Could Obama make 2014 the year of the executive order?

Could Obama's State of the Union bring about a 'year of action'?

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Sunday that President Barack Obama views 2014 as "the year of action, to work with Congress where he can, and to bypass Congress where necessary."

Guests:

Lynn Sweet @LynnSweet
Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Bill Schneider @BillSchneiderDC  
Contributor to Al Jazeera English, senior fellow and resident scholar at Third Way, and a professor at George Mason University.  

Learn more from Al Jazeera America's coverage of tomorrow's 2014 State of the Union address.

An epidemiologist addresses concerns over childhood vaccines

Guest:

Abdul El-Sayed @ElAbdul 
Social epidemiologist and physician-in-training at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Bitcoin exchange CEO arrested in connection with Silk Road investigation

Charlie Shrem, the vice chair of the Bitcoin Foundation and CEO of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange website, and alleged Bitcoin exchanger Robert Faiella are accused of selling more than $1 million in Bitcoins to users of the Silk Road website, among other charges.

Guest:

Andy Greenberg @a_greenberg 
Tech reporter for Forbes and author of "This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information."

Read Greenberg's article on the case, via Forbes.    

Why was an American jailed in the United Arab Emirates for making a YouTube parody video? 

Shezanne Cassim, who spent nine months in jail, will share his story with Consider This. 

Guest:

Shezanne Cassim @ShezanneCassim 

Learn more about Cassim, via The Huffington Post.    

Oscar-nominated documentary looks at hospice treatment for a terminally ill prisoner

"Prison Terminal," which received a 2014 Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short, chronicles the final months of a terminally ill prison inmate who received hospice care from fellow prisoners at the Iowa State Penitentiary.

Guest:

Edgar Barens @PrisonTerminal 
Director of Oscar-nominated documentary short "Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall."

Learn more about the film. 

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