Peaceful protests quickly turned violent Saturday evening while jus’ 50 miles away elites in Washington partied with President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. That’s pretty much all American’s saw from the national media outlets.

Meanwhile, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is drawing fire for fueling her city’s riots. At a press conference on Saturday evening, Rawlings-Blake made a comment that is now getting a lot of attention:

“It’s a very delicate balancing act, because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well,” she said.

The ‘space to destroy’ comment became a green light for radical elements within the protesters to loot, burn and riot the city at will. For most of the night, police battled flare-ups around the city.

The city has now officially declared a “state of emergency,” and the National Guard called out. It came after authorities learned through social media that the Nation of Islam brokered a peace agreement between rivals, the Bloods, the Crips and Black Guerrilla Family “to take out law enforcement officers.”

But that’s not how they’re framing the agreement.

“I can say with honesty those brothers demonstrated they can be united for a common good,” said Carlos Muhammad, a minister at Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 6. “At the rally, they made the call that they must be united on that day. It should be commended.”

More violence erupted after Monday’s funeral for Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who died last week from a severe spinal cord injury he suffered in police custody. Gray’s family denounced the violence, saying it was not the way to honor him.

Also on Monday, during another news conference Rawlings-Blake blamed the media for what happened.

“I never said, nor would I ever say, that we are giving people space to destroy our city,” she claimed. “So my words should not be twisted.”

Perhaps the folks of Baltimore ought to listen to Vietnam veteran Robert Valentine, who while being interviewed by CNN, said, “I love my country, I love my charmed city, and I’m an American. I’m not black, white, red, yellow, or nothing; I am American.”

Inspirational words from a real American hero. Mayor Rawlings-Blake ought to take lessons from this man.

She starred as the red-headed, freckle-faced Tracy Partridge in the 70’s TV sitcom, “The Partridge Family.” Born March 6, 1963 in Fullerton, California, Suzanne Crough Condray passed away in Laughlin, Nevada, on Monday at the age of 52.

Though she did some TV work including cartoon voiceovers, commercials and a few movies afterwards, she was forever identified with her “Partridge Family” role. In 1993 she told People she was proof that some child stars could leave Hollywood and go on to live a normal life.

“There is life after acting,” Suzanne told the magazine.

But that wasn’t to say she didn’t miss acting from time to time.

“When I saw ‘A League of Their Own,’ I said, ‘I could’ve been in that picture.’ It would’ve been fun.”

Following her role on “The Partridge Family,” Suzanne appeared in several TV shows including “Wonder Woman,” “Mulligan’s Stew,” and “Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway.” Her last on-screen role was in the 1980 film “Children of Divorce.”

“I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older,” she said in an online interview in 2000. “You can’t just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.”

When she appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” with some of her “Partridge” costars in 2010, she revealed she had left the limelight for good and was working as a manager of an Office Max in Arizona.

Suzanne’s husband is attorney William Condray. The couple has two daughters, Samantha and Alexandra, one of whom is getting married this summer.

It’s still unclear what caused her death, but a family member said it was sudden. Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said an autopsy’s scheduled for Wednesday.

Before there was Hillary’s Uraniumgate, Bill Clinton hindered investigations into illegal Chinese contributions made to his campaigns by creating bureaucratic roadblocks. In 1995, both the FBI and the CIA found evidence damaging to Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Chinese.

During the same period the FBI was also investigating technology theft by China. Had the FBI confirmed China’s theft of weapons technology and later transfer of weapons technology to Pakistan, Iran and Syria, Clinton would have had to answer questions about the flow of Chinese money into his political coffers.

The FBI began collecting evidence in 1995 linking illegal DNC donations to China. However, Congress didn’t find out about the Department of Justice’s failure to act until 1997, long after the 1996 election.

Documents show that from 1994 to 1997 the CIA learned China sold missile technology, a nuclear fission reactor, advanced air-defense radar, and chemical agents to Iran. The Chinese also provided Pakistan with 5,000 ring magnets, used in producing weapons-grade uranium and uranium fuel for India’s reactors.

Clinton’s Presidential Decision Directive 24 (PDD 24) placed intelligence-gathering under the control of the President’s National Security Council, through a four-level, top-down chain of command. The directive also created the National Counterintelligence Center (NCI) to oversee the CIA and staffed it by Clinton appointed FBI agents.

