(Recorded January 10, 2015) This week: (1) freedom of speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings; (2) the 114th Congress; plus (3) Ray Rice and the NFL Playoffs.
This Week’s Links:
Given this week’s show, we thought you might find these interesting.
Charle Hebdo
- A Familiar Debate On Comedy In Which Contexts Collide : Code Switch : NPR
- What Is Charlie Hebdo? The Cartoons that Made the French Paper Infamous
- The Provocative History of French Weekly Newspaper Charlie Hebdo
- Charlie Hebdo and the Right to Commit Blasphemy — NYMag
- Free Speech Doesn’t Require You to Offend People Just to Prove You Can
- Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris
- Charlie Hebdo and its biting satire, explained in 9 of its most iconic covers
- Paris’s Bloody Sequel to a Provocative Novel – Bloomberg View
- What the Charlie Terrorists Won – Bloomberg View
- Charlie Hebdo attack: this is not a clash of civilisations
- Slaughtered For Satire, The Dish
- Paris Terrorist was Radicalized by Bush’s Iraq War, Abu Ghraib Torture | Informed Comment
- Europe Is Under Siege – The Atlantic
- The Blasphemy We Need
Congress
- The Same Old ‘New’ Congress – The Atlantic
- John Boehner isn’t the speaker Republicans want. He’s the speaker they need.
- Congress’s First Act Was to Declare War on Math — NYMag
- The GOP’s First Priority for 2015: Paying Off Wall Street
- The GOP’s latest Obamacare “fix” will be a total disaster if it passes
- John Boehner Signals Ugly Fight To Stop Obama On Immigration
- New GOP Congress Fires Shot At Social Security On Day One
- Obama issues 3 veto threats in 2 days – Yahoo Finance
NFL Playoffs
- Meet The Dunce Ex-Cop Who Fucked Up The NFL’s Ray Rice Investigation
- Mueller could have explored Rice cover up, chose not to
- Report shows NFL never saw video
Image Credits: Solidarity rally in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings
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