Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:05 AM ET, December 9, 2015

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: 68% of Trump's supporters would vote for him if he bolts the GOP  —  Donald Trump is defending his controversial plan regarding Muslim immigration.  The billionaire business mogul and Republican presidential front runner is facing backlash after calling for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
RELATED:
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Biden Calls Trump's Comments on Muslims a ‘Dangerous Brew’  —  Vice president says Clinton sure winner if Trump GOP Nominee  —  Biden won't endorse in Democratic race before primaries  —  Vice President Joe Biden said Donald Trump's call to stop Muslims from coming to the U.S. is dangerous …
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Is a ‘Toned-Down’ Donald Trump, Say the Senator's Backers  —  They say Cruz has the most to gain from Trump's roundly condemned pitch to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S.  —  To hear Ted Cruz's backers tell it, the firebrand U.S. senator from Texas is Donald Trump with a pinch of reason and electability.
Matthew Claiborne / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Calls Donald Trump's Policy Proposal to Ban Muslims ‘Crap’
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg.com news:
Cruz Rejects Trump's Muslim Ban But Doesn't Reject Trump
Daily Mail:
Republicans' most senior leader disowns Trump for demand to ban all Muslims saying it is 'not …
Wired:
Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius  —  Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor's Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody.
Discussion: Guardian, The Verge and Hit & Run
RELATED:
Gizmodo:
This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin  —  A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling and perplexing new evidence in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.  According to a cache of documents provided to Gizmodo …
Paul Farrell / Guardian:
Reported bitcoin ‘founder’ Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
Discussion: Gizmodo and Hit & Run
Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: San Bernardino shooter may have planned a 2012 attack, officials say  —  Sources: Farook planned another attack years ago  —  (CNN)Investigators believe San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook may have been plotting an earlier attack in California with someone else, two U.S. officials said.
RELATED:
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
Online loan may have helped couple fund their terror arsenal in San Bernardino attack
Discussion: KTLA and fox13now.com
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes overwhelmingly to restrict visa waivers for travelers  —  The House voted Tuesday to restrict a program that allows people from some countries to come to the U.S. without a visa, responding to growing fears about the threat of terrorism from overseas.
RELATED:
Seung Min Kim / Politico:   ‘Fiance visas’ off limits in rush to tighten borders
CNN:
House passes visa waiver overhaul
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WREG-TV
Javier Moreno / BuzzFeed:
This Girl Whose Entire Family Got Killed In An Act Of Arson Just Wants Cards For Christmas  —  Safyre Terry of New York is asking people to help her make this Christmas a little more merry.  Normally, Christmas is a holiday associated with family, but for Safyre, that just isn't possible.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Potential Power Shift as Court Weighs ‘One Person One Vote’  —  WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide “what kind of democracy people wanted,” as Justice Stephen G. Breyer put it during an argument over the meaning of the constitutional principle of “one person one vote.”
Alix Hines / myfox8.com:
Forsyth County first grader dragged nearly a mile by school bus  —  FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — A child was dragged by a school bus for nearly a mile in Forsyth County on Monday afternoon.  —  According to Highway Patrol, the incident was dispatched as a “child drug by school bus” at 3:43 p.m. Monday.
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Leaked Memo: BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Says It's ‘Entirely Fair’ to Call Trump a ‘Mendacious Racist’  —  BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith wrote in an email to his editorial staff Tuesday that calling Republican frontrunner Donald Trump a racist on social media does not violate the company's ethics guidelines.
RELATED:
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
White Nationalist And Anti-Muslim Fringe Embrace Trump Proposal
Discussion: Telegraph and Pamela Geller
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Choose Trump or Choose the Constitution  —  The GOP frontrunner's Muslim immigration ban leaves us all with only two options: Support the Constitution, or support Trump.  —  Press releases aren't casual comments, open to misinterpretation.  They are deliberate statements.
RELATED:
Rachel Abrams / New York Times:
Douglas Tompkins, 72, North Face Founder, Dies in Kayaking Accident  —  Douglas Tompkins, a noted conservationist and the founder of the clothing brands North Face and Esprit, died Tuesday after a kayaking accident on General Carrera Lake in the Patagonia region of southern Chile.  He was 72.
Indianapolis Star:
Andre Carson, one of 2 Muslims in Congress, attributes death threat to ‘toxic environment’  —  Rep. Andre Carson partly attributed a death threat he's received to politicians' ‘fanning the flames of bigotry.’  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Andre Carson, one of two Muslim members of Congress …
Discussion: CNN, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Fox News:
‘Spinning up as we speak’: Email shows Pentagon was ready to roll as Benghazi attack occurred  —  As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.
RELATED:
Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: New Benghazi Email Shows DOD Offered State Department “Forces that Could Move …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Hasta la Vista, Socialism!  —  We have chronicled the catastrophic collapse of socialism in Venezuela here and in many other posts.  Government control over the economy, beginning with liberal hero Hugo Chavez and continuing under his successor, Nicolás Maduro, resulted in poverty …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Kimberly Kindy / Washington Post:
FBI to sharply expand system for tracking fatal police shootings  —  The FBI's system for tracking fatal police shootings is a “travesty” and the agency will replace it by 2017, dramatically expanding the information it gathers on violent police encounters in the United States, a senior FBI official said Tuesday.
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Carter Banned Iranians from Coming to US During Hostage Crisis  —  Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist.  He's just like Hitler.  Or Jimmy Carter.  —  During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran.  Among these, Iranians were banned …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:05 AM ET, December 9, 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: 
CNN:
Malaysia hunts owners of Boeing 747s abandoned at airport
Discussion: Mediaite
Guy Lawson / New York Times:
Trudeau's Canada, Again
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Inside The Sad, Strange Family Feud That Helped Sink Rand Paul
Discussion: Salon and FITSNews
ERIC POSNER:
Is an immigration ban on Muslims unconstitutional?
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Reince Priebus condemns Trump on Muslim ban
 

 
From Techmeme:

Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups

The Information:
Sources: Apple is working on a significantly slimmer iPhone that could be released concurrently with the iPhone 17, a major redesign, similar to the iPhone X

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
The US SEC will require some financial institutions to notify customers whose personal information was compromised within 30 days of learning about breaches
 
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