Time for GOP panic?  Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win  —  Less than three months before the kick-off Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.

‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular’  —  “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” The CIA's famous Presidential Daily Brief, presented to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001, has always been Exhibit A in the case that his administration shrugged off warnings of an Al Qaeda attack.

BREAKING: Mary Spellman Resigns as Dean of Students  —  At 12:02 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, Mary Spellman resigned as Dean of Students following calls for her resignation after students of color articulated concerns about the Dean of Students office being unsupportive towards students …

Inquiring Minds Want to Know...  Nov  —  This afternoon a Mountain View Police Department traffic officer noticed traffic backing up behind a slow moving car traveling in the eastbound #3 lane on El Camino Real, near Rengstorff Ave.  The car was traveling at 24 mph in a 35 mph zone.

‘NCIS’ Actress Pauley Perrette Describes Being Viciously Assaulted Near Hollywood Hills Home; Man Arrested  —  Pauley Perrette, the actress best known for her role on the TV series “NCIS,” said she was attacked by a “VERY psychotic homeless man” near her Hollywood Hills home on Thursday …

Major donors consider funding Black Lives Matter  —  Some of the biggest donors on the left plan to meet behind closed doors next week in Washington with leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement and their allies to discuss funding the burgeoning protest movement, POLITICO has learned.

White Supremacists Are Thrilled Donald Trump Mentioned “Operation Wetback”  —  “This represents a milestone in the immigration debate.”  —  Joshua Lott / AFP / Getty Images  —  White supremacists are praising Donald Trump for citing a 1950s U.S. government policy that deported hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants.

Republicans think America is doing terribly, but it isn't  —  Anyone watching the fourth Republican debate would be excused for thinking America is mired in a deep recession — that the economy is shrinking, foreign competitors are outpacing us, more Americans are uninsured, and innovators can't bring their ideas to market.

Sister Souljah's New Moment  —  The rapper-turned-author and namesake for an iconic political maneuver has long since moved beyond the Clintons  —  Sister Souljah doesn't watch TV anymore—she says the VH1 reality series Basketball Wives, “the show with all of the women who are not wives at all …

The Self-Destruction of the American University … It's in a way ludicrous to mention in the same breath the childish idiocy at Yale, the Lord-of-the-Flies frenzy at the University of Missouri, and the embrace of National Socialism by the great philosopher Martin Heidegger.

House Republican Hard-Liners Drafting ‘Contract With America II’  —  Freedom Caucus members seeking detailed agenda for 2016  —  Plan tentatively named after 1994 Gingrich campaign manifesto  —  U.S. House Republican hard-liners who helped force out former Speaker John Boehner are readying their next act …

Rand Paul: Federal Reserve A “Sexy Issue”  —  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said on Thursday that, contrary to what conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer thinks, the Federal Reserve is a “sexy” issue.  —  “He needs to come to some of our rallies,” Paul told Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson …

UMN student govt: 9/11 remembrance would violate our safe space  — The student government rejected a resolution for a moment of recognition on future anniversaries of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the grounds it would create an ‘unsafe’ space on campus.  — One student representative …

Pleading for the Fourth  —  In her solo dissent from a case at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor chose to be blunt about the ruling's implications.  “By sanctioning a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to policing, the Court renders the protections of the Fourth Amendment hollow …

Caitlyn Jenner talks about her life at Chicago House fundraiser … Wearing a wrap dress, pumps and silver jewelry, Caitlyn Jenner took the stage at a Chicago House fundraiser luncheon Thursday to share her coming-out experience as a transgender woman.  —  “Maybe this is the reason that God put …