Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
6:20 PM ET, July 23, 2006

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Times of London:
God's army has plans to run the whole Middle East  —  Hezbollah, the group at the heart of the Lebanese conflict, is the spearhead of Iran's ambitions to be a superpower, says Iranian commentator Amir Taheri  —  'You are the sun of Islam, shining on the universe!
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and The Corner
RELATED ITEMS:
Azadeh Moaveni / Time:
Why Iran Isn't Cheering  —  Hizballah may be Tehran's client, but the conflict hasn't been welcomed by many Iranians  —  Parvin Heydari, an Iranian mother of two, was flipping back and forth between the nightly news and Oprah when a bulletin on an Iranian state channel caught her attention.
Jerusalem Post:
Iran: Israel doomed to 'destruction'  —  TEHERAN  —  Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared Sunday that Israel had "pushed the button of its own destruction" by launching its military campaign against the Iranian-backed Hizbullah in Lebanon.  —  Ahmadinejad didn't elaborate …
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Sleeper Hizbullah cells activated
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Jihad Watch
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
'Israel would accept NATO on border'
BBC:
Minister condemns Israeli action
Discussion: Biased BBC and The Moderate Voice
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
In Iran's Streets, Aid to Hezbollah Stirs Resentment
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
Shmuel Rosner / Haaretz:   U.S. and Lebanon / From complaining to talking
Haaretz:
Lebanese FM: Abducted soldiers in 'good health'
Discussion: Opinion Journal
Agence France Presse:
Iran urges Muslim countries to stop Mideast conflict
Irving Stolberg / Hartford Courant:
No More Joe  —  `Dead Wrong' On The War And Defense Of Bush, White House Excesses  —  Joe Lieberman and I have been friends and colleagues for 38 years.  We ran for and won seats in the Connecticut legislature as a team of reformers in 1970.  He was my state senator and I was his state representative.
RELATED ITEMS:
Time:
Lieberman's Last Stand  —  The Connecticut senator's almost saintly civility may be coming back to haunt him on Iraq  —  On a brain-foggingly hot Sunday afternoon in July, a wistful Senator Joseph Lieberman tried to summon his inner Samuel Gompers as he accepted the Connecticut AFL-CIO's endorsement …
Stanley Fish / New York Times:
Conspiracy Theories 101  —  Andes, N.Y.  —  KEVIN BARRETT, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has now taken his place alongside Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado as a college teacher whose views on 9/11 have led politicians and ordinary citizens to demand that he be fired.
RELATED ITEMS:
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and Unfogged
Garance Burke / Associated Press:
ACLU Sues for Anti-Gay Group That Pickets at Troops' Burials  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas church group that protests at military funerals nationwide filed suit in federal court, saying a Missouri law banning such picketing infringes on religious freedom and free speech.
Harper's:
Six Questions on the Bush Administration and the Middle East Crisis for Wayne White  —  Wayne White, now an Adjunct Scholar with Washington's Middle East Institute, was Deputy Director of the State Department's Office of Middle East and South Asia Analysis until March 2005.
RELATED ITEMS:
John McLaughlin / Washington Post:
We Have To Talk To Bad Guys
Discussion: Daily Pundit and ¡No Pasarán!
John from WuzzaDem / WuzzaDem:
He Said/He Said  —  Hey, did you hear what Glenn Greenwald...  Jealous much?  —  It's Glenn Greenwald!  —  That's right.  I've written a New York Times bestselling book on executive authority, broken a story on my blog about wiretapping that led to front-page stories on most major newspapers …
Associated Press:
U.S. says its troops unlikely to be part of peacekeeping force  —  U.S. President George W. Bush's chief of staff said Sunday that international peacekeepers might be needed in Lebanon to help end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants, but that U.S. troop involvement was unlikely.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
RELATED ITEMS:
Haaretz:
Syrian minister: We will join conflict if IDF approaches Syria
Discussion: Yourish.com
Avi Issacharoff / Haaretz:
Fatah: Hamas ready to accept deal on ceasefire, release of Shalit  —  Senior Fatah sources in Gaza said on Saturday that Hamas is ready to accept a deal that involves freeing abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, a joint cease-fire and an end to IDF actions in the Gaza Strip.
Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
American Landis wins Tour de France  —  PARIS - The highs and lows of Floyd Landis' nail-biter of a bike race ended without a hitch Sunday as he won the Tour de France and kept cycling's most prestigious title in American hands for the eighth straight year.  —  The 30-year-old Landis …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and PoliBlog
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
With Insurance Policy Comes Membership  —  Unbeknown to Some, Those Signing Up With Firm Are Joining Conservative Group  —  In 2001, Jennifer B. Chace heard an insurance broker's pitch for a new insurance company marketing tax-free medical savings accounts.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Josh Bolten squirms during Stem Cell questions  —  I doubt Josh Bolten will be back on MTP anytime soon.  I'll post more of his appearance, but Timmeh made Bush's stem cell veto laughable and indefensible,  —  Video-WMP Video-QT (9 min)  —  Once Tony Snow called it murder-it was downhill from there as it should be.
Discussion: Firedoglake
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. to Cut Tax Auditors  —  The federal government is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans, specifically those who are subject to gift and estate taxes when they transfer parts …
Discussion: MyDD and Seeing the Forest
Alan Finder / New York Times:
Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties  —  GEORGETOWN, Ky. — The request seemed simple enough to the Rev. Hershael W. York, then the president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention.  He asked Georgetown College, a small Baptist liberal arts institution here, to consider hiring …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 6:20 PM ET, July 23, 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: 
Sonja Barisic / Associated Press:
Judge Orders Teen to Cancer Treatment
Richard Wolffe / Newsweek:
Backstage at the Crisis  —  As the world's leaders gathered …
Discussion: Boston Globe and The Mahablog
Turcopolier / Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006:
Now, I "get it."  —  Dan Halutz is the first IDF chief of staff who is not a soldier.
Discussion: The Agonist
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Reasoning By Weird Analogy
Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
Another Kind of Gore '08 Bandwagon
Darrel Rowland / dispatch.com:
Strickland far ahead, early poll indicates
Discussion: MyDD, The Sideshow and Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Lewis / Daily Mail:
Outcry as border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry heading for Iran
Bernard Hibbitts / JURIST - Forum:
Proportionality and the Use of Force in the Middle East Conflict
Patrick Cockburn / Independent:
America's domestic policy vs America's foreign policy
CBS News:
Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam
Elizabeth Weiss Green / US News:
Bar association task force urges Congress to push for judicial review …
 

 
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

Bloomberg:
A look at Crunchyroll's challenges, including current and former employees saying its management is out of touch, as Disney and Netflix's expand into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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