MARCH 15, 2011 They’re drilling for oil, attracting high tech, and keeping the tax burden moderate. Result: 3.8% unemployment. By JOEL KOTKIN Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development. Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated by the state’s Department of Mineral Resources at
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MARCH 15, 2011, 11:55 A.M. ET Damage Spreads to Fourth Reactor; Prime Minister Warns of Radiation Release, Tells Residents in 18-Mile Zone to Stay Indoors By YUKA HAYASHI And PHRED DVORAK Confusion and panic levels are rising across Japan following another blast and fire in Fukushima. WSJ’s Mariko Sanchanta and Yumiko Ono separate fact from
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This C-Span video on Representative Young’s speech is from July 9, 2008 – that was over 2 years ago and still no action has been taken
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MARCH 14, 2011, 9:20 A.M. ET By PHRED DVORAK And ATSUKO FUKASE in TokyoAnd ERIC BELLMAN in Sendai Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesJapanese sailors rescue Hiromitsu Shinkawa Sunday, two days after the 60-year-old was washed to sea on the roof of his Minamisoma home by a tsunami caused by a powerful earthquake. Thousands are feared dead. Japan’s
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FOX NEWS Stricken Japan Nuclear Plant Rocked by Second Blast Published March 14, 2011 | Associated Press AP March 12: This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan underway in the Pacific Ocean en route to Japan to render humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. SOMA, Japan — The
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BRIAN T. KENNEDY is president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books. He has written on national security affairs and California public policy issues in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and other national newspapers. He sits on the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense and is
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Environmental activists have yet to meet an energy project they won’t try to stop. Adam J. White February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 “Sputnik” was not the only nostalgic moment in the State of the Union address. When President Obama called on Congress to “invest” in “clean energy
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