memeorandum: Reports: 9 dead in Waco, Texas, shooting (Dana Ford/CNN)

9:45 PM ET, May 17, 2015

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Sunday Biker Gang Shooting Leaves Nine Dead, Several Injured … Headlines List — Three rival motorcycle gangs turned a local restaurant into a shooting gallery Sunday afternoon and when the gunfire was over, nine people were dead and several were injured.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller and Hinterland Gazette

Associated Press:

Police: 9 Dead From Texas Shootout Among Rival Biker Gangs — WACO, Texas — Nine people were killed Sunday and some others injured after a shootout erupted among rival biker gangs at a Central Texas restaurant, sending patrons and bystanders fleeing for safety, a police spokesman said.

Dana Ford / CNN:

Reports: 9 dead in Waco, Texas, shooting — (CNN)Nine people were killed Sunday in a shooting among rival bikers in Waco, Texas, CNN affiliates KXXV and KXTX reported. — “Multiple injuries to include multiple fatalities,” the Waco Police Department said in a post on Facebook.

Discussion: Washington Post

Politico:

Scott Walker's Iowa dilemma — Should the Wisconsin governor play in the Iowa straw poll in August? It might be the most important strategic decision of his primary campaign. — There's a game of chicken going on in Iowa right now. — When Jeb Bush revealed this week that he will blow off …

Discussion: The Reaction

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

He Is Heavy. He's My Brother. — WASHINGTON — IT isn't about what we know now. — It's about what we knew then. — It is simply not true, as Republican presidential aspirant Scott Walker said on Friday, that “any president would have likely taken the same action Bush did with the information he had.”

Connie Cass / Associated Press:
Iraq War Judged a Mistake by Today's White House Hopefuls

Discussion: Politico

Washington Post:
Large GOP field has party leaders anxious about their chances in '16

Discussion: The Reaction

James Fallows / The Atlantic:

How Fox News Is (Still) Hurting the Republicans — January 30, 1995, the beginning of modern media-political history: Rupert Murdoch (right) announcing that Roger Ailes will run the newly launched Fox News (Peter Morgan / Reuters) — Let me recommend for your weekend reading …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Moderate Voice

Daniel J. McGraw / Politico:

The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally. — Lead image by Getty. — It turns out that one of the Grand Old Party's biggest—and least discussed—challenges going into 2016 is lying in plain sight, written right into the party's own nickname. The Republican Party voter is old—and getting older …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money

Wednesday Martin / New York Times:

Poor Little Rich Women — WHEN our family moved from the West Village to the Upper East Side in 2004, seeking proximity to Central Park, my in-laws and a good public school, I thought it unlikely that the neighborhood would hold any big surprises. For many years I had immersed myself …

Discussion: Gothamist, Instapundit and Althouse

Sacramento Bee:

Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez appears to disparage American Indians — At California Democratic Party convention, Senate candidate makes whooping gesture Attorney General Kamala Harris calls it ‘shocking’ Sanchez would not say if gesture was an appropriate one

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, NBC News, Hot Air, Hinterland Gazette, Washington Monthly, Liberaland and Truth Revolt

Peter Jamison / Los Angeles Times:
Kamala Harris calls Loretta Sanchez's Native American ‘war cry’ shocking

Discussion: BuzzFeed, LAist and Mediaite

Daily Mail:

What IS this strange sound from the sky? Noise heard across the globe for nearly a DECADE - but nobody has an explanation — Similar outbursts have been captured on countries around the world including the U.S., Ukraine, Germany and Belarus — A mysterious noise from the sky is continuing …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The PJ Tatler and Clayton Cramer

Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:

Al Sharpton's daughter sues city for $5M after spraining ankle — She learned at the feet of a master. — Shakedown artist Al Sharpton's eldest child wants $5 million from city taxpayers after she fell in the street and sprained her ankle, court records show.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Weasel Zippers, Hinterland Gazette, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Twitchy and Fox News Insider

Tim Arango / New York Times:

Key Iraqi City Falls to ISIS as Last of Security Forces Flee — BAGHDAD — The last Iraqi security forces fled the provincial capital of Ramadi on Sunday, as the city fell completely to the militants of the Islamic State, who ransacked the provincial military headquarters …

Discussion: McClatchy Washington Bureau, The PJ Tatler, RedState, TalkLeft and Politico