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 NO. 762 “Expect the Ironic” MAY 11 - 17, 2015 

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HOPEFULS FIORINA, HUCKABEE, CARSON THROW HATS IN RING
Hopeful of being Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Interior, Surgeon General.
 
WORLD NEWS
Mexico: Shadowy New Drug Cartel Burns Bank, Shoots Down Military Helicopter, Attacks Guadalajara
Seeking respectability.
 
ENVIRONMENT
Average Global Carbon Dioxide
Concentration Reaches Record
400 PPM

Numbers like this not seen since Ted Williams in 1941.
 
ALSO IN THE NEWS ...
World's First Self-Driving Truck Goes Into Operation
A human still sits behind wheel, but only to react in abject horror when something goes wrong.
U. S. NEWS
Court: NSA's Mass Data
Collection Illegal

And downright rude.
Ted Cruz, Chuck Norris, Others
On Far Right Wary of Upcoming
Military Exercises

Fear they're prelude to martial law, roundup of paranoid lunatics.
 
REMINDER
  No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the Fox News audience.
 
1600 IRS Workers Failed
To Pay Taxes

Too busy mailing penalty notices to taxpayers for late payments.
FEC Head: Chance of Campaign
Finance Laws Being Observed in
2016 Election “Slim”

“And Slim just left town,” she adds.
 
MISCELLANEOUS
Japan Surpasses China as
Top U.S. Debt Holder

Will accept payment in dollars, yen, comfort women.
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