memeorandum: RAND PAUL OPPORTUNISTIC — AND WRONG

7:10 PM ET, August 29, 2014

Top Items:

Rep. Peter King Is Angry President Obama Wore A Tan Suit — Rep. Peter King (R-NY) went on an extended rant about President Barack Obama's decision to wear a tan suit during a statement about the terrorist group ISIS he delivered on Thursday at the White House.

Discussion: Mediaite and Pharyngula

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:

Why Obama's 'we don't have a strategy' gaffe stings — By now, President Obama's remark that “we don't have a strategy yet” has made the rounds. Republicans were quick to pounce on it, as well they should have. — But while the White House went into damage-control mode …

Discussion: Hot Air and Instapundit

Larry Downing / The Daily Beast:

Why Obama Backed Off More ISIS Strikes: His Own Team Couldn't Agree on a Syria Strategy — After lots of bluster about striking ISIS on Syria, President Obama threw cold water on the idea, disappointing those who wanted him to broaden the war. — After a week of talk of eliminating the …

Discussion: Politico, Booman Tribune, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, The Dish and Guardian

Judy Kurtz / The Hill:

Fashion mavens weigh in on That Suit — Fashionistas and style gurus are weighing in on President Obama's tan press conference suit, giving their two cents on the taupe two-piece that lit up the Internet on Thursday. — While Washingtonian magazine Fashion Editor Kate Bennett gives the president props for …

Politico:
Obama's campaign no-fly zone

Discussion: National Review

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's ‘strategy’ misfire

Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air, NewsBusters, Hullabaloo, Washington Free Beacon, BizPac Review, Capitol Report and New York Times

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
As New Dangers Loom, More Think the U.S. Does ‘Too Little’ to Solve World Problems

Discussion: Lawfare, Israel Matzav, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Informed Comment, Taylor Marsh and Washington Free Beacon

Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House does damage control

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Politico, Fox News, Washington Post, Hit & Run, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh and BuzzFeed

Judicial Watch:

Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on US Border — Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement …

Discussion: Power Line, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, his vorpal sword, The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit, National Review and Questions and Observations

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Morning Plum: Why top Dems are worried about politics of deportations — The Los Angeles Times reports this morning that the White House is considering whether to postpone Obama's politically explosive executive action to defer deportations until after the elections.

Discussion: Courier-Journal, Bloomberg, Daily Kos and National Review

Byron York / Washington Examiner: Another government shutdown? Not gonna happen

The Hill:
GOP douses shutdown threats

Discussion: Politico, PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos

Sharon Cotliar / People.com:

Chelsea Clinton Is Leaving NBC News — Chelsea Clinton says she's stepping out of her correspondent job as she looks forward to taking on mom duties — After not quite three years as a special correspondent for NBC News - and with just a little while until she and husband Marc Mezvinsky …

Discussion: Politico, BizPac Review, NewsBusters, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »

Chelsea Clinton / Facebook:
Thank You — When I joined the NBC family in 2011 …

Discussion: CNN and The Huffington Post

Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post:

WATCH: Family Has Horrifying, Violent Reaction To Son's Coming Out As Gay (GRAPHIC CONTENT) — Sometimes coming-out stories are heartwarming tales of acceptance and love. Other times they are tragic accounts of abandonment and abuse. — Daniel Ashley Pierce, a 20-year-old from Georgia, came out as gay last October.

Discussion: The Raw Story, The Daily Banter, Pharyngula and ThinkProgress

Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:

Ben Carson: No, I'm Not Sorry I Compared U.S. To Nazi Germany — Conservative Ben Carson isn't backing down from his previous statements likening progressives and Obama supporters to Nazi sympathizers. — The topic was broached and reported on in a profile of Carson in The Washington Post.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Mediaite

Ben Terris / Washington Post: He's already a famous surgeon and author, so why is Ben Carson toying with a longshot presidential bid?

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

Man Arrested While Picking Up His Kids: 'The Problem Is I'm Black' — If you've never experienced arbitrary harassment or brutality at the hands of a police officer, or seen law enforcement act in a way that defies credulity and common sense, it can be hard to believe people who tell stories of inexplicable persecution.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:

Actually, Obama Does Have a Strategy in the Middle East — The president is neither a dove nor a hawk. He's a fierce minimalist. — President Obama's critics often claim he doesn't have a strategy in the greater Middle East. That's wrong. Like it or loathe it, he does, and he's beginning to implement it against ISIS.

Discussion: Washington Post and The Reaction

Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:

U.N. urges U.S. to stop police brutality after Missouri shooting — (Reuters) - The U.N. racism watchdog urged the United States on Friday to halt the excessive use of force by police after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman touched off riots in Ferguson, Missouri.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Liberaland

Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Police lobby fights to keep gear

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Michael Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Officers from St. Ann, Glendale off the job after actions during Ferguson protests — • By Joel Currier jcurrier@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8256 and Valerie Schremp Hahn vhahn@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8246 — Two police officers are no longer working at their departments due to their actions during the protests in Ferguson.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mashable, Mediaite and Gawker

Associated Press:

Haslam may submit Medicaid expansion plan in fall — In a move that could mean health coverage for thousands of Tennesseans, Gov. Bill Haslam said Thursday that the state may soon submit a proposal to Washington to expand Tennessee's Medicaid program but did not release any new details on how it might work.

Discussion: Americans Against the …, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo

Lanhee Chen / Bloomberg View:
The Republican Obamacare Battle Plan for 2015

Discussion: Forbes

Harald Doornbos / Foreign Policy:

Found: The Islamic State's Terror Laptop of Doom — Buried in a Dell computer captured in Syria are lessons for making bubonic plague bombs and missives on using weapons of mass destruction. — GOOGLE +

Discussion: Moe Lane, BBC, The PJ Tatler, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller, RedState, Hot Air, Washington Post and New York Times

Chris McDaniel / CNN:

Judge dismisses Chris McDaniel challenge — (CNN) - A Mississippi judge has tossed out state Sen. Chris McDaniel's challenge to that state's June 24 GOP primary runoff results, ending another chapter in one of the most bitterly contested U.S. Senate primaries in recent memory and bringing longtime …

Discussion: Politico, The Clarion-Ledger and Mediaite

Guardian:

Burmese beauty queen ‘vanishes with tiara’ from pageant — May Myat Noe alleged to have run off with crown after contest organisers said she should have breast enhancement operation — A Burmese beauty queen who was stripped of her title for allegedly being rude and dishonest has run off …

Discussion: Twitchy, Jezebel and The Daily Caller