Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:00 PM ET, February 27, 2013

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
ThinkProgress:
Scalia: Voting Rights Act Is ‘Perpetuation Of Racial Entitlement’  —  WASHINGTON, DC — There were audible gasps in the Supreme Court's lawyer's lounge, where audio of the oral argument is pumped in for members of the Supreme Court bar, when Justice Antonin Scalia offered his assessment of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
RELATED:
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: Voting law in peril — maybe  —  Analysis  —  Sometimes, in a Supreme Court argument, a single phrase can speak volumes.  Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the one member of the Court who bore the most watching because the other eight seemed clearly to divide evenly, used the phrase …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Voting Rights Law Draws Skepticism From Justices  —  WASHINGTON — A central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be in peril, judging from tough questioning on Wednesday from the Supreme Court's more conservative members.  —  If the court overturns the provision, nine states …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: How's that GOP “makeover” going?  —  How's that GOP “makeover” going?  Not too well, according to the internals of the new NBC/WSJ poll.  If these findings aren't enough to persuade Republican strategists that the party needs a rethink on the issues …
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Case: Scalia Condemns The ‘Perpetuation Of Racial Entitlement’ (UPDATE)
Discussion: CNN, The Moderate Voice and SCOTUSblog
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Supreme Court justices hint at striking Voting Rights Act provision
Discussion: Reuters, CNN, Politico and ABCNEWS
Michael Kinsley / New Republic:
Annihilate!  —  Whoever could have imagined that Republicans could be such wussies?
Politico:
Woodward at war  —  Bob Woodward called a senior White House official last week to tell him that in a piece in that weekend's Washington Post, he was going to question President Barack Obama's account of how sequestration came about - and got a major-league brushback.
RELATED:
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Woodward: White House Warned Me “You Will Regret Doing This”  —  WOLF BLITZER, CNN: You're used to this kind of stuff, but share with our viewers what's going on between you and the White House.  —  BOB WOODWARD: Well, they're not happy at all and some people kind of, you know, said, look …
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
BOB WOODWARD: Obama Is Showing 'A Kind Of Madness I Haven't Seen In A Long Time'  —  The Washington Post's Bob Woodward ripped into President Barack Obama on “Morning Joe” today, saying he's exhibiting a “kind of madness I haven't seen in a long time” for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier …
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Bob Woodward Tears Into Obama With Veiled Nixonian Criticism: 'Madness That I Haven't Seen In A Long Time'  —  Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's ongoing war of words with President Barack Obama's White House escalated on Wednesday when Woodward took to the set of MSNBC's Morning Joe …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Woodward claims White House threatened him
Discussion: The Raw Story
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
BOB WOODWARD: A ‘Very Senior’ White House Person Warned Me I'd ‘Regret’ What I'm Doing
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Woodward: Obama's Decision Not To Deploy Carrier “A Kind Of Madness”
Alicia A. Caldwell / bigstory.ap.org:
DHS official retires after immigrants are freed  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » DHS official retires after immigrants are freed  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants announced …
RELATED:
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
W.H. says no part in ICE decision  —  The White House and the Department of Homeland Security were unaware of Immigration Customs and Enforcement's decision to release detainees until the agency announced it, administration officials said Wednesday.  —  “This was a decision made by career officials …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
As Sequester Looms, Obama Pushes Blame to G.O.P.
Discussion: Right Turn
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Kerry: Iran has an ‘elected’ government  —  Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Iran has an “elected” government, echoing a comment for which Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was pilloried in his confirmation hearing last month. … “Iran is a country with a government …
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Examiner
RELATED:
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A political DUI  —  Some of us can recall the helpless feeling of being in a vehicle driven by someone who is intoxicated.  If you're like me, you don't want to cause a scene unless the driving is really erratic.  But there comes a moment when you need to say: Stop the car.  You're going to hurt someone.
RELATED:
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
The Establishment's Obama Derangement Syndrome
CNN:
Christie dismisses lack of CPAC invite  —  (CNN) - Gov. Chris Christie, the outspoken Republican from New Jersey, says he isn't offended that an invite to the Conservative Political Action Conference was not offered to him this year.  —  “Listen, I wish then all the best.
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
RELATED:
Elahe Izadi / NationalJournal.com:
The Real Reason Why Chris Christie Wasn't Invited to CPAC
Washington Post:
Teacher pink slips claim by Duncan not backed by evidence  —  The descriptions of the post-sequester landscape that have been coming out of the Obama Administration have been alarming, specific—and, in at least some cases, hyped.  —  “There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips …
Ben Leubsdorf / Concord Monitor:
N.H. state representative says some people may ‘like being in abusive relationships’  —  Some people may like being in abusive relationships, and they're free to leave them at any time, a state representative said yesterday during a debate on a bill to reduce the penalty for simple assault in some cases.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Brief Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Gets More Republican Support  —  More than two dozen Republicans — including a top adviser to Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, and a former congresswoman who made banning same-sex marriage her signature issue — have added their names …
Politico:
Senate GOP ponders shifting power to Obama  —  Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Sarah Palin: Feds ‘stockpiling bullets’ to use against us  —  Sarah Palin says America will eventually default on its debt and claims that the federal government is “stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest” to prepare.  —  “If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over .3% …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama warns looming spending cuts are ‘going to take a big hit on our economy’  —  President Obama warned on Wednesday evening that the spending cuts set to take place at the end of the week are “going to take a big hit on our economy.”  —  Delivering remarks before the Business Council …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
New York Times:
Austerity Is Already Here  —  Federal government spending often falls after recessions and wars, but the current round of cuts in investment and spending on goods and services is unusually deep.  Combined with cuts by state and local governments, the drop in government's contribution …
RELATED:
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
As Budgets Face Cuts, Austerity Kills Government Jobs
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:00 PM ET, February 27, 2013.

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: 
CNN:
Brennan's Intelligence committee vote delayed
Discussion: Politico
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: AOL Poised to Hire Susan Lyne to Run All Content Brands, Except HuffPo
National Review:
Obama's Sequester Scare Tactics
ProPublica:
Under Obama, More Appointments Go Unfilled
Anthony Tommasini / New York Times:
Van Cliburn, Cold War Musical Envoy, Dies at 78
Discussion: Joe. My. God. and City Room
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Rep. Latham won't run for Senate
Discussion: The Maddow Blog, Daily Kos and CNN
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Rosa Parks statue dedicated at Capitol
Discussion: The Impolitic and Shakesville
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
The story of Pope Benedict's controversial red shoes, which he will give up
Amity Shlaes / Bloomberg:
Gatsby, Galbraith and the Myth of Coolidge's Crash
Discussion: Brad DeLong and AEIdeas
Agence France Presse:
Alleged rape victim in Maldives ‘to be flogged’
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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