memeorandum: BRUNCH EDITION - 59 days to midterms — BENNY JOHNSON's new job - OBAMA PUNTS ON IMMIGRATION … (Mike Allen/Politico)

2:40 PM ET, September 6, 2014

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WHITE HOUSE: OBAMA TO DELAY IMMIGRATION ACTION — WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, White House officials said.

Discussion: Power Line, National Review, RedState, The PJ Tatler, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, The Week, Mediaite, Business Insider, Hot Air and Washington Times

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

Obama Delays Immigration Action, Yielding to Democratic Concerns — WASHINGTON — President Obama has bowed to the concerns of Senate Democrats up for election this fall and will delay until late this year executive action that would reshape the nation's immigration system without congressional approval …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider and Daily Kos

Mike Allen / Politico:

BRUNCH EDITION - 59 days to midterms — BENNY JOHNSON's new job - OBAMA PUNTS ON IMMIGRATION — WENDY DAVIS discloses abortion of third daughter - JOE SCARBOROUGH signs NBC deal —CHRIS CHRISTIE is 52 — EXCLUSIVE: Benny Johnson, the BuzzFeed “viral politics editor” who was fired for plagiarism in July …

Discussion: MySanAntonio.com, Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story, Gawker and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:

Christie's Trip Looks Like a Campaign for President — PUEBLA, Mexico — Perhaps it was the war room set up for Gov. Chris Christie's staff in a hotel here, filled at all hours with laptop-wielding aides and a generous supply of beef medallions with green peppers.

Discussion: The PJ Tatler

Mario Trujillo / The Hill:

Cruz: Strip citizenship from Americans in ISIS — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is slated to introduce legislation next week that would revoke the U.S. citizenship of anyone fighting or providing support to terrorist groups working to attack the United States. — Cruz said he is filing …

Discussion: Vox Popoli

Helene Cooper / New York Times:

Obama Enlists 9 Allies to Help in the Battle Against ISIS — NEWPORT, Wales — President Obama escalated the American response to the marauding Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Friday, recruiting at least nine allies to help crush the organization and offering the outlines …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Moderate Voice and defense.gov

Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Cruz Moves to Stop American ISIL Fighters from Reentering the U.S.

Discussion: Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Independent Journal Review

Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch: Alan Keyes: Obama Is Funding ISIS To Wage ‘War On The People Of The United States’

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping — The Justice Department released two decade-old memos Friday night, offering the fullest public airing to date of the Bush administration's legal justification for the warrantless wiretapping of Americans' phone calls and e-mails …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Hullabaloo

Fox News:

IRS says it has lost emails from 5 other employees related to probes — May 13, 2013: A woman walks out of the Internal Revenue Service building in New York.AP — The IRS said Friday that it has lost emails from five other employees involved in congressional probes into the agency's targeting …

Discussion: Fox News Insider and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
IRS SAYS IT HAS LOST EMAILS FROM 5 MORE EMPLOYEES

Discussion: The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler

Rachael Bade / Politico:
More IRS employees lost emails

Discussion: Independent Journal Review, Hot Air, Hit & Run, neo-neocon and Patterico's Pontifications

Wall Street Journal:

Joan Rivers: The Entertainer — There was nobody like her. Some people are knockoffs or imitations of other, stronger, more vivid figures, but there was never another Joan Rivers before her or while she lived. She was a seriously wonderful, self-invented woman. — She was completely open and immediately accessible.

Discussion: neo-neocon, Ed Driscoll and Booman Tribune

Salvador Rizzo / New Jersey Online:

Fitch downgrades N.J. debt, saying Christie is repudiating his pension reform — Gov. Chris Christie, in Mexico this week on a trade mission, has been bedeviled by downgrades of New Jersey's credit rating this year. (Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger) — TRENTON — Wall Street analysts …

Discussion: EconomicPolicyJournal.com

Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:

So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class ... In 2008, shortly after Bill Gates stepped down from his executive role at Microsoft, he often awoke in his 66,000-square-foot home on the eastern bank of Lake Washington and walked downstairs to his private gym in a baggy T-shirt, shorts …