Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:35 PM ET, August 15, 2012

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Fox News:
FBI probing shooting of guard at Family Research Council HQ  —  A security guard at the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, D.C., was shot in the arm by a gunman who sources said expressed disagreement with the conservative group's policy positions.
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Security guard shot at Family Research Council in downtown D.C.  —  A security guard at the Family Research Council was shot and wounded Wednesday morning after a scuffle in the lobby of the group's headquarters in downtown Washington, authorities said.  —  D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier …
Fox News:
SOURCES: Gunman With Chick-Fil-A Bag Opens Fire At Conservatives  —  Hero guard shot thwarting attack at Family Research Council HQ  —  FoxNews.com  —  A security guard at the Family Research Council's headquarters in Washington, D.C. is being hailed as a hero after he stopped a gunman posing …
Erick Erickson / Twitchy:
Crosshairs: Left calls Family Research Council ‘hate group,’ reacts to shooting; Shooter yelled about FRC's ‘values’ … As Twitchy reported earlier, there was a shooting at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., this morning. … The Left screeches about new tone and civility …
WJLA-TV:
Family Research Council shooting leaves security guard wounded
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The next frontier in the case against Paul Ryan  —  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have had some success in obscuring the health care debate by pointing out that Ryan's proposal does not change Medicare for people currently over 55 years old.  This has allowed Republicans to blunt Dem attacks …
RELATED:
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Sees No Immediate Bounce From Ryan V.P. Pick  —  Support at 46% before naming Ryan, 47% after  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney's standing in the presidential election campaign has not changed materially in the immediate days after his announcement of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Boehner holds call to calm House GOP  —  Jolted by concerns over the wave of Medicare-themed Democratic attacks sparked by Paul Ryan's vice presidential nomination, House Speaker John Boehner held a Tuesday evening conference call aimed at soothing jittery Republican members, POLITICO has learned.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
When Cruelty Is Cute  —  I'd been wondering how long it would take Republicans to realize that Paul Ryan is their guy.  —  He's the cutest package that cruelty ever came in.  He has a winning air of sad cheerfulness.  He's affable, clean-cut and really cut, with the Irish altar-boy widow's peak …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
A Romney first: over 40% of youth vote back him … More Photos  —  Popular in Politics  —  For the first time since he began running for president, Republican Mitt Romney has the support of over 40 percent of America's youth vote, a troubling sign for President Obama who built his 2008 victory …
Katherine Boyle / Washington Post:
Ryan and Romney: A contrast in sartorial styles
Ross Douthat / Campaign Stops:
Why Moderates Should Like Paul Ryan
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Booman Tribune and TBogg
Waymon Hudson / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan: Poster Boy of Today's Extreme GOP
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
President Obama: No Apologies, No Scolding for Joe Biden's Remark  —  Vice President Joe Biden may have sparked the latest war of words in the presidential campaign, but he'll get no talking-to from the boss on this one.  Just a small sigh - and a vote of confidence.
RELATED:
Joe Biden / CNN:
Former Obama campaign co-chair: Biden's remarks ‘racial viciousness’  —  (CNN) - Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama, said Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden was propagating “racial viciousness” when he said Mitt Romney's regulatory policies would “put y'all back in chains.”
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
President Obama, Mitt Romney running a most poisonous campaign  —  No one expected Campaign 2012 to be positive or uplifting.  The country's problems are too severe and the battle lines between Republicans and Democrats have been hardened by almost four years of conflict between the White House and Congress.
Lisa Hirsch / ETonline.com:   President Obama Weighs in on Romney Attack
CNN:
Former Obama campaign co-chair to stump for Romney
Brooke Nevils / Rock Center with Brian Williams:
Ann Romney talks family, finances in exclusive interview: 'There's nothing we're hiding'  —  LLANGYNWD, Wales - About two hundred miles away from the Greenwich, England, arena where her purebred horse Rafalca competed in the London Olympics, Ann Romney stroked the nose of Magic, a Welsh pony.
RELATED:
Tomer Ovadia / Politico:
Ann Romney: No more tax returns
Discussion: Angry Bear and The Hill
Paul Walsh / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Fiery protester outside General Mills dies days later on family errand  —  A Twin Cities man who staged a fiery protest outside General Mills headquarters in Golden Valley last week died several days later while running an errand, his family's minister said Wednesday.
RELATED:
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Arizona Governor Tries To Thwart Obama's Immigration Directive With Executive Order  —  Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) has signed an executive order that attempts to thwart President Obama's directive extending temporary work permits to more than a million undocumented immigrants.
RELATED:
KNXV:
Brewer bars IDs, benefits for DREAMers
New York Times:
A Missed Chance to Reject Voting Barriers  —  Judge Robert Simpson of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania seems to assume that legislators have a high-minded public purpose for the laws they pass.  That's why, on Wednesday morning, he refused to grant an injunction to halt …
RELATED:
Lynn Beisner / Guardian:
I wish my mother had aborted me |  Lynn Beisner  —  This is no 'I wish I'd never been born' howl of angst.  I love my mother, and having an abortion would have given her a better life  —  If there is one thing that anti-choice activists do that makes me see red, it is when they parade …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:35 PM ET, August 15, 2012.

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: 
Heather McRobie / New Statesman:
Exclusive: Osborne's supporters turn on him
Discussion: Business Insider and Guardian
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Debate commission denies Univision request
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Maher on voter ID: Black people don't have picture ID since they 'take the bus because they're poor' [VIDEO]
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Air Travel's Hassles Drive Riders to Amtrak's Acela
 Earlier Items: 
Betsy Woodruff / National Review:
How Did Harry Reid Get Rich?
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Senator Rand Paul Touts False Claim From ‘9/11 Truth’ Conspiracy Site
Fortune:
Mitt Romney: Rich taxpayers will pay their share
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Special ops group attacks Obama over bin Laden bragging, leaks
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A US federal court allows The Intercept's claim that the DMCA stops OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but dismisses its claims against Microsoft

 
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