters in Senate
Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Aaron Rodgers praised for criticizing fan's anti-Muslim comments
Discussion: addictinginfo.org and fox13now.com
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
How Obama is bankrolling a non-stop protest against invented outrage
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Mail, selling books, magazines, and more

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2023 compensation package was worth $49.7M, up 26.5% from the year prior, with $23.1M in stock awards

Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Interviews with over a dozen current and former WAMU staffers and contractors show management's contradictory, unclear messaging about its closure of DCist
 
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