Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:55 PM ET, April 6, 2009

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
DefenseLINK:
Budget Press Briefing (Arlington, VA)  —  As Prepared for Delivery by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Arlington, VA, Monday, April 06, 2009  —  Today, I am announcing the key decisions I will recommend to the president with respect to the fiscal year 2010 defense budget.
RELATED:
New York Times:
Gates Budget Plan Reshapes Pentagon's Priorities  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Monday announced a broad reshaping of the Pentagon budget, with deep cuts in many traditional weapons systems but billions of dollars for new technology to fight the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Bipartisan Call for Obama to Reverse Missile Defense Cuts
Discussion: Commentary
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Pentagon Chief Rips Heart Out of Army's ‘Future’
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post
Chris Steller / Minnesota Independent:
Bachmann fears ‘politically correct re-education camps for young people’  —  U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward …
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ  —  When Congress immunized telecoms last August for their illegal participation in Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program, Senate Democratic apologists for telecom immunity repeatedly justified that action by pointing …
RELATED:
Khaled Wassef / CBS News:
Saudis Report Plot To Assassinate Obama  —  The Saudi Arabian newspaper al-Watan reported today that Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian origins Friday in connection with a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama during his current visit to Turkey.
RELATED:
Jerusalem Post:
‘Turkey foils plot to assassinate Obama’  —  Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian descent who was planning to assassinate US President Barack Obama during his current trip to Turkey, the Saudi daily Al Watan reported Monday.  —  According to the report, the man …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
Jeffrey Sachs / The Huffington Post:
The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought  —  Two weeks ago, I posted an article showing how the Geithner-Summers banking plan could potentially and unnecessarily transfer hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth from taxpayers to banks.  The same basic arithmetic was later described …
RELATED:
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Jeffrey Sachs, Not Detail-Oriented
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
A.P. to Take On Web Aggregators  —  Taking aim at the way news is spread across the Internet, The Associated Press said on Monday that it will demand that Web sites obtain permission to use the work of The A.P. or its member newspapers, and share revenue with the news organizations, and that it will take legal action those that do not.
John / Power Line:
The Apology Tour: Will It Ever End?  —  Earlier today, President Obama addressed the Parliament of Turkey.  What made news were his positive references to Islam: … This is, of course, indistinguishable from many similar pronouncements that were made by President Bush.
RELATED:
ArkansasBusiness.com:
Lincoln Says She Will Vote Against Employee Free Choice Act  —  Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., told a Monday meeting of the Little Rock Political Animals Club that she will oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.  —  Lincoln's office said the senator will release a statement on the legislation this afternoon.
Jimmy Vielkind / politickerny.com:
Murphy Leads by 83; Judge Says Start Counting Paper Ballots on Wednesday, Finish Machine Recanvass ASAP  —  ALBANY—The most up-to-date figures we can muster in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress now has Democrat Scott Murphy leading by 83 votes over Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, state and county elections officials said.
Times of London:
Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts  —  Listen to an exclusive track from Bob Dylan's new album, and read his views on US politics and history, exclusively on Times Online  —  Exclusive track: Listen to Feel A Change Comin' On
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the Real America  —  I spent Saturday at the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, right outside of Louisville, Ky. Gun enthusiasts of all stripes were there — from the National Rifle Association and sportsmen to militia members to white supremacists and Obama birthers.
New York Times:
Poll Finds New Optimism on Economy Since Inauguration  —  Americans have grown more optimistic about the economy and the direction of the country in the 11 weeks since President Obama was inaugurated, suggesting that Mr. Obama is enjoying some success in his critical task of rebuilding …
The Huffington Post:
Republicans Urging Coleman To Keep Fighting Attacked Gore Over Recount  —  The Senate race in Minnesota seems no closer to resolution than it did on election night.  With Al Franken clinging to a 225 vote lead and Norm Coleman dealt a tough setback in state court last week …
Discussion: USA Today, Daily Kos and Don Surber
RELATED:
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:   Pawlenty speaks out for Norm
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Whigs, Federalists Strongly Differ on Support for Obama  —  These are highly partisan times in America.  “Bipartisanship” (or, in the Obama nomenclature, “post-partisanship") makes for a catchy campaign slogan, but is difficult to execute upon in practice.  The White House's aspirations …
Barry Eichengreen / voxeu.org:
A Tale of Two Depressions  —  Often cited comparisons - which look only at the US - find that today's crisis is milder than the Great Depression.  In this column, two leading economic historians show that the world economy is now plummeting as it did in the Great Depression; indeed …
Discussion: FP Passport and Paul Krugman
Fred Barbash / The Politico:
Newt: U.S. at greater risk under Obama  —  The U.S. is at greater risk of terrorist attack because of the Obama administration's actions, Newt Gingrich said Monday.  —  In a chat with POLITICO readers, Gingrich also called the administration's response to the North Korean missile launch a …
Discussion: Hot Air and Gateway Pundit
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
When Is a Cartel Not a Cartel?  —  This seems mighty odd to me: … It seems to me that when your trade association is contemplating cartelization schemes that are so clearly illegal that you need to keep a lawyer on hand to ensure that you're avoiding illegal cartelization schemes, you're probably contemplating an illegal cartel.
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Rules of Usage  —  President Obama reminded his European audience that just because he's not Bush, of non-traditional ancestry, and named “Barack Hussein Obama,” the war on terror won't just go away (you think?).  All of which brings up interesting rules of usage with the name “Hussein” …
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal
Jamie Court / The Huffington Post:
White House Summit In Denial On Regulating Health Care Costs  —  “Prevention” was the word of morning at the White House Western forum on health care reform in downtown LA.  —  Led by Oprah's Dr. Oz, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire, the assembled …
Michael Schuman / Time:
Is the Dollar Doomed?  —  I got an unexpected lesson in the power of the U.S. dollar during a visit to Tashkent, the dreary capital of Uzbekistan, several years back.  While heading into town from the airport, my babbling taxi driver kept one hand (barely) on the steering wheel while his other shoved …
The New Republic:
Let Obama Sleep!  —  It's a small thing but did Robert Gibbs really need to wake Obama at 4:30 am with news of the North Korean missile launch?  We knew the launch was coming and Obama had no imminent decision to make.  Waking the president to tell him things so he can return to a troubled sleep …
Quinnipiac University:
Voters Say 3-1 Paterson Does Not Deserve Election, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Most Say He Should Announce Now He Won't Run  —  New York State voters disapprove 60 - 28 percent of the job Gov. David Paterson is doing, the lowest approval ever for a New York Governor, and say 63 …
CNBC:
US Recovery Is Far Off, Banks Are ‘Basically Insolvent’: Soros  —  The U.S. economy is in for a “lasting slowdown” and could face a Japan-style period of relatively low growth coupled with high inflation, billionaire investor George Soros said on Monday.  —  Soros, speaking to Reuters …
John Carney / Clusterstock:
Geithner Wrong, Crap Assets Correctly Priced, Say Harvard And Princeton Profs  —  The government's official view that toxic assets are incorrectly priced due to illiquidity “fire sales” is wrong, a new study by Harvard and Princeton finance professors suggests.
Discussion: Wonk Room
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
No one is trying to silence right-wing fearmongers — but it is time to stand up to them  —  John Amato's virtual online magazine...OK, It's a blog!  — Advertising- Commenting- General Problems- Media Problems- Supported Browsers- User Registration  —  Blogs » David Neiwert's blog
Bob Gardinier / Albany Times Union:
Sweeney to troopers: I'm in big trouble  —  Ex-Rep. said he was drinking at sister's home  —  CLIFTON PARK - When ex-U.S. Rep. John Sweeney was stopped by state troopers early Sunday he refused to get out of his car for a roadside sobriety tests, according to court records.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:55 PM ET, April 6, 2009.

