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12:00 PM ET, March 15, 2011

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New York Times:
Workers Strain to Retake Control After Blast and Fire at Japan Plant  —  TOKYO — Japanese officials and safety workers struggled to reassert control over badly damaged nuclear reactors and avert calamity on Tuesday after the situation at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant appeared …
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Simon Maloy / Media Matters for America:
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.”
Discussion: Oliver Willis, Gawker and Balloon Juice
Kyodo News:
Spent nuke fuel pool may be boiling, further radiation leak feared  —  A nuclear crisis at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant deepened Tuesday as fresh explosions occurred at the site and its operator said water in a pool storing spent nuclear fuel rods may be boiling …
Discussion: New York Times
Jeremy Gordon / World Nuclear News:
Radiation decreasing, fuel ponds warming  —  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 …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Confidence Falls in U.S. System of Government  —  Confidence in the U.S. System of Government Drops to a 35-Year Low  —  Confidence in the U.S. system of government has dropped to a new low in more than 35 years, with public attitudes burdened by continued economic discontent …
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John T. Bennett / The Hill:
Gen. Petraeus to be pressed on Afghan war's costs, timeline
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
U.S.: Wait on health care review  —  The Obama Administration told the Supreme Court Monday evening that federal appeals courts are moving rapidly to review the constitutionality of the new health care law, so there is no need for the Justices to step in to decide the issue ahead of the lower courts.
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Lee Ross / Fox News:
White House Urges Supreme Court Not to Jump Into Health Care Law Cases Prematurely
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
Nicholas Ballasy / CNSNews:
Conyers: Obamacare Is ‘Platform’ for Creating Single-Payer System
Discussion: protein wisdom and Hot Air
David Nather / The Politico:   Steve King: Defunding or bust
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Social Security reform splits White House political, economic teams  —  Social Security reform is splitting President Obama's economic and political advisers.  —  Obama is being pulled in opposite directions by those whose priorities are fiscal and those whose No. 1 concern is electoral.
Discussion: TPMDC and FrumForum
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The Note:
The Note: GOP Losing Ground In Battle Over Deficit
Fhardingj / CNN:
Barbour meets and greets in Iowa
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and GOP 12
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Roy Rogers / Dome on the Range:
Peck: If You're Brown, You're Going Down
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:   KS GOP State Rep. Compares Undocumented Immigrants To Pigs, Suggests Shooting Them From Helicopters
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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New York Times:
King of Bahrain Declares State of Emergency  —  MANAMA, Bahrain — The king of Bahrain declared a three-month state of emergency on Tuesday as more than 10,000 protesters marched on the Saudi Arabian embassy here to denounce a military intervention by Persian Gulf countries the day before.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Huckabee, Bachmann Have Most Intense Following in GOP Field  —  Sarah Palin is best known, but her Positive Intensity Score trails  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee leads the field of possible GOP presidential candidates in “positive intensity” among Republicans nationwide …
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
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 …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
While Japan Burns, Obama Fills Out His Bracket  —  Wow: … Via Mike Allen's newsletter, we see in the first line how the leader of the free world will spend his day during this awful crisis: … Okay, that's not all he's doing.  “Obama will tape interviews from the Map Room with KOAT Albuquerque …
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Lynn Sweet:
Obama wooing donors for his 2012 re-election bid Monday night
Discussion: The Page
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.
New York Times:
The Abuse of Private Manning  —  Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been imprisoned for nine months on charges of handing government files to WikiLeaks, has not even been tried let alone convicted.  Yet the military has been treating him abusively, in a way that conjures creepy memories …
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Adam Hasner all but declares U.S. Senate run  —  Former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner has formed an exploratory committee for an expected U.S. Senate run, the latest sign that Florida may have a sizable crowd of Republicans running to unseat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Wall Street Journal:
Are Israeli Settlers Human?  —  A family of five slaughtered in their beds.  Some Palestinians call it ‘natural.’  —  A few years ago, British poet and Oxford don Tom Paulin offered a view on what should be done to certain Jewish settlers.  “[They] should be shot dead,” he told Al-Ahram Weekly.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Israel Matzav
 
 
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Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama approval drops to 50 percent
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Chris Lee Resignation / Buffalo News:
Davis' comments shock GOP leaders
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Jose Martinez / NY Daily News:
Manhattan mom sues $19K/yr. preschool for damaging 4-year-old daughter's Ivy League chances
Ryan / The Bellows:
Liberal NIMBYs  —  I see that the New York Times ran a piece …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and National Review
Erin McPike / Real Clear Politics:
Documentarians Hit the Campaign Trail
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Kevin Drawbaugh / Reuters:
Republicans mount first Dodd-Frank challenge
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To America's hot-to-protest college students
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Mormon Politicians From Utah Feel Tea Party Heat
Tom Fahey / UnionLeader.com:
GOP House member resigns after mental illness remarks
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