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Iodine-134 spike?
The question here isn’t good news or bad news, but bad news and really bad news. Fukushima Daiichi’s reactor 2 has a sudden spike in radiation from underneath where water has pooled near the turbines, perhaps of a particular isotope that would indicate a fresh containment breach and ongoing fission reactions. CNN reports that TEPCO [...]
A rerun of 2009?
While the US continues its bombardments in a country that the Defense Secretary today admitted posed no national-security threat and was not a “vital national interest” to the US, an equally brutal crackdown on a rising rebellion continues in Syria, a nation that helps support and control much of the region’s terrorism. Demonstrations in the [...]
Clinton: Didn't need Congress because this is so awesomely multilateral.
Jake Tapper reminds ABC why they foolishly spent money on Christiane Amanpour last year for the anchor job on This Week with a tough joint interview of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Tapper asks Gates exactly what vital national interest the US has in Libya and what kind of [...]
A kinetic scrutiny action.
With so many balls in the air, you may have forgotten the important business of selecting the Obamateurism of the Week! Don’t make your vote a halfway effort, but don’t make it an epic struggle, either. Otherwise, these things can really kick your — well, let’s just say it’s a kinetic selection process that will [...]
Brazil's best customer.
As Peter Glover says, writing in the Energy Tribune, this ought to be the lead story in every American paper and on every American news show. But it’s overshadowed by Japan, Libya and other developments in the world. America’s combined energy resources are, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CSR), the [...]
"[Y]ou admit that you've had weaknesses ..."
In 2007, as Newt Gingrich publicly toyed with the idea of running for the Republican nomination for President, the sotto voce chatter was about Gingrich’s “baggage” should he win the nomination. That didn’t refer to his public-relations defeat over the 1995 government shutdown, either. Gingrich chose not to run in 2008 and didn’t address his [...]
African Union to the Rescue?
It would be fascinating if it didn’t involve US troops and America’s reputation. Almost unnoticed by the US media, players in the Eastern hemisphere are actively planning to enliven the Libya situation with negotiations, which we can assume will quickly be dubbed “peace talks.” The African Union has been maneuvering to gets talks going since [...]
Not quite "watching the watchers."
Media criticism has been the bread and butter of the blogosphere from its opening days, especially for conservatives who pushed back against the liberal bias of the mainstream media. The scope of those efforts have run the gamut from fact-checking news pieces to exposing biases of top-ranking executives, such as Eason Jordan at CNN. Media [...]
Coordination?
NBC brings us a nice moment for anti-Gaddafi forces from Ajdabiya, a town seized by the government and taken back by rebels just this morning. As Richard Engel’s report from the ground shows, there’s not much left to take back; the urban fighting drove most of the residents out, and many buildings are too damaged [...]
... in 2007.
The best part of having elected as President a man who pandered to the anti-war Left during his campaign are all of the little video nuggets that campaign left behind as markers for hypocrisy. Weasel Zippers finds this doozy from the August 2007 AFL-CIO debate broadcast live on MSNBC, in which candidate Barack Obama passionately [...]
Plus finding Marizela, 1-3 CT.
The Northern Alliance Radio Network will be on the air today, with your hosts Mitch Berg and Ed Morrissey, on from 1-3 CT with live streaming video and chat. If you’re in the Twin Cities, you can hear us on AM 1280 The Patriot, or on the station’s Internet stream if you’re outside of the [...]
Huh?
I read the story this morning, mulled it all day, and … still have no working theory for why this should be so. I could buy the potluck explanation if we were seeing a slightly elevated risk for obesity among regular churchgoers, but … 50 percent? Whose bringing the food to those potlucks? These guys? [...]
