*"Focusing on literally dead-horse issues like Anwar Al-Awlaki will hamper progr...

		dllthomas on July 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying... "Focusing on literally dead-horse issues like Anwar Al-Awlaki will hamper progress." The "literally" there - and the stressing of it - is rhetoric not argument. If Obama started assassinating anyone who disagreed, they'd be literally dead too, but addressing it would be a priority...