Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:35 AM ET, July 10, 2012

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Washington Post:
President Obama, Mitt Romney deadlocked in race, poll finds  —  AP - A pair of tepid jobs reports, landmark Supreme Court decisions on health-care and immigration laws, and an unprecedented barrage of negative ads have shaped the opening months of the fall presidential campaign.
RELATED:
CNN:
Indiana abortion law ruled illegal  —  (CNN) - A controversial Indiana law that would keep low-income women from using federal Medicaid benefits to receive any kind of reproductive medical care from Planned Parenthood is unacceptable because it denies women the freedom to choose their health care providers …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama Trails Romney Again in Battle for Campaign Cash  —  In the battle for political cash, President Obama is finding himself in an unaccustomed place during the final months of the 2012 campaign: he is losing.  —  Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee easily outraised …
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Senior Obama adviser: Romney backers trying to ‘purchase’ election  —  Senior White House adviser David Plouffe on Tuesday accused wealthy Mitt Romney supporters of trying to “purchase the White House,” one day after the presumptive GOP nominee announced a $106 million June fundraising haul that stunned the Obama campaign.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Chicago keeps up Romney tax attacks  —  While the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee begin their counteroffensive on outsourcing today, Team Obama is continuing to grind away on the issue of Mitt Romney's personal finances.  —  “Mitt Romney is defying calls to release …
Washington Post:
Obama's record on outsourcing draws criticism from the left
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Power Line
CNN:
Barbour: If in Romney's position, I would release tax docs
Discussion: Politico, Michelle Malkin and The Page
CNN:
RNC chairman to ‘bracket’ Obama Iowa visit
Wall Street Journal:
Romney Again Logs Big Lead in Fundraising
Alexander Burns / Politico:
It's a repeat: Romney tops Obama in June by $35 million
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
On tax cuts, Obama decides to fight  —  The Obama administration has faced a difficult choice: Does it put off the fiscal crisis looming at the end of the year by capitulating to Republican demands to extend all the Bush tax cuts until 2013 — a move that would infuriate the Democratic base and muddle the campaign's message?
RELATED:
Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  One Chart That Shows What The Bush Tax Cut Battle Is All About  —  Considering all the Sturm und Drang over President Obama's plan to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire on income over $250,000 you'd think that Republicans and Democrats had hugely different ideas about where to set tax policy in 2013.
WMUR:
Obama calls for extending middle-class tax cuts
Byron Tau / Politico:
White House would veto full Bush tax cut extension
Rochelle Olson / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Scorned Cottage Grove mom sets self ablaze  —  Police say the Cottage Grove woman, described as “vodka mom” on TV, was despondent over the asphyxiation death of her infant son.  —  A 29-year-old Cottage Grove woman set herself afire and died just weeks after being ridiculed as “vodka mom” …
Discussion: Wizbang
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Cracks Appear in Republican Unity on Health Law Repeal  —  WASHINGTON — A House vote to fully repeal President Obama's health care law was supposed to be the coup de grâce for “Obamacare,” a final sweeping away of a law that Republicans thought the Supreme Court would gut and leave for dead.
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Repealing health law would mean more benefits for members of Congress  —  Repealing President Obama's healthcare law would let members of Congress keep their government-subsidized insurance coverage after they retire — a benefit they lost under the health law.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Christopher Andersen / NY Daily News:
Mick Jagger's affair with David Bowie revealed in new book: They ‘were really sexually obsessed with each other’  —  Bowie's wife found them in bed, backup singer and Playboy model claimed to share their bed  —  David Bowie's “Ziggy Stardust” era had Jagger wondering if this was the future.
Associated Press:
As homicides spike, Chicago mayor defends tactics  —  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's mayor and police superintendent publicly defended their new gang-fighting strategy Monday amid growing criticism that the changes are failing and a big reason why the city's homicide rate has soared this year.
Robert Frank / CNBC.com Links List Headlines:
In Maryland, Higher Taxes Chase Out Rich: Study  —  A new report says wealthy Maryland residents may be moving out due to recent tax hikes - a finding that is sure to escalate the battle over taxing the American rich.  —  The study, by the anti-tax group Change Maryland …
Discussion: Hot Air
Al Baker / New York Times:
70 Students to Retake Exams After Cheating Case  —  Seventy students were involved in a pattern of smartphone-enabled cheating last month at Stuyvesant High School, New York City officials said Monday, describing an episode that has blemished one of the country's most prestigious public schools.
Discussion: Unfogged and New York Magazine
Amanda Becker / Roll Call:
House Ethics Will Probe Shelley Berkley's Role in Saving Transplant Program  —  The House Ethics Committee said today it will investigate whether Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) broke any ethics rules or laws when she intervened to save a kidney transplant program at a hospital where her physician husband had a lucrative contract.
Discussion: RedState
Howard Berkes / NPR:
As Mine Protections Fail, Black Lung Cases Surge … Coal miners are tested for black lung at a clinic in West Virginia.  —  Part one of a two-part series.  —  It wasn't supposed to happen to coal miners in Mark McCowan's generation.  It wasn't supposed to strike so early and so hard.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:35 AM ET, July 10, 2012.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 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: 
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
A Reality Series Intrudes on Silicon Valley, and Finds It Cringing
Discussion: New York Magazine
Felix Salmon:
How economists get tripped up by statistics
Kristin Brown / Fox News:
Rick Perry: Texas Won't Implement Obamacare
Discussion: American Prospect and Hot Air
O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Romney calls Obama tax plan a “job killer” (audio)
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Caucus
Dave Jamieson / The Huffington Post:
AFL-CIO Curbs Democratic Convention Involvement As Part Of New Strategy, Memo States
 Earlier Items: 
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Rep. West denies equating Social Security to slavery
Reuters:
Venezuela's Chavez says “totally free” of cancer, again
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:
Water torture  —  IDF confiscates water containers from Palestinians …
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV
 
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