Of the nine states where the Hispanic population grew by 100 percent or more between 2000 and 2010, McCain won seven of them: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee. That means that what had been reliably red states for decades are slowly -- or not so slowly -- seeing huge growth among what, for the moment, is a reliably Democratic constituency.

Add to that the fact that the four states with the country's largest Hispanic population -- California, Florida, New York and Texas -- will account for 143 electoral votes for the next 10 years.

Our growing reliance on imports and lack of industrial infrastructure has become a national security concern," said Rep. Schakowsky. She spoke at a March 16 news conference (at 28:10) in opposition to the pending U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement.The Forbes report referenced by Rep. Schakowsky was "Intelligence Community Fears U.S. Manufacturing Decline," by Loren Thompson, February 14. The decision to prepare an intelligence estimate was first reported by Richard McCormack in "Intelligence Director Will Look at National Security Implications of U.S. Manufacturing Decline," Manufacturing & Technology News, February 3.

But the concern is real. As our manufacturing moves to places like China and (significantly for this context), Korea, we've lost certain capabilities. Indeed, when Bush slapped tariffs on steel in 2002, a number of tool and die factories moved to Korea where they could still access cheap steel while still supplying the US market. And in recent years, the loss of highly-skilled manufacturing process capabilities has meant we face challenges in sourcing some of our key military toys. link

Daddy Bush was prolific at wars, but it took his full four-year term to engage in his two wars (Panama to get the evil Noriega, our former CIA asset and the Gulf war to not get Saddam, our former friend) as well as a humanitarian military adventure in Somalia in which nothing could go wrong but still  ended almost a year into the next president's term and served to spawn the movie 'Black Hawk Down.".

TOKYO -- Highly contaminated water is escaping a damaged reactor at the crippled nuclear power plant in Japan and could soon leak into the ocean, the country's nuclear regulator warned on Monday.

and

In another new finding, Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power station, said late Monday that it had detected an increase in levels of plutonium in soil samples taken from within the compound a week ago, raising fears of yet another dangerous element that may be escaping the crippled reactors.

And - in our own country, the NYTimes reports that:

"Safety officers plan for every known contingency, but no one can predict everything that might go wrong."

lots of petty reviews.  this one seems about right to me:

In Defense of `Sucker Punch' - Uncovering the Method Behind Zack Snyder's Madness

PART I: WHY IT FAILS, AND WHY THAT'S OK

   Hours after declaring Sunday that he expects to be running for president within a month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he's worried the United States could be "a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists," in the foreseeable future, according to Politico.

    Gingrich was addressing Cornerstone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, led by the Rev. John Hagee, an influential leader among American evangelicals. Hagee's endorsement of then-presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 was plagued by controversy.