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Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster as Radiation Levels Rise — By HIROKO TABUCHI, KEITH BRADSHER and MATTHEW L. WALD — TOKYO — Japan faced the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear accident Tuesday morning, as an explosion at the most crippled of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi …
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Dramatic escalation in Japan — UPDATE 1: 1.58am GMT Information from TV appearance, change of headline from ‘Possible damage to Fukushima Daiichi 2’ — CORRECTION: 1.58am GMT Removal of potential inaccuracy on torus' status in containment — UPDATE 2: 2.19am GMT Information from government …
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Guardian:
Japan radiation leaks feared as nuclear experts point to possible cover-up — Lack of radiation readings echoes pattern of secrecy employed after other major accidents such as Chernobyl — Nuclear experts have thrown doubt on the accuracy of official information issued …
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Third blast at Japan nuclear plant — As radiation levels near the plant rise, people are being checked for exposure — A quake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan has been hit by a third explosion in four days, amid fears of a meltdown. — The blast occurred at reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant …
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Japan crisis: third explosion raises spectre of nuclear nightmare — New explosion at Fukushima plant, as engineers fought to prevent a meltdown in the second worst nuclear accident in history. — A huge explosion hit another reactor at an earthquake-damaged Japanese nuclear power plant early Tuesday …
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Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants: The No BS Info on Japan's Disastrous Nuclear Operators — I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations.
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In Stricken Fuel-Cooling Pools, a Danger for the Longer Term
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William Saletan / Slate:
Let's cool the political meltdown over Japan's damaged nuclear power plants.
Let's cool the political meltdown over Japan's damaged nuclear power plants.
CNN:
New blast rocks Japanese nuclear plant
New blast rocks Japanese nuclear plant
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Just a Thought — There's so much we don't know yet about the situation in Japan.
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House says Obama won't back off nuclear energy
White House says Obama won't back off nuclear energy
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Scott Rothschild / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Kansas legislator suggests using hunters in helicopters to control illegal immigration, likens immigrants to feral hogs — TOPEKA — A legislator said Monday it might be a good idea to control illegal immigration the way the feral hog population has been controlled — with hunters shooting from helicopters.
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Peck: If You're Brown, You're Going Down — Hey, we didn't say it. — After a bit of a hiatus, DOTR is back! We were waiting for just the right issue on which to jump back in, and we think we found it (Or at least we hope we found it. If this doesn't epitomize Statehouse Crazy, we're all screwed).
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Former Senator Evan Bayh To Pair Lobbying With Conservative Television Punditry — When he first announced that he was stepping down from the United States Senate, Evan Bayh cited a lot of high-minded reasons for the decision. So high-minded was his talk that Ezra Klein was moved to remark that …
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Felix Salmon:
Don't donate money to Japan — Individuals are doing it, banks are doing it — faced with the horrific news and pictures from Japan, everybody wants to do something, and the obvious thing to do is to donate money to some relief fund or other. — Please don't.
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Fox News Discovers Nuclear Reactor In Japanese Disco — Earlier today on Fox News' Your World With Neil Cavuto, this map popped up detailing the locations of Japan's nuclear power plants: — One name seems out of place on the graphic — that of “Shibuyaeggman.”
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USA Inc. — If the United States were a company, what financial shape would it be in? And what would it make sense to do to put the company on a sounder footing? These are the intriguing questions that a group of investment analysts from Kleiner Perkins, headed by Mary Meeker, set out to answer.
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Tom Fahey / UnionLeader.com:
GOP House member resigns after mental illness remarks — CONCORD - Rep. Martin Harty, a Barrington Republican, has resigned his House seat in the wake of fire he drew for remarks on mental illness and population control. — Harty, who turns 92 this month, came into spotlight last week …
Andy Szal / WisPolitics Budget Blog:
Fitzgerald: Dem senators won't be allowed to vote in committees — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald wrote this afternoon in an email to his caucus that Senate Dems remain in contempt of the Senate and will not be allowed to vote in committees despite returning from their out-of-state boycott of the budget repair bill vote.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Japan, Reno humor in Barbour's shop — Every morning, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's press secretary sends to Barbour's staff and other allies a list of press clippings, along with a daily compendium of birthdays, historical notes, and jokes — which have recently included humor …
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Michele Bachmann's First Action As Pres. Candidate? Offer Her Birth Certificate — Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is not afraid to continue to beat the birth certificate drum as a criticism of President Obama. Appearing on the radio show of conservative host Jeff Katz …
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Conservative bloc leader to oppose GOP bill with ‘bite-sized’ cuts — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the head of the powerful conservative Republican Study Committee, will vote against the three-week House spending bill Tuesday. — Jordan's decision will put pressure on other conservative members …
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Sen. Marco Rubio / RedState:
No More Short-Term Budget CR's
No More Short-Term Budget CR's
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Mormon Politicians From Utah Feel Tea Party Heat — COALVILLE, Utah — Jacqueline Smith fits no one's stereotype of a political kingmaker. A home-schooling Mormon mother of five, Ms. Smith lives in a modest ranch-style house here in the mountains outside Salt Lake City with her husband, Cleve, a plumbing contractor.
Daniel Larison / Eunomia:
Palin and the “Party of Ideas” … This wouldn't be much of a change from the intellectually empty brand of pseudo-populism that prevails right now. What makes some of the new movement conservative anxiety about Palin so amusing is that the people cited in the article continue to perpetuate …
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David Nather / The Politico:
Steve King seeks maximum ‘leverage’ to stop reform — Rep. Steve King says House Republicans should stick together and vote against any long-term spending agreement that doesn't block funding for President Barack Obama's health care law — even if it leads to a government shutdown.
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N.R.A. Declines to Meet With Obama on Gun Policy — WASHINGTON — More than two months after the Tucson shootings, the administration is calling together both the gun lobby and gun safety groups to find common ground. But President Obama has no plans to take the lead in proposing further …
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Miracle of the baby girl plucked from the rubble: Four-month-old reunited with her father after incredible rescue — The sound of a baby's cry amid the rubble seemed so impossible that soldiers searching a tsunami-smashed village dismissed it as a mistake. — But it came again.
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