memeorandum: Office of the State Comptroller (Office of the New York State Comptroller)

11:40 AM ET, March 12, 2015

Top Items:

David Von Drehle / TIME:

The Clinton Way … Photograph by Spencer Platt-Getty Images

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Washington Post, Business Insider and The Huffington Post

Democrats See No Choice but Hillary Clinton in 2016 — They shrug off questions about Hillary Rodham Clinton's email habits. They roll with the attacks on her family's foundation, the big checks from foreign governments, the torpid response of her not-yet-campaign.

Discussion: ABC News, Bloomberg View, Washington Post, OnPolitics and Weekly Standard

Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:

Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million — Bill Clinton and his office have received more money through the Former Presidents Act than any other ex-president — By Election Day 2016, taxpayers will have paid out more than $16 million to fund Bill Clinton's pension, travel …

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Fox News and The Hill

Washington Post:
Some top Democrats are alarmed about Clinton's readiness for a campaign

Discussion: The Daily Caller, CBS DC, The Federalist, Betsy's Page, Hot Air, Liberal Values, Weekly Standard and National Journal

Paul Waldman / The Week:
The media already bungled Hillary's ‘emailgate’

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Democratic Strategist, CANNONFIRE, Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, Horizons, Daily Kos, NBC News and prospect.org/blogs …

Politico:
A Hillary Clinton feeding frenzy in the GOP House

Discussion: Daily Kos

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Hillary says ‘personal’ messages were deleted from email account

Discussion: Washington Times, The Daily Banter and Politico

Susan Weich / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Two police officers are shot in Ferguson — FERGUSON • Two police officers were hit by gunfire early Thursday outside the Ferguson police department. — The shots were fired as police were confronting protesters who had gathered outside the police station.

John Eligon / New York Times:

2 Officers Are Shot Outside Ferguson Police Station — FERGUSON, Mo. — Two police officers were shot and injured here early Thursday morning as gunfire rang out in front of the police station, throwing into panic what had been a spirited but largely peaceful night of protests.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, ABC News, The Atlantic Online and Common Dreams

Kate Munsch / Reuters:

Two police officers shot in Ferguson, Missouri, after chief quits — (Reuters) - Two police officers were shot during a protest outside Ferguson, Missouri, police headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just hours after the city's police chief quit following a damning U.S. Justice Department report into his force.

Discussion: PUNDIT PRESS

Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Two police officers shot during protests in Ferguson

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, National Review, New York Magazine and The Week

Fox News:
Two officers shot, seriously injured outside Ferguson police department

Discussion: Power Line, Fox News Insider, New York Times, Washington Post, The Right Scoop, Booman Tribune, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Week and The Gateway Pundit

Brent Budowsky / The Hill:

GOP, Bibi hurt Israel, USA — While the recalcitrant rightist government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left Israel more isolated in the world than at any time since 1948, Bibi's ill-advised recent speech to a joint session of Congress could reduce a historically nonpartisan …

Discussion: Politico

New York Times:

Republican Idiocy on Iran — After helping to ignite a firestorm over a possible nuclear agreement with Iran, Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, is now sort of acknowledging his error. “Maybe that wasn't exactly the best way to do that,” he said on Fox News on Tuesday.

Discussion: CNN, Prairie Weather and The Week

William Saletan / Slate:

An Open Letter to 47 Republican Senators of the United States of America from Iran's Hard-Liners — You have opened our eyes. We are brothers. — Dear senators: — Thank you for your letter of March 9 explaining your system of government. We were unfamiliar with the complexity of your laws.

Discussion: Bloomberg View

New York Times:
Iran's Top Leader: GOP Letter Points to US ‘Disintegration’

Discussion: Fars News Agency, Power Line, Hinterland Gazette, Political Wire and Mediaite

Steve Benen / msnbc.com:

Kerry teaches Rubio the basics about the Middle East — At the recent CPAC gathering, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a likely Republican presidential candidate, seemed to stumble on one of the basic facts of the Middle East. “The reason Obama hasn't put in place a military strategy to defeat ISIS …

Discussion: First Draft, ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo

Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Kerry: ‘Utter disbelief’ at Iran letter

Discussion: American Spectator and Instapundit

Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Kerry: Congress Won't Be Able to Change an Iran Nuclear Deal

Discussion: FOX News Radio, Power Line, Politico, National Review, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, ABC News and New York Times

David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:

How a Lindsey Graham Joke Turned into a Coup Plot Against the Government — Does Lindsey Graham want to overthrow Congress? Not quite. — Well, you can't catch everything. This past Sunday, I was one of a handful of reporters listening to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham …

Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite

Amanda Taub / Vox:
Lindsey Graham: as president I would deploy the military against Congress

Discussion: FreakOutNation, Daily Kos, Ben Swann Truth In Media, Raw Story and Hit & Run

Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:

Secret Service agents investigated for driving car into White House barrier — The administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of President Obama's protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Fox News, Outside the Beltway, New York Times, New York Magazine, Scared Monkeys, Politico, Mediaite, Liberaland, Business Insider, NPR, NBC News, Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice

Jordan Fabian / The Hill: Secret Service probed for drunk-driving incident, report says

Politico:

Foreign policy alters contours of GOP race — International issues have come front and center. — Politico Illustration / istock, AP and Getty images — Two days after signing the Senate GOP's letter to Iranian leadership Monday, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul found himself stretching to square …

Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Struggling in Congress, Republicans Unite on Foreign Policy

Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Politico

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Hate mail: Senators seek to sabotage Obama's foreign policy

Discussion: Politico, Concord Monitor, PoliticusUSA, Baltimore Sun, Arizona Republic, Salt Lake Tribune, US News, White House.gov Blog, USA Today, Daily Kos and Washington Post

Gallup:

Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a distinction it has had for the past four months. Americans' mentions of the economy as the top problem (11%) dropped this month, leaving it tied with jobs (10%) for second place.

Discussion: Washington Times

Office of the New York State Comptroller:

Office of the State Comptroller — DiNapoli: Wall Street Bonuses Edge Up in 2014 — Securities Industry Adds Jobs in NYC after Years of Downsizing — The average bonus paid in New York City's security industry rose by 2 percent to $172,860 in 2014, according to an estimate released today …

Discussion: Bloomberg View, Common Dreams and New York Times

Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:

Utah Passes Antidiscrimination Bill Backed by Mormon Leaders — With the backing of Mormon church leaders, the Republican-dominated Utah Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday night that would ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in housing and employment …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Post and The Week