Hillary Clinton has won the hearts of 50% of Democrats. Only one presidential candidate – Ted Kennedy – has won 50% support and then lost his party’s nomination. Clinton is also beating Barack Obama in the money race. She has $35 million in her purse. Obama has $32 million.

John McCain and Rudy Giuliani say if they became president, they would be prepared to use military force against Iran. Russian President Vladimir Putin says don’t try it.

Sen. Larry Craig – still refusing to resign after his arrest for soliciting sex in an airport bathroom – blames Mitt Romney for his woes: “He not only threw me under his campaign bus, he backed up and ran over me again.”

Retired Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez condemns the Iraq war, skewering “incompetent” national leadership and calling it “a nightmare with no end in sight.” (Read his speech here.) He had sharp words for the media, too: “You are perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that is destroying our country and killing our service members who are at war.” Bill O’Reilly responds to the media charges. The Pentagon says they’re still “comfortable with the strategy” the U.S. is pursuing in Iraq.

The U.S. housing market is experiencing its worst slump in 16 years. Treasury Chief Henry Paulson called it “the most significant current risk to our economy.”

Good news for Americans’ health: US cancer death rates fell 2.1 percent each year from 2001 to 2004, and Stanford researchers developed a blood test that may diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease.

Maureen Dowd lets Stephen Colbert write her New York Times op-ed. Colbert quips, “Bad things are happening in countries you shouldn’t have to think about. It’s all George Bush’s fault, the vice president is Satan, and God is gay.”