The NCI reported to an administration-appointed National Counterintelligence Operations Board (NCOB.) The NCOB reported to the National Intelligence Policy Board, (NIPB) which through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, reported to Clinton.

Clinton and the DNC weren’t the only ones benefiting from Chinese espionage, acquisition of military technology and campaign contributions. The McDonnell Douglas Corporation transferred military tools to China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation in 1994 that ended up in the hands of the Chinese army.

A year later, General Electric lobbied to aid China in replacing coal-fired power stations with nuclear plants. At the same time, GE’s Hughes Electronics pushed for satellite export controls to be lifted which lead to sensitive data finding its way to China allowing it to develop intercontinental and submarine-launched missiles.

Clinton erected his roadblock to stop investigations implicating him and the Democratic Party in illegal activities. These same roadblocks prevented the FBI and CIA from sharing information before 9/11 happened, leading to the deaths of 2,605 Americans.

State lawmakers in Nevada want to give a three-percent raise for each of the next four years to elected county officials including sheriffs, district attorneys and clerks. The last time a four-year salary bill passed was in 2007.

This isn’t a smart move since many of Nevada’s 17 county budgets remain on shaky ground.

Senate Bill 482 will also eliminates the ability of county commissioners to set their own salary, by placing them on a similar three-percent salary increase every year. The bill though does allow any elected official to choose not to receive any part of their salary.

It used to be that citizens in the counties in which they live had the final word on what their elected officials got paid. That’s totalitarianism at work for you.

When a Chinese company sought a 51-percent stake in a tiny Nevada gold mining operation in 2009, it set off a review process in Washington D.C., over concerns about the mine’s proximity to a military installation and the potential for minerals at the site, including uranium, to come under Chinese control. Thankfully, federal officials killed the deal.

However, the path to a Russian acquisition of U.S. uranium deposits which began in 2005, didn’t get the same review. The Russians assumed control of Uranium One in three transactions between 2009 to 2013, after Canadian billionaire Ian Telfer used his family foundation, Fernwood to make four donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling $2.35 million.

His donations included $1 million reported in 2009, the year his company appealed to the American Embassy to help it keep its mines in Kazakhstan; $250,000 in 2010, the year the Russians sought majority control; as well as $600,000 in 2011 and $500,000 in 2012.

He and his business partner Frank Giustra (also a Canadian) gave millions also arranged for a $500,000 speech by Bill Clinton bankrolled by a Russian investment bank, Renaissance Capital which is known to have links to the Kremlin and was promoting Uranium One stock. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed; despite an agreement, Hillary had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors.

A few days later, the deal their company UrAsia Energy Ltd., found approval with the Kazakhstan government. The sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the U.S and by 2013, 100-percent of Uranium One.

It’s also been learned that 22 of the 37 corporations nominated for a State Department award while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State were also donors to the Clinton family foundation. Cisco was the biggest foundation contributor nominated in 2009, giving the Clinton charity between $1 million and $5 million, winning the award in 2010.

The non-profit company, Tom’s Shoes, also a 2009 winner, donated between $100,000 and $250,000. The other 2009 winner, Trilogy International Partners, gave between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Another Clinton contributor to win, is candy-maker Mars, Inc. which gave between $25,000 and $50,000. Procter & Gamble also contributed one to five million dollars.

Honored as a finalist in 2010, Coca-Cola shelled out $5-to-10 million donations in donation money. Tiger Machinery, a 2011 finalist, the Russian dealer of Caterpillar, Inc., also gave between $1,000 and $5,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Nominated each year of Clinton’s time in office, Intel took home the award in 2012, after donating between $250,000 and $500,000. And in 2014, Esso-Angola won after its parent company, Exxon-Mobil gave between $1 and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Overall, seven of the 10 finalists in 2009 were foundation donors. Seven of the 12 finalists for the award in 2011 gave to the charity, while five of the eight finalists and one of the two winners were foundation donors in 2012.

The Clinton family’s charity took in more than $140 million in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid. Their 2013 tax returns show the foundation spent $30 million on payroll and employee benefits; $8.7 million in rent and office expenses; $9.2 million on “conferences, conventions and meetings”; $8 million on fund-raising; and nearly $8.5 million on travel.

