Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:30 AM ET, July 25, 2007

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Elana Schor / The Hill:
Sens. say Gonzales lied  —  The Senate veered closer to a contempt finding against the White House on Tuesday after an acrimonious appearance by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, with the Judiciary Committee's senior Republican offering options for taking the Bush administration to court.
RELATED:
Berny Morson / Rocky Mountain News:
CU regents fire Ward Churchill  —  BOULDER — The University of Colorado's Board of Regents today fired professor Ward Churchill, 2 1/2 years after his comments about the victims of the 9/11 attacks sparked a firestorm.  —  The regents, in an 8-1 vote, said Churchill committed academic misconduct.
RELATED:
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Disfavor for Bush Hits Rare Heights  —  In Modern Era, Only Nixon Scored Worse, And Only Truman Was Down for So Long  —  President Bush is a competitive guy.  But this is one contest he would rather lose.  With 18 months left in office, he is in the running for most unpopular president in the history of modern polling.
Associated Press:
TSA: Terrorists may try 'dry runs'  —  Security officers alerted to possibility of airport attack after seizures  —  WASHINGTON - Airport security officers around the nation have been alerted by federal officials to look out for terrorists practicing to carry explosive components onto aircraft …
RELATED:
Michelle Malkin:
Blocks of cheese with wires sticking out
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Terror Whistleblower Aid Advances on Capitol Hill  —  WASHINGTON — A provision aimed at providing whistleblower protection to Americans who report suspicious activity has advanced on Capitol Hill despite opposition from some Democrats, as top Republicans announced an agreement last night.
RELATED:
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Lawmakers Reach Deal on Security Bill
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Hot Air
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Billo Scolds Democrats For Planning To Attend YearlyKos  —  It's becoming increasingly painful to watch this man's slow descent into insanity, but hey, it's my job...  Download (1328) |  Play (1665) Download (669) |  Play (744)  —  Never one to let go of a bone, Billo continues …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and TalkLeft
RELATED:
Cenk Uygur / Daily Kos:
POLL: Time For Us To Label Fox?
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press:
Office raided on suspicion of terrorist ties  —  Editor's note: This story has been updated — 4:51 p.m.  —  Federal agents are raiding today the Dearborn offices of two charities suspected of having ties to terrorist groups in the Middle East.  —  A Dearborn police officer guarded …
Discussion: Power Line
RELATED:
RELATED:
Hindrocket / Power Line:   IT'S BAD TO BE CRAZY. ISN'T IT?
BBC:
Few Muslims 'back suicide bombs'  —  Support for suicide bombings against civilians has fallen sharply across the Muslim world since 2002, a major survey has suggested.  —  However, 70% of Palestinians interviewed said they believed such attacks were sometimes justifiable.
Associated Press:
Taliban Allegedly Kill One South Korean Hostage Killed, Others Freed  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants claimed they shot and killed one South Korean hostage on Wednesday while a group of abductees was freed and taken to a U.S. military base, officials said.
Vince Leibowitz / Capitol Annex:
Abuse, Neglect Plague State Schools For Mentally Retarded  —  [Update: The buzz is growing on this story.  Kuff and Eye On Williamson have both covered it, and done great jobs.  We also have this x-posted at DailyKOS, ePluribus Media, and MyDD and would appreciate any recommends.
RELATED:
Dallas Morning News:
Abuse, neglect plague state schools
Robert Pear / New York Times:
G.O.P. Leaders Fight Expansion of Children's Health Insurance  —  Republican leaders of the House and Senate on Tuesday attacked proposals that call for a major expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, to be financed with higher tobacco taxes.  —  "Republicans will fight these proposals …
Agence France Presse:
On patrol with Iran's fashion police  —  It all starts with one simple sentence, spoken almost in a whisper, but which has a thunderous effect.  —  A female police officer deployed in Tehran's latest moral crackdown tells a woman that her manto (overcoat) is too short and infringes Iranian Islamic dress rules.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
New York Times:
Bush and Iraqi: Frequent Talks, Limited Results  —  Once every two weeks, sometimes more often, President Bush gathers with the vice president and the national security adviser in the newly refurbished White House Situation Room and peers, electronically, into the eyes of the man to whom …
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Lender Sees Mortgage Woes for 'Good' Risks  —  Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender, said yesterday that more borrowers with good credit were falling behind on their loans and that the housing market might not begin recovering until 2009 because of a decline in house prices …
Brit Hume / Fox News:
How One Journalist Defines a 'Staunch Republican'  —  Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:  —  Republican Defector?  —  Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jennifer Hunter is taking heat for a recent story headlined "GOP Lawyer Sold on Dems."  She wrote that after watching …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Zeyad Kasim / IraqSlogger:
Patterns of Sectarian Violence in Baghdad  —  Over Half the Number of Unidentified Bodies Found in Five Areas of Baghdad  —  Up to 592 unidentified bodies were found dumped in different parts of Baghdad in the period between June 18 and July 18, 2007, according to figures based on media reports compiled by Iraq Slogger.
BBC:
Listen to this programme in full  —  Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen  —  The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans.  The plotters, who were alleged to involve …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:30 AM ET, July 25, 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: 
Financial Times:
Iran joins Iraq security committee
Discussion: Power Line, The Corner and Hot Air
Washington Post:
This Is Not Reform  —  WHEN THE Democrats took over Congress …
New York Times:
President Links Qaeda of Iraq to Qaeda of 9/11
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
A Rising Tide Lifts Mood in the Developing World
Jacob T. Levy / The New Republic:
ON LIBERALISM:  —  I hope to have time this week to work …
Guardian:
Fears grow over US housing fallout
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Jesus' General
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Guest Poet: The Return Of The Liberal
Discussion: Liberal Values
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Obama Debate Comments Set Off Firestorm
Discussion: Roger L. Simon
StrategyPage:
Not A Good Time To Be Sunni And Arab In Iraq
Mark Grimsley / Blog Them Out of the Stone Age:
What If France Had Not Fallen in 1940?  —  Today is the off …
Rebecca Sinderbrand / Time:
Iraqi Insurgents, Together at Poolside
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
William Yardley / New York Times:
On Base, a Plea to Give Each Death Its Due
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
New York Times:
Fourth Democratic Debate
The Trail:
Poll: GOP Likes Giuliani's Electability