memeorandum: Have a Rotten Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone (John Podhoretz/Commentary Magazine)

12:00 PM ET, April 3, 2011

Top Items:

Have a Rotten Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone — So Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist who fronted the U.N. report bearing his name that alleged massive Israeli war crimes in the Gaza war of 2008-2009, has taken to the pages of the Washington Post to say, in effect, “never mind”:

Discussion: Guardian, BBC, Elder of Ziyon, Weasel Zippers and Maggie's Farm

Peter Berkowitz / Hoover Institution:

The Goldstone Mess — Peter Berkowitz on The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss. — Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss, editors. The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict.

Discussion: Israel Matzav

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Richard Goldstone Confirms He Was A Useful Idiot

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, New York Times, YID With LID, Pajamas Media and Atlas Shrugs

Ron Radosh / Pajamas Media:
Judge Richard Goldstone's Stunning Re-evaluation of His Own Report

Discussion: Power Line, Commentary Magazine, Doug Ross, Israel Matzav, The Volokh Conspiracy, FrumForum and Washington Post

James Hibberd / Inside TV:

Charlie Sheen's Detroit disaster: Boos, walk-outs for ‘Torpedo of Truth’ — First the U.S. automaker recession, and now this. Charlie Sheen unleashed his Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour on the Motor City on Saturday night to a crowd that began with an adoring standing ovation and concluded with booing and walk-outs.

Discussion: Big Hollywood, The Wire, Instapundit, TMZ.com, The Daily Caller, The Last Tradition, iOwnTheWorld.com and Fausta's Blog

Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:

President Obama intervenes in budget standoff — President Obama phones the House speaker and the Senate leader in an effort to broker a Republican-Democratic deal to avert a government shutdown. — Reporting from Washington — As the budget stalemate lingered …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Associated Press, Roll Call and Moe Lane

Carl Hulse / New York Times:

Budget Battle to Be Followed by an Even Bigger Fight — WASHINGTON — Congress has yet to settle its first budget fight of the year but is already about to move on to an even more consequential fiscal clash. — Even as the two parties struggled over the weekend to reach a deal on federal spending …

Discussion: CNN, The Politico and Fox News

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Can the House “deem” a bill into law?

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Volokh Conspiracy and The Hill

A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:

Illinois Workers Find That a Death Penalty Ban Abolishes Their Jobs, Too — The day after the death penalty was abolished in Illinois in early March, Wendi Liss received a call from one of her clients, who was facing trial for murder and the prospect of being executed if found guilty.

Discussion: Althouse

Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:

Joseph Stiglitz: The Fate of The Top 1% Is Bound Up With How The Other 99% Live — Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that America's top economists are running around with their hair on fire? (Or whatever passes for it with economists.) Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz in Vanity Fair sounds …

Discussion: The Reality-Based Community and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Ed Vulliamy / Guardian:

Dirty billions and Mexico's drugs war — As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored

Discussion: naked capitalism, TalkLeft and Emptywheel

Washington Post:

Libyan rebels struggle to explain rift — Gallery: Conflict and chaos in Libya: As international airstrikes continue against forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi, rebels face difficult battle. — BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya's rebel military struggled Saturday to explain an apparent rift within …

Discussion: FrumForum

Mike Allen / The Politico:

House GOP to target ‘tens of trillions’ on entitlements — Bush war aide: Libya could become Obama's Iraq — Lessons learned: 'clear goals ... Don't sell public on a best-case scenario' — BULLETIN: President Obama plans to announce his reelection campaign early next week in an electronic message …

Discussion: Right Pundits

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
An Obama Insider, Running the Race From Afar

Discussion: CBS News, Ben Smith's Blog and AMERICAblog News

Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama '12 launch likely next week

Discussion: CNN, Pat Dollard, The Gateway Pundit, RedState and FrumForum

The Note:

Fmr. Nat. Sec. Adv. Jones: Yemen Trends ‘Not Good’ — In his first interview since leaving the White House last fall, former Obama National Security Advisor Jim Jones warned that the way events were unfolding in Yemen were “not good.” — Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh …

Discussion: CNN

Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Romney slams Obama foreign policy, avoids Libya — Speaking in Las Vegas, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Saturday criticized President Barack Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East. — Romney said the president hasn't been tough enough on Iran and its nuclear program.

Discussion: Another Black Conservative, Left Coast Rebel, Eunomia and Ballot Box

Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Mitt's health care defense

Discussion: The Note and FrumForum

Matt Viser / Boston Globe: Romney comes for foreign policy, leaves defending Mass. health care

Raymond Colitt / Reuters:

Al Qaeda members hide in Brazil, raise money: report — BRASILIA (Reuters) - Al Qaeda operatives are in Brazil planning attacks, raising money and recruiting followers, a leading news magazine reported Saturday, renewing concerns about the nation serving as a hide-out for Islamic militants.

New York Times:

Trump for President in 2012? Maybe. Trump for Trump? Without Question. — Something predictable happens to the ratings of Donald J. Trump's “Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC when he hints at running for president: They rise. — And when he talks about President Obama's birth certificate, they really rise.

Jason Millman / The Hill:

List of health reform waivers keeps growing — The number of waivers the Obama administration has awarded for a provision of the year-old healthcare reform law grew by 128 in March. — With the new waivers, that means 1,168 businesses, insurers, unions and other organizations have received …

Discussion: Jamie Dupree Washington …, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative

Aljazeera:

Libyan rebels ‘receive foreign training’ — Rebel source tells Al Jazeera about training offered by US and Egyptian special forces in eastern Libya. — US and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been offering covert armed training to rebel fighters in the battle for Libya, Al Jazeera has been told.

Discussion: Another Black Conservative, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

BBC:
Libya: Coalition air strike near Brega kills rebels

Discussion: CNN, Sky News, The Last Tradition, The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, The Other McCain and FrumForum

New York Times:
NATO Airstrike Reportedly Kills Rebels in Libya

Discussion: Truthout, FrumForum, Outside the Beltway, Taylor Marsh and JustOneMinute

CNN:

Huckabee wins 2012 county straw poll in South Carolina — Washington (CNN) - Mike Huckabee won a 2012 presidential straw poll conducted in a key South Carolina county Saturday. — The informal vote was the first of many upcoming straw polls taking place this month at grassroots GOP …

Discussion: GOP 12, Donklephant, Ballot Box and Washington Post