Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:50 AM ET, March 14, 2006

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED ITEMS:
Mark Noonan / Blogs for Bush:
Censure Senator Feingold  —  Yesterday, in response to Senator Feingold's desire to censure President Bush over the NSA's signals intelligence program, I wrote a post urging everyone to contact Senator Frist and their own Sentors to urge the censure of Senator Feingold.
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure  —  Sen. Russell Feingold, a possible contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, today asked the Senate to censure President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping without court warrants.  —  "The president authorized …
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
Move to censure Bush will have political fallout  —  Democrats object as Frist tries to get Senate vote on Feingold resolution  —  Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., introduced a measure in the Senate to censure President Bush over the domestic eavesdropping program.  —  WASHINGTON -
CNN:
Concern over Iraq drives Bush's rating to new low  —  Americans pessimistic about course of war  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Public opinion of President Bush hit a new low, with concerns about the war in Iraq driving his approval rating down to 36 percent, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll out Monday.
RELATED ITEMS:
USA Today:
Poll: Bush approval rating hits new low  —  President Bush's "approval rating" has sunk to a new low according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup poll released Monday.  —  The latest results show only 36% of those polled saying they "approve" of the way Bush is handling his job.  Bush's previous low was 37%, set last November.
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
A Tale of Two Felonies  —  What explains the different White House reactions to the criminal charges lodged against two top aides?  —  The embarrassed response to felony theft charges against Claude Allen — President Bush's recently departed top domestic policy adviser …
RELATED ITEMS:
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Sets Target for Transition In Iraq  —  Country's Troops to Take Lead This Year  —  President Bush vowed for the first time yesterday to turn over most of Iraq to newly trained Iraqi troops by the end of this year, setting a specific benchmark as he kicked off a fresh drive …
RELATED ITEMS:
Erin Carlson / Associated Press:
Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'  —  NEW YORK - Isaac Hayes has quit "South Park," where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion.  —  Hayes, who has played the ladies' man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed.
David Aaronovitch / Times of London:
The meaning of Milosevic: how the Butcher of the Balkans changed us  —  ONE OF THE MORE tragic aspects of the demise of Slobodan Milosevic is that the international committee to defend him will now have to be wound up.  The committee have been assiduous jail-visitors, invariably finding …
Discussion: Harry's Place and Oliver Kamm
RELATED ITEMS:
Sonja Barisic / Associated Press:
Robertson Finds Radical Muslims 'Satanic'  —  NORFOLK, Va. - Television evangelist Pat Robertson said Monday on his live news-and-talk program "The 700 Club" that Islam is not a religion of peace, and that radical Muslims are "satanic."  —  Robertson's comments came after he watched …
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Magazine: Bradlee Knows Woodward's Source on Plame  —  Vanity Fair is reporting that former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee says it is reasonable to assume former State Department official Richard L. Armitage is likely the source who revealed CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Finally  —  The Bush administration has decided to release most of the documents captured in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq.  The details of the document release are still being worked out, according to officials with knowledge of the discussions.  Those details are critical.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Lieberman Supports Rapist Rights in Connecticut  —  In Connecticut, rape counseling activists say a recent study concludes that about 20% of state hospitals routinely refuse to offer emergency contraceptives to rape victims who are determined to be ovulating at the time they're attacked.
CBS News:
The Science Of Sexual Orientation  —  (CBS) There are few issues as hotly contested — and as poorly understood — as the question of what makes a person gay or straight.  It's not only a political, social, and religious question but also a scientific question, one that might someday have an actual, provable answer.
Philip Thornton / Independent:
Arab central banks move assets out of dollar  —  Middle Eastern anger over the decision by the US to block a Dubai company from buying five of its ports hit the dollar yesterday as a number of central banks said they were considering switching reserves into euros.
Nathan Guttman / Jerusalem Post:
Pentagon examining chances of Israeli strike against Iran  —  Washington  —  The Pentagon is looking into the possibility of Israel launching a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.  In the past months there were several working-level discussions trying to map out the possible scenarios …
BBC:
'Creative plumbing' delivers beer  —  A woman said she thought she was in heaven when she turned on the kitchen tap to find a plentiful supply of beer.  —  Haldis Gundersen was planning to do the washing up when she made the unusual discovery at her apartment in Kristiansund, west Norway.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 5:50 AM ET, March 14, 2006.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 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: 
Kelly Hearn / Washington Times:
Iranian pact with Venezuela stokes fears of uranium sales
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Colleges Open Minority Aid to All Comers
Oliver Kamm / Guardian:
We were right to invade Iraq
Discussion: Adloyada
Associated Press:
Crash kills former game show host, wife
Mark Williams / technologyreview.com:
The Knowledge  —  Biotechnology's advance could give malefactors …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why I will stop blogging
Andrew Ward / Financial Times:
Warning on US ports' productivity
Discussion: Sirotablog
Andrew G. Bostom / Front Page Magazine:
Eurabian Nightmares  —  Bruce Bawer's 1997 Stealing Jesus decried the …
 Earlier Items: 
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
You Are All Patriots
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Newsweek:
On Call in Hell  —  He left a desk job for the front lines …
neo-neocon:
Another changed mind: Dr. Wafa Sultan
Mrs Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
BLOGGING THE CINDY SHEEHANIGANS
Aftenposten.no Norway, Norwegian news in English:
Krekar claims Islam will win
Discussion: Agora
Jay Cost / realclearpolitics.com:
Last Week's Myths About 2006  —  The conventional wisdom …
Discussion: Power Line and Wizbang
Gateway Pundit:
US Fatalities Down Since Media Declared Civil War
Mark Pazniokas / courant.com:
Lamont Campaign Builds Step By Step
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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