memeorandum: Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship (Washington Post)

11:40 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.

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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 …

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 …

Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House: U.S. had no role in detention of Greenwald's partner

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

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Washington Post:

Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship. — “Now the Dallas Morning News …

Discussion: CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Pat Dollard, Mediaite, Independent Journal Review, The Fix and The Right Scoop

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: Hot Air, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Booman Tribune

Hannah August / White House.gov Blog:

Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy — Today the Obamas welcomed the newest member of their family - a little girl (puppy) named Sunny! — Sunny, the new Obama family dog, on the South Lawn of the White House, Aug. 19, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) — Pin

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Kevin Liptak / CNN: New member of the Obama family introduced

Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
In classified cyberwar against Iran, trail of Stuxnet leak leads to White House

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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 …

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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

Joe Biden / CNN:

Biden's son evaluated at Houston hospital — (CNN) - Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware and the son of Vice President Joe Biden, was evaluated on Monday at a Houston hospital after an “episode of disorientation and weakness,” the vice president's office said.

Discussion: Politico

Dylan Byers / Politico:
RNC: CNN Films hiring Courtney Sexton ‘puts the p in puff piece’

Discussion: Deadline.com, NewsBusters, National Review and The PJ Tatler

Wall Street Journal:
Confident Biden Team Sows Seeds For 2016

Jill Lawrence / NationalJournal.com:

Business Tries to Tame Tea-Party Conservatives It Helped Elect — Gridlock, shutdown threats, and default are on the table this fall as weapons in the spending wars. — The nonpartisan National Small Business Association added a new question this summer to its survey of more than 1,100 …

Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Business groups aren't too happy about Tea Party mania they helped unleash

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Avik Roy / Forbes:
Unpublished CRS Memo: Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare's Legally Imposed Implementation Deadlines

Discussion: National Republican …, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Independent Journal Review, Hit & Run, Chicago Tribune, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and The PJ Tatler

Andrew Kaczynski:

This Video Of A Pro-Bob Filner Rally Has To Be Seen To Be Believed — The event was officially called “Time to Heal, Forgive & Get Back to Moving City Forward With Mayor Filner” according to a Facebook group organizing the event. As of Monday, the San Diego Mayor has been accused …

Discussion: Post Politics

Mitch Blacher / KGTV-TV:
Sources: Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys in mediation that includes possible resignation

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

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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: Post Politics and Washington Monthly

Dylan Byers / Politico:

MSNBC's Ed Schultz returns to weekdays, Chris Matthews's ‘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

Andrew Kaczynski:

The New Fad Taking The Country By Storm: “Overpasses For Obama's Impeachment” — The group “Overpasses For Obama's Impeachment” held rallies around the country this weekend calling for Obama's impeachment. The group lists 12 reasons for Obama's impeachment on their website and has quite the following on Facebook.

The Atlantic Online:

Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie? — Inequality explained in pie charts (made of actual pie) — When one of you asked, “Are the rich getting too much of the economic pie?” the team behind Economics in Plain English got pretty excited. Because you said “pie.”

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

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.

Eric Russell / Portland Press-Herald:

LePage is heard to say Obama ‘hates white people’ — Two Republican lawmakers confirm that the governor made the remark at a fundraiser last week. — Gov. Paul LePage last week told a group of Republicans that President Barack Obama “hates white people,” according to two state lawmakers who heard the remark directly.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Gawker

Reid Wilson / GovBeat:

Democrats push back on voting rights — After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that's as old as the republic itself.

Discussion: msnbc.com

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Modern Vote Suppression Better Than Jim Crow, Still Pretty Bad — A pervasive sense of racial victimization has afflicted conservatives during the Obama years — the feeling that they are beset by a combination of false accusations of racism and actual anti-white racial animus that they dare …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Crooks and Liars

Malcolm Byrne / Foreign Policy:

CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup — The agency finally owns up to its role in the 1953 operation. — Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.

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Toddstarnes / Fox News:

Public School Promotes 5 Pillars of Islam — Parents at a Wichita, Kan. elementary school were shocked to discover a giant wall display inside the building promoting the five pillars of Islam. — FOLLOW TODD ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSERVATIVE CONVERSATION! CLICK HERE!

Discussion: Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers and The Right Scoop

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: ThinkProgress and The Raw Story