memeorandum: Tiger Woods: Injuries Caused by Wife, Not SUV (TMZ.com)

12:30 PM ET, November 28, 2009

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Tiger Woods: Injuries Caused by Wife, Not SUV — Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren — according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident. — Tiger has yet to be formally interviewed …

Discussion: American Power, FrumForum, JustOneMinute, San Francisco Chronicle, Left Coast Rebel, Mediaite, Riehl World View and Doug Ross

Orlando Sentinel:
Tiger Woods taken to hospital in ‘serious’ condition after car accident

Discussion: Wake up America, TechCrunch, WESH-TV, Latest Open Salon Blog, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Hot Air, TMZ.com, Left Coast Rebel, Gawker and Mashable!

Steve Singiser / Daily Kos:

Weekly Tracking Poll: New Feature Paints Ugly 2010 Picture — Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/22/2009-11/25/2009. All adults. MoE 2% (Last weeks results in parentheses): — FAVORABLEUNFAVORABLENET CHANGE — PRESIDENT OBAMA — 53 (55) — 40 (39) —3 — PELOSI: — 41 (40)

Discussion: Don Surber, The Moderate Voice, Jules Crittenden, Outside The Beltway and Talking Points Memo

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

GIVE VOTERS A REASON.... The latest Research 2000 poll for Daily Kos included the usual question on the generic congressional ballot, with Dems still enjoying a modest edge over Republicans, 37% to 32%, with 31% unsure. Democratic numbers were strongest in the Northeast (53% Dems, 7% GOP) …

Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:

Ten ‘principles’ could keep thinkers away from the GOP — Some people can't stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for President Obama's hope-and-change agenda, are considering a “purity” …

Discussion: The Other McCain and Newshoggers.com

Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:

A Climate Scientist Who Engages Skeptics — I've been in touch all week with Judith Curry, a seasoned climate scientist at Georgia Tech with a particular focus on hurricanes and warming. She has no skepticism about a growing human influence on climate. But she has split with many of her peers …

Discussion: Watts Up With That?, She Flies With Her Own Wings, NewsBusters.org, Stop The ACLU, Chicago Boyz, EU Referendum, Bishop Hill, The Strata-Sphere, Andrew Bolt and Open Left

Climate Progress:
An open letter to graduate students and young scientists …

Discussion: American Power and Bishop Hill

New York Times:

Uninvited Pair Met Obama; Secret Service Offers Apology — WASHINGTON — President Obama and his wife, Michelle, had a face-to-face encounter with the couple who sneaked into a state dinner at the White House this week, White House officials acknowledged on Friday.

Discussion: The Swamp, Washington Monthly, CNN, The Caucus, The Daily Beast, American Power, The Politico, marbury, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Ruby Slippers, JammieWearingFool, CBS News, Latest Open Salon Blog and New York Times

Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:

Obama orders review of crashers — President Obama has ordered a full review into how a Virginia couple managed to make their way into the White House for last week's state dinner without an invitation, even getting so far as to meet the president in the official receiving line, according to a White House official.

Discussion: Hot Air, NY Daily News, Jules Crittenden, The Confluence, CNN, The Huffington Post, Stop The ACLU, The Atlantic Politics Channel, American Power and The Page

Wall Street Journal:

He Can't Take Another Bow — An icon of a White House that is coming to seem amateurish. — Printer — Friendly — This week, two points in an emerging pointillist picture of a White House leaking support—not the support of voters, though polls there show steady decline …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Outside The Beltway, alicublog, Riehl World View, doubleplusundead, Pajamas Media and The Politico

Dan Levin / New York Times:

China Jails Environmentalist Wanted in U.S. — DALI, China — Justin Franchi Solondz, an environmental activist from New Jersey who spent years evading charges of ecoterrorism in the United States by hiding out in China, was sentenced to three years in prison by a local court on Friday …

Discussion: New Jersey Online and Confederate Yankee

Dsm / Reboot Congress:

Eric S. Raymond on the East Anglia CRU's Global Warming Fraud — Eric S. Raymond ("esr") is an open source luminary partly because of his industry changing book The Cathedral & the Bazaar . As a fellow software engineer and open source advocate, I was curious what he had to say about the tree-ring circus …

Discussion: Dean's World, Armed and Dangerous, Gateway Pundit, American Power and No Sheeples Here

Wall Street Journal:
‘Cap and Trade Is Dead’

Discussion: Another Black Conservative, The Other McCain, Flopping Aces, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Pundit & Pundette, Firedoglake and Stop The ACLU

Ben Bernanke / Washington Post:

The right fix for the Fed — For many Americans, the financial crisis, and the recession it spawned, have been devastating — jobs, homes, savings lost. Understandably, many people are calling for change. Yet change needs to be about creating a system that works better, not just differently.

Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, The Big Picture and THE CUNNING REALIST

Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times:

Dubai Debt Woes Raise Fear of Wider Problem — Of the many countries that gorged on debt in the boom years, Dubai stood out. In the space of a few years the emirate's investment arm, Dubai World, racked up $59 billion in debt, borrowing to build lavish developments like a giant island shaped …

Discussion: Opinionator, Credit Writedowns, Financial Times, Financial Armageddon, Commentary and The Atlantic Politics Channel

Dexter Filkins / New York Times:

Afghans Offer Jobs to Taliban Rank and File if They Defect — JALALABAD, Afghanistan — The American-backed campaign to persuade legions of Taliban gunmen to stop fighting got under way here recently, in an ornate palace filled with Afghan tribal leaders and one very large former warlord leading the way.

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Jake Sherman / The Politico:

DOJ: Pay ACORN for contracts — The Justice Department has ruled that the federal government can honor some existing contracts to fund ACORN, despite a law barring the flow of all federal money to the beleaguered community group. — David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general …

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts