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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stuck her foot in her mouth while trying to attack defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth during his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday. Hegseth has criticized military generals for entering the lucrative defense industry to make money from their military service. Warren tried to make Hegseth look hypocritical by saying he has not pledged to not enter the defense industry. She said, “You are quite sure every General who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years but you’re not willing to make that same pledge?” Hegseth retorted, “I’m not a General, Senator.”

In the name of God, Mr. President, just decide. Before your dithering costs any more American lives, pull your finger out of the air and decide on a strategy for Afghanistan. You sought the presidency, for crying out loud, now exercise it. If you’re going to be commander in chief, dammit, command! That’s the simple message to Barack Obama. But it is a message which, astoundingly, he seems content to ignore. Seldom has indecision been raised to such a fine art, or been boasted of as a matter of pride. In an historic display of uncertainty masquarading as deliberateness, the...

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton's victory in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential nominating contest confounded pollsters, who found themselves trying to explain how opinion polls got it so wrong. Chastened experts said on Wednesday they would have to closely analyze their forecasts against the results of the New Hampshire primaries to learn why they were so right about resurgent John McCain's win on the Republican side but so wrong about Clinton's win among the Democrats. Ahead of Tuesday's vote in New Hampshire, an early battleground in the state-by-state process to choose candidates for November's election, pollsters had widely predicted Illinois Sen....

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq Wednesday, June 21, 2006 WASHINGTON — The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of mass destruction are likely to be uncovered, two Republican lawmakers said Wednesday. "We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late Wednesday afternoon.