Hello and welcome to this late political gadfest for September 12th, 2014, the

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.

Edition. I'm William Wallace Plotz, the Ed. Addition.

I'm William Wallace Plotz, the editor at large of Slate in Washington, D.C.

On this week's show, President Obama outlines his new strategy to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria is this war.

Then, do Republicans have a women problem in 2014? Or do Democrats have a men problem?

Ha-ha. Good question. Right, Dickerson? You got it. Then Scotland votes for independence.

Should Americans support their desire to throw off the English yoke once and for all? Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And we we'll have a Slate Plus segment, a very boozy Slate Plus segment that we did about. I don't even really know what it was about, but it was really boozy and fun. It was truly cocktail chatter. It was really, it was like its own version of cocktail chatter, but boozyer, except John didn't have a drink. And if you want to join Slate Plus, get all the extra goodies, the extra segments. Go to slate.com slash gavfest plus or email me directly at David. Dot plots at slate.com.

Slate senior editor, Emily Bazelon, you heard her voice over there. She joins us from New Haven. Hello, Emily.

Hey, David. And John Dickerson is right here.

Resplendent.

Am I responding?

Yes, I really like your tie.

Oh, thank you.

Hi, John.

Thank you.

I want to call out two more live shows that our Culture Fest friends are doing.

So, as you know, we're all doing the Super fest in San Francisco. Yeah, we have that sound effect. You heard that Volo stuck it in. Did you hear? He stuck it in. No, I didn't. He did. Oh, man. That's awesome. On October 5th in San Francisco, but shortly after that, the Culture Fest is going to be in Los Angeles. On October 8th, slate.com slash L.A. Culture They're going to be doing a live show in Los Angeles, which is going to be in Los Angeles on October 8th. Slate.com slash L.A. Culture Fest.

They're going to be doing a live show in Los Angeles, which is going to be super.

Also, and they're going to do a live show in Boston on October 20th.

And tickets for that go on sale on Friday at noon at slate.com slash Boston Culture. Although Slate Plus, folks, if you go to Slate Plus, you can get those before Friday at noon and get it with a discount, 30% discount. Slate.com slash Boston Culture or Slate.com slash L.A. Culture Fest. On Wednesday night, President Obama announced his new strategy against ISIS, the terrorist group that has taken control of major portions of Iraq and Syria. The U.S. will continue bombing the group. In fact, we'll expand its bombing of the group.

We'll dispatch hundreds of advisors to train Iraqi soldiers and other Syrian rebels.

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