The Note: GOP Losing Ground In Battle Over Deficit (ABC News)

By MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER As Congress and the White House struggle to cobble together a budget deal, Americans don't feel particularly confident that either side has the right answers. In a new ABC News/Washington Post poll out today,...
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Foreign Policy: The Lessons Of Chernobyl

In the wake of the events in Japan ? earthquake, followed by tsunami, followed by two explosions at a nuclear power plant ? David E. Hoffman of Foreign Policy looks back at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, and argues that at least Japan has one thing going for it that the Soviet Union did not.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134533581/foreign-policy-the-lessons-of-chernobyl?ft=1&f=1057

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The Season of the Political Sting

Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal
Until recently, it was enough to double-check that an email would not be too embarrassing if it ended up on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. Now video and audio also spread in real time. We're in an age of radical transparency, for better and worse.Technology has transformed every business lunch and phone call into potential violations of what people until recently considered their privacy. At the same time, these are also so many potential opportunities for unintended truth.The big sting last week was aimed at National Public Radio. Conservative prankster James O'Keefe...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/14/the_season_of_the_political_sting_251982.html

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New Republic: Return Of Salmonella Republicans

The Food and Drug Administration may be next on the chopping block, with House Republicans wanting to reduce food safety funding to less than what it was in 2008 for the rest of this fiscal year. Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic argues that this is troubling, because funding for food safety was extremely inadequate in 2008 ? leading to salmonella outbreaks.

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Jim Webb, A One-Term Senator By Choice

The 65-year-old former Navy secretary says that after much thought, he had decided to return to the private sector. He offered no additional details about his plans, but said he has "every intention of remaining involved" in national issues.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/13/134466767/one-term-only-for-sen-jim-webb?ft=1&f=1014

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Mississippi Gov. Barbour aide resigns over Japan remark (Reuters)

BILOXI, Miss (Reuters) - The press secretary to Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a possible candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, abruptly resigned on Monday after media reports of off-color jokes about Japan in an email.
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Some Perspective on Nuclear Power

James Delingpole, Daily Telegraph
Yesterday I suggested that the fuss about imminent nuclear disaster was greatly overdone. And predictably, the first name invoked by one of the gang of shrill haters who congregate below this blog was Chernobyl. So I’m grateful to Roddy Campbell for producing this guest post on that subject.Before I hand you over to Roddy I should also like to draw your attention to this post from Dr Josef Oehmen, a research scientist at MIT Boston, whose father has extensive experience in Germany’s nuclear industry. (H/T Eureferendum)

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Israel, a Palestinian State, and Obama

David Remnick, The New Yorker
Psychobiography in politics is ordinarily a mug’s game. Sometimes, though, an assessment of inherited traits and ideologies can be telling. For years, Israeli and American commentators have been waiting for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to leave behind the right-wing Revisionist ideology of his father, Benzion, a historian of the Spanish Inquisition, and, like Nixon leaving for China, end the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Just as Nixon set aside decades of Cold War ideology and Red-baiting in the interests of practical global politics, Netanyahu would transcend his...

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