• NASA remains silent on rocket that could rescue the... from www.chicagotribune.com
  Opponents say it's untested, unproven, and distracts from getting the job done. Supporters say the current NASA bureaucracy is stuck backing the wrong horse, and the consequences to the space system support industry in Florida will be devastating during the hiatus between the shuttle program shutdown and when the Ares booster is (supposed to be) ready to resume the US space program.
• Jane Wells: A Hymn for Zimbabwe from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  What's going on in Zimbabwe is an international scandal, and has been for years. Unfortunately, Africa has a piss-poor track record in policing (or intervening) on its own, and the US is unwilling, unable, and unpopular to lead an intervention itself. Mugabe, in the meantime, is proving is you crush all dissent in your country with a bloody machete and run the national economy (and polity) into the ground, you can simply flip a finger at the international community and get away with it. Swell. And the people of Zimbabwe continue to suffer.
• GOP frets Barr could play spoiler in prez race from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  Political spoilers suck. But if we have to have one again this election cycle, it would be nice if it were on the GOP side.
• Bruce Kluger & David Slavin: Religious License from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  Yes, if South Carolina is going to be allowed to have an "I Believe" Christianity rah-rah license plate, I think the rest of these need some equal time.
• Tom Toles, comics, editorial cartoons, email comics,... from www.gocomics.com
  "This undermines the Institution of Cake!"
  

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