Police, Feds Probe Terror as Motive in SoCal Massacre:  Local law enforcement and federal authorities are probing terrorism as a possible motive in the Wednesday morning massacre at a holiday party at a social services office in San Bernardino that left 14 dead and 21 injured.  Fox News reports that the married suspects, 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook, a U.S.-born citizen of Pakistani descent, and 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani in the U.S. on a K-1 visa, stormed a holiday party taking place at the Inland Regional Center, clad in tactical gear and armed with assault rifles, unleashing carnage before being killed hours later in a shootout with police.  Farook, an employee of the county health department that was hosting the party, was described by his co-workers as a devout Muslim who had traveled to Saudi Arabia for a month this past spring and recently grew out his beard.  Explosive devises were discovered in the facility where the shooting occurred, as well as in the SUV the couple fled in following the attack and in their home in nearby Redlands, which police described as an "IED factory."  San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said Farook and Malik "came prepared to do what they did, as if they were on a mission," and when speaking of the myriad explosives found in their home said, "Clearly, they were equipped to do another attack."  A man who was working in the area near the couple's home told police he noticed "a half-dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks," but didn't report it to authorities because he didn't want to racially profile.

Thousands of Criminal Aliens Roam Freely in the U.S.:  Several lawmakers and the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirm that approximately 179,029 illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes, including violent ones, are roaming freely across the U.S. and committing new crimes "every day."  Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports that ICE Director Sarah Saldana revealed at a hearing that between 30,000 and 40,000 illegal immigrants previously convicted of crimes have been released from custody in recent years "due to legal restrictions on how long the agency can detain and individual."  Saldana also confirmed that "overall apprehensions on the border are declining" and ICE's "removal numbers are lower than they have been in recent years."  The total number of illegal immigrant criminals in the country is in the millions, with American citizens "paying the price while law enforcement officers are instructed to look the other way."

Woman's Murder Highlights AB 109 Fears:  A San Mateo man arrested Monday for the fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend over the weekend, just days after being released from prison under AB 109, confirms fears among anti-domestic violence advocates:  lethal consequences are resulting from California's solution to solve prison overcrowding.  Bill Silverfarb of the San Mateo Daily Journal reports that 22-year-old Anthony Kirincic was arrested back in late September for beating his former girlfriend, 34-year-old Colleen Straw, so badly that she had to be hospitalized and police initially sought an attempted murder charge.  However, the District Attorney's Office offered Kirincic a deal when they found insufficient evidence for attempted murder:  120 days in jail.  He served only 60 before being released under realignment, a law enacted by Gov. Brown in 2011 to combat prison overcrowding by "closing the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of state prisons."  Then this past Saturday, just days after his release, Kirincic returned to Straw's residence, despite being ordered to have no contact with her, and stabbed her in the neck, killing her.