Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:15 PM ET, January 25, 2013

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Sam Hananel / Associated Press:
COURT: OBAMA APPOINTMENTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday.  —  A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals …
RELATED:
Melanie Trottman / Wall Street Journal:
Court Rules Obama Recess Appointments Unconstitutional
Discussion: Mediaite
Bill Mears / CNN:
Appeals court rules Obama recess appointments unconstitutional
Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
GOP senators will oppose VA electoral change  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The prospects appear doomed in Virginia this year for Republican-backed legislation that would replace the state's winner-take-all method of apportioning presidential electoral votes with one that awards one vote to the winner of each congressional district.
Discussion: Politico and The Raw Story
RELATED:
Michael Sluss / Blue Ridge Caucus:
Updated: GOP Sen. Smith opposes bill to allocate presidential electoral votes by congressional district  —  If a bill to reapportion Virginia's presidential electoral votes by congressional district is a Republican plot, someone forgot to tell state Sen. Ralph Smith, R-Bedford County.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
This is a Big, Big Deal  —  A week ago I noted a new Republican push to gerrymander the electoral college to make it almost impossible for Democrats to win the presidency in 2016 and 2020, even if they match or exceed Barack Obama's vote margin in 2012.  Is something like that really possible?
Discussion: The Mahablog and theGrio
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The GOP Plan to Take the Electoral-Vote-Rigging Scheme National
Discussion: The New Republic
Wall Street Journal:
Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick: Solving the Immigration Puzzle  —  Some want illegals to return to their native countries and ‘wait in line’ like everyone else.  There is no line.  —  The nation's capital is awash with ideas about how to fix America's immigration policy.
RELATED:
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to unveil immigration plan
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Jackie Calmes / The Caucus:
As Obama and Clinton Sit for Joint Interview, Some Look to 2016
Discussion: Mediaite
David Jackson / Associated Press:
Obama names McDonough chief of staff
Caren Bohan / The Atlantic Online:
Who Is Denis McDonough, Obama's New Chief of Staff?
Discussion: Business Insider
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Five Reasons Bobby Jindal Is Responsible For Transforming The GOP Into ‘The Stupid Party’  —  Days after Mitt Romney lost his bid for the presidency, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) kicked off a publicity campaign for his 2016 run, casting himself as a different kind of Republican.
RELATED:
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
Full text: Bobby Jindal's dynamite speech to the Republican National Committee in Charlotte … Below is the text of Gov. Bobby Jindal's full speech to the Republican National Committee in Charlotte, N.C. delivered Thursday night.  —  Thank you all for having me here tonight.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Haley Barbour: ‘Stupid’ comments hurt GOP
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and CNN
Jgalloway / Political Insider:
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss: Frustration with Washington drove him out  —  U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the leader of a bipartisan effort to address the federal deficit, this morning pointed to gridlock in Washington for his decision not to seek a third term in 2014.  —  A statement just released by his office includes this:
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Mitt Romney: 'I'm not going away'  —  Mitt Romney's campaign ended, but he's not getting out of politics.  —  Romney told top Washington bundlers, donors and senior campaign leadership in a meeting Friday morning that he would help out GOP candidates for governor in 2013 …
RELATED:
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Reaffirmed: 4 Pinocchios for a misleading Mitt Romney ad on Chrysler and China  —  “Who will do more for the auto industry?  Not Barack Obama.  Fact checkers confirm that his attacks on Mitt Romney are false.  The truth?  Mitt Romney has a plan to help the auto industry.
Discussion: Politico, Poynter and Daily Kos
Mike Allen / Politico:
Mitt Romney in D.C. for weekend
Discussion: CNN
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
CNN Anchor Tricks Opponent Of Women In Combat To Endorse Racial Segregation  —  Conservatives are outraged over Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's decision to lift the ban on women in combat, which opens up more than 200,000 frontline positions to women.  Opponents of the move have called it “humiliating” and dangerous to unit cohesion.
RELATED:
Tina Moore / NY Daily News:
Is Hillary seeing double?  Daily News analysis points out the Secretary of State may suffer from vision impairments following a concussion and blood clot near her brain  —  A close inspection of Hillary Clinton's glasses worn during her Wednesday testimony on Benghazi shows an adhesive Fresnel prism …
RELATED:
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Jiltin' Joe? Obama does ‘60 Minutes’ with Hillary Clinton
Discussion: The Hill, Taylor Marsh and msnbc.com
Toni Yates / ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Booker helps freezing dog after Eyewitness News tweet … new jersey, newark, cory booker, dog, cold, cold weather, new jersey news, toni yates  —  More: Bio, Facebook, Twitter, Stories by Toni Yates, News Team  —  NEWARK, N.J. (WABC) — Eyewitness News reporter Toni Yates and her crew spotted …
RELATED:
Christina Ng / ABCNEWS:
N.J. Mayor Cory Booker Helps Rescue Freezing Dog
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
We Must Do Something About The Media  —  It's important.  —  I already mentioned the media's Hillary Tributes, but there's even more of it.  —  And I've mentioned this before, but I'm truly alarmed about it: What we are witnessing is the full and seamless fusion of media power with government power.
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
In new fundraising pitch, McConnell campaign says senator blocked filibuster reform  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) campaign is touting what it characterizes as the senator's work to stop filibuster reform in a new fundraising pitch that proclaims, “We beat the liberals.
Discussion: Daily Kos
RELATED:
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
My God, Could This Be True?  —  Much like with Mitt Romney, it seems that Benjamin Netanyahu had no idea of the electoral drubbing headed his way, despite the fact that independent pollsters very much did see it coming.  Yes, you guessed it: Netanyahu's pollsters were apparently skewing his poll data.
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
New Mexico Bill Would Imprison Rape Victims Who Receive Abortions  —  Should a recently introduced bill in New Mexico become law, rape victims will be required to carry their pregnancies to term during their sexual assault trials or face charges of “tampering with evidence.”
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 5:15 PM ET, January 25, 2013.

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 Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Mark Kelly, NRA's Wayne LaPierre To Testify On Gun Violence At Senate Hearing
Discussion: Post Politics
Chris Good / ABCNEWS:
GOP Millionaire Foster Friess Says Super PAC Cash Dump Was Worth It
Discussion: The Hill
Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
Exclusive: NRA senior lobbyist says attack ad was “ill-advised”
Laurie A. Couture:
VAWA Must Be Renamed, Rewritten to be Gender Neutral
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Frank Phillips / Boston Globe:
Lynch set to run for US Senate in special election
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Penalty could keep smokers out of health overhaul
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Althouse
Steve Connor / The Independent:
Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science
Discussion: Truthdig and Suburban Guerrilla
 Earlier Items: 
Felix Salmon:
How roads could beat rail
Discussion: Paul Krugman and Mother Jones
Tom Wilkinson / The Independent:
Comic book hero Judge Dredd ‘might be gay’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Deficit Hawks Down  —  President Obama's second Inaugural …
 

 
From Techmeme:

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on other online classified ads service providers

Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

 
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