Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
2:15 PM ET, March 13, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
ABCNEWS:
Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11  —  Obama's Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Has a History of What Even Obama's Campaign Aides Say Is ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’  —  Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”
RELATED:
Deacon / Power Line:
THE AUDACITY OF HATE  —  ABC News reports that Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”  Wright thinks God should damn America for “treating our citizens as less than human” and “for [acting] like she is God and she is supreme.”
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Wright on film  —  Sure does feel like we're plunging into the abyss tonight.  —  Fox just posted a big Jeremiah Wright story, and the video is pretty gripping, and deeply racially confrontational.  He begins by describing the Romans, who crucified Jesus, as Italians, and thus white, and more or less goes from there.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Wright's committee  —  Jeremiah Wright, in the news today …
Discussion: Trailhead
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:   Obama's Spiritual Guide: ‘God Damn America’
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Support for war effort highest since 2006  —  American public support for the military effort in Iraq has reached a highpoint unseen since the summer of 2006, a development that promises to reshape the political landscape.  —  According to late February polling conducted by The Pew Research Center …
RELATED:
NPR:
The Role of Race  —  While race inevitably has emerged as a campaign issue, Clinton says that she wants the Democratic presidential campaign to be about the candidates' records, experience and positions on the issue.  —  A Clinton fundraiser and supporter, Geraldine Ferraro …
Discussion: Time, Booman Tribune and Swampland
RELATED:
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Clinton Apologizes to Black Voters
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: THE GREAT '08 PARADOX  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro  —  *** The great '08 paradox: Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the latest NBC/WSJ poll is the poor shape the GOP finds itself in today: The party's fav/unfav has increased (34%-49%) …
RELATED:
Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
McCain, GOP May Have Cause for Hope  —  Latest Poll Helps Detail Reasons the Democrats Remain Deadlocked  —  Rarely have the stars aligned so squarely against the party in power in elections for the White House as it has for Republicans, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll bears out.
Kenneth Thiesen / Berkeley Daily Planet:
Commentary: Why I Don't Support the Troops  —  In the recent political battle around the Marine recruiting station in Berkeley there has been much confusion around the concept or slogan of “supporting the troops,” but opposing the unjust wars of the Bush regime.
Detroit Free Press:
Democrats propose do-over primary paid for by donors  —  LANSING — As negotiators continued to work Wednesday on developing an acceptable plan for a possible do-over Democratic presidential primary in Michigan, the prospect of a state-run — but party-funded — primary was raised …
RELATED:
Ben Smith / The Politico:   Fla. Dems propose June 3 re-vote
Borys Krawczeniuk / The Times-Tribune:
Poll: Hillary's negative rating rivals Santorum's  —  New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has something in common with former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum.  A large percentage of Pennsylvania voters dislike both of them.  —  In fact, greater percentages of voters here have consistently viewed …
Discussion: Trailhead
New York Times:
Spitzer Fall Began With Bank Reports  —  Last July, the North Fork Bank raised a red flag about suspicious financial transactions involving Gov. Eliot Spitzer.  But for several months, the electronic report languished unnoticed in a vast Treasury Department database in Detroit.
RELATED:
Balkinization:
The Spitzer Case and the National Surveillance State
Discussion: Firedoglake and Megan McArdle
Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Tempers Flare on FISA  —  Debate on a controversial electronic surveillance measure hasn't even begun on the House floor, yet tempers have already begin to flare on Thursday morning, with Republicans slamming the bill and the way in which it will be debated.
Discussion: Wake up America and Daily Kos
RELATED:
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Bush Warns House on Surveillance
Discussion: The Swamp and The Strata-Sphere
Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun Times:
It's not him  —  The Spitzer shocker . . .  Just who is Client No. 10?  —  Who is the procurer of prostitutes from Chicago who is mentioned anonymously in an unsealed FBI affidavit filed by the feds detailing operations of the Emperors Club, a sex-for-hire shop that allegedly ensnared embattled New York.
Discussion: The Swamp and Real Clear Politics
Cynthia Needham / Providence Journal:
Bill to close prostitution loophole  —  PROVIDENCE — With the nation's eyes trained on former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's alleged involvement with a prostitute, Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a bill that would close the loophole in this state's laws that makes prostitution legal if it occurs indoors.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Hi, I'm from the NY Times.  Your Daughter is a Whore.  —  Ashley Alexandra Dupré, worth $5 grand for sex?  —  I wasn't shocked that we found out who Spitzer's whore was, what did shock me was that it was the New York Times that outed her.  Isn't this better left to the National Enquirer?
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Carlyle Fund's Assets Seized  —  Leaders Fail to Stop Securities Sell-Off  —  A publicly traded affiliate of the Carlyle Group said yesterday that lenders were seizing its assets, sending the fund, Carlyle Capital, into insolvency.  —  The collapse of Carlyle Capital is the first time a Carlyle Group fund …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
Obama criticizes McCain on taxes  —  CHICAGO - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that Sen. John McCain reversed his position on President Bush's deep tax cuts in order to win the Republican presidential nomination, one of his sharpest criticisms yet of the Arizona senator he hopes to face this fall.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 2:15 PM ET, March 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: 
Associated Press:
Senate rejects income tax cuts
Discussion: Hot Air and Right Voices
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
In Private Pep-Talk To Top Donors, Hillary Predicts: “We're Gonna Win This”
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Eyeing Obama coattails
Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:
Environmental Agency Tightens Smog Standards
CNN:
Kidnapped archbishop found dead in Iraq
New York Times:
4 Arrests, Then 6 Days to a Resignation
Megan McArdle:
Double down  —  There are many reasons to avoid taking the King's shilling if you can.
Matthew Yglesias:
Alphabet Rights
Discussion: The New Republic
 Earlier Items: 
Ross Douthat:
The Costs Of Living  —  Ezra writes: … In response …
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
HUD Secretary Draws Strong Criticism at Hearing
Discussion: Megan McArdle
Plain Dealer / OPENERS:
Former Ohio senator Howard Metzenbaum dies in Florida
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Dream-Ticket Fantasy
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.B.I. Made ‘Blanket’ Demands for Phone Records
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Gun Battle at the White House?
Alison Smale / International Herald Tribune:
‘Magic is over’ for U.S., says French foreign minister
Discussion: The Reaction, QandO and Commentary
Michelle Malkin:
Hot Air TV: Sen. John Kerry confronted about Winter Soldier II
 

 
From Techmeme:

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Okta fixes a flaw present since July 23, 2024, that let users log in under specific circumstances with any password if the account's username had 52+ characters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Amazon's plan to rearchitect Alexa around LLMs could finally help Alexa understand what users actually want and reduce the awkward syntax needed to use Skills

Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP “probably will” try to repeal the CHIPS Act, but then walks it back, saying the GOP may “further streamline” the bill

 
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