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Show Notes For Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Karl Frisch of Bullfight Strategies calls in at 9am ET / 6am PT to talk about the GOP and disaster relief

Black• Comedian Lewis Black calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about his new comedy tour “The Rant is Due”

• Comedian Judy Gold calls in at 11am ET / 8am PT to talk about her new one-woman show, “The Judy Show”

• The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.

• British Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street.

• A highly anticipated hearing by the top investigative committee in the House delivered on the drama that was expected. Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of the division accused of wrongdoing, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against testifying, and defiantly asserted her innocence.

• The Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that U.S. drone strikes have killed four American citizens since 2009.