Archive for November, 2010

Memeorandum

• The Catholic Bonfire At The Stake (Rod Dreher/The American Conservative)
  Rod Dreher / The American Conservative: The Catholic Bonfire At The Stake  —  Good morning from Dublin.  It is really interesting to observe US public controversies from outside the American bubble.  I am startled by the massive controversy that has erupted over the Covington (KY) Catholic school boys and the Native American man …
• Dreamers call Trump's offer to extend DACA for border-wall funding unacceptable (Daniel González/Arizona Republic)
  Daniel González / Arizona Republic: Dreamers call Trump's offer to extend DACA for border-wall funding unacceptable  —  The head of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition on Saturday rejected President Donald Trump's proposal to extend an Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers” …
• The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros (Hannes Grassegger/BuzzFeed News)
  Hannes Grassegger / BuzzFeed News: The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George Soros  —  The glass tower that houses George Soros's office in Manhattan is overflowing with numbers on screens, tracking and predicting the directions of markets around the world.  But there's one that's particularly hard to figure out …
• 'Only with Nancy': How Schumer and Pelosi stuck together on the shutdown (Heather Caygle/Politico)
  Heather Caygle / Politico: ‘Only with Nancy’: How Schumer and Pelosi stuck together on the shutdown  —  A few days before Washington staggered into what would become the longest shutdown in U.S. history, Chuck Schumer received a request from Donald Trump.  —  The president wanted the Senate minority leader to visit …
• Giuliani: 'So What' If Trump Talked To Cohen About His Testimony (Gideon Resnick/The Daily Beast)
  Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast: Giuliani: ‘So What’ If Trump Talked To Cohen About His Testimony  —  The president's attorney said on Sunday that it's possible the president spoke with his former attorney Michael Cohen prior to Cohen's congressional testimony.  —  Gideon Resnick  —  Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney … […]
• Beware the Furies, President Trump (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)
  Maureen Dowd / New York Times: Beware the Furies, President Trump  —  WASHINGTON — After I'd been writing a column for a few years, a male boss gave me a T-shirt depicting the Furies swooping.  —  He didn't mean it as a compliment.  —  The three sisters, the “infernal goddesses” of ancient mythology born from the blood shed … […]
• Ann Coulter blasts Trump shutdown compromise: 'We voted for Trump and got Jeb!' (Tal Axelrod/The Hill)
  Tal Axelrod / The Hill: Ann Coulter blasts Trump shutdown compromise: ‘We voted for Trump and got Jeb!’  —  Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter blasted President Trump's immigration proposal to end a partial government shutdown, suggesting the plan amounted to granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants.
• Mark Meadows, Trump whisperer (Gabby Orr/Politico)
  Gabby Orr / Politico: Mark Meadows, Trump whisperer  —  When Mark Meadows didn't get President Donald Trump's chief of staff gig, he wasn't losing much.  —  Just 10 days later, the powerful conservative lawmaker managed to engineer what has since become the longest-running government shutdown …
• POLITICO Playbook: Trump says he's willing to give 'amnesty' in 'much bigger deal' (Politico)
  Politico: POLITICO Playbook: Trump says he's willing to give ‘amnesty’ in ‘much bigger deal’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TODAY is the second-year anniversary of the Trump presidency.  —  SHUTDOWN ... DAY 30 ... WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP offered yesterday cannot be rationally viewed as the way to end this standoff.
• A vulture swoops down on Gannett (The Week)
  The Week: A vulture swoops down on Gannett  —  The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web:  —  The Gannett chain was the most voracious acquirer of local papers in the news business, said Brooke Sutherland at ­Bloomberg.  Now “the hunter has become the hunted.”