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The Democrats know they are in trouble with voters in November and are turning on one another, hoping to find not just scapegoats but actual incompetents whose departure would help them recover in time for 2016. So it is unsurprising to read a long article in Politico, based on many conversations with sources that prefer to remain anonymous, to the effect that DNC Chairwoman and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz may not hold onto her job in the party leadership through 2016. Possessed of an unusually grating voice, gaffe-prone (my all-time favorite: the charge that Republicans would “literally” drag us...

OUTER PLANETSPlutonium's Promise Will Find Pluto Left Out In The Cold In the decades ahead nuclear propulsion systems will underpin an expanded outerplanets exploration program. In the meantime, one final chemical propulsion mission to the last unvisited planet remains an urgent priority before pluto's atmosphere collapses  by Ralph L. McNutt, Jr.  Washington - Feb 20, 2002 In the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2003 NASA has announced a major new technology development initiative in nuclear power and nuclear propulsion. A renewed commitment by NASA to develop nuclear propulsion for deep-space travel can only be applauded. But there are many popular...