Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:55 AM ET, March 4, 2006

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
wral.com:
Authorities Search For Answers In UNC Hit-And-Run  —  Six Hurt As SUV Plows Into Student-Filled 'Pit'  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Authorities say 23-year-old Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee into The Pit at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus around noon Friday, injuring five students and a visiting scholar.
RELATED ITEMS:
Raleigh News & Observer:
FBI agent: UNC suspect allegedly cited 'American treatment of Muslims'  —  Carrboro police evacuate suspect's apartment complex  —  CHAPEL HILL — Police evacuated the apartment complex of a 23-year-old man who injured six people when he drove a Jeep Laredo across the main student hub …
Confederate Yankee:
Carolina Crusher  —  Is someone is taking tomorrow night's Duke-Carolina basketball game just a bit too seriously? … All kidding about the intense Duke-Carolina rivalry aside, I have it on expert authority that the SUV was a rental vehicle picked up last night from a central North Carolina rental car company.
Drudge Report:
AP FRIDAY NIGHT CLARIFICATION ON BUSH/KATRINA VIDEO  —  WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans …
RELATED ITEMS:
Mark Noonan / Blogs for Bush:
AP Must Stand for Assasins, Political
Discussion: Big Lizards and NewsBusters.org
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
AP Plays Emily Litella
Discussion: Flopping Aces
The Big Trunk / Power Line:   THE AP CLARIFIES WHAT THE AP MUDDIED
Mango / The Resplendent Mango:
Danish Rally NYC!  —  I went down to the Danish Embassy for the rally today, and it was a pretty good time, despite the fact that I'm still defrosting.  —  Let me tell you, if you ever want to set a record for the quietest, most orderly rally ever, get a group of Danes together.
RELATED ITEMS:
Pam M. / Blogmeister USA:
Support Denmark Rally
Discussion: Kesher Talk and A Blog For All
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
DANISH CONSULATE RALLY: Reader Kevin Patrick sends this report from New York:
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Jason Pappas / Infidel Bloggers Alliance:   Solidarity with Denmark
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly threatened radio show caller with "a little visit" from "Fox security" for mentioning Olbermann's name on the air … On the March 2 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor, host Bill O'Reilly threatened to turn over the personal information of a caller to "Fox security" …
Discussion: firedoglake
RELATED ITEMS:
Crooks and Liars:
O'Reilly-FOX Security threatening callers  —  O'Reilly-FOX Security threatening callers  —  (O'Reilly threatened radio show caller with "a little visit" from "Fox security" for mentioning Olbermann's name on the air)  —  I posted this yesterday and Media Matters picked it up.
Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann; Panic in the falafel-sphere  —  Olbermann: Panic in the falafel-sphere  —  Keith Olbermann responded to Bill O'Reilly's egomaniacal rantings and actions he took on his radio show by sending the falafel police after callers for mentioning Olbermann's name.
John Gizzi / Human Events:
Chertoff Has 'Few Days Left,' Sources Say  —  In the aftermath of the public revelation of the presidential "teleconference" and mounting criticism of the performance of Michael Chertoff, Administration sources told HUMAN EVENTS today that the secretary of Homeland Security has "only a few days left" in the Bush Cabinet.
RELATED ITEM:
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Brownie Redux  —  Michael Browne's willingness to be honest about what happened during Hurricane Katrina and not be just another ass-coverer for the sins of BushCo. has facilitated one of the most amazing image rehabilitations in blogger history.  Over at The Moderate Voice Joe Gandelman wrote …
Seth Hettena / Associated Press:
Former Congressman Gets Eight-Plus Years  —  SAN DIEGO - Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who collected $2.4 million in homes, yachts, antique furnishings and other bribes on a scale unparalleled in the history of Congress, was sentenced Friday to eight years and four months in prison …
Shakespeare's Sister:
The Useless McCain  —  It's no secret that I'm on a one-woman mission to make sure every American realizes that John McCain is little more than George Bush in sheep's clothing (if said sheep were a bleating old man whose desperation for the presidency is evident in every inch of its wool) …
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
WLIB, Air America, New York City, ICBC, Randy Michaels  —  WORST CASE REALITY  —  Air America Appears To Lose Flagship Station  —  Exclusive To The Radio Equalizer  —  While Air America Radio's loss of two affiliates in Phoenix and Missoula, Montana is generating news this week …
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Who are the Guantanamo Detainees  —  Mark Denbeaux and Joshua W. Denbeaux claim to have used US government data to have assembled a profile of the Guantanamo detainees.  They claim their data shows:  — Fifty-five percent (55%) of the detainees are not determined to have committed …
New York Times:
U.S. Reveals Identities of Detainees  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba, March 3 (AP) — After four years of secrecy, the Pentagon released documents on Friday that have the names of detainees at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay.
Front Page Magazine:
Juan Cole's post:  —  "Was American journalist Steve Vincent killed in Basra as part of an honor killing?  He was romantically involved with his Iraqi interpreter, who was shot 4 times.  If her clan thought she was shaming them by appearing to be having an affair outside wedlock with an American male …
Alan Stewart Carl / Donklephant:
What Evangelicals Get Right  —  Recently, American evangelicals have been increasing the pressure on the United States to do more to help the Darfur region of Sudan.  This increased pressure has been cited as the main reason why Bush recently called for stepped-up action to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:55 AM ET, March 4, 2006.

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: 
Andy McSmith / Independent:
Blair: 'God will be my judge on Iraq'
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Searching for the Sheikh of Slaughters
Libby Quaid / Associated Press:
House mulls bill on food label removal
David Holman / American Spectator:
Republicans Turn on Santorum
James Wolcott:
O FOR 2 ON PLANET NEOCON
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
A Challenge to Right-Wing Bloggers On Polling the Troops
Roger L. Simon / Roger L. Simon:
It's not my LA either...
Discussion: TBogg and Unfogged
 Earlier Items: 
MSNBC:
Bush, Musharraf begin meeting in Pakistan
tcsdaily.com:
NeoConservatism vs. NeoFukayama
The Poor Man Institute:
Response to Tigerhawk  —  [This is would have been timely last week, but it didn't happen.
Richard Keil / Bloomberg:
Bush Hails Partnership With India at End of Visit (Update1)
Mitch Stacy / Associated Press:
Katherine Harris Caught Up in Bribery Scandal
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Bush Job Approval at 38%
Dwight Meredith / Wampum:
2005 Koufax Awards — Best Blog (Non-Professional)
Discussion: firedoglake and Pandagon
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix will host NFL Christmas games, including Beyonce's Halftime show, for only three hours after streaming them live; replays will be available on NFL+

Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Q&A with Kara Swisher about a potential bid for Washington Post, what she would do as its owner, Jeff Bezos' effusive comments to Trump, Will Lewis, and more

 
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