Late Afternoon

++Ayatollah Khamenei blasted ISIS as "a bunch of morons "and former Saddam Hussein soldiers. He said the struggle was between humanity and barbarity and not between Sunni and Shiite. Meanwhile the real Al Qaeda affiliate is battling ISIS within Syria.

++Ukraine's President Poroshenko has extended the truce in the East. Russian separatists have released the OSCE observers held since December.

++Abu Khattala was arraigned in DC Federal Court and charged with one count of terrorism and entered a plea of not guilty. 

++Civitas polls, which tend to lean toward conservatives, has Democrat Kay Hagan at 42 over Tom Tillis 36 and libertarian Haugh at 9%. If pushed to choose between two, Hagan is at 47 to Tillis'43.

++Brainwrap aka Charles Gaba cleaned up his final ACA numbers and has ACA affecting 15.3-24.7 million depending on which categories of newly insured you want.

++Paul Krugman wrote yesterday in the New York Times how Obamacare works and how the Republicans are batting 0 for 6 in their assertions of what was going to happen.

++Monday is the Hobby Lobby/Conestoga case which will decide whether corporations have religious rights and employers can determine the healthcare options for employees. If the case goes to Hobby Lobby,it will also mean the end of corporate indemnity as individuals and corporations are not separated.

++The most dangerous case for our Democracy is Harris v.Quinn, which could erode unions' ability to collect dues or agency fees. Labor lawyers see this case as feeding "the possible destruction of the American labor movement". Court observers believe Judge Alito will be writing the majority opinion and he is notoriously anti-union. This is meant to be "the killshot against public employee unions".

++Thad Cochran winning the Mississippi primary with the African American vote says he doesn't think we need to reform the Voting Act. Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions told the Senate it just won't be fair to single out certain states.

++Senator Mendendez said that the Obama Administration has given the House GOP a deadline to move on immigration reform or the President will do so himself.

++New Majority Leader McCarthy blamed Harry Reid for obstructionism. Critics urge Reid to offer a gentleman's deal he would offer a House bill in the Senate for a vote without amendments if the House voted on one of the Senate's.