memeorandum: The Great Unraveling (Roger Cohen/New York Times)

10:20 AM ET, September 16, 2014

Top Items:

Chemi Shalev / Haaretz:

Bill Clinton strays from Hillary's Israel script and knocks Netanyahu — In a conversation with pro-Palestinian activists in Iowa, the former president agrees: the Israeli PM won't make peace 'unless he's forced to.' — Former Senator Hillary Clinton has turned into a staunch defender …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon

Jeff Dunetz / “The Lid”:

Bill Clinton Gets Caught On Camera Trashing Netanyahu At Harkin Steak Fry — At the end of Sunday's Tom Harkin Iowa Steak Fry Bill Clinton was recorded bashing Bibi Netanyahu, agreeing that the prime minister was “not the man” to make peace with Palestinians.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, RedState, Shark Tank and Israel Matzav

Jonathan Topaz / Politico: Bill Clinton takes a shot at Netanyahu

Roger Simon / Politico:
Why Hillary hates Iowa

Discussion: Fox News, The New Republic and Washington Post

CBS DC:
Harkin: Hillary Clinton's ‘Fingerprints Are All Over’ Obamacare

Discussion: Telegraph

Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Dem Sen. Harkin: Hillary Clinton's fingerprints ‘all over’ ObamaCare

Discussion: The Daily Banter and BuzzFeed

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Senate Update: Democrats Draw Almost Even. Is It The Money? — When we officially launched our forecast model two weeks ago, it had Republicans with a 64 percent chance of taking over the Senate after this fall's elections. Now Republican chances are about 55 percent instead.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Guardian, The Dish, Taegan Goddard's …, Prairie Weather, CNN, New York Times and Latest from Crooks and Liars

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: Alaska, A Frontier For Bad Polling

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Immoral Minority and Amanda Coyne

Washington Post:

The U.S. strategy to defeat the Islamic State is underpowered — IN LAUNCHING two previous wars in Iraq, the United States assembled formidable coalitions of dozens of countries. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Oman were among the Arab states that deployed substantial ground forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Discussion: Associated Press, Hot Air and CBS News

Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Bipartisan Support for Obama's Military Campaign Against ISIS

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, Shakesville and Wall Street Journal

The Hill:
Republicans to limit Obama's aid to moderate Syrian rebel forces

Discussion: New York Times, Daily Kos, The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo

The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Worries Islamic State Will Destroy Americans, Wipe Out Mankind

Discussion: Wonkette, CANNONFIRE and Daily Kos

Jeremy Rogalski / KHOU-TV:

New accusations: Peterson injured another son while disciplining 4-year-old — The four-year-old is by a different mother than the alleged victim in the Montgomery County case, in which Peterson is charged with felony injury to a child. — CONNECT — Photos and text messages obtained …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, CBS Houston, Deadspin, The Blotter, CBS New York, Mediaite, abc13.com, ProFootballTalk, Hot Air, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed and TMZ.com

David Clegg / dailyrecord:

Three party leader's promise to Scotland — The joint statement also rubbishes claims from the SNP that the Barnett Formula for calculating Scotland's budget could be changed to leave us less money for public services. — It pledges: “Because of the continuation of the Barnett allocation for resources …

Discussion: New York Times, dailyrecord, Taegan Goddard's …, Guardian, Press Association and Spectator

Niall Ferguson / New York Times:

Scots Must Vote Nae — GLASGOW — To most Americans, Scotland means golf, whisky and — if they go there — steady drizzle. Even to the millions of Americans whose surnames testify to their Scottish or Scotch-Irish ancestry, the idea that Scotland might be about to become an independent country is baffling.

New York Times:

U.S. to Commit Up to 3,000 Troops to Fight Ebola in Africa — WASHINGTON — Under pressure to do more to confront the Ebola outbreak sweeping across West Africa, President Obama on Tuesday is to announce an expansion of military and medical resources to combat the spread of the deadly virus, administration officials said.

Discussion: USA Today, JustOneMinute, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air, Gawker and Reuters

Washington Post:

U.S. military will lead $750 million fight against Ebola in West Africa — President Obama will announce Tuesday that the U.S. military will take the lead in overseeing what has been a chaotic and widely criticized response to the worst Ebola outbreak in history, dispatching …

Discussion: The Verge, Wall Street Journal and Prairie Weather

Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:

Kirsten Gillibrand: I Couldn't Tell My Harasser ‘To Go F*** Himself’ — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Monday that when a male labor leader harassed her about her weight several years ago after she'd had a baby, she had a few choice words she couldn't say at the time.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Talking Points Memo and Truth Revolt

Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand drops f-bomb on video

Discussion: RedState and Booman Tribune

Dan Joseph / CNSNews:

Video: College Students Sign Petition in Support of ISIS — Despite one's feelings on how the U.S. government should deal with the growing threat that ISIS poses to the world, it's safe to assume that Americans across the political spectrum agree that the terror group is pretty odious.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Liberty Unyielding and Washington Free Beacon

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Robin Thicke Admits Drug Abuse, Lying to Media in Wild “Blurred Lines” Deposition (Exclusive) — Interrogated for allegedly ripping off Marvin Gaye, the singer attempts a rock ‘n’ roll defense: “I didn't do a single interview last year without being high” — “Blurred Lines,” …

Discussion: Guardian, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, NBC News, Mashable, Gawker, The Young, Black … and Entertain This!

Nick Anderson / Washington Post:

Ohio State accord on sexual assault ends federal investigation — Ohio State University has agreed to several steps to strengthen its policies on sexual assault and harassment, the federal government said, concluding a four-year civil rights investigation at one of the nation's largest public universities.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Raw Story

Allie Jones / Gawker:
Limbaugh on Sexual Assault: “No Means Yes If You Know How to Spot It”

Discussion: The Huffington Post

The New Republic:

Feminism Has Conquered the Culture. Now Comes the Hard Part — A debate on this unprecedented opportunity — Hi Judith, — I don't think that in my lifetime (I'm 39) I've ever seen public, popular feminist discourse more robust than it is now. When I was in high school, college …

Discussion: The Week

Roger Cohen / New York Times:

The Great Unraveling — It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen? — It was a time of beheadings. With a left-handed sawing motion, against a desert backdrop, in bright sunlight, a Muslim with a British accent cut off the heads …

Discussion: The Colorado Independent and Ed Driscoll

Sarah Ferris / The Hill:

Administration threatens to cut off ObamaCare subsidies to 360,000 — The Obama administration announced Monday it will cut off tax subsidies to about 360,000 people if they do not offer proof of their income in the next two weeks. — Officials will send final notices this week to individuals …

Discussion: Hot Air

Yale Daily News:

Hirsi Ali addresses over 300 — Hirsi Ali's talk has generated a large amount of controversy on Yale's campus in recent days. — In spite of controversy surrounding her invitation to campus, Ayaan Hirsi Ali delivered her speech Monday night without significant interruption or disturbance.

Discussion: Power Line and Patterico's Pontifications