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg’s description is dead on, “The Clintons are the Tudors of the Ozarks.”

Settlers began setting up salmon canneries along the Klamath River in the late 1870s, despite objections from Yurok Tribal members who lived along the waterway.  Jones & Richardson marked the first operation near the river’s mouth, followed by the Klamath Commercial Company.

It’s easy to spot a Progressive, despite their party affiliation. They’re the ones always more than will to take money out of the business person’s pocket and spread it around for ‘the sake of the children.’

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people,” wrote Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf. “As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”

For example, Governor Brian Sandoval’s proposal to raise $437 million through a new business license fee that taxes gross revenue recently passed by the state Senate. The bill’s designed to raise more than $437 million to fund K-12 education programs.

For now, business license fees cost $200 dollars per year, regardless of the type of business or how much it generates annually. The proposed business license fee change would go from $200 to $400 for small businesses and more than $4 million for businesses that generate more than $1 billion annually, setting different rates for different industries.

The main rub for most taxpayers is that the plan places a tax on gross revenues. It’s also exactly like the margins tax that voters overwhelmingly voted down in the November election.

Taxing gross revenue was also the downfall of the gross receipts tax during the big tax battle in the 2003 session. In the end, lawmakers approved a modified business tax creating nearly a $1 billion in taxes.

All that 2003 billion dollar tax increase did was to make it harder for small business owners to survive the so-called ‘Great Recession.’ All Sandoval’s plan amounts to is jus’ another way to ‘spread the wealth around.’

As for Nevada’s K-12 school system, at least three things need to happen to make it the best in the nation: eliminate tenure (and union control,) get rid of Common Core (and any other federal programming,) and return to the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic by integrating course lessons.

Once again the Republican-controlled Senate has surrendered its role as defender of the U.S. Constitution as it voted to confirm an attorney general who says illegal aliens have a right to work in the U.S. and partial-birth babies don’t have a right to life. The Senate took two votes on the nomination of Loretta Lynch: first, a “cloture” vote to end debate and allow a final vote on confirmation, and, then, the final vote itself.

Neither of these votes would have taken place had not Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought her nomination to the floor for consideration. Thanks to a change in Senate Rule XXII that he and Senator Harry Reid pushed through in 2013, only 50 votes were needed instead of the historical 60.

A total of 66 senators voted for cloture — including 20 Republicans — despite a March 2015 Rasmussen poll showing voters were in no big hurry to name Lynch the next U.S. attorney general. In fact, jus’ 33-percent of those asked believed the Senate should confirm her.

At a confirmation hearing in January, Alabama’s Senator Jeff Sessions asked Lynch: “Who has more right to a job in this country? A lawful immigrant who’s here, a green-card holder, or a citizen, or a person who entered this country unlawfully?”

“Well, Senator,” said Lynch, “I believe that the right and the obligation to work is one that’s shared by everyone in this country regardless of how they came here. And certainly, if someone’s here, regardless of status, I would prefer that they be participating in the workplace than not participating in the workplace.”

In 2006, Lynch signed a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart, trying to overturn the law that Congress enacted in 2003 banning partial-birth abortion. She claimed the language — including the term “living fetus” — was too vague to be understood by those responsible for obeying it and enforcing it.

Texas Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz opposed her conformation saying: “I would note there are more than a few voters back home that are asking, ‘What exactly is the difference between a Democratic and Republican majority when the exact same individual gets confirmed as Attorney General, promising the exact same lawlessness, what’s the difference?’”

Cruz however did not to vote, later saying “…if the Senate could get 60 votes for cloture, they could get 51 for final confirmation.”

In the end, they confirmed Lynch 56 to 43, with 10 Republicans voting for her.

The U.S. is now ruled by a mix of executive overreach, legislative complicity, judicial collusion, and journalistic dishonesty. All the traditional ways to save our country are blocked by political elitists unconcerned with the rule of law or the U.S. Constitution.

Welcome to the despotism of the de facto one-party state.

President Obama is refusing to call the massacre of Armenians of the Ottoman Empire genocide. White House officials defended his decision saying it’s necessary to maintain the cooperation of Turkey, a NATO ally, in the Middle Eastern conflicts.

“As president I will recognize the Armenian Genocide,” then presidential candidate Barack Obama said in 2008.

