"It's not often that life gives you a second chance (or a third, or a fourth). But that's exactly what Congress did today for President Obama when the House passed a resolution applying the word 'genocide' to ISIS's atrocities against Christians in the Middle East. The decision presents President Obama with a picture-perfect opportunity to do something bold, decisive, and morally right in foreign policy, and to help restore his tarnished legacy. This opportunity is probably his last. ...

"For more than seven years, President Obama's foreign policy has been a toxic blend of strong language and weak action. (Remember the 'red line' in Syria? Neither does Assad.) The foreign policy of the Obama administration tends toward talking a big game and then conveniently forgetting to show up. That would be a lot harder to pull off if he called the genocide of Christians by ISIS what it is. So naturally he's avoiding it, like the Clinton administration before him. ...

"Congress has spoken. Obviously, President Obama feels that he is under no obligation to consider Congress's opinion on pretty much anything, but this time he should think long and hard and not ignore it. If his secretary of state, John Kerry, agrees to designate ISIS's atrocities genocide, that could force the administration to act with the European Union to take military action against ISIS soon. President Obama may want to avoid that policy, but his failure to confront the genocide and name it would be the nail in the coffin of his foreign-policy legacy. If the 20th century taught us anything, it's that ignoring genocide doesn't make it go away. If we won't call it what it is, our children will do it for us, and we'll have to answer the difficult question of why we wouldn't do it ourselves."

"If the border were to be closed, if immigration laws were enforced, if there were some reduction in legal immigration, if entry were to be meritocratic, if we reverted to the melting-pot ideal of assimilation, if we cut -studies courses and jettisoned therapy and ideology for hard science, math, and English language, in just two decades one's particular ancestry would become irrelevant ... In other words, things would work out fine.

"But that is certainly not the wish of the present culture or the direction that this rather sick society is headed."

"The White House has reportedly narrowed its list of potential Supreme Court nominees down to five people, and four of them have donated to Barack Obama's political campaigns.

"The five federal judges who will be interviewed by the White House for the nomination are federal judges Sri Srinivasan (who has donated $4,250 to Obama), Jane Kelly ($1,500 to Obama), Paul Watford ($1,000 to Obama), Ketanji Brown Jackson ($450 to Obama), and Merrick Garland, who has not donated to Obama."

"Department of Justice officials have impaneled a federal grand jury in the Hillary Clinton email case and FBI agents have launched a second, separate investigation on political corruption involving the former secretary of state'€™s official activities and the Clinton Foundation, a former U.S. attorney told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

"Joseph E. diGenova, who served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for four years, said Wednesday he believes the FBI is investigating two separate Clinton scandals.

'"The Bureau has between 100 and 150 agents assigned to the case. They would not have that many people assigned to a classified information case,' he told TheDCNF, addressing Clinton's use of a private email server located at her New York home."

"Brace yourselves, parents: Hillary Clinton's Fed Ed jackboot squad is from the government and is here to 'help.'

"Clinton wants a cadre of new government educrats to undo the decades-old damage of old government educrats in America's worst public schools. She pitched her creepy proposal at the Democratic presidential debate in Michigan on Sunday for an 'education SWAT team' to swarm down and rescue students from failing districts in decrepit cities such as Detroit (run by whom? Oh, yeah. Democrats!). ...

"Detroit's schools, swimming in $3.5 billion of accumulated debt, face bankruptcy in April. The district is now under FBI investigation for a vendor kickback scheme involving the very kind of 'experts' -- entrenched teachers, self-serving principals, and profligate school officials -- whom Clinton would enlist to rescue the schools they are guilty of plundering.

"It's government SWAT team business as usual: Destroying the village to 'save' it."

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"It was the 'excuse me' that echoed around Democratic politics.

"In their intense Flint, Mich., debate, Bernie Sanders pointedly said to Hillary Clinton in the heat of one exchange, 'Excuse me, I'm talking.'

"Sanders has an $18 trillion unicorns-dancing-on-rainbows spending program and a paranoiac's view of Wall Street, but nothing is quite as disqualifying for the feminist Left as his alleged 'condescension' in this moment and a couple of others (in two other instances, he asked if he could finish, please).

"As far as decorum goes, the Clinton-€“Sanders spat was like a dispute over what dinner fork to use at a four-course meal at the Four Seasons compared with the food fights during the Republican forums. It takes a primatologist to try to unravel the dynamics at a GOP debate, whereas the Democratic debates are being scored by the kind of people who worry about microaggressions and need ready access to safe spaces."

"Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent using her private server while secretary of state that the government has since said contain classified information, according to a new Washington Post analysis of Clinton's publicly released correspondence.

"The finding is the first accounting of the Democratic presidential front-runner’s personal role in placing information now considered sensitive into insecure email during her State Department tenure. Clinton's authorship of dozens of emails now considered classified could complicate her efforts to argue that she never put government secrets at risk.

"In roughly three-quarters of those cases, officials have determined that material Clinton herself wrote in the body of email messages is classified. Clinton sometimes initiated the conversations but more often replied to aides or other officials with brief reactions to ongoing discussions."

"Under the Affordable Care Act, deductibles are increasing in 41 states, with some deductibles increasing by more than $1,000, according to Freedom Partners 2016 Obamacare deductible increase tracker.

"The tracker looks at deductible increases from the previous year through Obamacare'€™s Bronze, Silver and Gold plans as well as a weighted average increase for all plans.

"While some states are already facing high deductibles of $3,000 or more, the tracker finds that deductibles increased by $265 or 8.4 percent on average, with some state deductible increases rising as high as $1,395."

"The Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton's private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.

"The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009.

"As the FBI looks to wrap up its investigation in the coming months, agents are likely to want to interview Clinton and her senior aides about the decision to use a private server, how it was set up, and whether any of the participants knew they were sending classified information in emails, current and former officials said."

"The final returns from most states are not quite in as I write, and the delegate count is not established, but here are some initial observations.

"On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton has a clear flight path to the Democratic nomination. She won everywhere except in Bernie Sanders's Vermont, in Oklahoma with its low black population (and its large number of conservative registered Democrats), and in the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses. ...

"Donald Trump won, but not quite as big as he might have liked. He lost Oklahoma as well as Texas to Ted Cruz, he came within 2 or 3 points of losing Virginia to Marco Rubio, he ran third in the (announced late in the evening) Minnesota caucuses which Rubio won. His best percentages were in the very different states of Alabama, with its populist tradition, and Massachusetts, with its very low number of registered Republicans. Elsewhere he got between 21 and 39 percent -- good numbers, but well below 50 percent."