Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:35 PM ET, May 24, 2006

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
F.B.I. Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House  —  WASHINGTON, May 23 — After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration's assertions of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend.  —  Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second …
RELATED ITEMS:
Washington Post:
Officials Defend Raid on Lawmaker's Office  —  Amid Uproar on Capitol Hill, Gonzales Says Jefferson Search Was Done Carefully  —  Justice Department and FBI officials yesterday vigorously defended a weekend raid on the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson (La.) …
Dafydd / Big Lizards:
Criminal, Schriminal - We're Talking PRIVILEGES Here!  —  Congressional Calamities , Crime and Punishment  —  United States Constitution ~ Article I ~  § 6 ~ ¶  1: … I think it was Paul Mirengoff over on Power Line who wondered how long it would be before the blatant bribery case …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Hastert Demands FBI Return Documents
Edwin Meese Iii / New York Times:
An Amnesty by Any Other Name ...  IN the debate over immigration, "amnesty" has become something of a dirty word.  Some opponents of the immigration bill being debated in the Senate assert that it would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.  Supporters claim it would do no such thing.
RELATED ITEMS:
Michelle Malkin:
MEESE: IT IS AMNESTY  —  ***scroll for updates...958am EDT: Senate voting on whether to kill the McConnell amendment to the immig bill, which would require voting identification (hat tip: Nighthaven)...motion to table is not agreed to...1000am EDT: Here we go on cloture vote …
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Senate Advances Sweeping Immigration Bill
Laura Blumenfeld / Washington Post:
Bill Frist: A Doctor at Heart  —  The houses were dark on Bill Frist's street.  A morning bird chirped; the others were waiting for dawn.  But Frist was awake, and his bedroom light was on.  "I'm going to take a shower," the Senate majority leader said brightly.  Ten minutes later, the blow dryer roared.
RELATED ITEMS:
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Proponents Press Senate on Stem Cell Research Measure  —  A full year after the House passed legislation that would loosen President Bush's restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, the Senate is coming under intense pressure to tackle the controversial bill — in the awkward new context of an election year.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Any differences between Democrats in 2003 and today?  —  Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday essentially assured that President Bush's nominee to head the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, would not only be confirmed by the full Senate, but confirmed overwhelmingly.
Discussion: The Left Coaster and Oliver Willis
RELATED ITEMS:
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Senate Panel Endorses C.I.A. Nominee  —  WASHINGTON, May 23 — The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly endorsed Gen. Michael V. Hayden on Tuesday to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, with all but three members, all Democrats, voting to send General Hayden's nomination to the Senate floor.
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. May Block Criticism by Its Board  —  The American Civil Liberties Union is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members from publicly criticizing the organization's policies and internal administration.  —  "Where an individual director disagrees with a board position …
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
In need of moral clarity  —  "I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role-models, Muhammad Atta." … Do you remember Taheri-azar?  The 25-year-old Iranian graduate of the University of North Carolina rented an SUV in March and drove it into The Pit, a campus gathering place for UNC students.
RELATED ITEMS:
Durham Herald-Sun:
Defense's beefs with accuser's story cited
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Gonzales Defends Phone-Data Collection  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday that the government can obtain domestic telephone records without court approval under a 1979 Supreme Court ruling that authorized the collection of business records.
Michael Warren / Detroit News:
Keep 'America' in Michigan schools  —  State bureaucrats want to do what Stalin, Osama could only dream about  —  C ensoring the word "America" from our own schools is something Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden would never have thought possible.  Michigan has done it without a whimper.
The Raw Story:
Pelosi asks congressman snared in bribery probe to resign post  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has formally asked Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) to resign from the powerful Ways and Means Committee.  —  Jefferson wrote Pelosi quickly in reply, refusing to surrender his seat.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
It Was Just A Matter of Time  —  ... before Lou Dobbs went full-on racist on the immigration question.  Liberal Oasis has the story: … The CCC is a well known neo-confederate group that is the direct heir to the White Citizens Councils of the Jim Crow south.
Dania Saadi / Bloomberg:
Al-Zarqawi Aide, Arrested in Jordan, Confesses to Iraq Killings  —  May 23 (Bloomberg) — An aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, today appeared on state-run Jordanian television and confessed to involvement in the killings of Iraqis and other Arabs.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:35 PM ET, May 24, 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: 
Rich Miller / Bloomberg:
Stagflation Lite, Central Banking Nightmare, May Await Bernanke
Brett Martel / Associated Press:
Hurricane Drill in Louisiana Canceled
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Senator McCain Worked Blue
Lou Dobbs / CNN:
Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell
Bloomberg:
Zoellick Would Leave State If Passed Over for Top Treasury Job
StrategyPage:
Taliban Offensive Shot to Pieces
Discussion: COUNTERCOLUMN
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Opinion Journal:
The Parent Trap  —  How safety fanatics help drive down birthrates.
Discussion: Althouse
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
U.S. Urged to Stop Paying Iraqi Reporters
Discussion: Air America Radio
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
West Bank Pullout Gets a Nod From Bush
Wall Street Journal:
Should the Net Be Neutral?
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC News Experiment Ends With Return to Solo Anchor
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Demagogue
Martin Samuel / Times of London:
Turn 9/11 rubble into a killing machine? Hello?
Discussion: Samizdata.net, normblog and lgf
Washington Post:
Extremism Isn't Islamic Law
David E. Rosenbaum / New York Times:
Lloyd Bentsen Dies at 85; Senator Ran With Dukakis
Zogby:
U.S. Public Widely Distrusts Its Leaders
Bob Kerrey / The Huffington Post:
My Perspective on the New School Commencement
 

 
From Techmeme:

Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Apple News adds a Live Activity widget to track the results of the US elections in real time on iPhone, iPad, and Watch

Bloomberg:
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T

Financial Times:
In its annual report, Apple warns of future products perhaps never exceeding the iPhone's profitability, “geopolitical tensions”, and AI features' safety risks

 
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