SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 10:24 P.M. ET: 

IT'S STARTING UP AGAIN – From CBS:  "NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Sources said two officers were injured Tuesday night, as police clashed with demonstrators on the streets of Brooklyn in a protest against police-related deaths and violent incidents throughout the country.  As CBS2’s Valerie Castro reported, the demonstrators started in Union Square and marched down Broadway before targeting the Brooklyn Bridge, 1010 WINS reported. They blocked traffic on the bridge in an effort to bring awareness to what they called police brutality."  When New York clocked more than 2,000 murders a year, these people, and their ideological ancestors, were not demonstrating.  I wonder why.

NOTHING TO SEE, NOTHING TO SEE – From PJ Media:  "Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced that the United States would be removing Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terror list as part of his push to normalize relations with the communist dictatorship. But just hours later, a terror group long fostered by Cuba — even today, the Castro brothers are harboring several wanted members of the group — murdered 10 Colombian soldiers and wounded 17 others in a terror attack on a military base."  A misunderstanding, I'm sure.

NOBLE WORK – From Fox:  "HONOLULU – Tom Gray's family has waited for more than 70 years to bring home the remains of his cousin who was killed in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.  On Tuesday, they got a step closer when the military announced it would exhume and attempt to identify the remains of almost 400 sailors and Marines from the USS Oklahoma who were buried as unknowns after the war.  Gray's cousin, Edwin Hopkins, of Swanzey, New Hampshire, was a 19-year-old fireman third class on board the USS Oklahoma when the battleship was hit by nine torpedoes and capsized on Dec. 7, 1941. His remains weren't identified and his family was told he was missing...All together, 429 sailors and Marines on board the Oklahoma were killed. Only 35 were identified in the years immediately after."   We hope this work can be completed while at least some friends and relatives who knew the servicemen are still living. 

SOUNDS RIGHT TO ME – From Daily Caller:  "With environmentalists calling for divestment from fossil fuels, the former United Nations climate chief has gone against the grain and defended using the 'Green Climate Fund' to finance coal projects.  'There are massive challenges in terms of poverty eradication where coal is a logical choice from a cost effectiveness point of view, and you really have to be in a position to offer those countries an economically viable alternative before you begin to rule out coal,' Yvo de Boer, the former head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told the news site Responding to Climate Change (RCC)."  I wonder how long it will be before this guy's reputation is destroyed.

April 15,  2015