"President Obama on Monday assailed the U.S. political backlash against resettling more Syrian refugees, especially Muslims, calling it un-American. Well, maybe he should have thought about that before he decided to do so little in Syria and let Islamic State build a vast terror sanctuary. ...

"As France is learning, Islamic State is only too happy to use the Syrian diaspora to plant its agents to kill the French. At least one of the killers on Friday is believed to have migrated from Syria through Greece and into Paris. Nearly all of the other migrants, Muslim and Christian, have no such bloody intent. But can you blame the average American for refusing to volunteer as a next door neighbor? ...

"If Mr. Obama fought Islamic State with half the vigor with which he delivers moral lectures, he'd find that a much less fearful America would welcome far more refugees."

"During Saturday's debate, all three Democratic presidential candidates refused to say that the U.S. was at war with 'radical Islam.' They all bobbed and weaved as they tried to follow the PC line and avoid admitting that obvious fact. ...

"The debate on Saturday exposed the real weakness the Democratic field has on national security. None of the three candidates were willing to state the obvious: that President Obama's foreign-policy fecklessness has made America less safe. Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell told CBS News's Face the Nation on Sunday that 'it's now crystal clear to us that our strategy, our policy, vis-a-vis ISIS is not working, and it's time to look at something else.' The day before, Morell had told CBS's 48 Hours that it was now the duty of the intelligence community to confront President Obama with that news."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

"The Republican debate on CNBC was riveting, the way a train wreck is riveting -- you couldn't take your eyes off it. The Fox Business Network debate was merely satisfying. A serious political discussion requires a bit more work, but it repays the effort. ...

"On Tuesday, all the contenders were required to show their hand. We saw character and we saw policy. Substance is never sizzling, but the FBN debate was both revealing and sobering: Which one of these can you actually see inhabiting the Oval Office?"

"Hillary Clinton has moved to the left of President Obama on trade, energy, immigration, student loans, health care and entitlements. But even we're surprised by her latest move, which is to turn against charter schools as an engine of education opportunity. ...

"Charters serve some of the most troubled students, including a higher percentage in poverty than all public schools, according to Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes. In urban centers in particular, charters serve mostly minority students and include more who are learning English than do public schools as a whole. ...

"Mrs. Clinton's charter reversal suggests her Education Department would be a wholly owned union subsidiary. The losers will be the poor parents and children who Democrats claim to represent."

"I understand why the idiot children at Yale are so sensitive. Really, I do. I sometimes list in my mind all of the poor, suffering people who get a raw deal in this life, and Yale students are always right at the top, with the Bangladeshi orphans and women traded by sex traffickers in Vietnam. Yale isn't a safe space, Congo isn't a safe space -- it all makes sense, as long as you don't expect it to make sense. ...

"We're all real sorry about your safe spaces and your pacifier and your stuffed puppy, Caitlyn. Really we are. Yet the perpetual revolution of configured stars continues in its indifference, and the lot of man is ceaseless labor, and though you may find the thought terrifying -- and thinking itself terrifying -- it may turn out to be the case that the screaming in the dark you do on campus is more or less the same screaming in the dark you did in the crib, the same howl for the same reason."

"President Obama's executive action preventing the deportation of an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday after a federal appeals court upheld a federal judge's injunction blocking the measure.

"The 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans further dims the prospect of implementation of the executive action before Obama leaves office in 2017. Appeals over the injunction could take months. Depending on how the case unfolds, the injunction could even go back to the Texas federal court for more proceedings.

"Republicans had criticized the plan as an illegal executive overreach when Obama announced it last November. Twenty-six states challenged the plan in court. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen granted the temporary injunction preventing the order's implementation this past February, agreeing with the states that legalizing the presence of so many people would be a 'virtually irreversible' action that would cause the states 'irreparable harm.'"

"Much ink has been spilled blaming the state of U.S.-€“Israel relations on the poor personal rapport between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The fact is that huggable Barney the Purple Dinosaur could have been Israel's elected leader, and the relations would have been equally hostile. ...

"Anyone who believes that the president's toxic foreign policy on Israel is a mere personal vendetta against a foreign leader he doesn't like is giving Obama far too little credit. His foreign policy has never wavered: He sought 'daylight' between himself and Israel. He has achieved a chasm.

"The only question left is how much more blood the president can extract from Israel in his last twelve months."

"Ted Cruz has suggested that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin moderate Republican debates. Good idea, wrong target. How about this arrangement? Limbaugh & Co. should moderate the Democratic debates. What a splendid blood-soaked spectacle that would be."

"At the past 16 Republican National Conventions, the party's presidential nominee has been selected on the first ballot. That long streak might end next year. For the first time since 1948, when the GOP nominated Thomas E. Dewey for president after three rounds of voting, Republicans might take more than one ballot to settle on their nominee. ...

"It is unlikely that the GOP will reprise 1880, when it took 36 ballots to nominate James A. Garfield, who wasn't even a candidate when the convention began. But it is possible that the nomination will still be up for grabs when the GOP convention opens on July 18, and that delegates could need more than one ballot to select the party's candidate. That's not necessarily a bad thing. After all, Republicans took three ballots in 1860 to pick a fellow named Lincoln."