February 18, 2021

In Masterpiece of Engineering and Telemetry, NASA Mars Lander Successfully Touches Down on Red Planet after Seven-Month Voyage with Most Advanced Rover Ever; NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Successfully Solved Problem of Decelerating from Interplanetary Cruising Velocity to Landing Speed in Just Minutes; Parachute and Complex “Sky Crane” Combine for Flawless Landing; Rover “Perseverance” is Vast Improvement over Earlier Designs; Mission is to Search for Evidence of Former Life Forms in Martian Terrain;

Cultural Importance of NASA’s Success Includes Revival of Reliance on Human Reason as against Fascist Irrationality and Q-Anon Mysticism; Scientific Optimism is American Way from Benjamin Franklin to Today; Decline of the West is not Destiny; Decadence of Democratic Nations is Greatly Exaggerated by Dictatorships;

Biden meets AFL-CIO Leader Trumka and Other Union Chiefs; Administration is Purging Trump’s Union-Busters from NLRB and Federal Impasse Panel; Key Votes on $1.9 Trillion Covid Rescue Bill and $15 Minimum Wage Imminent-

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