Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:10 AM ET, August 25, 2009

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Cheney Statement on CIA Documents/Investigation  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney gave The Weekly Standard a statement Monday night about the CIA documents and the coming Justice Department investigation.
RELATED:
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Obtained: The CIA Documents Dick Cheney Says Vindicate Torture  —  We've obtained and scanned in the two CIA documents that former Vice President Dick Cheney claims justify his longstanding arguments that torture was an effective interrogation and counterterrorism tool.  As you read them, consider this post as well.
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations  —  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes …
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney Claims
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
The 2004 CIA Inspector General Report on Torture
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
The Mysterious Eleventh Torture Technique: Prolonged Diapering?
Discussion: Raw Story, Emptywheel and ATTACKERMAN
Wall Street Journal:
Prosecuting the CIA  —  Eric Holder unleashes a special counsel on U.S. war fighters.
Discussion: Commentary
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Offers Health Rights for Seniors  —  The Republican Party issued a new salvo in the health debate Monday with a “seniors' health care bill of rights” that opposed any moves to trim Medicare spending or limit end-of-life care to seniors.  —  Intended as a political shot at President Barack Obama …
RELATED:
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Dems increase talk of moving healthcare without GOP  —  A leading House Democrat on Monday said Democrats are prepared to pass healthcare reform without Republican support, echoing comments made over the weekend by a leading Senate Democrat.  —  “I think that at some point everyone's …
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Dems plan hundreds of reform rallies  —  Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system.
Bloomberg:
Obama Increases 2010 Deficit Forecast 19% to $1.50 Trillion  —  Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will widen to $1.5 trillion next year, reflecting a “deeper recession” than previously expected, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said.
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Gateway Pundit
RELATED:
The White House:
Mid-Session Review  —  Today, OMB released the Mid-Session Review …
Discussion: Boston Globe
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
U.S. Raises Estimate for 10-Year Deficit to $9 Trillion
Discussion: The Politico
Matea Gold / Show Tracker:
UPDATED: Glenn Beck goes after Color of Change co-founder Van Jones  —  Glenn Beck used his popular Fox News show this afternoon to attack the background of Van Jones, a White House environmental advisor who co-founded an African American political advocacy group that organized an advertising boycott of his program.
Mark Pittman / Bloomberg:
Court Orders Federal Reserve to Disclose Emergency Loan Details  —  Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve must for the first time identify the companies in its emergency lending programs after losing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.  —  Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled …
RELATED:
David Wessel / Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Reappoint Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke
Michael Lynch / New York Times:
‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy  —  REMEMBER “peak oil”?  It's the theory that geological scarcity will at some point make it impossible for global petroleum production to avoid falling, heralding the end of the oil age and, potentially, economic catastrophe.
Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Summer of Discontent  —  The politics of charisma is so Third World.  Americans were never going to buy into it for long.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  So we are to have a French health-care system without a French tradition of political protest.
Wall Street Journal:
Saving the Obama Presidency  —  Obama needs to move to the right.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  On this day in 1994, Bill Clinton's presidency was saved.  —  It didn't look that way at the time.  After threatening to keep Congress in session until a health-care bill was passed …
Rebecca Camber / Daily Mail:
Foreign GPs who commute to Britain: £100-an-hour Poles and Lithuanians fly in for shifts our doctors won't do  —  The huge extent to which the NHS needs foreign doctors to treat patients out of hours is revealed today.  —  A third of primary care trusts are flying in GPs from as far away as Lithuania …
Discussion: QandO, BizzyBlog and NewsBusters.org
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Giuliani, Seeing Opening, Mulls a Governor Bid  —  ALBANY — Nineteen months after ending his disastrous run for the presidency, Rudolph W. Giuliani is clearing a path for a possible race for governor in 2010, believing public anger at an ineffectual Albany and unease over the economy …
David Hanners / Austin American-Statesman:
Woman accused of threatening bomb-plot informant  —  Trial could begin in Austin next week.  —  A Texas woman faces trial this month in Austin on charges she threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated an Austin-based group that planned to bomb the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., last fall.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Moe Lane
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People  —  Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably improve, the content.
John O'Connor / The State:
House GOP eyes Sanford's future  —  Lawmakers will discuss impeachment at beach meeting  —  House Republicans will discuss whether to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford when they meet in Myrtle Beach this weekend.  —  Lawmakers, once reluctant to discuss removing Sanford, will weigh …
James M. Peaslee / Wall Street Journal:
Tax Penalties and the Health-Care Bill  —  Under the House legislation, taxpayers will be fined for honest mistakes.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Two tax provisions in the health-care bill voted on by the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this summer have gained significant attention.
Laura Crimaldi / Boston Herald:
Cons cash in on stimulus money  —  Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates - and now red-faced feds want it back.  —  “Taxpayers already believe the inmates are running …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Calm, but Moved to Be Heard on Health Care  —  MONTEZUMA, Ga. — Until Thursday evening, nothing in Bob Collier's 62 years had stirred in him the slightest desire to take a stand — about anything — in public.  —  He skipped the antiwar protests of his college years, took a job …
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and BAGnewsNotes
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:10 AM ET, August 25, 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: 
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Massachusetts Governor
Stanley Fish / New York Times:
What Should Colleges Teach?  —  A few years ago, when I was …
Ayana Harry / ABCNEWS:
Martha's Vineyard's African American Legacy
Discussion: The Swamp and Political Punch
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘DESECRATING’ 9/11?.... As the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 …
Discussion: Moonbattery, pandagon.net and CRC Blog
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
Auto Industry Braces For Hangover After The ‘Clunker’ Party
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Young Obama backers AWOL from health care fight
 Earlier Items: 
Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
New bizarre twists in Clayton bombing
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Patrick Jenkins / Financial Times:
Bail-outs weigh on states
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Groups target GOP on cap-and-trade
Discussion: Wonk Room
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Taliban collapsing in Pakistan?
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China Racing Ahead of U.S. in the Drive to Go Solar
BBC:
1,000 cameras ‘solve one crime’
Discussion: Reason
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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