Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:05 PM ET, February 21, 2016

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Scott Conroy / The Huffington Post:
Exclusive: Mitt Romney To Endorse Marco Rubio  —  The establishment wagons are circling.  —  Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — In a major development in the Republican presidential race, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney will endorse Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) …
RELATED:
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The New Shape of the Republican Race  —  After his solid, broadly based victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Donald Trump now holds a commanding position in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.  —  But Trump still faces two “known unknowns,” to borrow the memorable phrase …
Breitbart:
Glenn Beck Responds to South Carolina Primary Results: ‘Join Me’ in a ‘Fast for Ted Cruz’  —  Following Donald Trump's victory in the South Carolina GOP primary, talk radio host Glenn Beck urged his Facebook followers to join him and his family “in a fast for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), our country and the Nevada caucus.”
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump win confounds critics who thought gaffes would do him in  —  SPARTANBURG, S.C. — For months, Donald Trump's antagonists in rival campaigns, in the GOP establishment and in the punditocracy have believed the time would come, someday, when Trump would say something so outrageous …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
ABC News:
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Takes Ownership of Republican Party
Discussion: Downtrend and Associated Press
New York Times:
The Party of Bush Yields, Warily, to a New Face: Donald Trump  —  In his emotional seven-minute farewell to a Republican Party that elevated his father and brother to the White House, there were two words that a choked-up Jeb Bush could not bring himself to utter: “Donald Trump.”
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
If Trump's foes don't unite soon, it's a Don deal  —  Donald Trump's victory in South Carolina proves that in 2016, the GOP has split into two.  There is the Trump party.  And there is the not-Trump party.  —  In raw terms, the Trump party isn't especially strong.  Voting has concluded in three states.
Susan Page / USA Today:
First Take: History is now on Donald Trump's side
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump
David Brody / blogs.cbn.com:
Evangelicals Give Big South Carolina Kiss To Donald Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Optimists And Trump Skeptics Are About To Go To War
New York Times:
Donald Trump Wins South Carolina Primary; Cruz and Rubio Vie for 2nd
RELATED:
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Uber Driver Held in ‘Random’ Shootings That Left 6 Dead
Discussion: Detroit Free Press, Vox and The Week
Fox17:
6 dead in Kalamazoo County shootings; Suspect arrested
Discussion: The Last Refuge and Fox News
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Why Nevada was a bad sign for Bernie Sanders's “political revolution”  —  It was bad news for Bernie Sanders that he lost in Nevada Saturday.  But there may be a bigger crisis embedded in the loss: It suggested he isn't delivering on a key ingredient needed for his “political revolution.”
RELATED:
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Barring a catastrophe, her nomination is inevitable.  —  Before the New Hampshire primary earlier this month, it was assumed that the Nevada caucus was going to be a victory for Hillary Clinton.  She had strong outreach to the state's Latino and black voters; she had endorsements and support …
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Sanders blames Nevada loss on turnout
Discussion: Slantpoint and New York Times
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
A Win for Hillary Clinton, With Signs of Challenges Ahead
Discussion: Daily Kos
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton defeats Sanders in Nevada; black voter support appears decisive
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Looking Back  —  Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy.  Fortunately, he mostly failed.  Belligerent with his colleagues …
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
Black Lives Matter meetings run afoul of library's policy … NASHVILLE — Library officials have told Nashville's chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement that meetings restricting those who attend by race aren't allowed on public property.  —  The decision has outraged Black Lives Matter members.
Todd S. Purdum / Vanity Fair:
Requiem for the Bush Dynasty  —  An unrivaled political pedigree and $100-million war chest were not enough to overcome an undeniable fact: voters didn't buy what Jeb Bush was selling.  —  Even by the normal laws of Republican political physics, 2016 was never a lock to be Jeb Bush's year.
Discussion: Politico
RELATED:
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Jeb Bush's Path To Defeat Began A Year Ago
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Daily Mail:
‘Child’ asylum seeker caught out by his teeth: Afghan who claimed to be just 12 is revealed to be in his TWENTIES after assaulting his British foster father  —  An Afghan who claimed to be just 12 is revealed to be in his twenties after assaulting his British foster father.
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Aggressively Tried To Hire Staffers From Koch Group  —  Late last year, Donald Trump's campaign aggressively courted top current and former staffers from a Koch-backed group in an effort to rapidly build up their national ground operation.  —  There was a reason …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 5:05 PM ET, February 21, 2016.

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: 
Fox News:
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio react to South Carolina primary results
Discussion: Politicus USA and Althouse
David Alandete / EL PAÍS:
Bashar al-Assad: “80 countries support the terrorists in Syria”
Discussion: The Atlantic, NPR and NBC News
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump on Iraq comments: ‘Who knows what was in my head?’
 Earlier Items: 
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Inside Jeb Bush's $150 Million Failure
Discussion: Yahoo Politics
Jill Filipovic / New York Times:
Why Sexism at the Office Makes Women Love Hillary Clinton
The State:
UPDATES: Trump projected winner of SC's GOP primary
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
 
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