memeorandum: Jewish outrage as ship named after SS war criminal arrives in Europe (Ed Vulliamy/Observer)

1:10 PM ET, January 25, 2015

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Unhinged Woman Climbs Onstage At Iowa Freedom Summit, Starts Rambling Incoherently — At the “Iowa Freedom Summit,” Sarah Palin delivered a one of her strangest speeches yet and even Scott Conroy from RealClearPolitics, described it as the “strangest speech I've ever seen Sarah Palin deliver.”

Discussion: FOX News Radio, Mediaite and ABC News

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:

Sarah Palin delivers ‘bizarro’ speech to Iowa Freedom Summit and Twitter users react hilariously — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Appearing at Iowa Congressman Steve King's Freedom Summit, star speaker Sarah Palin spoke from a binder of notes, delivering a string …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Israpundit, Hullabaloo, Right Wing Watch and Crooks and Liars

Rick Klein / ABC News:

For Republicans at Campaign Kickoff, Sideshows Precede Big Show … It was billed as the kick-off to the 2016 cycle, a chance for an A-list of presidential contenders — Gov. Chris Christie and Gov. Scott Walker among them — to introduce themselves to Iowans a mere 53 weeks before the caucuses.

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Palin says she's ‘seriously interested’ in 2016 campaign

Discussion: Algemeiner.com, Israpundit, The PJ Tatler, Refinery29, BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post

James Hohmann / Politico:
Sarah Palin ‘seriously interested’ in 2016 bid

Discussion: Hot Air and CANNONFIRE

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Scott Walker takes Iowa by storm — DES MOINES, Iowa — Scott Walker's stock is soaring after a triumphant return to Iowa. — The Wisconsin Republican governor delivered a pitch-perfect speech to a room packed with influential Hawkeye State conservatives on Saturday …

Discussion: Des Moines Register and Political Wire

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:

Ben Carson pulls crowd to its feet — DES MOINES, Iowa — Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson (R) delivered a rousing speech to the conservative faithful, earning the first standing ovation of the day at the Iowa Freedom Summit and showing why he's generating buzz with conservative activists.

Discussion: Politico

Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Scott Walker shows fire in Iowa

Discussion: The Nation, Politico, ABC News, Prairie Weather and Althouse

Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Walker to Iowa conservatives: ‘Go big and go bold’

Discussion: ABC News

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

12 keys to the GOP presidential race right now — DES MOINES — As the Freedom Summit marks the unofficial start of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign here in Iowa, the race is already too sprawling, with too many characters and too many crosscurrents, to have a single theme.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Washington Times, Hullabaloo and The Daily Caller

Roger Simon / Politico:

GOP clown car runs into ditch — Simon says the Republican Party's clown car has become a clown van. — DES MOINES — The Republican Party's clown car has become a clown van. — With nearly two dozen possible presidential candidates, the GOP is having a seriousness deficit.

Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Trump: 'I would've won the race against Obama'

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Ed Vulliamy / Observer:

Jewish outrage as ship named after SS war criminal arrives in Europe — As Holocaust day nears, anger erupts at arrival in Rotterdam of the Pieter Schelte, the world's largest vessel — Leaders of Jewish communities and Holocaust memorial groups in Britain and the Netherlands have reacted …

Discussion: The Times of Israel, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Mediaite

Noam Scheiber / New York Times:

De Blasio, Obama and a Flawed Vision of Liberalism — MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO recently got some good news in his standoff with the Police Department. In the first major poll conducted after the high-profile murder of two patrolmen, 69 percent of New Yorkers said they objected to police officers' turning …

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Agence France-Presse:

Brazil finds coffee protein with morphine effect — 14 hrs ago — Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian scientists have discovered a protein in coffee that has effects similar to pain reliever morphine, researchers at the state University of Brasilia (UnB) and state-owned Brazilian Agricultural …

ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript: White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough — Below is the rush transcript for “This Week” on January 25, 2015. It may contain errors and will be updated. — Below is the full transcript of the “This Week” interview with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.

Discussion: Politico

Nicky Woolf / Guardian:

4chan founder ‘Moot’ bids farewell: ‘This is it for me. This is goodbye’ — Addressing more than 40,000 people, Christopher Poole, who is known as ‘Moot’, said he felt deeply proud of the community he had created — Christopher Poole, the founder of the anarchic image-board site 4chan …