From World Nuclear News: All four units at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant have now achieved cold shutdown – where coolant water is at less than 100ºC – with full operation of cooling systems, Tepco reported. All the reactors shut down automatically during last week’s earthquake and have remained safe. While unit 3’s shutdown went as expected, damage to the emergency core cooling systems of units 1, 2 and

At Newsweek Mark McKinnon and Ezra Klein write on “Do we Still need Unions” Yes or No. A topic obviously picked because of the events in Wisconsin over the past few weeks. Events revolving around the power of public sector unions over governments and over the taxpayers who pay for all their wages and benefits. Mr. McKinnion lays out the case for eliminating the power of public sector unions. Concluding

Implementation and funding continue apace. The CR passed 271-158, with 54 Republicans voting “Nay.”*

WSJ: Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began debating a bill that would prohibit the EPA from abusing the clean air laws of the 1970s to impose the climate regulations that Congress has refused to pass despite President Obama’s entreaties. As EPA chief Lisa Jackson put it with her customary reserve at a hearing last week, the measure “would presume to overrule the scientific community on the scientific finding

I don’t have anything new to offer, but rest assured that every time I walk by my microwave I’m giving that smug sonofabitch a really dirty look. Developing…

Well, yeah. Some of us have been pointing that out. Obama fucked us. Then he had a cigarette. And now he’d rather play golf than see us again. Because, well, he’s just not that into us, America. Best to stop waiting around by the phone. CNS News: Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com today that the health-care law that President Barack Obama

Michael Cannon, NRO: Indiana governor Mitch Daniels’s policy director, Lawren Mills, Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, and Bob Goldberg of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest take exception to my NRO article “Mitch Daniels’s Obamacare Problem.” In brief, the trio believes that Daniels’s expansion of government-run health care is a conservative triumph. I can’t believe we’re even having this conversation. To recap, the Healthy Indiana Plan, which

Okay. But here’s all I really want to know: has the integrity of the containment chambers in any way been breached? Because if not, the plants are working precisely as they are designed to work in the event of a “meltdown” — and they are doing so despite a 9.0 earthquake, a series of aftershocks, a volcanic eruption, and a tsunami that was able to swallow several trains without even

No cuts to ObamaCare. Or Planned Parenthood. Or CPB. The GOP gets $6 billion in cuts — the equivalent to what we’re borrowing every 36 hours. The House GOP should be standing up for the Constitution. Instead, they’re worrying about political optics. These people don’t learn. This is their second chance. They won’t get a third — at least, not from me. YMMV The vote is early this afternoon. Try