Not only did he renege on his word, he proved himself to be a hypocrite as he criticized the Bush administration for recalling an ambassador who used the word genocide.

“Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence,” Obama stated January 19, 2008. “The facts are undeniable. An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy.”

California Congressman Adam Schiff, said he was “deeply disappointed” by the president’s decision.

“The United States has long prided itself for being a beacon of human rights, for speaking out against atrocity, for confronting painful chapters of its own past and that of others,” said Schiff. “This cannot be squared with a policy of complicity in genocide denial by the president or Congress.”

“How long must the victims and their families wait before our nation has the courage to confront Turkey with the truth about the murderous past of the Ottoman Empire? If not this president, who spoke so eloquently and passionately about recognition in the past, whom? If not after 100 years, when?” he added.

California has the country’s largest population of people of Armenian descent, with more than 200,000 living in Los Angeles County.

The head of the Armenian National Council of America went further.

“President Obama’s surrender to Turkey represents a national disgrace,” said Ken Hachikian. “It is, very simply, a betrayal of truth, a betrayal of trust.”

No sitting U.S. president has ever used the word “genocide” when speaking of the atrocities committed against Armenians. However, President Ronald Reagan, in 1981, did issue a written proclamation about the “genocide of the Armenians,” but because of diplomatic pressure he dropped all references to the term.

In November 1914, the Ottoman Turks, a Sunni Islamic state, aligned itself with the German Empire and ordered the wholesale slaughter of Christian Armenians. Large-scale massacres were also committed against the Empire’s Greek and Assyrian minorities as part of the same campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Turkey denies the word genocide is the correct term for the mass killings and in recent years been faced with repeated calls to recognize them as genocide, claiming that many people, including Turks died during the war. To date, twenty-three countries have officially recognized the murder of more than 1.5 million people as genocide.

Armenians and others will observe the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the genocide Friday, which began in 1915 and lasted until 1923, long after the world war ended.

President Obama told us before he even got the Democratic nomination in 2008 what he’d do about the threat Iran posed to the U.S. and the world: “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union,” he said. “They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.”

Yes – Obama actually said ‘Soviet Union’ and not Russia. Talk about the ‘80’s wanting their foreign policy back,’ but then again it could have simply been a play of words since he’s done nothing about Russia’s aggression.

Now, the USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading toward the shores of Yemen preparing to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to Houthi rebels. The aircraft’s deployment comes after a U.N. Security Council resolution imposed an arms embargo on leaders of the Iranian-backed Shiite rebels.

The resolution passed in a 14-0 vote with Russia abstaining. No surprise there.

Once hailed by President Obama as a success story in the U.S.’s effort to combat terrorism, Yemen has since collapsed into chaos. This is because Houthis rebels are getting their arms from Iran, which Tehran and the rebels continue to deny.

This comes after the Obama administration’s announcement of a supposed April 2 deal with Iran to control its nuclear program, which Iran disputes.

Under the reported agreement, Iran gets to store around 1,000 advanced nuclear centrifuges at an underground and fortified one-time military site known as Fordow. By keeping Fordow active, Iran could potentially produce weapons-grade material in less than six months.

Iran is also pushing to prohibit international inspectors from accessing possible military sites until after the U.S. provides real relief from economic sanctions. Iran also refuses to give up its stockpile of enriched uranium, the key part in a nuclear bomb.

But wait – there’s more!

The U.S. State Department still plans to give Iran $30 to $50 billion as a so-called “signing bonus” for agreeing to a nuclear deal later this year. The cash release would come in addition to the more than $11 billion in unfrozen assets that Iran will already have received under an interim nuclear accord reached in 2013.

When asked about the report, State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf tried to dodge the issue by accusing reporters of getting “spun up” on the issue.  Pressed, Harf finally told reporters that she would “look into it,” then declined “to go line by line in the story,” adding sanctions relief to Iran will continue through June 30.

Don’t believe it’s a trifecta?

Last month, Obama issued and signed an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat and ordered sanctions against seven of its officials. Then this month, Obama reversed himself: “Venezuela is not a threat to the U.S. and the U.S. is not a threat to Venezuela,” changing the language of the March 9 executive order he signed.

No wonder our Allies no longer trust us.