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A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

Jerry Pippin(jerrypippin.com) the Redstate Liberal gives his thoughts on NSA surveillance programme and Ed Snowden the 29 year-old behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

Bradley Manning’s case might seem to have no relevance to some of these other civilian disclosures because it’s a military court-martial. But the charge they’re using against him, the specific one of aid and comfort to the enemy, is one that puts virtually all dissent in this country for government policies at risk. Not only leaks in general, like WikiLeaks, or the New York Times for that matter, but people who aren’t in journalism at all. He’s charged with giving aid and comfort to the enemy, a charge that has no element of intention or motive, simply by putting out information that the enemy might be happy to read.Daniel Ellsberg

Governor Jan Brewer in her  State of the State Address, announced the state would participate in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. "Try as we might, the law was upheld by the United States Supreme Court," Brewer said. "The Affordable Care Act is not going anywhere, at least not for the time being."

, Wal-Mart announced that employees who needed certain pricey surgeries would have the option of travelling to one of the six best hospitals in the country that specialize in those procedures. Cashiers in California and store greeters in Alabama could fly to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota—all expenses paid. The model, sometimes called “centres of excellence”

It seemed like nothing could stop Frank Lautenberg: The oldest sitting U.S. senator, who at age 89 had never lost an election. Who recently showed up to Congress to cast a vote on gun background checks from his wheelchair after battling back stomach cancer. Who has personified the combative Jersey politician, since before Gov. Chris Christie was even out of college.Star-Ledger

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

Jean Stapleton, the character actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur, not only one of the foremost women in television comedy in the 1970s but a symbol of emergent feminism in American popular culture, died on Friday at her home in New York City. She was 90.New York Times

All in the Family writer-producer Norman Lear said “No one gave more profound 'How to be a Human Being' lessons than Jean Stapleton,” while her costar Rob Reiner called hera “brilliant comedienne with exquisite timing.”

Jerry Pippin discuss the state of comedy in 1971 and today(2013).

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.