Concerns on Friday focused on (1) the continuing spread of radiation in Fukushima and surrounding prefectures, with local citizens anxious to evacuate areas beyond the mandated 20 kilometer radius and (2) the inability of the government either to gain control of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactors or to explain the exact source and nature of the continuing radiation leaks.

Bahraini civil rights activists plan to march again on Friday in defiance of monarchy and continuing brutal crackdown.

• What’s the goal of Operation Stupid?
• In Japan, PM says new nuclear crisis is “grave.”
• Krugman: The Austerity Delusion.
• She’s in it to win it.
• Republicans: still don’t care about the deficit.

Things are either going from less bad…to much much worse at the Fukushima plant. I do not like the odds on it not being the latter.

Roy Orbison and k.d. lang — Crying.

Mrs. Ginni T, from The Drunk Caller to The Daily Caller.

The success of an incumbent President has always been very dependent on the state of the economy, and the 2012 election is likely to be no different. This is why President Obama should be very worried that Florida, the largest of the traditional swing states, has the highest number of vacant homes in the country with 18 percent sitting empty.

As has often been noted, the White Paper the Bush Administration released on January 19, 2006 largely repeats the analysis Jack Goldsmith did in his May 6, 2004 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion on the warrantless wiretap program. So I decided to compare the two documents.

Not only did such a comparison help me see things in both documents I hadn’t seen before. But there are a number of things that appear in the White Paper but not the unredacted parts of the opinion. Some of this, such as Administration statements after the warrantless wiretap program was exposed in 2005, simply serve as the publicly acceptable discussion of the program.

Yesterday, army specialist Jeremy Morlock was sentenced to 24 years for taking part in a “kill team” that would slaughter Afghan civilians for fun, and then take trophy photos with their victims.

This is pretty rich. Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan placed an op-ed in the Detroit News assuring the residents of that ravaged community that they’re always there to help.