What's Killing NPR

Howard Kurtz, Newsweek
From left: James O'Keefe, Vivian Schiller, and Senator Jim DeMint.Steve Inskeep, A veteran National Public Radio correspondent, is calling from Cairo, having just visited a 23-year-old man with welts on his back who says the Egyptian Army tortured him."That, to me, is a real story," he says. At a time when he is trying to get flak jackets to his colleagues in Libya, Inskeep has little patience for charges that NPR leans to the left. "What's important to us is the work we do," he says. "I actually get accused of being a conservative as...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/21/what039s_killing_npr_252377.html

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Why Libya 2011 is Not Iraq 2003

Peter Bergen, CNN
(CNN) -- A critique of the U.S. involvement in the military intervention in Libya that will no doubt be common in coming days is that the Obama administration is making a large error by embarking on a war with a third Muslim country, as if reversing Moammar Gadhafi's momentum against the rebels will be a rerun of the debacle of the war against Saddam Hussein.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/20/why_libya_2011_is_not_iraq_2003_252352.html

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Yemeni President Fires Cabinet

Yemen's president has fired his entire Cabinet amid escalating protests demanding his ouster. Tens of thousands of people joined a funeral procession Sunday for protesters killed by government gunmen and the Yemeni president's own tribe called on him to step down.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/20/134709873/yemeni-presidents-tribe-demands-he-step-down?ft=1&f=1004

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Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis

Richard Gross, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, calculates that last week's earthquake off Japan's coast may have shortened the length of Earth's days by about 1.26 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 6.5 inches. Gross describes the findings and explains how changes in Earth's land masses affect the way it spins.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/18/134658880/Japan-Earthquake-May-Have-Changed-Earths-Axis?ft=1&f=1007

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Pressure Builds In Japanese Reactor

In Japan, technicians had planned to release radioactive steam steam Sunday to ease pressure at the troubled nuclear complex damaged by the massive earthquake tsunami. But officials changed their mind after fears that the release could further hurt the environment and endanger humans.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/20/134706132/Pressure-Builds-In-Japanese-Reactor?ft=1&f=1004

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U.S., Allies Intensify Libyan Barrage

Kirkpatrick & Bumiller, NY Times
TRIPOLI, Libya — American and European forces intensified their barrage of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces by air and sea on Sunday, a day after an initial American cruise missile barrage badly damaged Libyan air defenses, military officials said. A rebel fighter watches as vehicles belonging to Qaddafi forces burn after an airstrike by allied forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah. More Photos »In a first assessment from Washington, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the first day of...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/20/us_allies_intensify_libyan_barrage_252351.html

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The Libyan Second Amendment Solution (Balloon-juice.com)

I know I've been off-grid lately (work is the curse of the blogging classes), and I haven't had much chance to think about much of anything--but in part it's because I've been getting ready for a meeting with folks whose security clearances greatly exceed mine. (It is impossible to have a lower clearance than I [...]
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