Bloomberg Poll: Most Americans Oppose Syrian Refugee Resettlement  —  Americans agree with Republican presidential candidates on refugees, but are divided on whether to send U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State, according to the poll.  —  margarettalev

Ted Cruz Challenges President Obama to ‘Come Back and Insult Me to My Face’  —  A fired-up Sen. Ted Cruz this morning challenged President Obama to a debate over Syrian refugees, lashing out at Obama over his Tuesday comments in the Philippines.  —  “I want to encourage you, Mr. President …

Ben Carson Can't Place New England On A Map (PHOTO)  —  Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson on Tuesday expressed his support for a growing contingent of governors who are against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States — but he shared an incorrect graphic of the lower 48 states in the process.

Refugee ‘Religious Test’ Is ‘Shameful’ and ‘Not American’ ... Except that Federal Law Requires It  —  As I argued in Faithless Execution, the principal constitutional duty of the chief executive is to execute the laws faithfully.  President Obama, by contrast, sees his principal task as imposing …

Bobby Jindal's presidential campaign was unrecognizable from the Bobby Jindal I knew  —  I met Bobby Jindal 12 years ago.  He was running for Louisiana governor against Kathleen Blanco.  At 32, he was one of the most impressive candidates for any office that I had ever met.

Jewish teacher stabbed in Marseilles by purported ISIS supporters  — France retaliates to Paris terror attacks, hits ISIS command center, training camp in Syria - Two dead, including suicide bomber, in police raid for mastermind behind Paris attacks  —  Educator's condition not life-threatening …

Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and 6 More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: “There Is Always a Backlash”  —  Kate Winslet, Jane Fonda, Carey Mulligan, Brie Larson, Helen Mirren and Charlotte Rampling join for THR's annual fun, frank and uncensored Actress Roundtable.

Our Bitter and Graceless President  —  We all know people of towering arrogance and we all know people of staggering incompetence, but Barack Obama is quite possibly the perfect package.  No one on the scene today combines these two qualities in quite the same way as Mr. Obama.

Our two Americas, in 1 map  —  Want to understand the bifurcated nature of our politics?  Try this map, released Tuesday by the Federal Election Commission, that documents which party controls a majority of seats in each state's congressional delegation.  —  Pretty remarkable no?

NRA, Republicans block proposed law to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns in U.S.  —  The NRA — and their gun-loving Republican cohorts — are refusing once more to stop terrorists intent on getting armed in the U.S.A.  —  A legal loophole allows suspected terrorists on the government's …

Don't Pray For France, France Is A Godless Nation That Deserved To Be Attacked.  France Supports Terrorists And Kills Christians, And Needs To Be Punished  —  By Theodore Shoebat  —  Everyone is putting up the flag of France on their profiles on Facebook, and this is just but another trend that people are picking up.

The Koch intelligence agency  —  The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents, viewing it as a key strategic tool in its efforts to reshape American public life.

Russia Pounds ISIS With Biggest Bomber Raid in Decades  —  Putin's air force just used its nuclear bombers to lay waste to the capital of the ‘Islamic State.’  —  The Russian air force just pulled off one of the biggest and most complex heavy bomber missions in modern history …

America's ‘enemies within’: How nearly SEVENTY have been arrested in America over ISIS plots in last 18 months - including refugees who had been given safe haven but ‘turned to terror’  — Increasing pressure from Republicans not to accept refugees from Syria on scale demanded by White House