Enjoy today's extended segment with
Greg Dworkin &
Armando! Weather-related school delays in the region of KITM World Headquarters meant we were depending on them to step in, and they delivered! We covered a little bit of everything. The Mandela memorial. The ACA website is
working & enrollment is
up. The Ryan-Murray budget deal
inches forward, taking flak along the way. Is OH Gov. Kasich the last Compassionate Conservative? Armando joins in a long discussion of the Hobby Lobby case, safe harbor provisions, and the concept of conscientious objection. Plus: the Time Person of the Year selection, and
rebounding in the
polls for the Obama administration. Returning to the conscientious objection issue, we read the fantastic blog post,
"Get Your Fake Conscience Objections Off My Lawn." Related: another look at the
continuing Twitter exchange between Amanda Carpenter and Brian Beutler. Lastly: NSA discussion. They're monitoring
online video games, now. Plus Juan Cole, riffing off of President Obama's speech at the Mandela memorial, notes that
even healthy dissent just isn't possible in a surveillance state.