Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:50 AM ET, March 20, 2007

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Mike Allen / The Politico:
White House Seeking Gonzales Replacements  —  Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has collapsed, according to party sources familiar with the discussions.
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Fitzgerald Ranked During Leak Case  —  U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves" on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the midst of leading the CIA leak investigation that resulted …
Real Cities:
Support for Gonzales appears to collapse  —  WASHINGTON - The White House began floating the names of possible replacements for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday as the Justice Department released more internal documents related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year.
ABCNEWS:
More E-Mails in Fired U.S. Attorneys Controversy  —  Justice Department E-Mails Detail Conversations About Targeted Attorneys  —  New e-mails released this evening by the Justice Department reveal the depth of White House involvement in the discussions to fire eight U.S. attorneys last year.
US News:
Exclusive: E-mail Shows Internal Rift At Justice Over Firings  —  U.S. News's Chitra Ragavan has learned that one day after Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified on Capitol Hill about the reasons eight U.S. attorneys were summarily fired, a Justice Department spokesman …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Russia Gives Iran Ultimatum on Enrichment  —  Russia has informed Iran that it will withhold nuclear fuel for Iran's nearly completed Bushehr power plant unless Iran suspends its uranium enrichment as demanded by the United Nations Security Council, European, American and Iranian officials said.
New York Times:
Students' Right to Free Speech  —  The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case that has attracted attention mainly because of its eccentric story line: An Alaska student was suspended from high school in 2002 after he unfurled a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" while the Olympic torch passed by.
RELATED:
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Up in Smoke at the High Court
Discussion: Betsy's Page and All Spin Zone
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:   Analysis: A new exception to "Tinker"?
Steven Thomma / Real Cities:
Obama more liberal than Kucinich, analysis reveals  —  WASHINGTON - The most liberal member of Congress running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination isn't Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.  —  It's Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.  —  And the Republican candidate who's grown less conservative over his years in Congress?
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
TPM Needs YOU to Comb Through Thousands of Pages  —  Josh and I were just discussing how in the world we are ever going to make our way through 3,000 pages when it hit us: we don't have to.  Our readers can help.  —  So here's what we're going to do.  This comment thread will be our HQ for sorting through tonight's document dump.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates Confront Immigration Politics  —  Immigration, an issue that has divided Republicans in Washington, is reverberating across the party's presidential campaign field, causing particular complications for Senator John McCain of Arizona.  —  The topic came up repeatedly …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Lonewacko
zombietime:
"U.S. Out of Iraq Now" Anti-War Rally  —  These photos were taken by zombie at the "U.S. Out of Iraq Now" anti-war rally sponsored by ANSWER in San Francisco on Sunday, March 18, 2007.  —  The rally — which started at the Embarcardero and continued down Market Street to Civic Center …
Michael Kinsley / time-blog.com:
There Oughta Be A Law  —  We'll see what this next round of documents reveals, but the ball-moving development of today in the US Attorneys story is Adam Cohen's piece on the Times Editorial Page.  It plugs a big hole in the argument that this is a big deal story and not just …
RELATED:
Michael Kinsley / time-blog.com:
Search Archive  — HOME - U.S. - WORLD - BLOGS - BUSINESS & TECH …
Discussion: Political Animal
Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
Feds get 'disgusting' over 'Obamanation'  —  U.S. says slogan for Democrat too 'offensive,' but sends trademark applicant sexual imagery  —  No butts about it, irony can be pretty ironic.  —  A Chicago radio host who tried to trademark the phrase "It's an Obamanation" …
Popular Mechanics:
Mega-Jumbo Airbus A380 Lands in New York, L.A.  —  NEW YORK — The Airbus A380 - the world's largest passenger plane - made a U.S. debut today that was as outsize as its girth.  —  At New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, the 560-ton behemoth touched down about ten minutes after noon …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:50 AM ET, March 20, 2007.

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: 
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Saddam's former deputy hanged in Iraq
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
The Porn Plot Against Prosecutors
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Reason Magazine
John Samples / Cato-at-liberty:
In Search of the Libertarian Democrat
Discussion: Dynamist Blog
Little Green Footballs:
Leftists Supporting the Troops
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
WHO SHOULD PAY FOR SECURITY AT CONTROVERSIAL UNIVERSITY EVENTS?
George Soros / New York Review of Books:
On Israel, America and AIPAC
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and Yourish.com
The Blotter:
Gitmo Confession in USS Cole Bombing
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Bush Warns U.S. Security Will Suffer if Troops Withdraw From Iraq
 Earlier Items: 
Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press:
Sen. Specter plans to seek 6th term
Discussion: MyDD
Michelle / Hot Air:
Drudge disses Hot Air
Stephen / The Thinkery:
My New Favorite Photo  —  Part of an art exhibit at The Mary …
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Rice Acknowledges Iraq Troop Errors
Fred Thompson / Pajamas Media:
EXCLUSIVE TO PJM: FRED THOMPSON ON "300"
Edward Luce / MSNBC:
Bush demands 'no strings' backing for Iraq war
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
So, Mr. Hitchens, Weren't You Wrong About Iraq?
Michael J. Totten:
A New Power Rises in Iraq
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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