- Japan Nuclear Watch, Midday Update: Three Reactors in Partial Meltdown
- [Firedoglake - Bill Egnor]
[If you're getting nervous, the thing to notice is that even in the worst-case scenario, this will not spread radiation as far as the Chernobyl incident did. -L]
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- Are Liberals Science Deniers? Now’s A Good Time to Find Out
- Although we don’t know yet just how bad the situation is at Japan’s damaged nuclear plants in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, the events across the Pacific are already triggering a new and differently tinged debate over nuclear power back here at home.
Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power…
When I and other[s] demonstrated, during the George W. Bush years, that political conservatives had grown very strongly anti-science, we often heard what I would call the “nuclear counterargument.”
…are liberals and conservatives today truly different when it comes to handling scientific information, no matter what their core political impulses may be?
…I'm betting that the "nuclear counterargument," even if it may validly describe the political left during the 1970s, has little or no bearing on the politics of science in the present.
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- The Thought Police Are Here
- [Balloon Juice - John Cole]
It really is crazy how the wingnut GOP has become everything they claimed to fear. Remember the hate speech debate, when the Republicans opposed hate crimes because they were against “thought crimes?”
[Cole's summary of the case is unfair, IMO, but do click through to find out the rest. And remember Schroedinger's fetus-- if a pregnant woman's body is not her own, then NO woman's body is her own. -L]
- Falling for it *again*
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
I can hardly believe this, but it looks as though Glenn Beck's website The Blaze, has done some serious analysis of the James O'Keefe NPR tapes and found that they were …. edited.
Shocked? I knew you would be.
…If NPR is able to salvage its funding…[it] will likely be covering the Tea Party with even more reverence than they already did, which was substantial, and other networks will undoubtedly follow. That's how these things work.
I have a dream that one day when a liberal organization somewhere is "caught" by one of these idiotic stings they will demand to see the whole damned tape before they start firing people.
- Conservatives Mock Ellison For Emotional Testimony On Muslim 9/11 First Responder | TPMMuckraker
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- ‘FitzWalkerstan’: The Republican Brothers And The Wisconsin Showdown | TPMDC
- In Wisconsin politics today, it's all in the family.
- Bachmann Muddles American History, Puts Battles Of Lexington And Concord In New Hampshire | TPMDC
- …Scott Conroy of RealClearPolitics reports that Bachmann also talked a bit about the importance of teaching children the facts and letting them draw their own conclusions…
Bachmann's gotten her American history wrong before. Back in January, she lauded the United States for its early commitment to diversity. "It didn't matter the color of their skin, it didn't matter their language, it didn't matter their economic status," Bachmann said of the first settlers. She also praised the founders who she said "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."
- What Libya and Côte d’Ivoire Have in Common
- Zartman, who has written several books about Africa and conflict resolution, says that the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire is a greater threat to international law than the situation in Libya. This is partly because of the presence of 9,000 peacekeepers with the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI). They are protecting Ouattara, who is holed up in a hotel in Abidjan.
The Blue Helmets, as the U.N. peacekeepers are called, have recently come under attack from Gbagbo supporters. They were recently fired upon while attempting to investigate violations of an arms embargo. Gbagbo forces also prevented officials of the world body from investigating the site of two alleged mass graves. The Ivorian army, loyal to Gbagbo, has increasingly clashed with Forces Nouvelles, armed supporters of Ouattara. About 2,000 additional U.N. troops are being deployed to prevent the country from sliding further into civil war.
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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