Left Side of the Aisle #42

This week:

- Good news about transgender rights
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/deval-patrick-massachusetts-governor-transgender-rights-bill_n_1219121.html

- Are we a free nation?
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/24/rules_of_american_justice_a_tale_of_three_cases/singleton/
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/01/15/10-reasons-the-u-s-is-no-longer-the-land-of-the-free/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story.html

- Everything you need to know
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/01/30/united-states-falls-27-points-in-ranking-of-press-freedom-behind-comoros-and-taiwan/
http://en.rsf.org/spip.php?page=classement&id_rubrique=1043

- The Outrage of the Week
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Binding+arbitration
http://consumerist.com/2009/02/mandatory-binding-arbitration-the-worst-choose-your-own-adventure-ever.html
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=2519
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0716/p13s01-wmgn.html
http://afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com/2012/01/corporate-court-rules-once-again-that.html

- And Another Thing
http://www.groundhog.org/groundhog-day/history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_lore