Death Toll Rising in India in Coordinated Attacks  —  NEW DELHI — Coordinated terror attacks struck the heart of Mumbai, India's commercial capital, Wednesday evening, targeting at least two five-star hotels, the city's largest commuter train station, a historic movie theater and a hospital.

Sources: Al Qaeda Targets Amtrak N'east Corridor  —  Heightened Security Presence In Place At Penn Station; Attack Could Cripple Transit Between Boston, Washington  —  Cops, Feds Armed With M16s On Patrol For Forseeable Future  —  CBS News Interactive: America On Guard

MINNESOTA SENATE RECOUNT, UPDATE IX  —  The Coleman campaign has just issued the following press release that confirms the nightmare scenarios sketched out by John Fund in his Wall Street Journal column today: … It's hard to believe that Minnesotans will take kindly to having …

Raul Castro to Sean Penn: he'd meet Obama at Gitmo  —  HAVANA - Cuban President Raul Castro said in an interview released Wednesday that he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on “neutral ground” — and he suggested the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay.

Volcker's Tough Approach As Fed Chief Upset Many  —  Today Economist Is Credited With Defeating Inflation  —  Paul A. Volcker was reviled before he was revered.  —  President-elect Obama named the 81-year-old Volcker yesterday to head a new economic advisory panel, citing “his sound and independent judgment.”

Voters Fail the Test  —  WASHINGTON — So much for the wisdom of The People.  —  A new report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) on the nation's civic literacy finds that most Americans are too ignorant to vote.  —  Out of 2,500 American quiz-takers, including college students …

Terrorists' Restless Leg Syndrome  —  I thought the rest of the world was going to love us if we elected B. Hussein Obama!  Somebody better tell the Indian Muslims.  As everyone but President-elect B. Hussein Obama's base knows, many of the Guantanamo detainees cannot be sent to their home countries …

Government bail-outs have left libertarians conflicted about how to respond to the economic crisis  —  Sitting in the lobby of Washington DC's Mayflower Hotel, Bob Barr nursed a grande Starbucks and shook his head at the debate a mile away on Capitol Hill.  —  “People are asking …

GA-Sen: Race still tight; will Obama come?  —  Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/23-25.  Likely voters.  MoE 4% (11/17-19 numbers). … These numbers are in contrast to an InsiderAdvantage poll that showed a three-point race, and a Democratic poll which had it at two points.  —  Why the difference?

‘A Day of Thanksgiving’  —  The national holiday actually began at a dark hour during our war for independence.  Here's the story.  —  When was the first Thanksgiving?  Most of us think of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1621.  But if the question is about the first national Thanksgiving holiday …