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7:25 PM ET, March 12, 2011

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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:
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 …
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.
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 …
BBC:
Japan warns of small radiation leak at nuclear plant
Wall Street Journal:
Japan Tries Using Seawater to Cool Damaged Reactor
Discussion: FrumForum
Guardian:
Fukushima nuclear plant blast puts Japan on high alert
Discussion: Harry's Place
CNN:
3,000 rescued; many more missing  —  Shirakawa, Japan (CNN) …
Discussion: AOL News and Kyodo News
Kyodo News:
Damage from mega quake increasing, death toll feared to top 1,700
Discussion: Guardian
Reuters:
Radiation leaking from Japan's quake-hit nuclear
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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.
Discussion: Salon
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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Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
House Republican, caught on tape, jokes of ‘give a handgun to a schizophrenic bill’
Discussion: 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”
Discussion: 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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Daniel Hannan / Wall Street Journal:
A European's Warning to America
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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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