memeorandum: MSNBC's Ed Schultz returns to weekdays, Chris Matthews' ‘Hardball’ to 7 p.m. (Dylan Byers/Politico)

9:20 PM ET, August 19, 2013

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Pedro Fonseca / Reuters:

Glenn Greenwald To Publish UK Secrets After Britain Detains Partner — The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed on Monday to publish more documents and said Britain will be “sorry” for detaining his partner for nine hours.

Discussion: NBCNews, The Hinterland Gazette, The Impolitic, The Switch, Joshua Foust, Little Green Footballs, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, No More Mister Nice Blog and ThinkProgress

Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face — As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing — In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly …

Jennifer Epstein / Politico:

White House: U.S. had no role in detention of Greenwald's partner — The United States was not involved in the detention of David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, but was told it was likely that the Brazilian citizen would be stopped at London's Heathrow Airport, the White House said Monday.

Discussion: USA Today, Reporters Without Borders, Liberal Values, Guardian, Towleroad News #gay, Mediaite, ABC News, The Atlantic Wire, BuzzFeed, Yahoo! News and Techdirt, more at Mediagazer »

Jonathan Watts / Guardian:

David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate' — Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald gives his first interview on nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow airport — David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance …

Discussion: Financial Times, Amnesty International, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, The Week, The Huffington Post, Advocate, Hot Air, NPR, 99GetSmart, The Verge, Wonkette and The Daily Banter, more at Mediagazer »

Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention

Discussion: Yahoo! News and Hit & Run, more at Mediagazer »

Nick Cohen / Spectator:
David Miranda's arrest proves how sinister the state has become

Discussion: Reuters, New York Times, Taking Note, Guardian, Business Insider and Associated Press, more at Mediagazer »

Dallas Morning News:

Canada-born Ted Cruz became a citizen of that country as well as U.S. — Sen. Ted Cruz's birth certificate shows he was born in Canada in 1970. It was released exclusively to The Dallas Morning News.

Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:

Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same — Can a master debater who wore a paisley bathrobe to creepily stroll by the women's wing of the dorm be the next president? Patricia Murphy talks to Ted Cruz's college roommates about his stint at Princeton.

Discussion: National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller and Booman Tribune

Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz Releases Birth Certificate

Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Kos and Hot Air

Bill Keller / New York Times:

War on the Core — I respect, really I do, the efforts by political scientists and pundits to make sense of the current Republican Party. There is intellectual virtue in the search for historical antecedents and philosophical underpinnings. — I understand the urge to take what looks …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Eduwonk, Diane Ravitch's blog, The Mahablog and p m carpenter's commentary

Paul Krugman:

Stupid Is A Strategy — Bill Keller has a strong, stinging column about Republican attacks on the entirely praiseworthy, up to now bipartisan effort to create a Common Core curriculum. But I think we need to say more than this: … First of all, right-wing leaders don't strike me as being at all stupid …

Discussion: Diane Ravitch's blog

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

Business groups aren't too happy about Tea Party mania they helped unleash — GOP-aligned business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, and others played a key role in helping elect dozens of conservatives to the House and Senate.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Slate, Daily Kos and Booman Tribune

Jill Lawrence / NationalJournal.com: Business Tries to Tame Tea-Party Conservatives It Helped Elect

Wall Street Journal:

Confident Biden Team Sows Seeds For 2016 — Backers Consider Steps for White House—Even If Hillary Clinton Enters Race — Political allies of Vice President Joe Biden have concluded that he can win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination—even if Hillary Clinton enters the contest …

Discussion: CNN, NBC Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Independent Journal Review, Hot Air, Right Turn, The Week, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Wire, p m carpenter's commentary, Weasel Zippers, The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, The Hill, Booman Tribune, The Daily Caller and msnbc.com

Dylan Byers / Politico:

RNC: CNN Films hiring Courtney Sexton ‘puts the p in puff piece’ — CNN Films' decision to hire senior director Courtney Sexton — whose previous films include Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Jimmy Carter Man from Plains” — is further evidence that the production company's forthcoming …

Discussion: National Review, NewsBusters and The PJ Tatler

Deadline.com:
RNC Responds to CNN Hire of Participant Media Exec Courtney Sexton

Discussion: NewsBusters

Mitch Blacher / KGTV-TV:

Sources: Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys in mediation that includes possible resignation — Two sources reveal meeting to Team 10 — SAN DIEGO - Two inside, anonymous sources told Team 10 Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys were in a mediation session Monday morning with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and LA-based attorney Gloria Allred.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Hill, cbs8.com and National Review

Andrew Kaczynski:
This Video Of A Pro-Bob Filner Rally Has To Be Seen To Be Believed

