Randi`s Homework May 9th 2014

 

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	The GOP's Benghazi Conspiracy Platform For 2014: Will Scaring Voters Work For The GOP? In Other Conspiracy Noise - Ann Coulter Says Monica Should Become A Christian & Bill Clinton Is A Rapist Flashback, March 1999: Monica Lewinsky's Interview With Barbara Walters Fed Chair Janet Yellen won’t tell Bernie Sanders whether U.S. is democracy or oligarchy President Obama: The Rich Are Not Under Attack - But Incolme Inequality In America Is A Very Serious Problem Anxiety Over Economic Inequality Leaves Door Open For Sen. Elizabeth Warren To Challenge Hillary Clinton in 2016 CEOs Are Getting Hip To Income Inequality; Robert Reic & Nick Hanhauer Explain Montage: While The Rich Want To Raise The Minimum Wage, The GOP Still Says 'No Minimum Wage Of Any Kind Is Needed In The U.S.' President Obama and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Call Out Republicans On Perpetual Obstruction VA scheduler in Texas claims secondary wait list for appointments was covered up/a> Sen. Harry Reid: The Koch Brothers Are One Of The "Main Causes" Of Global Warming Rep. Michele Bachmann rails against a national women's museum Chris Hayes: Kevin Durant's NBA MVP Speech Was "Rejection Of The Cult Of The Individual And Cult Of Success"
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Conspiracy Week Roundup
	Republicans Are Finally Backing Down On Obamacare. Here's Proof. Meet Right-Wing Media's New Benghazi Hoax Champion: Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy Playing politics, seven Democrats vote to create Benghazi panel The Center Ring at the Republican Circus - Benghazi, From Now Through November Michael Tomasky: Ronald Reagan's Benghazi Debunk: Fact Checking The Right's Bogus Claims Of A 'Stand Down' Order In Bengahzi Steve Benen: House GOP isn't investigating a scandal; it's causing one Ed Kilgore: Letting the Impeachment Genie Out of the Bottle — Carefully! Michael Daly: The Day Monica Lewinsky Refused To Snitch, And Beat the Feds' Shakedown Tina Brown: How Monica Lewinsky Changed the Media
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The Worst Of Times, The Best Of Times
	Look at the stats: America resembles a poor country Six Ways America Is Like a Third-World Country America Is Declining at the Same Warp Speed That's Minting Billionaires and Destroying the Middle Class Annie Lowrey: The Changed Life of the Poor - They're Better Off Then They Once Were, But Are Still Far, Far Behind CNBC survey shows millionaires want higher taxes to help fix inequality Of the People, by the People: New poll finds Americans finally looking to each other to lead the country forward
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Everyone Wants To Raise The Minimum Wage
	How Seattle Agreed to a $15 Minimum Wage Without a Fight States with the lowest minimum wages CEO Of Biggest Fast Food Chain Comes Out In Favor Of A Minimum Wage Increase Even Mitt Romney says: Raise the minimum wage Nick Hanauer: The Capitalist’s Case for a $15 Minimum Wage
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Politics and Policy
	Obama to announce new slate of energy actions to generate jobs and fight climate change today, in California House Committee Subpoenas Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki Amid Phoenix VA Wait List Scandal The Secret V.A. Wait Lists That Are Killing Vets CBO reports U.S. April budget surplus $114 billion Bill ending NSA bulk data collection moving quickly in U.S. House Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Rails Against Proposed National Women's History Museum
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Progress in Sports?
	2014 NFL draft: Michael Sam signs - with Visa? 'Relentless' Boycott Planned By Evangelical "Christian" Group Against Any Team That Drafts Michael Sam Nate Silver: The Odds Michael Sam Will Be Picked in the NFL Draft If Michael Sam goes undrafted, NFL might have a public-relations problem on its hands In another new recording said to be of Clippers' Sterling, racist claim denied Clarence Page: Now that NBA has banned Sterling, it's the NFL's turn to ban the Redskins owner
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Meanwhile...
	Thank Your Mother: Americans Mothers' Thankless Work Building an Economy for the Rest of Us Ken Vogel: Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity plans $125 million spending spree Cecily McMillan jurors tell judge Occupy activist should not go to jail | World news | theguardian.com
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