Liberals Should Knock Off the Mockery Over Calls to Limit Syrian Refugees  —  Chris Cillizza on the post-Paris push among Republicans to keep Syrian refugees out of the country: … Cillizza has some poll numbers to back this up, but he's right in more ways than just that.

What Defeating ISIS Would Look Like  —  Kurt Schlichter is a trial lawyer in Los Angeles, California.  A retired U.S. Army infantry colonel, he is the author of Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041.  —  ShareTweetEmail  —  The Journal by IJReview …

Trump: I'll ‘go to war’ with Cruz if he rises higher  —  Donald Trump said Monday he is capable of turning on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in their competition for the GOP's 2016 presidential nomination.  —  “If he catches on, I guess we'll have to go to war,” he told host Joe Kernen on CNBC's “Squawk Box.”

Charlie Sheen reveals he's HIV positive in TODAY Show exclusive  —  Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer.  —  “It's a hard three letters to absorb.  It's a turning point in one's life,” the 50-year-old actor said.

Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is...  That's right - for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph: , officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may know it by other names.  There were other strong contenders from a range of fields …

John Oliver, Last Month: Boy, Those Fox Chuckleheads Sure Are Paranoid Ninnies to Think That Terrorists Might Smuggle Themselves Into Europe With the Rufugees!  —  HBO's Progressive Televangelist John Oliver delivered a 17 minute sermon to the faithful last month, telling all the true believers …

Toward a New Solidarity  —  The determination to represent the entire working class is the best chance labor has had in over 40 years to put the “labor question” before the nation again. … Is it possible for Americans to ever again bring the “labor question” to the forefront of their thinking about our economy and political culture?

Benghazi Committee Member: Clinton Made Hearing Long So GOP Would “Look Cruel”  —  “[W]e should have known that she was going to go on and just stall, debate, filibuster, on these answers to make it go as long as possible, so we would look cruel.”  —  Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Germany-Netherlands game has been canceled, and the stadium is being evacuated following a bomb threat  —  The friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled at short notice after the Hannover police acquired “concrete information” about a bomb threat.