Baltimore descends into chaos, violence, and looting . . . After two weeks of tension over the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore descended into chaos on Monday. Roaming gangs of mostly young men clashed with police in the streets, seriously injuring officers, tore open businesses and looted their stocks. Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard, and state police requested as many as 5,000 reinforcements from neighboring states. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake instituted a weeklong citywide curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting Tuesday. Baltimore Sun

Uh oh. Sharpton to visit the city this week to "help."

Video || Man dragged out of liquor store and beaten 

Video || Baltimore Mom Catches Son Rioting, Beats His A** 

Is This America? Stunning Photos From The Baltimore Riots 

Maryland governor Hogan indicates Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake waited too long to ask him to call out the National Guard.

Gang attacks on white cops could spread . . . Law enforcement intelligence officials have put out a warning that someone has sent a text calling on people to kill “all white police officers” in reaction to the death of Freddie Gray while in Baltimore police custody, raising fears violence could spread nationally, according to safety memos obtained by The Washington Times.

Will police brutality debate help Republicans? . . . It may seem like ancient history after a decade and a half of war and economic upheaval, but it was not so long ago that "law and order" was one of the key dividing lines in American politics. National Journal

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Maybe Obama can calm Baltimore by ending liberal policies . . . The seething anger we are witnessing is that of a population that has been beaten down by decades of failed liberal policies that have kept them in the same situation they were 50 years ago, perhaps tempered a bit financially by some welfare spending. White House Dossier

Obama late Monday pledged assistance as needed to Baltimore.

Obama-backed green energy failures cost taxpayer $2.2B . . . Taxpayers are on the hook for more than $2.2 billion in expected costs from the federal government’s energy loan guarantee programs, according to a new audit Monday that suggests the controversial projects may not pay for themselves, as officials had promised. Washington Times

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Court throws out Obamacare contraception ruling . . .  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived religious objections by Catholic groups in Michigan and Tennessee to the Obamacare requirement for contraception coverage, throwing out a lower court decision favoring President Barack Obama's administration. Reuters

Biden says Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder "cut from the same cloth."

EPA wants churches to preach climate change . . . A taxpayer-funded graduate fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is examining 17 faith-based institutions that have implemented “sustainability initiatives” in the hopes of developing workshops to teach pastors and other religious leaders how to change the behaviors of their congregants. Washington Free Beacon

Obama Schedule || Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Republicans line up "poison pill" amendments for Iran law . . . The Senate is set to vote starting Tuesday on Republican amendments that could break a bipartisan bill giving Congress a say in any nuclear deal with Iran and endanger what would likely be a smooth path for the legislation to become law. Washington Examiner

Hopefully the Senate will derail this charade, which gives the Good Housekeeping seal to Obama's Constitutional end-run.

Iran commander: U.S. was behind 9/11 attacks . . . The commander of Iran’s ground forces said that American officials planned and executed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to justify military intervention in the region. Politico

This view is widely held in the Middle East. Not Israel, of course.

UN plan to resettle refugees an invitation to terror . . . The humanitarian disaster unfolding on the Mediterranean is likely already providing a "shield" for Islamist terrorists to infiltrate waves of migrants attempting the perilous crossing from North Africa to Europe, terrorism experts and other strategic observers are warning. And they say a UN plan to resettle 1 million refugees in Western nations would turn the situation into a full-blown security crisis. Fox News

Grassley wants to change property seizure rules . . . Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Monday that he’s writing a bill to reform U.S. asset forfeiture laws, and hopes to prevent agencies from using seized money as a way to fund their own operations. The Blaze

Rubio: Gay marriage opponents stigmatized as "haters" . . . There's no federal right to same-sex marriage, Sen. Marco Rubio insists — slamming activists for trying to "stigmatize" and "ostracize" anyone who disagrees with them as "haters." Newsmax

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Paul: Toppling Saddam a mistake . . . Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul says it was a big "mistake" to topple Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein — and that it may have made Iran "twice as strong as it was before the Iraq War." New York Observer

Halperin: Other officials at State would have been fired . . . John Halperin of Bloomberg, hardly a left-wing radical, said Sunday that senior State Department officials would have been fired for the things Hillary Clinton is already known to have done. White House Dossier

UN says 1.4M people in Nepal earthquake need food . . . The death toll from the earthquake could reach 10,000, Nepal's prime minister said Tuesday. Fox News

Conservatives worry as Francis positions on global warming . . . as Francis prepares to deliver what is likely to be a highly influential encyclical this summer on environmental degradation and the effects of human-caused climate change on the poor, he is alarming some conservatives in the United States who are loath to see the Catholic Church reposition itself as a mighty voice in a cause they do not believe in. New York Times

Archbishop: SCOTUS has "no business redefining marriage . . . Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, said that people should hope and pray “that the Supreme Court will recognize that they have no business redefining marriage” in the upcoming same sex “marriage” case, adding that if marriage is redefined “it raises enormous religious freedom issues.” CNS News

Next front on gay rights: Employer benefits . . . If the Supreme Court tells states to recognize same-sex marriage, the next front for gay rights activists is to ensure employers do too. Washington Examiner

The court hears oral arguments on the matter today.

Kids of Republicans pull parents to left on gay marriage . . . Some children say there’s a divide between their politician parents’ public and private views. Politico

Country still divided on gay marriage . . . Currently 48 percent favor legalizing same-sex marriage, while 44 percent are opposed. Just 32 percent of voters said gays should be allowed to marry legally when the question was first asked on a Fox News poll in 2003 (58 percent were opposed).  Since 2012, the portion favoring it has been between 42 and 49 percent. Fox News  

The poll also found legalization of marijuana is backed by 51-44 percent.

Republicans back letting illegals serve in military . . . More than a dozen House Republicans have reintroduced legislation that would let younger illegal immigrants brought to America by their parents obtain legal status by serving in the U.S. military. The Blaze

U.S. lowers flouride in water . . . The government is lowering the recommended amount of fluoride added to drinking water for the first time in more than 50 years. Some people are getting too much fluoride because it is also now put in toothpaste, mouthwash and other products. Too much fluoride has become a common cause of white splotches on teeth in children. One study found about 2 out of 5 adolescents had tooth streaking or spottiness. Fox News

Another unintended consequence of government being "helpful." What are the other health effects of adding flouride to water, I wonder?

Actually, the planet never looked so good . . . Forty-five years ago when the first Earth Day was held, the catastrophe that awaited us was mass starvation, overpopulation, our supplies of oil and gas running on empty, and even a coming second ice age. Every single one of those predictions was spectacularly wrong. Stephen Moore​

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