memeorandum: Lost chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory published (Maev Kennedy/Guardian)

5:30 PM ET, August 30, 2014

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Justin Sink / The Hill:

Obama: Media makes you think ‘world is falling apart’ — President Obama on Friday said social media and the nightly news are partly to blame for the sense that “the world is falling apart.” — “I can see why a lot of folks are troubled,” Obama told a group of donors gathered …

Discussion: Ed Driscoll, his vorpal sword, Independent Journal Review, Power Line, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, Mediaite and New York Times

John Kerry / New York Times:

The Threat of ISIS Demands a Global Coalition — IN a polarized region and a complicated world, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria presents a unifying threat to a broad array of countries, including the United States. What's needed to confront its nihilistic vision and genocidal agenda …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Newsweek, Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, Guardian, CNN and The Huffington Post

Washington Post:

President Obama needs to focus on how the United States can meet global challenges — PRESIDENT OBAMA'S acknowledgment that “we don't have a strategy yet” in Syria understandably attracted the most attention after his perplexing meeting with reporters Thursday.

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, Mashable, Taylor Marsh, New York Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Guardian and The Moderate Voice

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:

Save It For The Funny Papers, Or, The Long Slow Flip-Flop Into Light — John Kerry gets guest space in the NY Times on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend - geez, I guess whatever it is couldn't wait until the day after Thanksgiving. — Kerry is exhorting the world to rally itself …

Yahoo! News:

Saudi king warns West will be jihadists' next target AFP 1 hr ago — Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is “rapid” action.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, CBS DC and Booman Tribune

New York Times:
John McCain and Lindsey Graham: Confront ISIS Now

Discussion: emptywheel, ParaPundit, Politico and The Huffington Post

Martin Matishak / The Hill:
GOP senators: Obama needs to respond faster to ISIS threat

Discussion: Liberaland

Telegraph:

Douglas Carswell's defection to Ukip is a seismic shock to the British political system — There are very few MPs I admire more than Douglas Carswell. He is principled, decent, and has gone into politics for all the right reasons. He believes in all the things to which ordinary politicians pay lip service …

Discussion: Chicago Boyz

Allie Rasmus / KTVU-TV:

Walnut Creek officer accused of beating woman with bat — A man who'd been in charge of upholding the law for three decades is now accused of breaking it. Richmond police arrested an off-duty Walnut Creek Police Officer for allegedly donning a mask and beating a woman with a baseball bat on August 16.

Discussion: The Raw Story and Hinterland Gazette

Carol Anderson / Washington Post:

Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops. It's white rage against progress. — Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American studies and history at Emory University and a public voices fellow with the Op-Ed Project. She is the author of “Bourgeois Radicals …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Prairie Weather

Courier-Journal:

McConnell campaign chief resigns amid scandal — Jesse Benton resigned as Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign manager Friday following reports that he had emerged as a figure in an endorsement scandal during the 2012 Iowa presidential caucus. — In an emailed statement Friday evening …

Discussion: Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller and Americans Against the …

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

A Federal Judge Just Called Out The Big Lie Behind Texas's Latest Abortion Restriction — Texas's justification for an anti-abortion law enacted last year is “disingenuous,” according to Judge Lee Yeakel's opinion striking parts of that law on Friday. Indeed, Judge Yeakel's opinion dismantles …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

New York Times:
Judge Rejects Texas Stricture on Abortions

Discussion: Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, Jezebel, Americans Against the …, Daily Kos, New York Times, BuzzFeed, The Raw Story and The Daily Caller

Maev Kennedy / Guardian:

Lost chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory published — Chapter with more characters and Quentin Blake illustration deemed ‘too wild’ for British children appears for first time — A lost chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, deemed too wild, subversive and insufficiently moral …

Discussion: Althouse and Jezebel

Amy Cohn / The New Republic:

Why the $#&@! Did Your Airline Cancel Your Flight Today? They Had a Very Good Reason. — An airline-industry expert explains why you get screwed over—and how to avoid it — Comedian Louis CK has absolutely no patience for the complaints of airline passengers, as he explains in one very funny, albeit profanity-laced bit.