Some great pics of Joe Biden in the age of mile-wide lapels and double-knit polyester.

Senate Democrats zero in on Republicans’ vulnerability among women voters by pushing Paycheck Fairness Act.

When I think of nanotube applications, things like space elevators come to mind. But MIT has come up with a much more mundane albeit practical use for nanotubes.

One World Trade Center today became the tallest building in New York. Take a look.

The Romney campaign is calling President Obama “feckless” on the bin Laden raid. As TPM Reader TC just put it, maybe ‘reckless’, maybe ‘obvious’. But pretty hard to see how he can qualify as ‘feckless’ on this count.

At a press availability with a foreign head of government no less, President Obama just pressed reporters to look back at Mitt Romney’s earlier statements about not prioritizing hunting down Osama bin Laden and not invading Pakistani sovereign territory to do it.

On what this back and forth is all about, see this post from earlier this morning.

Also note Obama’s actual words — “I assume that people meant what they said when they said it” — another smack at Romney’s vulnerability as a perceived flip-flopper or political weathervane, and I suspect how the Chicago team plans to box Romney in.

Have we seen this before? I mentioned earlier that Obama’s bin Laden hit on Romney is as much a dominance move as something about actual policy. We saw something very similar back in 2004. Here’s what I wrote about it back then. Curious to hear your thoughts.

Did the Obama administration just roll over for the Jim Inhofe / Fox News rage machine? Kind of feels that way.

The forgotten front in the war on voting: the disenfranchisement of some 5.3 million felons.

Are parts of the enduring narrative of Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate investigation not true?