Connecting.the.Dots: Updating King's Dream: Love as a Weapon

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Pam's House Blend: Challenge to Washington's Public Records Act to get SCOTUS hearing

Wonk Room: Dodd shouldn't abandon an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Talk To Action: Obama declares Jan 16, Reigious Freedom Day and invokes the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, arguably the philosophical, historical and legal taproot of religious freedom, equality and separation of church and state -- and a powerful argument against Christian nationalism.

Crackpot Press: Conan O' Brien, champion of the unemployed