memeorandum: Lawsuit May Bankrupt Phelps' "Church" (Marc Moore/The Van Der Galiën Gazette)

3:25 AM ET, November 1, 2007

Top Items:

Father of slain Marine wins case against funeral protesters — Pa. man awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages — Albert Snyder of York, Pa., the father of a Westminster Marine who was killed in Iraq, today won his case in a Baltimore federal court against members of Topeka …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, michellemalkin.com, Hot Air, Stop The ACLU, alphabet city, On Deadline, Captain's Quarters, The Belmont Club, Say Anything, Wake up America, The Dread Pundit Bluto, Gateway Pundit, Blue Crab Boulevard, Right Voices, Macsmind and The Nose On Your Face

Alex Dominguez / Associated Press:

Jury awards father $11M in funeral case — BALTIMORE - A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

Discussion: CNN, Hot Air, Wake up America, JURIST, Truthdig, Stop The ACLU, The American Street and Pam's House Blend

Marc Moore / The Van Der Galiën Gazette:
Lawsuit May Bankrupt Phelps' "Church"

Discussion: Firedoglake, NEWS.com.au and Say Anything

Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:

A Day Later, Clinton Embraces Spitzer's License Effort — John Edwards, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama during last night's debate. (Photo: Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times) — A day after she appeared to struggle to give her views on the subject, Hillary Rodham Clinton …

Amy Lorentzen / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Obama Criticizes Clinton

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, CNN, Truthdig and Comments from Left Field

Steven Greenhouse / The Caucus:
Big Union Endorses Clinton

Discussion: Democratic Strategist and Los Angeles Times

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:

Tim Russert: Stop the Inanity — Russert passes for a "tough" interviewer by adopting a confrontational pose rather than asking genuinely challenging questions. Which is why he's a terrible moderator for our presidential debates. — Last month, near the end of the Democratic presidential debate …

Discussion: PBS, The Reaction, The Debatable Land, Eschaton, BitsBlog, Ezra Klein, The Huffington Post and democracyarsenal.org

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:

Thanks But I Think I'll Skip the Pile-On — Yes, it is a lovely thought (via Atrios): … But that's not an option open to Hillary Clinton. And while I'm sure this will open up the full-throated ire of the "must hate Hillary all the time" contingent, I believe this is where the candidates must operate within a double standard.

Discussion: New York Times, Taylor Marsh, TalkLeft, Washington Post, The Xsociate Files and Tom Watson

Army Wife / ArmyWifeToddlerMom:

Nickelodeon is trying to brainwash your children in the morning, or a leftist primer — My Husband sent me this link this morning. Please watch this, in its entirety. It is imperative that you SEE what Nickelodeon is showing at 5:00am. — NICKELODEON IS BRAINWASHING YOUR CHILD

Discussion: BLACKFIVE, Stop The ACLU, A Second Hand Conjecture, Wake up America, NewsBusters.org, Whiskey Fire and Ian Schwartz

Michelle Malkin:
Nickelodeon goes moonbatty

Discussion: Liberty Street

Scott Shane / New York Times:

Nominee's Stand Avoiding Tangle of Torture Cases — In adamantly refusing to declare waterboarding illegal, Michael B. Mukasey, the nominee for attorney general, is steering clear of a potential legal quagmire for the Bush administration: criminal prosecution or lawsuits …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Malcolm Nance / NY Daily News:
I know waterboarding is torture - because I did it myself

Discussion: The Corner, The Reaction, DownWithTyranny!, Captain's Quarters, Buck Naked Politics and The Trail

Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Mukasey, GOP waffle on waterboarding

Discussion: New York Times

Ynetnews:

Soldier flees interrogation by exposing breasts — Officer loses concentration after soldier takes her shirt off in front of him — An IDF soldier fled an interrogation room by exposing her breasts to a stunned officer. — The soldier was interrogated at the Biranit army base …

Discussion: A Blog For All

Aussie Dave / Israellycool:
Gaza Strippers — Introducing our most diabolical weapon yet: Zionist Death Booty.TM

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Hot Air

Patterico's Pontifications:

L.A. Times Refuses to Correct Clear Errors; Justifies Decision with Sophistry — Like Michael Goldfarb, I received an e-mail from the L.A. Times "Readers' Representative" today refusing to correct numerous clear errors in a recent column by Tim Rutten. (My previous correspondence …

Discussion: QandO

Weekly Standard: (Updated) Still No Correction from the LATimes

John Cole / Balloon Juice:

Say Hello to the Newest Member of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy — I had meant to re-register independent (or as it is known here in West Virginia, "No Party Affiliation") for the past two weeks after I had finally had enough of the bulls**t during the Graeme Frost escapade, but never got around to it …

Discussion: Death, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Buck Naked Politics, The Democratic Daily, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Liberty Street, Liberal Values and Middle Earth Journal

David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:

Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds — One year before voters go to the polls to select the next president, the Republican Party is as weak as it has been in a generation, a detailed new poll suggests. — In a hypothetical matchup between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani …

Discussion: Pew Research Center, Quinnipiac University News …, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, CNN Political Ticker, No More Mister Nice Blog and Associated Press

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:

More and Better Democrats — Like Donna Edwards — Last year we had Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and others showing up for Joe Lieberman and the incumbency protection racket in Connecticut. — Now we have: — Harry Reid smacking down Chris Dodd …

Discussion: Denver Post, ColorOfChange.org, Taylor Marsh and DownWithTyranny!

Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Better Democrats and the 11% Congress

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, MyDD and AMERICAblog

Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:

Private Note to Bush from Hagel Calls For Direct, Unconditional, Comprehensive Talks with Iran — I have just secured a private letter — not yet publicly released — from Senator Chuck Hagel to President Bush and copied to Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and Stephen Hadley.

Discussion: The Reaction, Think Progress, United States Central Command, FP Passport and Eunomia

Kaj Larsen / The Huffington Post:

A Lesson For Mukasey: Why I Had Myself Water-Boarded — As a journalist for Current TV, a former military officer, and a student of public policy I have been involved in the debate about the War on Terror from the frontlines in Afghanistan to the policy discussions of academia.

Discussion: Think Progress, Gawker, Riehl World View and The Agonist

Confederate Yankee:

TNR's Publisher Responds — Along with at least one other person who contacted Canwest Global CFO John McGuire as part of the letter-writing campaign, I received an email from Elisabeth Sheldon, publisher of The New Republic. … I responded to Publisher Sheldon and CC'd CFO Maguire:

Discussion: Daily Pundit and Winds of Change.NET