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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 16 days ago
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Brad Plumer has an interesting piece about the American right’s strangely passionate love affair with nuclear power and the impact it’s having on the climate debate in congress. What I find especially odd about it is that it’s so at odds with American conservatives’ ...
nytimes.com - 12 days ago
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nytimes.com —
PARIS, Dec. 11 - When a squeezable -
and bankable - star named Elmo made a belated
appearance in France this year, long after his Muppet birth in the United States, doubts emerged immediately about the puppet's proper French esprit. Was Elmo too ...
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Sesame Street Goes Global: Let's All Count the Revenue
weeklystandard.com - 13 days ago
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weeklystandard.com —
It's 1973 all over again, as New York
enters the ninth year of the reign of Michael
Bloomberg. by Fred Siegel and Harry Siegel 11/16/2009, Volume 015, Issue 09
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France on the Hudson
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 16 days ago
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
I was saying this morning that I thought
conservative affection for nuclear power was a bit odd
in light of the fact that only massive socialism seems capable of financing nuclear power plants. David Frum has a post in response that I don’t ...
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Frum on Nuclear Socialism
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McCarthy wuz right? RT @moment_um Nuclear Socialism http://bit.ly/lG6ZQ 15 days ago |
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Matthew Yglesias » Nuclear Socialism: Later, some of them become talk radio hosts, without once thinking about .. http://bit.ly/1dOTm5 16 days ago |
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Nuclear Socialism?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... as many as even the most optimistic
industry forecasts envision, and, given that the plants are estimated
to cost at least $6-$10 billion a pop and have difficulty attracting
private investment, they would likely need hefty subsidies--something
the right is supposed to frown at. "For reasons I don't fully
understand," says Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress,
"nuclear power has a magical place in the hearts of conservatives." Yglesias piles on while Frum counters.
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