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Tsunami hits north-eastern Japan after massive quake — A massive earthquake has hit the north-east of Japan, triggering a tsunami that has caused extensive damage. — Japanese television showed cars, ships and even buildings being swept away by a vast wall of water after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake.
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Huge Quake and Tsunami Hit Japan — TOKYO — A huge earthquake struck Japan on Friday, churning up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along the northern part of the country and threatened coastal areas throughout the Pacific. — Walls of water whisked away houses …
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Massive quake, tsunami hit Japan — Editor's Note: Read live blogging of the Japan tsunami and earthquake. Are you there? Send your video, pictures to iReport. For more news visit CNN affiliates KHON and KHNL. — Tokyo (CNN) — The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Tsunami Relief And Preparedness Cut In GOP Budget Proposal: National Weather Service … WASHINGTON — Thursday night's massive earthquake in Japan and the resulting tsunami warnings that have alarmed U.S. coasts, seem likely to ignite a debate over a previously little-discussed subsection …
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Tsunami waves hit Hawaii, sweep across islands — Tsunami waves hit Hawaii in the early morning hours Friday and were sweeping through the island chain after an earthquake in Japan sparked evacuations throughout the Pacific and as far as the U.S. western coast.
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Japan's Strict Building Codes Saved Lives — From seawalls that line stretches of Japan's coastline, to skyscrapers that sway to absorb earthquakes, to building codes that are among the world's most rigorous, no country may be better prepared to withstand earthquakes than Japan.
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The Tsunami Warning continues in effect for the coastal areas of California and Oregon …
The Tsunami Warning continues in effect for the coastal areas of California and Oregon …
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Earthquake in Japan — A massive 8.9-magnitude quake hit …
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Emily Rauhala / Time:
How Japan Became a Leader in Disaster Preparation
How Japan Became a Leader in Disaster Preparation
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Obama Seeks a Course of Pragmatism in the Middle East — WASHINGTON — In the Middle East crisis, as on other issues, there are two Barack Obamas: the transformative historical figure and the pragmatic American president. Three months after a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself aflame …
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J. David Goodman / The Lede:
Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan on Twitter … Updates and Video of the Quake and Tsunami, in Japan and Elsewhere — Television networks across the world carried dramatic footage, some of it live, of the tsunami that hit northern Japan. — March 10: Updates on Libya's Revolt and Middle East Protests
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Guardian, The Daily Dish, The Confluence, nancynall.com and The Awl
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
President of China? — Obama's lament. — “Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, 'No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao's words in Tahrir Square.'” — “Obama Seeks a Course of Pragmatism in the Middle East,” The New York Times, March 11, 2011.
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Philippathomas / Philippa Thomas Online:
The State Department spokesman and the Prisoner in the Brig — I just heard an extraordinary remark from State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. He was speaking to a small audience at MIT on “the benefits of new media as it relates to foreign policy”, an event organised by the Center for Future Civic Media.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Crowley slams Defense on Manning
Crowley slams Defense on Manning
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Clinton aide: Manning ‘mistreated’
Clinton aide: Manning ‘mistreated’
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dumbing Deficits Down — Like anyone who writes regularly about what passes for economic and fiscal debate in American politics, I've developed a strong tolerance for nonsense. After all, if I got upset every time powerful people were illogical and/or dishonest, I'd spend every waking hour in a state of raging despair.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
After GOP denials, Scarborough says he was courted for Senate — MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Friday said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has asked him about running against Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) in 2012. — Scarborough said in an interview with The Hill, “John suggested last month …
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
DGA slams Walker, taunts govs - Santorum plans New England swing - CNN: Bachmann's serious …
DGA slams Walker, taunts govs - Santorum plans New England swing - CNN: Bachmann's serious …
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Walker signs budget-repair bill, rescinds layoffs — By Don Walker, Jason Stein and Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison - Gov. Scott Walker signed the bill Friday that repeals most collective bargaining by public employee unions. — He signed the bill in the morning …
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Shira Schoenberg / Concord Monitor:
Lawmaker advocates eugenics — A 91-year-old state representative told a constituent that he believes in eugenics and that the world would be better off without “defective people.” — Barrington Republican Martin Harty told Sharon Omand, a Strafford resident who manages a community mental health program …
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State lawmaker from Barrington says ‘defective people’ should be sent to ‘Siberia’
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Along for the Ride — Republican presidential hopefuls aren't so much leading as reacting. That could hurt them in 2012. — Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. — Proving that truism, the slowly emerging class of Republican presidential candidates increasingly looks like a bunch of bystanders.
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Public Opinion And Elite Signalling
Public Opinion And Elite Signalling
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Aharding / CNN:
Bachmann increasingly serious about presidential bid — Washington (CNN) - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is increasingly serious about joining the wide-open race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. — And a growing number of conservative activists, legislators …
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Matthew L. Wald / New York Times:
Emergency Declared at Japanese Nuclear Plant — The Japanese government declared an “atomic power emergency” and evacuated thousands of residents living close to a nuclear plant in northern Japan after a major earthquake, but officials said there had been no radiation leak from the facility …
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Sen. Ron Johnson denounces ‘mob rule’ — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a former businessman and now a freshman senator, held a conference call Thursday afternoon with a small group of bloggers. For a freshman, he's entirely fluid on the issues and easily navigates between specifics and larger themes.
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Earthquake turns TV networks into print — An 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan yesterday, and a tsunami is spreading, right now, across the Pacific ocean. Thus we have much news that is best consumed live and uncooked. Here's mine, right now: — Not many of us carry radios in our pockets any more.
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Viral post pits coverage of Sheen, fallen soldiers — It started with a Facebook status update. Upset at the media's coverage of Charlie Sheen, someone took up for American soldiers dying in Afghanistan. — “Charlie Sheen is all over the news because he's a celebrity drug addict,” …
Paul Krugman:
Ricardian Confusions, Continued (Seriously Wonkish) — I wrote yesterday about the sad persistence of misunderstanding, on the part of Ricardian equivalence types, of how their own models work. Nick Rowe has a critique of my critique, in which he makes a good point about measuring output.
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John Rosenthal / Pajamas Media:
German Authorities Confirm that Frankfurt Shooter Viewed De Palma Clip — The combination of fictional American “atrocities” and radical Islamic preaching appears to have led Arid Uka to kill. — According to the German wire service dapd, the German Attorney General's Office has confirmed …
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