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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Aug. 7) – U.S. astronauts failed to complete repairs to the International Space Station's cooling system, undone by a stubborn hose and flurries of ammonia. NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson were meant to disconnect and replace a broken ammonia pump as part of a planned seven-hour spacewalk, Space.com reported. The work would then continue Wednesday with another spacewalk to connect new ammonia lines to the replacement pump. But one of the ammonia lines wasn't giving up without a fight. About four hours into the spacewalk, Wheelock and Caldwell Dyson found they ...
What's in a word?Whether through deliberate denseness for political point-scoring, or through genuine failure of linguistic understanding, Democrats seem to be having real trouble with the word fail. But the word fail must be defended; or more particularly its usage; or more specifically its recent usage by Rush Limbaugh, which is thematically emblematic of its usance in politics et al.Understand that I'm not indulging my admitted logolepsy here, and I don't think I'm engaging in ergoism, but being deliberately solecistic is an effrontery to discourse that must of occasion be countervailed ...
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