One country’s human devastation is another country’s economic boon. And Larry Kudlow isn’t reluctant to say so (emphasis in the quote within the quote is Booman’s; emphasis in Booman’s ending commentary is mine):

Jerusalem Post – Terror attack in Itamar: 5 family members murdered 03/12/2011 02:51 Police suspect armed terrorist entered house in West Bank and stabbed couple along with 3 children; 2 other children escape unharmed. Five family members were found murdered in their residence in the West Bank Itamar settlement Friday overnight, after a suspected terrorist broke and entered the house and stabbed the...

STRATFOR Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant [March 12, 2011 | 0827 GMT] A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown….. MORE

Philippa Thomas is a reporter for BBC:

UPDATE: Washington Post, 20:12 ET, March 15: New assessments of the explosion at Unit 2 of Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Tuesday heightened fears that it will begin spewing large amounts of radiation. The explosion probably damaged the main protective shield around the uranium-filled core inside one of the plant’s six reactors. Such a breach would be the first at a nuclear power plant...

After my first initial reaction of pure horror, this was one of my first thoughts after hearing about the earthquake in Japan:

Raw footage — photographs and video — of the tsunami and its aftermath, and an extensive list of online resources for those who want to follow earthquake-related news and information.

by Walter Brasch Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett may be the most adept politician in America. With the nation focused upon the union-busting Tea Party-backed Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Corbett has snuck in a plan to mine the state’s resources, increase employment, reduce educational problems, and whack unions upside the head at the same time. Miraculously, the public sector unions, so happy they wouldn’t...

UPDATE: 4:00 pm MST Friday: The devastation in Japan is massive as is loss of life. Watching the great black debris-tsunami wave of water speed overland like the 1950′s movie, The Blob, which portrayed a huge rolling mass that ate everything in its path… that was this. No one in its path could survive long without higher ground. The farm plains of Japan where the waves hit are flat. Flat flat. There...

Tsunami Times - Japanese Earthquke - NOAA Warning Includes Alaska, California and Oregon TMV Live Blogging on the earthquake and tsunami ** 8.30 am Pacific Waves should begin hitting the UW mainland. Waves with an amplitude of at least six feet (1.82 meters) hit Maui earlier this morning. Hawaii remains under tsunami warning. ** 1.29 am Pacific At 07:30 UTC (11.30 PST) the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued...

An earthquake measuring 7.9  (new reports now say 8.8) on the Richter scale has struck Japan. The quake was centered 60-80 miles off the coast nearest to the Miyagi Prefecture. Reports are of a 24 km depth which is relatively shallow. There are reports that a tsunami could have been created, possibly as high as 20 feet and of course this could come in several waves. Areas all over the Western Pacific could...

Rep. Peter King’s congressional investigation into “[t]he extent of radicalization in the American Muslim community and that community’s response” began today with an opening statement by Rep. Keith Ellison (D=MN) the first Muslim American to serve in Congress. His statement speaks for itself.

Ben Ferencz was Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials — not the initial set of trials that took place in 1946 under the auspices of the International Military Tribuanl (the Chief Prosecutor for those was Robert Jackson) — but a second set of about a dozen trials that focused specifically on the Einsatzgruppen, which were basically death squads that murdered roughly a million Jews, Gypsies, and...

Hearing that co-blogger Jerry Remmers died was something that I dreaded, yet sadly expected. He left this world far too soon – only 74 – but he is survived by a son and grandchildren. My condolences go out to his family and close friends. I did not know Jerry personally but we shared a few precious emails during this past year. He was one of the reasons I wanted to join TMV as a blogger. For several...

Charlie Savage in yesterday’s New York Times:

On Wednesday evening, Pfc. Bradley Manning was forced to take off all his clothes and spend the entire night naked in his cell:

by Walter Brasch Historian and satirist Thomas Carlyle said “a lie cannot live.” However, Mark Twain casually remarked, “It shows that he did not know how to tell them.” More than a century later, newly-elected Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-dominated Wisconsin legislature have proven themselves to be “quick studies,” having learned how to tell whoppers about the...

Actually, I can’t be certain of that last part, but I do think the parents will accept Gen. Petraeus’s sincere apology — everyone makes mistakes now and then, and it’s not as if you took away the only thing that mattered to them, right?

You read that title correctly. You are not hallucinating:

Readers will remember the unconscionable appearances by members of a so-called religious group from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, at military funerals claiming that the deaths of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are God’s punishment for America’s acceptance of homosexuality. They show up at military funerals regardless of whether the fallen hero was gay or not. They appear at...

From TheHill.com:

Tell me, who comes off as “disrespectful” in this almost nine-minute-long confrontation? Personally, I find it absolutely astounding that Ann Althouse can post this video as evidence that the Wisconsin protesters at this war memorial are hurting their cause.

by Walter Brasch There are a lot of ironies in the Wisconsin fight between the Republican-dominated legislature and the working class. On Tuesday, Feb. 22, the State Senate unanimously passed a resolution to honor the Green Bay Packers for winning the Super Bowl. Every one of the players is a member of a union. Of course, only the 19 Republicans in the chamber voted for the resolution; the 14 Democratic senators,...

South Dakota backed off from the proposed legislation to change the definition of justifiable homicide in a way that could have allowed abortion providers to be legally murdered. But now Nebraska is actively considering a similar law — only it’s even worse:

Michael Hastings in Rolling Stone: