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The second half of Rich Baris's podcast today is a must listen, IMO. He gives some important inside baseball, on the full extent of the damage Nikki can and is doing to Republican get-out-the-vote efforts for the general election by remaining in the campaign and encouraging Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents to vote in Republican primaries. The relevant portion starts at approx. 58:45.

HOUSTON - Early inspections have revealed no damage to the space shuttle Discovery, NASA said Wednesday after a day of checking out the spacecraft with on-board cameras. That means that when the shuttle meets up with the international space station Thursday morning it likely won't need emergency repairs while hooked up with the orbital outpost — unlike last year's daring spacewalk fixes. Discovery's delicate heat shield and everything else appear at first glance to be in near perfect shape, NASA officials said, although it's still very early in the analysis. Engineers are nowhere near finished poring over 70 minutes of...