The CNN Democratic presidential debate in Texas  —  This is the transcript of the debate between Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on February 21, 2008 at the University of Texas in Austin.  —  CNN's CAMPBELL BROWN: And the candidates have taken their seats.

FEC Warns McCain on Campaign Spending  —  The nation's top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he cannot immediately withdraw from the presidential public financing system as he had requested, a decision that threatens to dramatically restrict his spending until …

Try a Little Tenderness  —  Barack Obama's biggest draw is not his eloquence.  When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That's good.  He's compelling, I like the way he speaks.  And afterward all the commentators call him “impossibly eloquent” and say “he gave me thrills and chills.”

Exclusive: U.S. urges Pakistanis to keep Musharraf, despite election defeat  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his position, a move that Western diplomats …

When backing Barack feels like joining a cult  —  I'm an Obama girl and my man throttled Hillary Clinton, again, Tuesday night.  —  Suddenly, the impossible is real.  —  Suddenly, I'm nervous.  Very nervous, actually.  —  I'm nervous because an otherwise normal grownup told …

Police concerned about order to stop screening  —  DALLAS — Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

Democratic Debate in Austin, Tex.  —  The following is a transcript of the Democratic debate in Austin, Tex., sponsored by CNN and Univision, as provided by Federal News Service.  —  PARTICIPANTS:  —  SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-IL)  —  MODERATORS:  —  CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN  —  JORGE RAMOS, UNIVISION

OBAMA SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE FOOT WITH ANTI-GUN STANCE  —  Barack Obama will have a big problem attracting the blue-collar white voters he needs to win the presidency, writes Bob Owens: they like guns and he wants to take their guns away.  —  Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers

Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year's End  —  New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb by the end of this year.  —  Could Iran be building an atomic bomb?

Never mind Iraq.  Just end the ‘war on terror.’  —  Using bold rhetoric that often makes his followers rapturous, Barack Obama has declared over and over that he will be the president of “change.”  But is Obama brave enough to bring about a really radical change?

Don't Rerun That '70s Show  —  Will the next president be the second coming of Jimmy Carter?  Given Thursday's economic headlines, full of dire warnings about the return of 1970s-style stagflation, you might think so.  —  Realistically, though, the parallels between the problems facing …

Defining Victory Downward  —  Why was President Bush's decision more than a year ago to send another 30,000 troops to Iraq called “the surge”?  I don't know who invented this label, but the word “surge” evokes images of the sea: a wave that sweeps in, and then sweeps back out again.