Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:25 AM ET, May 7, 2013

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
New York Post:
Christie reveals secret stomach surgery to lose weight  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down for the sake of his wife and kids, he revealed to The Post last night.  —  The Garden State governor agreed to the operation …
RELATED:
Associated Press:
Newspaper: NJ gov. had secret weight loss surgery  —  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent gastric band surgery in February to try to lose weight at the urging of his family.  —  The father of four agreed to the surgery, in which a tube was placed around his stomach …
Dan Merica / CNN:   Christie reveals weight loss surgery
Thomas Ott / Plain Dealer:
Berry, DeJesus, Knight found alive, police source confirms  —  Cheers as Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, MIchelle Knight found alive  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Long-missing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive.  —  Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told …
RELATED:
RELATED:
Associated Press:
Senator says military plagued by sexual assaults
Discussion: The Raw Story
Jennifer Hlad / Stars & Stripes:
Air Force sex assault prevention chief charged in sex assault
Guardian:   US air force sexual assault prevention unit chief charged with sexual battery
Senator Kelly Ayotte / Amherst Patch:
Ayotte: I Voted to Improve Background Checks  —  Out of state special interests are running false ads attacking me and even lying about my efforts to prevent gun-related violence.  I want to set the record straight: I support effective background checks and in fact voted recently to improve …
Discussion: Reuters and Hot Air
RELATED:
Dana Bash / CNN:
Flake willing to support background checks, with changes to internet sales  —  Washington (CNN) - Republican Sen. Jeff Flake told CNN he is willing to reverse his opposition to expanding background checks for guns if the Senate sponsors change on the bill's provision dealing with internet sales.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Manchin ‘frustrated’ with the NRA
CNN:
Illinois GOP chair resigns, cites support for same-sex marriage as a reason  —  Washington (CNN) - Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady resigned Tuesday, citing a handful of reasons including an ongoing struggle with several members of the state GOP over his support for same-sex marriage.
Discussion: Post Politics
RELATED:
Kerry Lester / Daily Herald:
Illinois GOP's Brady to resign Tuesday morning
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Joe. My. God.
David Brown / Washington Post:
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’  —  You, hear me!  Give this fire to that old man.  Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother.  And no spitting in the ashes!  —  It's an odd little speech.  But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
G.O.P. Is Readying a New Offensive Over Health Care Law  —  WASHINGTON — As the administration struggles to put in place the final, complex piece of President Obama's signature health care law, an endeavor on a scale not seen since Medicare's creation nearly a half-century ago …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Huckabee: Benghazi will drive Obama from office  —  Mike Huckabee on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama won't finish out his second term in light of the “cover-up” of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the former Arkansas governor called the affair “more serious than Watergate.”
RELATED:
Kate Knable / ArkansasBusiness.com:
Mike Huckabee Talks TV, Radio Career, Mulls Political Future
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
House hits brakes on Internet tax passed by Senate … The House was in no rush to take up an internet tax bill that senators approved Monday night.  And even if the House takes up the issue, lawmakers said, it will be a bill very different from the Senate's.
Discussion: Wake up America
RELATED:
Alexandra Dukakis / ABCNEWS:
Sen. Rob Portman Says, ‘Yes,’ He Smoked Pot  —  The highlight of Sen. Rob Portman's BuzzFeed Brews interview Monday night wasn't his pitchy rendition of Randy Newman's “Burn On,” nor was it his remark that George W. Bush “certainly did his level best” during his tenure as president.
Discussion: Hit & Run
RELATED:
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Yes, America, Senator Rob Portman Smoked Pot
Anne McNamara / FOX43tv.com:
Boy who held pencil like gun suspended  —  School has “zero tolerance” weapons policy  —  SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A Suffolk school suspended a second grader for pointing a pencil at another student and making gun noises.  —  Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing …
Tim Flach / The State:
Chapin teacher got $85,000 in flag stomping deal  —  CHAPIN, SC — Lexington-Richland 5 paid former Chapin High teacher Scott Compton √ $85,000 to avoid a legal challenge, part of a settlement that led to his resignation after he stomped on an American flag during a class lesson.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end  —  When it first became clear that the CIA's Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect.  After all, it served President Obama's political purposes to claim …
Des Moines Register:
Former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker pursues open Senate seat  —  Two other GOP hopefuls express interest in the 2014 race for Tom Harkin's position.  —  Former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker is taking steps to run for the U.S. Senate, saying he would vote only for legislation that's constitutional …
Discussion: Ballot Box
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:25 AM ET, May 7, 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: 
Aliyah Frumin / msnbc.com:
Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence-only education can make rape survivors feel ‘dirty,’ ‘filthy’
Discussion: Gawker, Shakesville and ThinkProgress
Edith Honan / Reuters:
Delaware to vote on becoming 11th state to allow gay marriage
Discussion: First Read and Outside the Beltway
Manu Raju / Politico:
Rand Paul, Marco Rubio face 2016 bind
Discussion: msnbc.com
Jonathan Salant / Political Capital:
Menendez Asked Justice to Delay Merger Opposed by Donor
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Where are the start-ups? Column
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Riehl World News
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Directly Blames China's Military for Cyberattacks
Discussion: Business Insider and ParaPundit
 Earlier Items: 
@NCCapitol:
House votes to relax gun laws in NC
Dr Christopher Kent / rba.gov.au:
Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision
Discussion: Business Insider and BBC
Richard A. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
The Rule of Lawyers  —  Law-school applications today have dropped …
Discussion: Via Meadia
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Mississippi Still Poised For Tuesday Execution, Despite DOJ Warnings That Evidence Is ‘Invalid’
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza

Devin Gordon / New York Times:
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs

Ben Jacobs / Slate:
A profile of John Avlon, former CNN anchor, former Daily Beast EIC, former speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani, and now a congressional candidate running in New York

 
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