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: 
Mike / Rortybomb:
Banks as Bidders and Sellers; Financial Nostalgia
Discussion: Power Line and Felix Salmon
Marisol Bello / USA Today:
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
LUCKY LARRY?  —  Dan Froomkin points us towards the Obama …
Discussion: White House Watch and Gawker
Wall Street Journal:
IBM Talks Teeter as Sun Board Splits
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Lucinda Franks / Blogs and Stories:
Ruth Madoff's Private World
Discussion: Clusterstock
New York Post:
PATER-SON BURNED BY DEAR OLD PATER-DAD
Discussion: Spin Cycle
South Union Street:
Payback Is A...  U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, (R-Saks) used …
Discussion: The Politico
Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Barton's foundation not so charitable
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Chafee planning to run for governor
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Texas Rangers fans give Bush a rousing ovation as he throws out first pitch.
Erin Brown / NewsBusters.org:
CBS Blasts Palin in Ridiculous ‘Scandal’ Segment
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg:
Zuckerman Sues Merkin Over $40 Million Madoff Loss
Mark Hemingway / National Review:
Jake Tapper Isn't Letting Go
Discussion: Gawker and Balloon Juice
beliefnet:
Why Didn't Ashcroft-the-Christian Stop The Torture?
Discussion: Democracy in America
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve

 
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