Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:20 PM ET, June 17, 2008

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Contempt Of Courts  —  The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”  Well.  —  Does it rank with Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) …
RELATED:
Zzaki / Political Punch:
McCain Camp Pounces on Obama Comments From ABC News Interview  —  The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tonight pounced on comments Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made in an interview today with ABC News.  —  This was the exchange in question.  —  TAPPER: Speaking of the Supreme Court …
John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Goes to War  —  Last week's Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration's antiterrorism policies.  From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties.
The Hill:
McCain camp: ‘Naïve’ Obama has ‘Sept. 10 mindset’  —  The campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday accused Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) of being “naïve” and “representing the perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset” in his approach …
Washington Post:
Poll Finds Independent Voters Split Between McCain, Obama  —  Buoyed by a public mood favoring Democrats, Sen. Barack Obama begins the general-election campaign holding a narrow advantage over Sen. John McCain, with independent voters emerging as a constituency critical to the Republican's hopes of winning the presidency in November.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
John Yoo's ongoing falsehoods in service of limitless government power  —  One of the most reliable methods for knowing that a position is unsustainable is that its advocates must employ outright falsehoods in order to support it.  In a Wall St. Journal Op-Ed today, John Yoo defends the right …
Rasmussen Reports:
67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices  —  Most voters favor the resumption of offshore drilling in the United States and expect it to lower prices at the pump, even as John McCain has announced his support for states that want to explore for oil and gas off their coasts.
RELATED:
Jeffrey Klein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Secret, Questionable Record  —  “At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral's star …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Plans Spending Boost, Possible Cut in Business Tax  —  FLINT, Mich. — Sen. Barack Obama shed new light on his economic plans for the country, saying he would rely on a heavy dose of government spending to spur growth, use the tax code to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers …
RELATED:
Washington Post:
A Friend in Need  —  Angelo Mozilo's loans to the well-connected raise some questions.  They should be answered.  —  SEEKING TO refinance his Delaware beach house in 2004, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) did what any ordinary property owner in his position would have done.
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
RELATED:
Amanda Carpenter / TownHall Blog:   And I Thought the Washington Post Was Being Sarcastic...
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Pin at the GOP state convention in Texas: “If Obama is Presisdent... will we still call it the White House?”  —  Expect the Republican party to do absolutely nothing about the racists in its own midst.  The national Republican party in Washington has contacts all the time with its state parties.
Discussion: Think Progress and Open Left
RELATED:
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:   If You Lose the White House Do the Rest of Us Have to Allow …
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Report Questions Pentagon Accounts  —  Officials Looked Into Interrogation Methods Early On  —  A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Obama Gets “The” Endorsement: The Lousy Timing of Al Gore  —  Perhaps one day someone will write a chapter about Al Gore in a new book titled “Profiles In Uncourage.”  —  Democratic presumptive Presidential nominee Barack Obama finally got what he and former rival Senator Hillary Clinton …
RELATED:
Marc Ambinder:
Your Electorate, Folks  —  ABC News and the Washington Post are out with their first post-primary poll, and, as should not be surprising, it is fairly identical to the results found by CNN, Fox, USA Today, Gallup, CBS News, NBC News.  (These polls are the gold standard; with Gallup tracking daily …
New York Times:
R.I.P. to the S.U.V.  —  It's hard to convince most Americans that there is a silver lining to $4-a-gallon gasoline.  But General Motors provided a nugget of good news when it announced that it would shutter much of its production of pickups and sport utility vehicles …
Andrew Zajac / Chicago Tribune:
Group muddies McCain message  —  Non-profit bent rules while supporting his agenda, raising money  —  WASHINGTON — Allies of Sen. John McCain opened a Washington think tank in 2001 to promote transparency and accountability in government, a signature issue for the Arizona Republican …
Discussion: Sunlight Foundation and The Swamp
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:20 PM ET, June 17, 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: 
Megan Carpentier / Glamocracy:
Tax Plans And The Single Girl
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
GRAND JURY SAID TO LOOK AT ATTORNEYS' DISMISSALS
Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
How Obama Can Win Over Seniors and Turn the November Election …
Tony Horwitz / New York Times:
Leader of the Pack  —  AS the Democratic primaries revealed …
New York Times:
Where They Mostly Agree
Karl / protein wisdom:
Barack Obama: The Undistinguished Gentleman
Discussion: JustOneMinute and The Corner
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: GORE-ACLE FINALLY SPEAKS
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Grand Juries Become Latest Abortion Battlefield
Discussion: Law Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Reading Ahead  —  THE LATEST study on the impact of vouchers …
Oliver Kamm / Guardian:
Bush made the world a safer place
Discussion: Commentary and TigerHawk
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Are Dems talking about McCain's age in ‘code’?
Discussion: If I Ran the Zoo and Wonkette
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Put Your Right Wing In, Take Your Left Wing Out
David Keene / The Hill:
Many a child left behind
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Kim McLarin / TheRoot:
Whiteygate  —  What black people call white people...and it ain't ‘whitey.’
Discussion: Gawker
Matthew Yglesias:
A Question of Priorities  —  A lot of separate questions …
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
TELL THE TRUTH, GOV  —  ABSOLUTELY NO DENYING YOU CALLED MIKE LIAR
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ's proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers

Manuela Vega / Toronto Star:
Rogers Sports & Media lays off more than two dozen employees in its radio and podcasting divisions, citing declining revenue and challenges in advertising

 
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