House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans in Congress said Thursday that they want to consider broad changes to immigration laws next year, after an election in which Hispanic voters turned out in force to help President Barack Obama win a second term.

Check it out - Real change, on day one!

Republicans Reconsider Immigration Laws - WSJ.com

An Iranian warplane opened fire on an unarmed U.S. military drone conducting surveillance near Iranian airspace Nov. 1, the Pentagon said Thursday, the first such incident over the Persian Gulf and one that is all but certain to draw attention to Washington’s use of unmanned aircraft.

Right after the election is auspicious timing for this news!

Iran warplane fired at U.S. drone in early November - The Washington Post

This guy keeps getting mentioned in editorials that favor a more moderate Repbulican party.

Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr. (born March 26, 1960) is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, and as United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993, and China from 2009 to 2011. He has served in the administrations of four U.S. Presidents and was a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Jon Huntsman, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wages are too. Kaplan and Schulhoffer-Wohl find there's been less variance between states among industry-specific average wages. In other words, there's less reason to move for work.

I found this data surprising and interesting.

Why Aren't People Moving in America Anymore? - Matthew O'Brien - The Atlantic

There’s not much of a moderate wing left in the GOP, but the pragmatism versus purity battle that looms on the horizon could be as fierce as Republicans have seen since the Goldwaterites sought to wrest control of the party in the 1960s.

The looming GOP civil war -- whether Mitt wins or not - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com

I think this guy is being a jerk, but nevertheless, I think he has the basic outlines of what is going to happen exactly right.

Whether he’s reelected or not, I think the party, the radical, conservative, right-wing party, is going to keep moving to the right. Keep getting rid of dissidents, purging dissidents...

For liberals to have the illusion that it’s going to change, or that they’re going to learn a lesson if Romney loses, is to make the same mistake liberals always make.

All the way back to Goldwater, liberals have expected Republicans to stop moving to the right after a defeat.

And they’re deluding themselves.

Every liberal pundit — Tony Lewis and James Reston in the Times, Richard Hofstadter in the New York Review of Books — back then predicted oblivion and, two years later, Reagan was elected governor of California and the rest is history....

The other thing that’s going to happen is: unbelievable rage at Obama. We’re going to see the rage of fanatics and spin keep ratcheting it up. The position has been — and this is even by relatively establishment people like Peggy Noonan, George Will — “He’s an incompetent. Americans can’t stand him. They think he’s a nice guy but he’s in over his head. This is an historic change to end this collectivist presidency.” Because underlying so much of this, in my view, is race, they’re going to be furious. They really felt they could knock him off easily.

So when that fails, they’re going to be very angry.

I think he is totally wrong about race being the motivation. Its ideology. They don't hate Obama because he is black - not enough of them for it to matter anyway - they hate Obama because of the extremism of their politics and their absolute rejection of moderation.

Frank Rich: Right will rage if Obama wins - Salon.com

We don't lack for challenges. A billion people want electricity, millions are without clean water, the climate is changing, manufacturing is inefficient, traffic snarls cities, education is a luxury, and dementia or cancer will strike almost all of us if we live long enough. In this special package of stories, we examine these problems and introduce you to the indefatigable technologists who refuse to give up trying to solve them.

Why We Can't Solve Big Problems | MIT Technology Review

Iran has suspended 20-percent uranium enrichment in order to have Western-imposed sanctions lifted, a parliament member told Al Arabiya on Saturday.

Earlier, Foreign Policy and National Security Commission of Parliament Mohammad Hossein Asfari told ISNA news agency that Tehran’s move was a “good will” gesture, hoping that Western countries will lift their sanctions on Tehran.

Hard-hit by sanctions, Iran suspends 20-percent uranium enrichment

In the last three recoveries, however, America’s economic engine has emitted sounds we’d never heard before. The 1990 recovery took 15 months, not the typical six, to reach the prerecession peaks of economic performance. After the 2001 recession, it took 39 months to get out of the valley. And now our machine has been grinding for 60 months, trying to hit its prerecession levels — and it’s not clear whether, when or how we’re going to get there. The economic machine is out of balance and losing its horsepower. But why?

The answer is that efficiency innovations are liberating capital, and in the United States this capital is being reinvested into still more efficiency innovations. In contrast, America is generating many fewer empowering innovations than in the past. We need to reset the balance between empowering and efficiency innovations.

A Capitalist’s Dilemma, Whoever Wins the Election - NYTimes.com

This is from the 2012 Texas GOP party platform:

We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

The official spin is that this was a mistake - they didn't mean to oppose the teaching of critical thinking skills - just higher order thinking, apparently.

Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really. - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post