Celebrate Obama’s historic moment with Bryan Lentz!

If you’re an incoming Swarthmore freshman, a student who’s on campus early, or a non-student well-wisher in Delaware County, come on by Bryan Lentz’s campaign office in Swarthmore on Thursday night to watch Barack Obama’s speech live from Denver!
With fuel prices being as high as they are, not everybody can afford to make it out [...]

The Winning Ticket

This’ll be the funkiest Presidency ever!

Bill Clinton and Barack

The “Talk of the Town” section in this week’s New Yorker paints a very complicated portrait of the former President, his role in his wife’s campaign, and his feelings on the likely heir to his throne. The piece, by Ryan Lizza, is even-handed and well worth a read. It outlines the standard media portrayal of [...]

Ice Free Summer at the North Pole THIS YEAR?

After the mythical Northwest Passage between Alaska and Greenland was opened for the first time in recorded history late last summer, it became clear as day that an ice-free summer in the Arctic Circle was only a matter of time. Still, few were prepared for that monumental change to happen this year. That’s exactly what [...]

Obama gets most critical endorsement yet

And it speaks for itself:
Dear Friends and Fans:
Like most of you, I’ve been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest.
He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next President. He [...]

Edwards refuses to endorse, accept VP nomination

Hey Johnny, where ya been?
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago…
After his keynote speech at CTIA, the annual U.S. wireless industry showcase, Edwards was asked in a question-and-answer session if he would accept the nomination for vice [...]

More Tom Tomorrow Goodness

As usual, “This Modern World” speaks for itself (click for embiggened version):

Bob Casey to endorse Obama today!

A shocker here in Pennsylvania:
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president today in Pittsburgh, sending a message both to the state’s primary voters and to undecided superdelegates who might decide the close race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Dan Pfeiffer, deputy communications director for the Obama campaign, confirmed that Casey would [...]

Hillary’s Bosnia battle

Warning: this video is not safe for Clinton supporters…

Major Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse

While the media frets over what Barack Obama ate for breakfast and what time Hillary Clinton went to bed, events that will change the face of the planet forever continue unabated. This is not hyperbole. This is the “runaway collapse” of a chunk of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica seven times the size of [...]