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Hello and welcome to the SLEEP political GABFEST for January 9th, 2015. The just-swee Charlie Hebdo

edition. I'm David Plots of Atlas Obscura and DC on today's show The Terrorist Attack

on Charlie Hebdo, The French Saterical newspaper. What it means for France for free speech and how

to deal with Islamism in pluralistic societies. Then the Republican Congress begins, will it get

anything done? Let's have a bill count. How many laws will they be? That will be passed. And then

the NYPD stops arresting people as a form of a work stoppage to protest the murder of two police

officers and to protest their mayor, Bill de Blasio, plus, what cocktail chatter. And in SLEEP

plus, we are going to Emily changed us up. We're going to talk about the New Year and New Year's

resolutions and the New World of 2015. Emily Baszlon is a new haven. Hello, Emily of the New

York Times magazine. Hey, David and John, happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. You look

very Nordic, Emily. It's not Nordic. It's a Eastern European Jew can look. Emily is wearing

we should note for our listeners who can't see Emily at the moment that she's wearing some kind of

cable knit situation. White cable knit. A large turtle neck sweater. She's just come off the

sweat. It's not actually cable knit. So it's not like some, it's not from the air and eyes.

I feel like you did just come off the slope. Yeah. Oh, it's a little thin. It's a little

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