Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:05 PM ET, June 13, 2009

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Ahmadinejad Re-Elected; Protests Flare  —  TEHRAN — The Iranian government declared an outright election victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday morning, and riot police officers fought with supporters of the opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, who insisted that the election had been stolen.
RELATED:
Abbas Barzegar / Guardian:
Wishful thinking from Tehran  —  Since the revolution, academics and pundits have predicted the collapse of the Iranian regime.  This week, they did no better  —  I have been in Iran for exactly one week covering the 2009 Iranian election carnival.  Since I arrived, few here doubted …
New York Times:
U.S. to Continue to Engage Iran  —  WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials said Saturday that they were determined to plow ahead with efforts to engage the Iranian government, as they reacted to the apparent election victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Discussion: Swampland
Daniel Pipes Blog:
Rooting for Ahmadinejad  —  The heart and the head sometimes go in different directions, and they do for me today as Iranians go to the polls to vote in their country's semi-legitimate presidential elections.  —  Many problems afflict those elections - including restrictions on who may run for president …
Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Stealing the Iranian Election  —  Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen  —  1. It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%.  His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Results As They Came In  —  Yes, this obviously was a “divine assessment”.
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Landslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran's Election Results
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN DESPERATION GETS UGLY.... The conservative drive to connect violent right-wing extremist James von Brunn, who murdered a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this week, to the American left continues to confound.  Dave Weigel had a terrific report on this yesterday, including this gem:
MsUnderestimated:
Well, There Is One ‘Terrorist’ Obama Won't Bend Over For (VIDEO)  —  ...that is, according to Ohio Congressman, Steven LaTourette's documentation as he gives his Open Report today on the Hill, which was broadcast on C-SPAN.  His Open Report was on the Chrysler bankruptcy, dealership liquidation …
Discussion: Riehl World View
RELATED:
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Obama auto team called shareholder lawyer a “terrorist”  —  When we last left the negotiations between Chrysler's senior bondholders and Barack Obama's auto task force, Thomas Lauria and his clients alleged that the government used intimidation tactics and threatened to sic …
Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Blogger's baby was a hoax  —  Woman captivates thousands in anti-abortion movement with false story of difficult pregnancy  —  Beccah Beushausen photographed near her home, Wednesday, June 10, 2009.  (David Pierini / Chicago Tribune / June 10, 2009)  —  The unmarried mother's story …
Joan Walsh / Salon:
Why I went on “The O'Reilly Factor”  —  (UPDATED after The O'Reilly Factor aired)  —  I was surprised when so many people I respect told me not to appear on “The O'Reilly Factor.”  I'd attacked Bill O'Reilly for his jihad against Dr. George Tiller, and he asked me on to discuss my “accusations.”
Orange County Register:
Mark Steyn: The smothering embrace of nanny government  —  A society of adults-turned-children cannot survive.  —  Recommend  —  Willie Whitelaw, a genial old buffer who served as Margaret Thatcher's deputy for many years, once accused the Labour Party of going around Britain stirring up apathy.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Bush Lawyer Ordered to Testify  —  A federal judge has ruled that John Yoo, a former Bush administration lawyer who wrote crucial memorandums justifying harsh interrogation techniques, will have to answer in court to accusations that his work led to a prisoner's being tortured and deprived of his constitutional rights.
Discussion: Think Progress and Raw Story
BBC:
US ‘kept Guantanamo deal from UK’  —  The US made a secret deal with Bermuda - a British overseas territory - to accept the Uighur detainees  —  A senior US official has told the BBC Washington decided not to tell London ahead of time about a deal to resettle four Guantanamo detainees in Bermuda.
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama plan to pay for health reform  —  President Barack Obama says he's now found savings that will pay almost all the costs of a massive overhaul of America's health care system.  —  Obama on Saturday is announcing an additional $313 billion in new proposed savings that he says would bring …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
A Nation Of Law  —  Lars Thorwald has a strong post on why Obama's DOJ brief in defense of DOMA is in fact a keeping of a promise: to restore the rule of law after eight years of abuse.  I take every point he makes.  Read the whole thing.  —  After this back-and-forth today …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits' Journalism  —  Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and BuzzMachine
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:05 PM ET, June 13, 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: 
Jeff Gottlieb / Los Angeles Times:
Founder of anti-drug program is held in drug sting
Discussion: TalkLeft and Raw Story
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Bunning makes $20K from baseball signings
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
The Audacity of Bullying  —  Peter Beinart pens a column in which he …
Discussion: EU Referendum
Martin Chulov / Guardian:
Senior Sunni politician assassinated in Iraq
Discussion: MyDD
Christine M. Flowers / Philly.com:
Abortion distortion  —  I DIDN'T kill George Tiller.
Discussion: Hot Air and Sister Toldjah
 Earlier Items: 
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Bermuda MP: “Outrage” and “National Crisis” Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Underground Drama  —  For some reason, the mainstream media …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Campaign Silo
Kori Schake / Shadow Government:
Remember Iraq? You will soon enough