memeorandum @ 3:10 AM ET, March 25, 2006

3:10 AM ET, March 25, 2006

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Augustine / RedState:

Red America Ends — Red America, my new blog at washingtonpost.com, has been under attack since its launch. It is a conservative blog on a mainstream media site, so many of the attacks were expected. If one bothers to read it, I believe it stands as a welcome addition to the opinion debate.

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Riehl World View, Your Logo Here, The Democratic Daily Blog, This Modern World, Donklephant, Talking Points Memo, First Draft and Unfogged

Robert B. Bluey / Human Events:

Blogger Ben Domenech Strikes Back; Calls Post Editors 'Fools' — In his first public comments since resigning earlier today as a blogger for washingtonpost.com, Ben Domenech says his editors there were "fools" for not expecting an onslaught of attacks from the left.

Discussion: News Blog, Hullabaloo, Daily Pundit and AMERICAblog

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

'Red America' Blogger Resigns — A 24-year-old conservative blogger hired by The Washington Post Co.'s Web site resigned today, three days after his debut, amid a flurry of allegations of plagiarism. — Ben Domenech, an editor with Regnery Publishing, relinquished the part-time position hours …

Discussion: Salon, Billmon, Riehl World View, The Blogging of the President, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Daily Kos and Roger Ailes

Michelle Malkin:

THE DOMENECH DEBACLE — ***scroll for updates...statement from NRO...Domenech speaks to Human Events Online...Ben's statement up at Red State (there is no explanation of the apparent cribbing in the NRO piece)*** — I just got home from Pittsburgh and am late heading out the door …

The Corner on National Review Online:

DOMENECH, CONTINUED [The Editors] — As we mentioned in our earlier editor's note, staff here at National Review Online are going through all of the pieces Ben Domenech has written for us (the most recent of which appears to have been published in 2002) in light of questions raised in the wake …

Discussion: AMERICAblog, Ace of Spades HQ and Eschaton

Ben Domenech / New York Press:

Capitol Shooter — •I walked out of the bright Friday sun and into the Capitol Bldg.'s Document Entrance two hours before the gunman arrived. The back of my collar scratched sweat against my skin, and I loosened my tie in a vain effort to find relief from the sultry July heat.

Discussion: Your Logo Here

Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Washington Post Blogger Quits After Plagiarism Accusations — A 24-year-old blogger for The Washington Post, Ben Domenech, resigned yesterday after being confronted with evidence that he had plagiarized articles in other publications. — His resignation came after writing six blog items …

Discussion: AMERICAblog and Daily Kos

Jay Rosen / PressThink:

Red America, RIP... and the Great Blogger Bake Off — "Now that Ben Domenech has resigned from washingtonpost.com I hope Jim Brady will do the right thing, the creative thing, the thing that would turn this sorry episode around and allow the post.com to come out with a win for its readers and in the blogosphere..."

Discussion: TAPPED, Riehl World View, Media Blog on National …, The Left Coaster, First Draft, The Carpetbagger Report, FishBowlDC, Feministe, UNCoRRELATED and CorrenteWire

Rick Moran / The American Thinker:
It appeared to be the beginning of something new and exciting for the mainstream press.

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Right Wing Nut House, Firedoglake, Daily Pundit, COUNTERCOLUMN and Brainster's Blog

Patrick / mediabistro.com: Ben Domenech, Pt. 2?

Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Domenech resigns over allegations of plagiarism (updated)

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Krempasky / RedState:
On behalf of RedState — A young man took something and called it his own.

Discussion: Oliver Willis

Matt Stoller / MyDD:
The Moral of Box Turtle Ben: Don't Appease the Right-wing

Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister

Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
An Appropriate Denouement (Updated)

Discussion: Media Blog on National …, The Hotline's Blogometer, RedState and Don Surber

BREITBART.COM:

Afghan Christian 'likely to be released soon': official — An Afghan Christian facing possible execution for converting from Islam was likely to be released from jail "soon," a senior government official said following huge Western pressure over the case. — "He is likely to be released soon …

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy

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Sanjoy Majumder / BBC:

Mood hardens against Afghan convert — Increasing international pressure over the case of Christian convert Abdul Rahman is forcing the Afghan government to play a careful balancing act between its Western allies and religious conservatives at home. — Under the interpretation …

Discussion: A Lady's Ruminations and Jihad Watch

Mary Katharine Ham / Hugh Hewitt:
A Rally For Abdul Rahman

Discussion: Are We Lumberjacks?, The Shape of Days, Michelle Malkin, Age of Hooper, Dinocrat, On Tap, Debbie Schlussel and Cam Edwards

New York Times:
Kabul Judge Rejects Calls to End Trial of Christian Convert

Discussion: Hit and Run, The Carpetbagger Report and Associated Press

CNN:
Afghan Christian convert may be freed

Discussion: The Huffington Post, LiberalOasis, The Counterterrorism Blog, Outside The Beltway and Air America Radio

Abdul Waheed Wafa / New York Times: Afghan Clerics, in Friday Prayers, Call for Convert's Execution

Anthony Browne / Times of London:

Chirac flees summit in a fury over use of English — Read Charles Bremner's Paris weblog on Chirac's walk-out — PRESIDENT CHIRAC stormed out of the first session of a European Union summit dominated by a row over French nationalism because a fellow Frenchman insisted on speaking English.

Discussion: Mark in Mexico, In the Bullpen and chicagoboyz.net