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2:35 PM ET, April 29, 2015

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Bill Keller / The Marshall Project:
David Simon on Baltimore's Anguish  —  David Simon is Baltimore's best-known chronicler of life on the hard streets.  He worked for The Baltimore Sun city desk for a dozen years, wrote “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets” (1991) and with former homicide detective Ed Burns co-wrote …
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Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton to call for end to ‘mass incarceration’  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton will call Wednesday morning for far-reaching reforms in the criminal justice system that would “end the era of mass incarceration,” according to a campaign aide.  —  In a speech at Columbia University in New York City …
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What The 2016ers Are Saying About Baltimore
Todd Starnes / Townhall.com:
‘We Will Not Obey’: Christian Leaders Threaten Civil Disobedience if Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage  —  “We will not obey.”  —  That's the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage.
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court: ‘Judges are not politicians’ when it comes to fundraising
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Justice Scalia's Shameful Joke
Discussion: The Week and Guardian
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Justice Anthony Kennedy seems to see a nobility of purpose in gay marriage.
CBS News:
Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: “I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray”  —  Shares -  —  The Baltimore mother caught on video repeatedly smacking her son after catching him throwing things at police during rioting in Baltimore told CBS News that she was only concerned about protecting him.
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Michael Eric Dyson / New York Times:
Goodbye to Freddie Gray and Goodbye to Quietly Accepting Injustice
Discussion: Washington Post
Ruben Navarrette / Fox News:
Hero of Baltimore riots: A mom
Discussion: New York Post and ThinkProgress
Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
U.S. economic growth slows to 0.2 percent, grinding nearly to a halt  —  The U.S. economy ground nearly to a halt in the first three months of the year, according to government data released Wednesday morning, as exports plunged and severe winter weather helped keep consumers indoors.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
U.S. economy poised to thaw after winter chill
Discussion: Associated Press, Hot Air and NPR
Amy Mitchell / Journalism.org:
State of the News Media 2015  —  Call it a mobile majority.  At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.
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Jesse Holcomb / Journalism.org:
Cable News: Fact Sheet
Discussion: Capital New York and PoliticusUSA
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
61 Times Bill Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler and Churchill  —  Foreign-policy analysts hate this one weird historic example that explains every foreign-policy scenario.  —  Shares  —  Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed …
driftglass:
The Church of Lyin'tology … Eventually even very high-powered, very highly-paid and very public political con men like Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times start to run out of road.  After enough years have passed, a career's worth of public bulls**t and bad faith start to roll downhill faster …
Discussion: New York Times and Progress Pond
Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Foundation Failed to Disclose 1,100 Foreign Donations  —  Hillary Clinton's presidential run is prompting new scrutiny of the Clintons' financial and charitable affairs—something that's already proved problematic for the Democratic frontrunner, given how closely these two worlds overlap.
New York Times:
U.S. Attacks in Afghanistan Go Beyond White House's Pledges  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Months after President Obama formally declared that the United States' long war against the Taliban was over in Afghanistan, the American military is regularly conducting airstrikes against low-level insurgent forces …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Obama: ‘No excuse’ for violence in Baltimore  —  Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the “criminals and thugs who tore up” the city of Baltimore on Monday night, after rioting and looting paralyzed the city and overwhelmed local officials.
Discussion: Mashable and The Huffington Post
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S.V. Date / National Journal:
Why Do We Expect Barack Obama to Fix Race Relations?
Discussion: US News
Jonathan Allen / Vox:
Hillary Clinton calls for end to mass incarceration, reversing Bill Clinton legacy  —  Hillary Clinton will propose providing body cameras to every police department in the country and, even more important, call for an end to the “era of mass incarceration,” explicitly rejecting a pillar of Bill Clinton's legacy.
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Senators vote to block EPA's use of ‘secret science’  —  A Senate committee voted Tuesday to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using ‘secret science’ to back its regulations.  —  The vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee came after the GOP-controlled House repeatedly approved the bill.
Evan Hendershot / Daily Republic:
Platte mayoral race to be decided by chance  —  PLATTE — Platte's next mayor will be determined by the luck of the draw.  —  It's been more than two weeks since Election Day in Platte, but the winner will be announced soon.  —  At 4 p.m. on Thursday in Platte's City Hall meeting room …
Ashley Edwards / New York's PIX11:
Mother viciously beats woman over parking space at LI mall as husband, children watch  —  Warning: Video contains graphic language and violence.  —  VALLEY STREAM, Long Island (PIX11) — Police are looking for a mother who viciously beat a woman in a Long Island mall parking lot as her husband …
Discussion: WGN-TV and fox13now.com
Jessica Oh / KUSA-TV:
Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch  —  Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch.  9NEWS at 9 p.m. 04/27/15.  —  CONNECT  —  AURORA - A mother in Aurora claims a teacher at her child's preschool, Children's Academy, refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch, because it wasn't nutritious.
Discussion: New York's PIX11
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
GOP Rep. Bill Flores Links Baltimore Riots To Gay Marriage  —  Yesterday on “Washington Watch,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins hosted Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, to discuss the anti-marriage-equality rally outside of the Supreme Court that both had attended that morning.
Discussion: FRC, Daily Kos and Towleroad News #gay
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senators clash over Iran votes  —  Supporters of an important bill on Iran are walking through a political minefield as they work to set up a series of amendment votes that Democrats warn could bring down the legislation.  —  Approximately 60 amendments have been put forward so far …
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
OBAMA vs. REAGAN on GDP GROWTH — NOT EVEN CLOSE
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television
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Steve Tetreault / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Reid applauds man who started rumor his brother beat him up
Aaron Klein / WND:
ISIS USING BALTIMORE RIOTS TO RECRUIT ‘DISSATISFIED’ BLACKS
Discussion: Raw Story
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
Baltimore Is a Democrat Problem, Not America's Problem
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