Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz, and Cara Santa Maria all on today’s power panel. Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Brelvik is threatening a hunger strike until his demands of better prison conditions are met. This is in Norway which already has one of the most lenient corrections system in the world. Despite this particular infuriating case, the Norwegian corrections system seems to be working according to some statistics on rehabilitation and recidivism. Billionaire Tom Perkins’ fascist assholery continues. His new “genius” plan is to tie voting rights directly to income. Nice. House Republicans have decided to take an obstinate stance agains raising the federal minimum wage. Outside political groups are also coming in to lobby and ensure that a minimum wage bill doesn’t even reach the house floor. Versions of the proposed bill would include an increase in the federal minimum wage as well as tying the minimum wage to future inflation in order to avoid having to bring similar bills to a vote every few years.

Today marks the 12th anniversary of The Young Turks! Thank you to all who have made the show possible over the years. Visit tytnetwork.com/meetups for new membership perks based on a city by city competition. The Kansas state house has passed a measure allowing private businesses and public officials to discriminate against homosexuals and possibly women as well based on “religious freedom”. Tennessee is pursuing similar discriminatory laws. A ridiculous and hateful Tennessee preacher, Donny Reagan, goes an a racist rant against having multi-racial children.  The preacher went on to call mixing the races is “unnatural” while ironically trying to frame his argument as non-racist. He continued by adamantly saying he would refuse to even marry an interracial couple on biblical grounds.

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