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9:20 AM ET, March 15, 2011

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New York Times:
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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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: Balloon Juice and Gawker
New York Times:
Fire and Damage at Japanese Plant Raise Risk of Nuclear Disaster  —  TOKYO — Japan's nuclear crisis verged toward catastrophe on Tuesday after an explosion damaged the vessel containing the nuclear core at one reactor and a fire at another spewed large amounts of radioactive material into the air …
Jeremy Gordon / World Nuclear News:
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 …
BBC:
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 …
Guardian:
Japan radiation leaks feared as nuclear experts point to possible cover-up
truth-out.org:
Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants: The No BS Info on Japan's Disastrous Nuclear Operators
Peter Wynn Kirby / Opinionator:
Japan's Long Nuclear Disaster Film
Discussion: Guardian
William Saletan / Slate:
Let's cool the political meltdown over Japan's damaged nuclear power plants.
Guardian:   US embassy cables: MP criticises Japanese nuclear strategy
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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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
The Politico:
Republicans wary of David Rivera scandal  —  Florida Rep. David Rivera, under an ethical cloud and facing an expanding investigation into his finances, is in a political squeeze from Republicans in Washington and Miami just two months into his congressional tenure.
Discussion: Oliver Willis
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Conservative bloc leader to oppose GOP bill with ‘bite-sized’ cuts
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 …
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.
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 …
John / Power Line:
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.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Chicago Boyz
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 …
Discussion: Weigel
Myglesias / Yglesias:
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 …
Discussion: USA Today
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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
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 …
Discussion: GOP 12, Washington Post and The Hill
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.
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
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.
Richard Shears / Daily Mail:
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.
Discussion: newsfeed.time.com and AOL News
David Nather / The Politico:
Steve King: Defunding or bust  —  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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