Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:00 PM ET, February 13, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
RELATED:
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Passes Interrogation Ban  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects.  —  Senate Republicans generally opposed the bill …
Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Senate Votes to Ban Waterboarding  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesdy to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects despite President Bush's threat to veto any measure that limits the agency's interrogation techniques.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Don Surber
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
House Defeats FISA Extension
Discussion: Wake up America
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Chickens Come Home to Roost  —  For years, Bill and Hillary Clinton treated the Democratic National Committee and party activists as extensions of their White House ambitions, pawns in a game of success and survival.  She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon.
RELATED:
Jim Tankersley / Baltimore Sun:
Bill Clinton's '92 campaign manager backs Obama  —  David Wilhelm, who managed Bill Clinton's winning 1992 presidential campaign and went on to be the youngest Democratic National Committee chairman in history, is set to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this afternoon.
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Clinton Hears Voices from Beyond: ‘Keep Going’  —  ABC News' Eloise Harper and Kate Snow Report: In McAllen, Texas this morning Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said she wasn't giving up on her race for the White House.  —  Speaking about her work in South Texas as an organizer …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Obama ‘Takes It Down a Notch’  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: After touring a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech on the economy that he said is on the “brink of a recession.”  —  The senator told GM workers to bear with him as he gave a more policy oriented speech.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and Slog
RELATED:
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Who's Singularly Lacking In Specifics?
NPR:
Listen Now  —  · Sen. John McCain swept the so-called …
Discussion: The Swamp, Political Radar and Truthdig
Paul Kiel / Muckraker:
Conyers Introduces Contempt Resolution, Call for Lawsuit against White House  —  As expected, things are finally moving forward in the House today to bring contempt resolutions against White House officials for ignoring Congressional subpoenas as part of the U.S. attorney firings investigation.
RELATED:
Mcjoan / Daily Kos:
FISA Fight: House Blue Dogs enabling the GOP  —  CQ is reporting ( link here) that the House Republicans will try to derail the effort to pass a 21 day extension of the existing surveillance law and force a vote on the Senate bill: … The Blue Dogs that have endorsed the Senate passed bill wrote to Pelosi last week.
Speaker Pelosi / The Gavel:
On the House Vote on FISA
Discussion: Eschaton, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog
ABCNEWS:
Edwards Weighs Clinton Endorsement  —  Former Candidate Torn Between Clinton and Obama in Democratic Race  —  As he weighs a possible endorsement in the Democratic race, former Sen. John Edwards is as split as the party he once hoped to lead — and is seriously considering supporting …
Michelle Malkin:
Mohammed cartoon reprint: Show your solidarity  —  Two years ago, the Mohammed cartoon conflagration consumed the world and the blogosphere helped lead the way in fighting back.  Longtime readers will remember that this site hammered the issue in support of Denmark.
RELATED:
CNN:
Newspapers reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon  —  (CNN) — Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.  —  The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a …
Discussion: Pharyngula and Neptunus Lex
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Was there a Housing Bubble?  —  The conventional wisdom is that there was a housing bubble which has now popped.  The data, however, tell a different story.  Remember, that the evidence for the bubble was that real house prices had increased tremendously since around 1997 leading to prices …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Wiretap Votes  —  Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington.  So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas terrorists while killing most of the Lilliputian attempts to tie down our war fighters.  —  “We lost every single battle we had on this bill …
RELATED:
Matt Browner Hamlin / Hold Fast:
Another WSJ Editorial Farce
Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Jewish Rep. Cohen Battles Antisemitism and Racism In Re-Election  —  If you thought race was an uncomfortable issue in the Democratic presidential primary, wait 'til you get a load of what's going on in the Democratic primary in the Memphis area's 9th District of Tennessee …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
An Obama spin win  —  A Democratic operative notes a bit of a victory in the spin wars:  —  The news organizations counting and referring to the delegate count have started much more clearly breaking out the pledged delegates from the superdelegates, and referring to the pledged delegates as a key metric.
RELATED:
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
A Master Terrorist Is Killed  —  According to multiple press accounts, Iran's and Hezbollah's master terrorist, Imad Mugniyah, is dead.  He was reportedly killed by a car bomb in Damascus last night.  Hezbollah is claiming that he was killed by the Israelis.
RELATED:
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign: We're On The Verge Of Wrapping This Thing Up  —  On a conference call this morning, Obama advisers sounded as confident a note as they ever have, arguing that yesterday's victories have left them with an all but insurmountable lead in delegates.
RELATED:
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Plouffe: She can't catch us
Discussion: protein wisdom and Trailhead
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain manager welcomes age debate with Obama  —  McCain campaign manager Rick Davis today sent an unmistakable message to Barack Obama over the Illinois Democrat's effort to stoke the obvious age contrast between himself and the 71-year-old McCain: Bring it on.
Discussion: TownHall Blog and Spin Cycle
RELATED:
The Huffington Post:
John McCain Goes After Barack Obama
Discussion: Political Radar and Don Surber
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008  —  Based on polling conducted February 10-12, 2008  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remain locked in a statistical tie among Democrats nationally for the Democratic presidential nomination.  —  In Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted …
Jerome Armstrong / MyDD:
50 means 50, and far from over  —  I'd like to take my friend Markos at his word, that Obama is running a 50-state strategy.  As a fellow 50-state propagandist, I would expect that he shares the opinion that it applies not just to a presidential campaign, but also to the presidential nomination.
Steven Kreytak / Austin American-Statesman:
Court strikes down Texas ban on sex toys  —  Federal appeals court says law violates right to privacy.  —  A federal appeals court has struck down a seldom-enforced Texas law making it a crime to promote or sell sex toys.  —  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in a case originally filed …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:00 PM ET, February 13, 2008.

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: 
Bill Ardolino / The Long War Journal:
Inside Iraqi politics - Part 3. Examining the legislative branch
Bob Dow / The Daily Record:
Veteran Loch Ness Monster Hunter Gives Up
Discussion: Moonbattery
Matthew Yglesias:
Unreal  —  Spencer Ackerman offered a gentle critique …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Listen, I'll never forget you. …
Discussion: Cadillac Tight
Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blogs:
Chris Matthews in for Tony Snow
Discussion: Wonkette
Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking …
Michael Medved / Townhall.com:
Dem's “Dream Ticket” : Why It Won't Happen
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Feb. 12 Speech
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Clinton scrambles to contest Wisconsin
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
The Obama tidal wave
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
MSNBC Spokesperson: Shuster Will Not Be Fired And Will Return To Network
Discussion: TVNewser and Wonkette
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
IMAGINE.  —  I think Matt is right to say that Obama's great advantage …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
BLOGGER LOSES DAY JOB WITH CNN OVER BLOGGING
Discussion: Political Machine
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE SURGE....McClatchy reports that the surge may be starting to lose its effectiveness:
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Why Is Clinton's Back Against Wall? Nobody Prepared
Discussion: Wonkette and Donklephant
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Anja Karadeglija / The Canadian Press:
Meta clashes with Canada's CRTC over the Online News Act by declining to publicly release information about its measures to block news content on its platforms

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

 
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