Archive for November, 2011

Memeorandum

• Commerce Department will extend Huawei reprieve, Ross says (Felicia Sonmez/Washington Post)
  Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post: Commerce Department will extend Huawei reprieve, Ross says  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Monday that his department will grant another temporary reprieve to Huawei Technologies, delaying the implementation of a penalty on the Chinese tech giant for another 90 days.
• Op-Ed Columnist - Good morning, readers. I'm taking a break ... (Jonathan Bernstein/New York Times)
  Jonathan Bernstein / New York Times: Op-Ed Columnist  —  Good morning, readers.  I'm taking a break from writing the newsletter until Labor Day.  This week, Jonathan Bernstein of Bloomberg Opinion — a political scientist whom I regularly quote — is taking over.  I hope you enjoy his thoughts.  As always, you can find links to the full Times Opinion repo […]
• Scaramucci says he's putting together coalition to stop Trump in 2020 (Devan Cole/CNN)
  Devan Cole / CNN: Scaramucci says he's putting together coalition to stop Trump in 2020  —  Washington (CNN)Anthony Scaramucci, a former White House communications director who has recently withdrawn his support for President Donald Trump, said Monday that he is putting together a coalition of former Trump Cabinet officials …
• Cosmic Injustice (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
  Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness: Cosmic Injustice  —  One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority.  These progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens …
• Virginia Republican in close race now backs 'red flag' gun bill (Antonio Olivo/Washington Post)
  Antonio Olivo / Washington Post: Virginia Republican in close race now backs ‘red flag’ gun bill  —  Virginia Del. Tim Hugo this week expressed support for a “red flag” gun bill that would remove guns from some people considered a risk to themselves or others, an apparent shift for the Fairfax Republican who faces a tough reelection challenge in November. […]
• For Trump, appeals to white fears about race may be a tougher sell in 2020: Reuters/Ipsos poll (Chris Kahn/Reuters)
  Chris Kahn / Reuters: For Trump, appeals to white fears about race may be a tougher sell in 2020: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and focus on the grievances of white voters helped him win the 2016 election.  But a Reuters analysis of public opinion …
• Howard University to add golf teams after receiving sponsorship from NBA star Stephen Curry (Wesley Lowery/Washington Post)
  Wesley Lowery / Washington Post: Howard University to add golf teams after receiving sponsorship from NBA star Stephen Curry  —  Following a January screening of “Emanuel,” a documentary about the deadly 2015 shooting of nine black worshipers at a church in Charleston, S.C., a throng of Howard University students jockeyed …
• Did Bill Clinton See This Coming? (Todd S. Purdum/The Atlantic)
  Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic: Did Bill Clinton See This Coming?  —  In the summer of 1996, as he prepared to turn 50—and win a second term in the White House—Bill Clinton took to musing aloud that he now had “more yesterdays than tomorrows.”  If that sentiment seemed maudlin for a man still in the prime of life …
• There Will Be No Justice For Trump's Enablers (Paul Waldman/American Prospect)
  Paul Waldman / American Prospect: There Will Be No Justice For Trump's Enablers  —  The moral and professional accounting some Republicans feared will never take place.  —  After Donald Trump became his party's nominee for president in 2016, a great many Republicans in Washington said publicly and privately that they would never work … […]
• Group of US corporate leaders ditches shareholder-first mantra (Financial Times)
  Financial Times: Group of US corporate leaders ditches shareholder-first mantra  —  One of America's largest business groups has dropped the “shareholder primacy” creed that has driven US capitalism for decades, urging companies to consider the environment and workers' wellbeing alongside their pursuit of profits.