Navy Shoots, Obama Scores
The juxtaposition of two headlines this morning at memeorandum was rather amusing: As it turns out, Michael Shear‘s “An Early Military Victory for Obama” and Shailagh Murray‘s “Obama’s Chief of Staff...
View ArticleState of the Republican Party
Some loosely related threads seen on memeorandum this morning: California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allows as to how he could conceivably endorse a Democrat as his successor — while...
View ArticleHilzoy Retires
Since I check Memeorandum before Google Reader most mornings, I saw Hilzoy‘s post “Bare-Faced Go-Away Bird” there first. I glanced at it before going on to other posts but resolved to write something...
View ArticleUn-American
The Outrage of the Day, apparently, is a USA Today op-ed by Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer in which they assert “Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.” Weekly Standard, Gateway Pundit, The...
View ArticleRSS is Dead, Long Live RSS
A discussion that has been going on for a while among the tech bloggers and Twitterati is the idea that RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is dead. A study published last October found that 78% of U.S....
View ArticleNYT Disappears Blog Post
Rebecca Ruiz of the NYT Media Decoder blog wrote a post titled “NYTPicker Revealed. A Blogger With A Cause: Us,” revealing David Blum as the anonymous blogger behind NYTPicker, that got picked up on...
View ArticleNew York Times Malware Ads
This weekend, I got one of those fake “virus clean” popups after clicking a link to a New York Times article from Memeorandum. Apparently, I wasn’t alone as there are a dozen or more posts about it...
View ArticleRoger Ailes for President?!
Topping Memeorandum is Mike Allen‘s wild speculation for Politico about a presidential run by Roger Ailes. Friends and associates are encouraging Fox News chief Roger Ailes to jump into the political...
View ArticleGlenn Beck, Community Organizer
Glenn Beck has a plan. Actually, the Plan. Which he reveals on his website. Today, I have stopped looking for a leader to show us the way out because I have come to realize that the only one who can...
View ArticleCensus Worker Hanging Suicide, Not Right Wing Murder
Remember the bizarre case of Bill Sparkman, the census worker found hanging from a tree in Kentucky with the letters FED scrawled on his chest? Remember the media frenzy about crazy Southerners and...
View ArticleParliamentary Reconciliation Barriers
A series of loosely-related threads at memeorandum provide a fascinating insight into the American legislative process. David Herszenhorn and Robert Pear report for the NYT Money & Policy section...
View ArticleAtheist for Supreme Court?
The Nation‘s Marc Cooper is generating some minor buzz with his suggestion that President Obama appoint an atheist to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. This is a no-brainer. The religious...
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