Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:00 AM ET, June 21, 2007

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Gallup Guru:
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low  —  Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.  —  This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973.
RELATED:
Zogby:
UPI/Zogby Poll: Government Mishandling Immigration  —  Almost all Americans take dim view of Bush and Congressional actions on immigration reform  —  Americans give both President Bush and the Congress failing marks on their handling of immigration, according to a new UPI/Zogby poll on the topic.
Discussion: Macsmind, Say Anything and Tammy Bruce
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Americans' Confidence in Congress at All-Time Low  —  Confidence in most institutions drops  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The percentage of Americans with a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in Congress is at 14%, the lowest in Gallup's history of this measure — and the lowest …
Discussion: Tapscott's Copy Desk
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  MR. SNOW: Just getting organized.  Hello.  Questions.  —  Q Tony, does the executive order allow researchers to do anything they couldn't do under current guidelines?  —  MR. SNOW: Well, what it does …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
RELATED:
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Today's Video on WSJ.com: James Taranto …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
New York Times:
For 2 Years, Bloomberg Aides Prepared for Bid  —  The announcement by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent was made after nearly two years in which his aides had laid the groundwork for a potential independent run for president.
RELATED:
Fred Dalton Thompson / ABC Radio Networks:
Good News about CAIR  —  I've talked before about the Council on American-Islamic Relations — most recently because it filed that lawsuit against Americans who reported suspicious behavior by Muslims on a U.S. Airways flight.  Better known just as CAIR, the lobbying group has come under …
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Hot Air
National Post:
Read the sunspots  —  The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling  —  Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Political Hiring in Justice Division Probed  —  Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common.  They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division.  And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago …
Dion Nissenbaum / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Fatah's last stand: collapse or conspiracy?  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — As they gave up compound after compound to advancing Hamas forces, weary Fatah fighters loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas fell back toward the seaside presidential compound in Gaza to make their last stand.
RELATED:
CBS News:
Missing Soldier's Wife Faces Deportation  —  As Military Searches For Kidnapped Soldier In Iraq, U.S. Threatens To Send Wife Back To Dominican Republic  —  (CBS/AP) While the U.S. military searches for a soldier missing in Iraq, kidnapped by insurgents possibly allied with al Qaeda …
Discussion: KnoxViews
Jonas Parker / fred2008.org:
...Fred Thompson's politics:  —  That about says it all!  —  This music makes my day!  Go Fred!  —  Sorry honey, Fred? already has a trophy wife — and her boobs are bigger than yours!  —  by Jefferson's Child 2007-06-20 12:57:24  —  How about a Fred Thompson/Newt Gingrich ticket?!
Discussion: Hot Air
Arthur C. Brooks / American Enterprise Institute:
Happy for the Work  —  It is vacation season once again, giving occasion for the usual homilies about how Europeans are having a much better and healthier time of it than we are when it comes to work.  You've heard it a thousand times: Americans "live to work," while Europeans "work to live."
Brendan Carlin / Telegraph:
BBC 'risked safety of troops'  —  The BBC was accused last night of risking the safety of British forces in Iraq after trawling for information on troop movements in the war-torn country.  —  Politicians reacted in disbelief to the revelation that for over two hours yesterday …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
The fights on the right  —  WHAT DO liberal Democrats think about the war in Iraq?  That's easy: It was a blunder that has become a debacle, and it should be brought to an end as soon as possible.  —  What do conservative Republicans think about the war?  That's not so easy.
Discussion: Crooked Timber
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:00 AM ET, June 21, 2007.

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: 
New York Times:
Bear Stearns Staves Off Collapse of 2 Hedge Funds
Hilary Leila Krieger / Jerusalem Post:
Congress to condition Egypt's aid
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Shiite Rivalries Slash at a Once Calm Iraqi City
Discussion: Washington Post and Needlenose
Ian Black / Guardian:
Medical staff held in Libya 'could be freed in weeks'
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Michael Yon:
Operation Arrowhead Ripper: Day One
J. Grant Swank, Jr / MICHNEWS.COM:
BIBLE PREDICTS MIDDLE EAST BLOOD FLOW
Richard Beeston / Times of London:
British hostages held by 'Iran-backed' killers
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Los Angeles Times:
Abused orphans found in Baghdad
Discussion: Informed Comment
 Earlier Items: 
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: In Which Dr. Freud Demands a Retraction
The Atlantic Online:
Defining Extremism Down  —  It's two days old, but this whole …
David Kaspar / Davids Medienkritik:
Groundbreaking CBN Report on Anti-Americanism in European Media
Discussion: Gay Patriot and Gateway Pundit
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Orders That Diplomatic Jobs in Iraq Be Filled First
Dvz / CAMERA Snapshots:
Still, the Silence  —  When gunmen start throwing one another off …
Discussion: Power Line
Chicago Tribune:
The drip, drip, drip on Obama
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Precedents Begin to Fall for Roberts Court
Discussion: TalkLeft
The Age:
Is Osama a hero? …
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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