Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:40 PM ET, November 4, 2007

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
New York Times:
Musharraf Leaves White House in Lurch  —  For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.
RELATED:
The Corner:
re: Pakistan Emergency  —  Things were certainly heating up a lot last week in Pakistan though the various jihadi attacks didn't get much coverage in the West.  —  In the Punjab, far from the frontier there was a major suicide bomb attack against the Pakistani Air Force, killing eight officers and cadets …
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Pentagon Backs Musharraf
Discussion: The Heretik and Guardian
CNN:
'Emergency will last as long as necessary'
Molly Ivors / Whiskey Fire:
Idiot Princess™  —  Seems like we just did this, doesn't it?  —  But then, MoDo must be telling herself the same thing.  —  Yes, the Idiot Princess™ is at it again, sharpening her tools for her paymasters who clearly fear Hillary with a pathology that must be based on some deep Freudian s**t …
RELATED:
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Gift of Gall  —  Girlfriend had a rough week.  —  First Hillary got brushed back by the boys in the debate.  Then some women bemoaned Hillaryland's "Don't hit me, I'm a girl" strategy.  —  The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus deplored the "antifeminist subtext" of Hillary's campaign playing the woman-as-victim card.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Middle Earth Journal
Times of London:
Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror  —  The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers  —  Nick Fielding and Sarah Baxter, Washington  —  It was an occasion for tears and celebration as the Knights of Martyrdom proclaimed on video: "Our brother Turki fell during the rays of dawn …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Feingold to Oppose Mukasey  —  Statement just released ...
RELATED:
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Rebuts Accusations of Secrecy  —  As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton began a four-day swing through Iowa on Saturday, her political camp struck back against accusations that she and her husband were being overly secretive about discussions they had during their White House years.
RELATED:
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Thompson Adviser Has Criminal Past
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama Criticizes Clinton's Drive to Win
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:   Fred Thompson Campaign Advisor Has Drug Crimes in His Past
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
Beyond Those Health Care Numbers  —  WITH the health care system at the center of the political debate, a lot of scary claims are being thrown around.  The dangerous ones are not those that are false; watchdogs in the news media are quick to debunk them.  Rather, the dangerous ones …
RELATED:
Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
Doctors Vs Professors
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)
Washington Post:
Poll Finds Americans Pessimistic, Want Change  —  One year out from the 2008 election, Americans are deeply pessimistic and eager for a change in direction from the agenda and priorities of President Bush, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Matt / Think Progress:
Bush 41 Gets His News From Fox News; Warns More Bushes May Run For Public Office  —  Fox News Sunday launched a new series this week called "American Leaders" that seeks to engage "prominent business, cultural and social figures in candid discussion."  The first "leader" featured by Fox …
Daniel Boffey / Daily Mail:
Passengers revolt after being told to fly on jet with its wing tip missing  —  An airline crew faced a rebellion when they told passengers they were going to fly on a jet that had lost its wing tip in a runway crash.  —  The SriLankan Airlines customers had been on the Airbus A340 a day earlier …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Tina Rosenberg / New York Times:
The Perils of Petrocracy  —  I.  —  Who holds the world's oil?  You might assume it's in the hands of big private oil companies like ExxonMobil.  But in fact, 77 percent of the world's oil reserves are held by national oil companies with no private equity, and there are 13 state-owned oil companies …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
A hero in Castro's gulag  —  AT A White House ceremony tomorrow President Bush will honor eight distinguished men and women with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award.  Among the recipients will be the longtime civil rights activist Benjamin Hooks; Harper Lee …
Telegraph:
The deceit behind global warming  —  No one can deny that in recent years the need to "save the planet" from global warming has become one of the most pervasive issues of our time.  As Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, claimed in 2004, it poses "a far greater threat …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:40 PM ET, November 4, 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: 
Lance / A Second Hand Conjecture:
The Iranian Labor Movement, Heroic and Ignored- Updated
Lynn Zinser / New York Times:
Marathoner Dies in Olympic Trials
Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times:
Citizenship applications climb despite fee hike
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Thousands Return to Safer Iraqi Capital
New York Times:
Capital Cases Stalling as Costs Grow Daunting
Joel Stein / Los Angeles Times:
Ann Coulter Mad Libs
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
The Law of the Sea Treaty
Daniel J. Mitchell / Cato-at-liberty:
Excellent Story Shows Benefits of Tax Havens
Discussion: Redstate
 Earlier Items: 
The Huffington Post:
In Bloggo Gravitas: BriWi On SNL, In His Own Words
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
FRED THOMPSON VS. THE UN'S ANTI-SELF-DEFENSE CAMPAIGN Earlier this week …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Noun + Verb + 9/11 + Iran = Democrats' Defeat?
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Detainee Rights Weighed in Plans to Close Base
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
ALL-TIME WINGNUTTIEST BLOG POST CONTEST....While the rest …
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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