memeorandum @ 7:40 AM ET, March 2, 2015

7:40 AM ET, March 2, 2015

Top Items:

Mark Langfan / Reuters:

Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike — Kuwaiti paper claims unnamed Israeli minister with good ties with the US administration ‘revealed the attack plan to John Kerry.’ — The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma'an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday …

Discussion: Betsy's Page, mrctv.org/videos, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, Scared Monkeys, Mediaite, Truth Revolt, New York Post, The Atlantic Online, Power Line, Daily Kos, BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Ed Driscoll and Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs

Maan News Agency:

Report: Obama threatened to fire on Israeli jets attacking Iran — BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) - A Kuwaiti newspaper reported Saturday that US President Barack Obama thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014. — Al-Jarida newspaper quoted “well-placed” …

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, BREITBART.COM and Roger L. Simon

Washington Post:

Retired Israeli veterans warn against speech — TEL AVIV — Hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set off Sunday for Washington, a group of 180 retired Israeli generals and former top security officials warned that his upcoming address to a joint meeting of Congress on Iran's nuclear program will cause more harm than good.

Discussion: Jerusalem Post and FOX News Radio

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Nearly Half of Voters Object to Netanyahu Speech: Poll — Nearly half of American voters — 48 percent — say that congressional Republicans shouldn't have invited Netanyahu to address Congress without first notifying Obama.

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, The Huffington Post, Latest from Crooks and Liars, Raw Story, CBS News, Addicting Info and The Week

William Booth / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's address to Congress will be most important speech of his life

Discussion: FOX News Radio, The Week and National Review

Julia Edwards / Reuters:
Obama to veto bill letting Congress weigh in on Iran deal

Discussion: The Hill, Josh Blackman's Blog, Israel Matzav, The Moderate Voice and Talking Points Memo

ABC News:
Kerry Worries Israeli PM Visit May Become ‘Political Football’

Discussion: Yahoo! News

Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Kerry Tries to Dampen Fuss Over Israeli PM's Speech

Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Yahoo! News

Los Angeles Times:

LAPD fatal shooting of man caught on tape — Authorities said Sunday night that Los Angeles police fatally shot a man on skid row during a struggle over an officer's weapons. — Police officials offered a detailed account of what they say prompted the Sunday morning shooting, which was captured on video by a bystander.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, KTLA, CBS Los Angeles, BuzzFeed, New York Times, Raw Story, The Week, Hit & Run, Addicting Info, New York Magazine, Mashable, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera English and Gawker

Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:

The O'Reilly tapes: Phone recordings raise new questions about JFK story — One evening in March more than 30 years ago, Gaeton Fonzi received a call from a man whose voice and name are now instantly recognizable. — “Hi Gaeton,” the caller said. “Bill O'Reilly.” — The year was 1977.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, CNN, Business Insider, Addicting Info and Hullabaloo, more at Mediagazer »

Jennifer Emily / Dallas Morning News:

Free of Ebola but not fear — Nurse Nina Pham to file lawsuit against Presby parent, worries about continued health woes — Experimental drugs and special care helped make Nina Pham Ebola free. But today she fears she may never escape the deadly disease.

Discussion: NPR, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Mashable, Jezebel, Gawker, Fox News Insider and The Week

Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:

Gay group wins formal recognition from state Republican Party — Essential California reading: Leonard Nimoy's influence, homicide risk for Latinos, money in L.A. city elections

Discussion: Raw Story, Addicting Info and Good As You

NY Daily News:

Nancy Sinatra insists Ronan Farrow is not Frank Sinatra's son — Frank Sinatra would've turned 100 years old this year and Old Blue Eyes' daughter Nancy would like to make clear that that his legacy doesn't include Ronan Farrow. — “He's Mia's son and we love him, but he has nothing …

Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland

RIchard Spencer / Telegraph:

How Syria's Christians stopped turning the other cheek — New Christian militia goes into battle against Isil - but pays a high price — Like many of Syria's warriors, Kino Gabriel was a student four years ago, training to be a dentist. — Like many other Syrians, he resisted the call to war …

Discussion: BREITBART.COM and Power Line

Olga TanasJason Corcoran / Bloomberg Business:

Russian Opposition Gathers in Moscow to Honor Murdered Nemtsov — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Tens of thousands marched through Moscow to honor slain political activist Boris Nemtsov in the biggest show of support for Russia's opposition in three years.

Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg View, The Independent, BBC, ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller

Julia Ioffe / New York Times:
After Boris Nemtsov's Assassination, ‘There Are No Longer Any Limits’

Discussion: LewRockwell, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, Meduza.io News and The Atlantic Online

Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:

Quartering spyware troops in the digital age: Column — The Third Amendment keeps a low profile, but it is time to revisit who and what we quarter. — In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner published a famous paper on the closing of the American frontier.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Fox News:

Walker: ‘My view has changed’ on immigration reform — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a presumptive 2016 Republican presidential candidate, says he has changed his immigration stance and no longer backs comprehensive reform that would allow illegal immigrants to be penalized but remain in the country.

Discussion: Slate, The Daily Caller and Talking Points Memo