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Thursday, December 5, 2013

12-5-13 teacherken at Daily Kos: "not an us-versus-them argument, but an all-of-us one."

Daily Kos: "not an us-versus-them argument, but an all-of-us one.":







"not an us-versus-them argument, but an all-of-us one. "
The words of my title are from The President, the Pope and the People, toda's New York Times column by Charles M. Blow.  It was written in response to Obama's speech yesterday, a speech in which, as Blow notes, " a populist president invoked a populist pope" with Obama citing the words of Francis I's recent Apostolic Exhortation. Blow offers quotes from the speech, and statistics galore.

12-4-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: Got a cell phone? The NSA knows where you've been and with whomas you can read in this Washington Post story, just up, written in part by Barton Gellman using his access to the documents provided by Edward Snowden. The snips I offer will be without the hot links, which you can get from the original piece. The opening paragraph reads The National Security Agency is gatherin