Abbreviated pundit round-up: Keystone XL, fracking and Fukushima

The New York Times Editorial Board explains the necessity of knowing When to Say No:

The State Department's latest environmental assessment of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline makes no recommendation about whether President Obama should approve it. Here is ours. He should say no, and for one overriding reason: A president who has repeatedly identified climate change as one of humanity's most pressing dangers cannot in good conscience approve a project that ' even by the State Department's most cautious calculations ' can only add to the problem.

The Washington Post Editorial Board weighs in on a ridiculous law, saying Restore the ability to unlock cellphones:

E.J. Dionne Jr. at the Washington Post writes Is Congress seeing a break in the partisan ice?

Just when our politics seemed destined to freeze into a brain-dead brand of partisanship, party lines started cracking up.

It is common in politics to assume that whatever has been happening will keep happening. But a series of events last week suggested that human beings ' even those of a highly partisan and ideological sort ' bridle at being confined in intellectual straitjackets.