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Executive orders are the most effective way to implement policies
 Mayer 1 (Kenneth, Professor of Political Science @ University of Wisconsin – Madison, With the Stroke of a Pen)

These chronicles of …many cases disturbing.”

Executive orders increase presidential power
 Risen 4 (Clay, Managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, M.A. from the University of Chicago “The Power of the Pen: The Not-So-Secret Weapon of Congress-wary Presidents” The American Prospect, July 16, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_power_of_the_pen)

In the modern …to reproductive health. 

Pres powers key to strong U.S Leadership
 Mallaby 00 (Sebastian, Member, Washington Post’s Editorial Board, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb)

Finally, some will …isolationism or multiculturalism. 

Power projection prevents multiple scenarios for nuclear war
 Kagan 2007
 Robert, Carnegie Senior Associate, “End of Dreams, Return of History” Policy Review,http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html#n10jap

This is a good … an easier path. 

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The debate over nuclear energy is a debate about memory – the nuclear industry relies on a narrative of technological progress that calls on us to forget the trauma of the past in favor of the bright future promised by nuclear energy.  
 Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012,http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

The shock and …forgetting our past. 

However, the dominant narrative of nuclear energy can and is being challenged – one alternative source of memory about nuclear violence comes from the poetic praxis of the Japanese band Frying Dutchman:
 Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012,http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

The resistance didn’t … of nuclear power. 

The task of your ballot should be to join in this struggle of memory against forgetting – your ballot can contribute to the discursive mosaic of resistance surrounding the memory of nuclear violence. Each act of remembering is key to bringing about an inter-connected struggle to reclaim the nuclear public sphere. 
 Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012,http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

This mosaic is … has just begun. 

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1) US coal consumption high 
 Quinn, National Mining Association President, 2012, 
 (Hal, “What's Really Causing Coal's Decline?", National Journal, 4-9, PAS) energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/whats-really-causing-coals-dec.php 9-26-12

Let’s start by … of gas prices. 

2) Coal absolutely key to US economy
 Miller, ACCCE Media Relations Vice President, 2011, 
 (Lisa Camoose, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, "Five Ways Coal Can Help Our Economy", Behind the Plug Blog, 1-25, PAS) behindtheplug.americaspower.org/2011/01/five-ways-coal-can-help-our-economy.html 9-26-12 

The State of the …air quality standards.

US economic decline causes global economic decline, war AND increases likelihood of terrorist attacks
 Royal, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 10
 (Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215, ldg)

Less intuitive is…to those views.