Clark won't back down  —  In a statement to reporters, retired General Wes Clark repeats that McCain is a “hero” but also reiterates his point that McCain's service didn't give him “executive experience”:

Dem Guru: McCain ‘Limited’ by POW Years  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis and Molly Hunter Report: While Barack Obama was urging supporters not to devalue the military service of rival John McCain, an informal Obama adviser argued Monday that the former POW's isolation during the Vietnam War has hobbled …

Our World: Livni the leader, or Livni the lamb?  —  What is one to make of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni?  Is she the next Golda Meir?  Is she a woman of steel who can stand before world leaders and demand that they treat Israel with respect?  Can she win a war?

Obama's Money Class  —  Barack Obama sells the Democratic Party short.  He talks about his fund-raising success as if his donors were part of a spontaneous movement of small-money enthusiasts who cohered around himself.  In fact, Democrats have spent years building their donor network.

Bringing Down Bear Stearns  —  On Monday, March 10, the rumor started: Bear Stearns was having liquidity problems.  In fact, the maverick investment bank had around $18 billion in cash reserves.  But soon the speculation created its own reality, and the race was on to keep Bear's crisis from ravaging Wall Street.

Firm gets big cut of campaign donations  —  GOP candidates see little of funds raised; Some clients, donors unaware of numbers  —  Charles A. Morse, a conservative Republican gadfly from Brookline, ran a brief write-in campaign to unseat US Representative Barney Frank in 2006.

Gallup Daily: Obama Leads McCain, 47% to 42%  —  Nine-day “too close to call” streak is broken  —  PRINCETON, NJ — After more than a week of Barack Obama and John McCain being tied in Gallup Poll Daily tracking, Obama now holds a statistically significant five percentage point lead …

Fox and Kristol claim McCain's VP choice will cause gas prices to ‘plummet.’  —  On Fox News today, host Alexis Glick previewed an interview with Bill Kristol by claiming that the Weekly Standard editor believes “the second John McCain announces his VP pick, gas prices will plummet.”

Drill Now as the conservative MoveOn?  —  For years John McCain's environmental agenda highlighted his independent streak, and angered conservatives in the process.  Yet the right showed little ire when he aired an ad last month touting his environmentalist bona fides: “John McCain stood …

Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case  —  The text of a decision shows some derision for the Bush administration's arguments in the case of a detainee held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for more than six years.

Obama to expand Bush's faith based programs  —  CHICAGO - Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy …

NRA plans $40M fall blitz targeting Obama  —  The National Rifle Association plans to spend about $40 million on this year's presidential campaign, with $15 million of that devoted to portraying Barack Obama as a threat to the Second Amendment rights upheld last week by the Supreme Court.

Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers  —  Is Google using its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama?  That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google's Blogger service.