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The repeated launch delays for the space shuttle Endeavour were not just frustrating, but expensive. NASA estimates every launch cancelled after fuel tanking has begun can cost as much as $1.2 million dollars. Endeavour endured five liftoff scrubs before successfully launching Wednesday at 6:03 p.m. (2203 GMT), though some of …

Hope all of you had a great 4th of July! I asked my wife, a Canadian citizen, if they had the 4th of July north of the border. She told me they didn’t. I asked her what they put between the 3rd and the 5th. Just kidding! Actually, she grew …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Race Relations The Obama administration may send a delegation to the U.N. World Conference on Racism after saying in February it would boycott the event for inciting the very thing it is supposed to stamp out. Next week’s Durban Two conference in …