Open Thread: ET Phone? Deep Throat? (Balloon-juice.com)

... Although I think Men in Black (S. Spielberg, Executive Producer) would be a better template. From the Guardian's preliminary victory lap: Steven Spielberg's Hollywood studio [Dreamworks] looks set to oversee WikiLeaks: the Movie after securing the screen rights to WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, the book by Guardian journalists David Leigh and [...]
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Reid's prostitution remarks ignite debate in Nevada (Reuters)

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - When Harry Reid, the veteran Democratic senator from Nevada, brought up the idea last month of abolishing prostitution in the state, he did so almost as an aside -- a few lines in an eight-page speech.
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Stephanie Schriock Bakari Sellers Kyrsten Sinema Brendan Steinhauser

Early Space Shuttle Flights Riskier Than Estimated

A retrospective risk analysis by the Space Shuttle Safety and Mission Assurance Office finds that the first nine shuttle flights had a 1 in 9 chance of catastrophic failure ? 10 times the risk of flights today. Teri Hamlin and Mike Canga of NASA's Johnson Space Center discuss the report.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/04/134265291/early-space-shuttle-flights-riskier-than-estimated?ft=1&f=1007

Cedric Richmond Marco Rubio Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Stephanie Schriock

'Social Safety Net' Less Safe As Cuts Debated

Thirty years ago the need to protect the social safety net was a major theme during Reagan-era budget negotiations. But today, Republicans are primarily focused on reducing the size of government, and even President Obama has proposed cutting spending for the poor to help reduce the debt.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/05/134265932/social-safety-net-less-safe-as-congress-debates-cuts?ft=1&f=1003

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Loughner Indicted On 49 Counts, Federal Prosecutors Say

A federal grand jury has indicted Jared Lee Loughner on 49 counts, including several that would make him eligible for the death penalty, related to the Tucson shooting rampage that killed several people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/04/134268370/loughner-indicted-on-49-counts-federal-prosecutors-say?ft=1&f=1003

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Navigating In A Changing Climate

Is climate change a national security issue? Rear Adm. David Titley, a meteorologist and Navy oceanographer, discusses how melting glaciers, changing sea ice and rising sea levels might affect Navy operations in the Arctic and around the world ? and how the Navy is preparing.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/04/134265283/navigating-in-a-changing-climate?ft=1&f=1007

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Boehner: House Will Defend DOMA; Courts, Not Obama, Should Decide

Speaker Boehner said President Obama focused on social issues instead of jobs, as voters wanted. That charge led a gay rights group, Human Rights Campaign, to accuse Boehner of hypocrisy for doing what he accused the president of.

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