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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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Japan Floods Nuclear Reactor Crippled by Quake in Effort to Avert Meltdown — TOKYO — Japanese officials took the extraordinary step on Saturday of flooding a nuclear reactor with seawater in a last-ditch effort to avoid a nuclear meltdown, after an explosion there escalated the emergency caused …
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Guardian:
Japan's fears of nuclear mayhem recede as nuclear reactor starts to cool — Physicists feared second explosion would create radioactive cloud as residents panicked, jamming city's exit roads — For a few unnerving hours, Japan faced a bleak and unsettling prospect.
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CNN:
Report: Explosion at Japanese nuclear plant — Editor's Note: Read live blogging of the Japan tsunami and earthquake. Are you there? Send your video, pictures to iReport. — (CNN) — An explosion has been reported at a nuclear plant in northeastern Japan's Fukushima prefecture …
World Nuclear News:
Battle to stabilise earthquake reactors
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Kyodo News:
Damage from mega quake increasing, death toll feared to top 1,800
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David Batty / Guardian:
Fresh nuclear fears as cooling system fails
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Japan Pushes to Rescue Survivors as Quake Toll Rises
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CNN:
3,000 rescued; many more missing — Shirakawa, Japan (CNN) …
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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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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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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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The Political Carnival, The Moderate Voice and Booman Tribune
Glenn Davis / Mediaite:
Bill Maher To Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison: The Qur'an Is A ‘Hate Filled Holy Book’ — The emotion shown by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) at Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) Muslim radicalization hearings garnered much attention, and we have a feeling Ellison's appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight will get its share of play as well.
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Salon
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Eye of the Newt — The presidential race is barely under way, but already we have had our first Big Thought. I am speaking, of course, of Newt Gingrich's suggestion that he was driven into serial adultery by hard work and patriotism. — “There's no question that at times in my life …
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Prairie Weather
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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Crooks and Liars and 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
Wall Street Journal:
Why We Prize That Magical Mystery Pad — When Apple introduced the iPad last year, it added a new buzzword to technology marketing. The device, it declared, was not just “revolutionary,” a tech-hype cliché, but “magical.” Skeptics rolled their eyes, and one Apple fan even started …
Ynetnews:
Gaza celebrates; Fayyad condemns terror attack — Rafah residents hand out candy following murder of parents, three children in West Bank settlement of Itamar. Palestinian PM denounces act, says “we categorically oppose violence and terror, regardless of victims', perpetrators' identity”
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Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
Cubachi:
Daniel Hannan to America: “You deserve better, cousins.” — Daniel Hannan, Member of the European Parliament, and the most popular Englishman in conservative and libertarian circles, wrote a marvelous opinion piece extolling the virtues of America, and the dangers of Europeanization.
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Sister Toldjah and Liberty Pundits Blog
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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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The Moderate Voice, Scared Monkeys and Hot Air
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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