The deficit commission unveils its proposal to deal with the problem. The commissioners will vote on Friday and the package will go to Congress to die. Some more on the proposal here.

Stu Rothenberg writes about the GOP sweep in Ohio.

There are reports that the Federal Reserve is poised to give additional aid to the IMF to help bail out the Eurozone. The Fed stepped in to help European banks during the financial crisis, so this does not seem like a stretch.

Benny Avni writes about the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. It certainly seems like a Mossad operation. Certainly the Israelis have the means and the motive to mount such an operation, and Avni believes they may have had help from the U.S., some Arab countries in the region, and Iranian dissidents.

Arthur Herman says the leaked State Department documents show an agency still mired in old-fashioned ways of thinking and doing.

Victor Davis Hanson says the next few years will be Jerry Brown's last hurrah as the 72-year-old liberal icon takes on the thankless job of Governor of California.

The head of South Korea's intelligence agency believes the North Koreans will attack his country again.

David Ignatius wonders if killing terrorists, rather than capturing and interrogating them, is the best way to fight them. He is right to wonder about this, as it seems to me it would be better to capture them, get them to talk, seize their papers, cell phones, etc., and learn what we can. But President Obama created this mess with his pandering to his anti-war base by claiming he could shut down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and by forcing the CIA to close their "black" facilities. Now, instead of holding them and gaining valuable intelligence from them, we are reduced to killing them by remote control. Politically clean, but operationally problematic.