There just doesn’t seem to be any good news coming out of Iowa these days, thanks to massive flooding in the state that has led to the declaration of 83 of Iowa’s 99 counties as “disaster areas.” So far, five are dead, over 36,000 people are homeless, and millions of dollars in damages have happened as a result of overflowing rivers and levee breaks all over the state.
The Goracle has officially endorsed Barry O.:
The owner of two Philadelphia newspapers now knows what it feels like to be on the receiving end of a leak from within:
The AP reports that McCain has made his 8th trip to Iraq (via Memeo):
Many readers of this blog know that I’ve been criticizing Barack Obama since before he made his run for president official, but he made a Father’s Day speech this weekend, parts of which are praiseworthy. In it, he sharply criticized absentee black fathers – and he did so while speaking in front of a black Chicago church audience (not TUCC, of course). The NYT reports:
