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Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant — A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown. — The key piece of technology in a nuclear reactor is the control rods.
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New York Times:
Radiation Leaks Said to Recede After Blast at Japan Nuclear Plant — TOKYO — An explosion at a nuclear power plant in northern Japan on Saturday blew the roof off one building and destroyed the exterior walls of a crippled reactor, but officials said radiation leaks from the plant were receding …
BBC:
Japan warns of small radiation leak at nuclear plant — Pressure in one of the six reactors is considerably higher than normal, Japan's nuclear agency says — Japanese authorities have warned there could be a small radiation leak from a nuclear reactor whose cooling system was knocked out by the earthquake.
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Japan Pushes to Rescue Survivors as Quake Toll Rises
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This Just In, Gothamist and New York Magazine
David Batty / Guardian:
Town ‘missing’ 10,000 as nuclear fears recede
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World Nuclear News, Wall Street Journal, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Jawa Report, Obsidian Wings, The Agonist and msnbc.com
Kyodo News:
Damage from mega quake increasing, death toll feared to top 1,700
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CNN, NPR Topics, Scared Monkeys and Guardian
Reuters:
Factbox: What happens when a reactor loses coolant
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Scientific American and Guardian
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Two [Now Five] Japanese Nuclear Units Still at Serious Risk
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All Things Nuclear, Clean Beta and Hullabaloo
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Bachmann Mangles Revolutionary History In N.H. — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's visit to the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire got off to a rocky start on Saturday morning when she misstated a key fact about the American Revolution in a speech to a group …
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Outside the Beltway, FrumForum and Talk Radio Sucks
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Alexander Bolton / Ballot Box:
Bachmann makes gaffe in New Hampshire — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a possible presidential contender in 2012, made an embarrassing gaffe Saturday morning in a speech to a group of conservatives in New Hampshire. — Bachmann erroneously touted New Hampshire as the site of the first battles of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Politico and Weasel Zippers
Daniel Hannan / Wall Street Journal:
A European's Warning to America — The perils of following us toward greater regulation, higher taxes and centralized power. — On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied.
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Booman Tribune
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
POLITICIANS CAUGHT ACCIDENTALLY TELLING THE TRUTH.... Incidents surrounding live mics are some of my favorites — unexpected candor can be revealing. — Take this gem out of Iowa, for example. (thanks to Blue Girl for the tip) … The conversation was between some of the top leaders of the Iowa State House.
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They gave us a republic
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Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
House Republican, caught on tape, jokes of ‘give a handgun to a schizophrenic bill’
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ThinkProgress and Booman Tribune
Jaime Lalinde / Vanity Fair:
Larry Kudlow Devalues Human Life With Japan Earthquake Freudian Slip — In these tough economic times, isn't it nice to know that calamitous natural disasters needn't have an adverse affect on your investment portfolio? After the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan failed to induce a market nosedive …
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Booman Tribune
Mark Kleiman / The Reality-Based Community:
A weak President — Asked about the extraordinary conditions imposed on Bradley Manning and the even more extraordinary remarks of the State Department spokesman dumping on DoD for that mistreatment, Barack Obama sounds completely clueless. Clueless at the Bush level:
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The Atlantic Online
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Crowley deleted tweet comparing Middle East ‘tsunami’ to Japan crisis
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A Chequer-Board of Nights …, New Deal 2.0 and Emptywheel
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Barack Obama: Bradley Manning's well-being a factor in his treatment
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Washington Post, Weasel Zippers, ...My heart's in Accra and Philippa Thomas Online
Wesley K. Clark / Washington Post:
Gen. Wesley Clark says Libya doesn't meet the test for U.S. military action — In March of 1974, when I was a young Army captain, I was sitting in a conference on civil-military relations at Brown University. Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.) was onstage expounding on the lessons from Vietnam about military interventions.
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Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune and Talk Radio Sucks
Lachlan Markay / NewsBusters.org:
NPR Board Member Admits It Serves ‘Liberal, Highly Educated Elite,’ Wonders How to Justify Public Funding in Light of This — At least one National Public Radio board member has a firm grasp on arguments against the organization receiving federal funding. Criticisms of NPR “do have some legitimacy …
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Weasel Zippers, UrbanGrounds, Althouse and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Michelle Malkin:
Seattle-area call for help: Help us search for Marizela Saturday — (Download here in PDF form.) — This is probably one of the most difficult things my family has ever undertaken. It has been an overwhelming week and we need help. — Tomorrow, Saturday March 12 …
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Scared Monkeys and Hot Air
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama promises to continue fight for women's equality — Two days after Senate Democrats demanded that President Obama take a more public stance in the budget fight, Obama devoted his weekly address to honoring Women's History Month. — While Democrats want the president to plunge …
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The Politico, JammieWearingFool and Ballot Box
New York Times:
Democrats See Wisconsin Loss as Galvanizing — Even as the Republican governor of Wisconsin was signing a bill Friday that all but ended collective bargaining for state employees, Democrats nationally had put out advertisements and letters to use his own success against him.
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Prairie Weather
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Wisconsin 14 planning “homecoming” march on capitol tomorrow
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