Discussion: Post Politics

R. Stickney / KNSD-TV:
Filner Is More Than Sloppy Kisses: Supporters

Discussion: NBCNews, Hot Air, NPR, Most Recent and The Gateway Pundit

Hunter Schwarz / BuzzFeed:

Map: What Religion Does Your Member Of Congress Identify With? — A breakdown of Congress' religious makeup. One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all. — BuzzFeed has mapped out the religions of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives by their districts …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Post Politics and msnbc.com

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Fox News Analyst: Most Arabs Supported Bin Laden's Efforts To Kill Americans — On Monday, during a panel discussion about the launch of Al Jazeera America, a Fox News political analyst explained the channel's popularity in the Arab world by claiming that most Arabs sympathize with Osama bin Laden's efforts to kill Americans.

Discussion: Fox News, Mediaite and The Raw Story

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Week, rubber hose and TheBlaze.com, more at Mediagazer »

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Al Jazeera America launches without significant advertiser base

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters and Jammie Wearing Fools

Dylan Byers / Politico:

MSNBC's Ed Schultz returns to weekdays, Chris Matthews' ‘Hardball’ to 7 p.m. — MSNBC's Ed Schultz will return to weekdays later this month after a brief hiatus as weekend host, signalling a reversal of fortunes for the bombastic television personality who has become a champion to union workers and blue-collar liberals.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and p m carpenter's commentary

Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC Moves Ed Schultz Back to Weeknights (Exclusive)

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice and The Huffington Post

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:

Dems have an ace in the hole in coming battle — Most observers expect Congress will somehow pass a measure this fall funding the government temporarily at current levels, pushing the real fights over the sequester, spending and the size of government into the new year.

Aaron Kase / Salon:

“Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell — Pennsylvania's right-wing governor drains public schools of basic funds — and the sickening details will shock you — Want to see a public school system in its death throes? Look no further than Philadelphia.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Eschaton

Ian Floyd / The Texas Tribune:

Plan to Convert Roads to Gravel Begins Despite Pushback … As he witnesses the roads around his South Texas farm crumble and deteriorate, Dane Elliot is aware that he is both a victim of the problem and part of it. The farmer and rancher in Live Oak County also owns a small trucking company that hauls oil field equipment.

Discussion: The Raw Story and ThinkProgress

Jim Sensenbrenner / Los Angeles Times:

How Obama has abused the Patriot Act — The White House's justification for collecting Americans' phone data doesn't stand up to the light of day. — The Obama administration has legally justified the National Security Agency's collection of phone data from every American by citing …

Discussion: National Review

John Fund / National Review:
Time for Answers from the NSA — It's time to ask tough questions …

Discussion: Hit & Run, Hot Air, Techdirt and Right Turn

Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:

Public Backs Cutoff of Military Aid to Egypt — 50% Say Obama's Reponse to Violence Is ‘Not Tough Enough’ — OVERVIEW — With violence continuing to rage in Egypt, 51% of Americans say it is better for the United States to cut off military aid to Egypt to put pressure on the government.

Discussion: The Hill, Politico, Yahoo! News, New York Times, Hot Air, Firedoglake, CNN and Post Politics

TIME:
Viewpoint: Egypt No Longer Matters

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Ed Driscoll

Michael Tanner / New York Post:

When welfare pays better than work — Here's an offer for you: $38,004 per year, tax free.No work required.Apply at your local welfare office. — The federal government funds 126 separate programs targeted towards low-income people, 72 of which provide either cash or in-kind benefits to individuals.

Discussion: Moonbattery

Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:

In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House — The Obama administration provided a New York Times reporter exclusive access to a range of high-level national security officials for a book that divulged highly classified information on a U.S. cyberwar …

Discussion: Pat Dollard, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Jawa Report

Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:

Trayvon Martin Shooting Reenacted In New Ad Calling For End To Stand Your Ground Laws — WASHINGTON — The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a chilling new online ad reenacting the night Travyon Martin was killed, in an effort to stop the controversial Stand Your Ground laws nationwide.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Hinterland Gazette and The Week

Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary — Technical information: — Employment: (202) 691-6559 * sminfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/sae — Unemployment: (202) 691-6392 * lausinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/lau — Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov

Discussion: Economic Policy Institute, The Daily Caller, GovBeat, Calculated Risk and NetRight Daily

Associated Press:

Fort Hood judge blocks ‘jihad’ evidence — A military judge blocked several key pieces of evidence Monday that prosecutors said would explain the mindset of the soldier accused in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, including his belief that he had a “jihad duty” to carry out the attack.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers