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“I could see the objects being thrown at the police and I was like in awe. Like, ‘Oh my God, this is really happening right here with me,’” Toya Graham said. “Low and behold, I turn around and I look in this crowd and my son is actually coming across the street.” In a hoodie, Toya Graham knew her 16-year-old son, grabbing and hitting him—all while police and cameras surrounded her.

I took a camera to Times Square this week and asked people, “What creates jobs?” Most had no answer. One said, “stimulus!” What? Government creates jobs? No! I suppose it’s natural that people think government creates jobs because politicians always say that. “We’ve now created more than 10 million,” said President Obama. But that just meant that he took office at the start of the recession, and finally job creation resumed. He didn’t cause that. In fact, his taxes and complex regulation slowed job creation. His 2012 presidential election rival, Mitt Romney, was a little more free-market-oriented, but he sounded...

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) took to the House floor Tuesday night to urge African-American mothers follow the example of a Baltimore woman who forced her son to leave the city's riots. Video of Toya Graham slapping her son for participating in the Baltimore riots went viral. Rush, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said mothers of African-American children should use their "awesome powers" to push back against violence. "I would like to make a special appeal to African-American mothers across this country. That they begin to use their awesome powers to take back our streets from the daily violence...

Lawmakers are again considering proposals to expand Louisiana's Medicaid program, to give government-funded health insurance to the working poor. The House and Senate health committees have scheduled Wednesday hearings on the coverage expansion legislation. Both panels have rejected the idea in previous years amid strong opposition to Medicaid expansion and the federal health care overhaul from Gov. Bobby Jindal and other Republican leaders.

It's never enough. American taxpayers have surrendered billions and billions and billions of dollars to the social-justice-spender-in-chief. But it's never, ever enough. The latest paroxysm of urban violence, looting, and recriminations in Baltimore prompted President Obama on Tuesday to trot out his frayed Blame The Callous, Tight-Fisted Republicans card. After dispensing with an obligatory wrist-slap of toilet paper-and Oreo-filching "protesters" who are burning Charm City to the ground (he hurriedly changed it to "criminals and thugs" mid-word), the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner got down to his usual business: hectoring his political opponents and grousing that America hasn't forked over...

On Tuesday, Barack Obama admitted that the situation faced by the impoverished residents of American urban centers like Baltimore is a hopeless one.

Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America’s problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind, and every city besieged recently by rioting, Democrats and their union pals have had carte blanche to inflict their ideas and policies on Baltimore since 1967, the last time there was a Republican Mayor.In 2012, after four years of his own failed policies, President Obama won a whopping 87.4% of the Baltimore City vote. Democrats run the city of Baltimore, the unions, the schools,...

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Even as the riots in Baltimore Monday night left a string of injured bodies and burned businesses, voices on the left were out in public defending the chaos.

Montgomery Inspector General Edward Blansitt said the county attorney has affirmed the propriety of hiring a part-time assistant who pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge as a criminal investigator for the Commerce Department. Blansitt, who heads the independent office responsible for rooting out waste and mismanagement, told the County Council in December that he had asked County Attorney Marc Hansen “whether he concurs with my analysis of the propriety of hiring Ms. [Rachel] Ondrik” in October 2013. Blansitt said he would “rely on his advice.” (snip) Blansitt sought legal guidance after a Washington Post story raised questions about Ondrik’s...

The state House agreed Tuesday night to pull back on North Carolina's long-standing ban on hunting with guns on Sundays, replacing it with legislation containing exceptions but giving counties the ability to ban it again locally in a couple of years. The House voted 83-35 for legislation that would allow hunting with a firearm on the day traditionally reserved for church on private land with the owner's written permission. The bill now goes to the Senate. There would be limits. Sunday hunting of this kind would still be banned in Wake and Mecklenburg counties, and anywhere else within 500 yards...

The Obama administration is on pace to deport the fewest number of immigrants in nearly a decade, according to internal government data obtained by The Associated Press. As of April 20, federal immigration officials sent home 127,378 people in the United States illegally. That puts immigrant removals on track to be among the lowest since the middle of President George W. Bush's second term. The internal statistics reveal a continuing decline in deportations even as the Obama administration fights a legal challenge to a plan it announced late last year to shield millions of immigrants from deportations. "With the resources...

The New Hampshire House is preparing to vote on legislation that would remove the licensing requirement for carrying a concealed firearm, a significant change to the state's gun laws. If the House passes the bill Wednesday, it heads to Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan's desk. She has not said whether she will veto it, but did say recently the state's existing gun laws are working. Current law requires anyone who wants to carry a gun concealed such as in a purse or under a coat to get a license from local law enforcement or officials. This bill would allow anyone who...

.... Baltimore Police Department announced they had received information about a "credible threat" against the lives of its officers. In a press release, the department states that "members of various gangs including the Black Guerilla Family, Bloods, and Crips have entered into a partnership to 'take out' law enforcement officers."

Secretary of State John Kerry told his Iranian counterpart that he wished the United States had a leader more like Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, according to comments made by a senior Iranian cleric and repeated in the country’s state-run media.Ayatollah Alam al-Hoda claimed during Friday prayer services in Iran that in negotiations over Tehran’s contested nuclear program, Kerry told the country’s foreign minister that he “wished the U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader,” according to a Persian-language report on the remarks published by the Asriran news site.“In the negotiations Kerry told [Iranian Foreign Minister Javad] Zarif that he...

Black Lawyers for Justice President Malik Zulu Shabazz argued that the Baltimore Police Department is an occupying force, like Israel on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

Just hours after a powder keg of racial tension in Baltimore exploded into violence, looting and destruction, President Obama once again urged America to do some soul-searching and commit to helping impoverished black communities gripped with unemployment, drug addiction and educational inequality.It was the similar soul-searching message the president sent nearly three years ago in 2012 amid a national firestorm over the slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Florida.But if America has done any deep thinking over the issue, there have been few tangible results and president's policing task forces have done little to...

More than 20 witnesses. A crime scene confession. A shaken victim, willing to press charges. And what happened? Nothing. --- Last summer there was so much crime, so much video, so many people wondering why it was happening so often, that Governor O’Malley suggested that the new mayor might want to copy what he did to fight crime when he was mayor: Put more boots on the ground. Not on my watch, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told the Baltimore Sun: "Returning to the days of mass arrests for any and every minor offense might be a good talking point but it...

Looks like a few Charm City capitalists need to check their white privilege.CBS Baltimore:(video at link)Well, they should’ve thought about that before they ran a business in a town where a black guy died in police custody, right? Now let’s hear some more about a lack of economic opportunities. Let’s hear some more about giving people jobs.The only thing more insane than this behavior is making excuses for it. This is how cities die.

"The education system has failed them." That is part of the explanation that Billy Murphy, a lawyer representing the family of Freddie Gray — who died after his spine was severed while in police custody — gave CNN's Wolf Blitzer for why some young men in Baltimore rioted on Monday afternoon after Gray's funeral. "These kids have had bad experiences in school," Murphy said. "They are frequently harassed by the police," he said. "They are unemployed because there's no summer jobs, and so this is what you would expect in a tense time like this. That's not a justification, though,...