Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:15 AM ET, November 16, 2009

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Really?  Still Making Things Up?  —  The book tour starts this week, and I look forward to it!  I'm most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you,"Thanks for loving America."  I'll give you a scoop here and tell you what's on the book's Dedication Page …
RELATED:
Melanie Kirkpatrick / Wall Street Journal:
Her Side of the Story  —  McCain aides kept her out of the loop, focusing instead on ‘packaging.’  —  “Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin's autobiography, refers to the snide remark of an anonymous McCain aide late in last year's presidential campaign.
Discussion: Texas for Sarah Palin
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
An Open Dish Challenge To Palin  —  Well, she has now thrown down a gauntlet that the Dish will be very eager to take up in the next few days.  —  Yesterday the AP ran a story describing some of the contents of the book, and arguing that many assertions in it are, like so much of what Palin has said, empirically untrue.
Dan / Riehl World View:
Palin Media Strategy: Reagan 2.0  —  Sarah Palin seems to be spoiling for a fight with the media in her latest Facebook posting.  There are going to be people, assuming political consultants are people, that are going to call this foolish.  They'll rely on conventional, read old …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin: A Summary Before The Next Round  —  On the eve of Palin's latest version of reality, the Dish offers a recap of all the demonstrable lies she has told in the public record.  We reprint the list as a public service and invite readers to run the new “book” …
Political Punch:
On President Obama's Bow to the Japanese Emperor, An Academic Friend Writes That Both the Left and the Right Are Wrong  —  An old friend — an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama — sends me the following note …
RELATED:
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama takes heat on Afghan timing  —  SHANGHAI, China - President Barack Obama made no effort to conceal his irritation when his press corps used the first question of his maiden Far East trip to ask what was taking him so long on Afghanistan.  —  Jennifer Loven of The Associated Press had asked …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
RELATED:
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Axelrod rebuts Romney attack
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Liz Nunez / WPTV:
Al Gore greeted by protesters in Boca Raton  —  BOCA RATON, FL — Hundreds of people sat inside the Mizner Amphitheater, paying close attention to the presentation, but outside, it was a different story.  —  A large group of protesters gathered just steps away from where former Vice President Al Gore was speaking.
Discussion: MyDD, Don Surber and Macsmind
RELATED:
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:   Hundreds of Protesters Greet Al Gore at Florida Junk Science Speech (Video)
Sofia Santana / Sun-Sentinel:
Gore heckled at climate speech
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Re: Graham Crumbles for Nothing  —  When Lindsay Graham decided to support cap-and-trade — a position not even some moderate Democrats can stomach — I observed that this was not only bad policy but also bad politics.  And sure enough, moves like that and his support for now Supreme Court …
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
RELATED:
FITSNews:
Two New Polls Show Graham Tanking  —  U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's public support is collapsing in South Carolina - driven by a wholesale revolt among the GOP electorate and a steady erosion of his support amongst independents.  —  Already consistently loathed by a solid third of GOP voters …
Paul Mirengoff / Washington Examiner:
Why does he hate us?  Barack Obama's America-effacing presidency  —  On the morning after the deadliest instance of Islamist terrorism in the United States since 9/11, President Obama warned the American public not to “jump to conclusions” about the motives that impelled Nidal Hasan's rampage of mass murder at Fort Hood.
Discussion: The Other McCain
Chris Frates / The Politico:
CMS: House bill increases health care costs  —  Democrats have promised that health reform would reduce health care costs, but legislation the House passed last week would increase costs over the next decade by $289 billion.  By 2019, health costs would rise to 21.1 percent of GDP compared …
RELATED:
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 12:15 AM ET, November 16, 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: 
Christopher Hitchens / Newsweek:
Palin's Base Appeal
Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions
Discussion: Althouse and Joanne Jacobs
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Robertson's remarks put McDonnell in a bind
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Liz Cheney: Whoever Leads GOP in 2012 Will Have to Undo the Damage …
Discussion: Moe Lane and Jules Crittenden
Big Government:
Obama Ally Code Pink Justifies Fort Hood Terrorist Attack …
CNN:
Obama urges Myanmar to free Suu Kyi
Discussion: The Reaction and AMERICAblog News
Ken Kaye / Los Angeles Times:
TSA is secretly watching you
 Earlier Items: 
Dean Baker / Beat the Press:
The Fed Is Responsible for 10.2 Percent Unemployment in the Same …
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
CNN:
Romney accuses Obama of not protecting troops
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Low rating for Culver reveals vulnerability
Discussion: MyDD and Taegan Goddard's …
Nicola Smith / Times of London:
Irishman wants to kill for Islam