Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:10 AM ET, December 7, 2015

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Obama Actually Thought He Was Being Reassuring Tonight  —  President Obama's Sunday night speech was about three-quarters of what the cynics and his critics expected.  The lone bits of good news were the president's belated acknowledgement that the Fort Hood shooting was terrorism - not …
RELATED:
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Obama's Oval Office address reflects struggle to be heard  —  In the weeks since the terrorist attacks in Paris, President Obama has stressed in speech after speech that America's law enforcement and homeland security officials are “relentless.”  He has insisted that the country remains “strong” and “resilient.”
Discussion: USA Today and New York Times
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Obama: Increasing Gun Control, Rejecting Islamophobia Are Key to Combating Terrorism  —  In a rare prime-time address to the country from the Oval Office, President Obama made clear that he thinks increased gun control at home is essential to fighting ISIS—and terrorism in general.
Discussion: Poynter. and Washington Post
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Full text: Obama's Oval Office address on San Bernardino and ISIS  —  Sunday night, President Obama gave a primetime address to the nation on the San Bernardino attacks and ISIS (or, as he calls it, ISIL).  In it, Obama gave a full-throated defense of his counter-terrorism policy …
Julie Pace / WOOD-TV:
Obama: US will defeat terror threat's new phase  —  “I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure,” he said, speaking from a lectern in his West Wing office.  “The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it,” he declared.
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Obama misspoke about San Bernardino suspect's visa  —  In announcing one of the new steps his administration is taking to secure the U.S. from terrorists, President Barack Obama's carefully scripted Sunday night address to the nation included at least one mistake.
Shawna Thomas / NBC News:
AG Lynch: President Will Call On Congress to Take Action on Guns in San Bernardino Address
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
OBAMA: TERRORISM AN ‘EVOLVING THREAT’ U.S. WILL OVERCOME
Discussion: abc7.com and abc7news.com
Agence France-Presse:
Obama to urge Americans ‘to not give in to fear’
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hot Air
Rossella Tercatin / The Times of Israel:
San Bernardino shooter's dad: He was ‘obsessed’ with Israel
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo Politics:
Trump, Clinton talk terror and gun control in wake of San Bernardino attack
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
CBS News:
Face the Nation transcripts December 6, 2015: Trump, Christie, Sanders  —  This is the transcript for the December 6 edition of Face the Nation.  Guests included Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Pegues, Fran Townsend, Michael Morell, Gwen Ifill, Ben Domenech, Gerald Seib, and Ed O'Keefe.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Althouse
RELATED:
Arit John / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Says Political Correctness Helped Enable California Attack
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Chris Christie warns Iowans against Trump
Discussion: Independent Journal
BBC:
France elections: National Front leads in regional polls  —  France's far-right National Front (FN) appears to have made big gains in the first round of regional elections, estimates show.  —  They put the FN ahead in at least six of 13 regions in mainland France.
Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
How I'd Rein In Wall Street  —  SEVEN years ago, the financial crisis sent our economy into a tailspin.  Over five million people lost their homes.  Nearly nine million lost their jobs.  Nearly $13 trillion in household wealth was wiped out.  —  Under President Obama, our economy has come a long way back.
Discussion: Politico
Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Intel to Obama: ISIS Is Not Contained  —  A new report stands in stark contrast to earlier White House assurances that ISIS had been “contained.”  And it is already spurring changes in how the U.S. grapples with ISIS.  —  A new U.S. intelligence report on ISIS, commissioned by the White House …
Discussion: Fox News
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trust and Money at Core of Crucial Paris Talks on Climate Change  —  LE BOURGET, France — The international climate change negotiations entering their second and final week encompass a vast and complicated array of political, economic and legal questions.  But at bottom, the talks boil down to two issues: trust and money.
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Rubio: No-fly list full of ‘everyday Americans’  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says a majority of the people on the federal “no-fly list” do not belong there and therefore should not have their right to purchase firearms taken away.  —  “These are everyday Americans that have nothing to do with terrorism …
RELATED:
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Kasich: Keep guns from those on no-fly list
Discussion: RedState
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 8:10 AM ET, December 7, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
New York Times:
Marco Rubio, Switching Focus, Aims to Halt Ted Cruz's Momentum
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Shane Ryan / Salon:
Just let the Republicans win: Maybe things need to get really bad before America wakes up
Natasha Geiling / ThinkProgress:
Indigenous Leaders In Paris Issue Declaration Calling For The End Of Fossil Fuel Extraction
Barbara Goldberg / Raw Story:
State of Delaware moves to apologize for its role in slavery
David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP hopeful John Kasich: It will ‘tip off’ terrorists if they can't buy guns
Discussion: addictinginfo.org and Liberaland
Daily Mail:
ISIS army of scientists set to wage chemical and biological war on West: Experts warn weapons …
 Earlier Items: 
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas GOP Votes Down Secession Proposal
Jessica Stern / New York Times:
How Terror Hardens Us
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Los Angeles Times:
LAPD misclassified more than 25,000 serious crimes as minor, audit finds
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Carter: Cancer is gone
Andrew Husband / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton: I Don't Say ‘Radical Islam’ Because It 'Doesn't Do Justice' to Good Muslims
 

 
From Mediagazer:

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page