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The containment structures appear to be working, and the latest reactor designs aren't vulnerable to the coolant problem at issue here. Even while thousands of people are reported dead or missing, whole neighborhoods lie in ruins, and gas and oil fires rage out of control, press coverage of the Japanese earthquake has quickly settled on the troubles at two nuclear reactors as the center of the catastrophe. Rep. Ed Markey (D., Mass.), a longtime opponent of nuclear power, has warned of "another Chernobyl" and predicted "the same thing could happen here." In response, he has called for an immediate suspension...

... The [Republican] message [should be], "Put men back to work." Seventy-five percent of employees thrown out of work in the current recession have been men. We're about to pass the point where there are more women than men in the workforce. Obviously this idea is going to have a constituency. But it's not just men who will respond. There are millions of women out there who would like to see their men back working again as well. The reason men are out of work has nothing to do with feminism or "feminazis" or any of that stuff. The problem...

April 17, 2009, 4:00 a.m. Going Nuclear with Terrestrial PowerThe U.S. is an underdeveloped country when it comes to energy. An NRO Q&A Go nuclear! That’s not only William Tucker’s suggestion to scientists — it’s also the key to securing America’s energy future. In his latest book, Terrestrial Energy, Tucker argues that nuclear power has the potential to revitalize America’s industrial economy with cheap, clean electricity. Below, he answers questions from National Review Online. NRO: The title of your book: Terrestrial Energy — what’s that supposed to mean? TUCKER: Terrestrial energy means nuclear energy comes from the earth, as...

“We know the right thing to do,” said President Barack Obama at his press conference on energy this afternoon. “We’ve known the right choice for a generation. The time has come to make that choice and act on what we know. . . . We have achieved more in two months for a clean energy economy than we have done in perhaps 30 years.” Thirty years, that would be . . . hmmm . . . 1979, right? Wasn’t that the year — yes, it was. That was the date when Jimmy Carter finally got his Grand Energy Plan through...

The in-between battleground has been the affluent suburbs where urban and rural cultures intersect. These are areas increasingly dominated by upper-middle-class professionals with college degrees. In the 1960s and 1970s they usually voted Republican. Urban couples moving to the suburbs would forsake their urban machines and ethnic identities and switch their registration to Republican. Places such as Westchester County, New York, and Orange County, California, were [once] bastions of Republican strength. Suburban states such as New Jersey that used to be up for grabs are almost completely lost to the GOP. ... In Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks satirized these...

If you are disgusted that every few days there is another article warning of the catastrophe we face from global warming - followed immediately by another article saying that the alarmists are all wrong, this piece should really please you. Since it is the first article I have seen that substantially agrees with what I have been saying all along, of course it pleases me. I know that discussions of global warming turn a lot of you off, but give this one a chance. The Global Warming Two-Step By William Tucker The American Spectator Published 1/23/2007 12:08:03 AM I'm in...