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.

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 …

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.”

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 …

The Irrelevant House Republicans  —  Elizabeth Drew has an interesting piece on “The Truth About the Election” but I wanted to comment on this one point: … The thing of it is that it doesn't really matter what Eric Cantor thinks.  The House Republicans are, in effect, irrelevant.

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?

OBAMA: CHANGE COMES FROM ME  —  From NBC's Athena Jones  —  CHICAGO — In response to criticism that he is departing from his promise to bring change to Washington because several members of his economic team were Beltway insiders, Barack Obama said today that his team would combine experience …