Left Side of the Aisle #54

Left Side of the Aisle for April 26 - May 2, 2010

This week:

The usual phony doom and gloom about Social Security
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health_care/social-security-medicare-strained-by-slow-economic-recovery-aging-workforce/2012/04/23/gIQAFWoLbT_story.html
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/how_the_media_has_shaped_the_s.php?page=all
http://zfacts.com/p/486.html
http://zfacts.com/p/784.html
http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2012/04/gop-is-lying-about-social-security.html

Outrage of the Week: Reuters on voter suppression moves
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/23/allen-west-communists-naacp-event_n_1445242.html?ref=mostpopular
http://thehill.com/video/house/222985-allen-west-says-congress-allowing-muslim-brotherhood-to-influence-us-strategy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/22/voter-id-laws-obama_n_1442338.html

And Another Thing: Some cool science bits from life on Earth to life among the stars
http://www.livescience.com/19854-purple-crab-discovered.html
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/04/10-things-weve-learned-about-the-earth-since-last-earth-day/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/future-is-now/palm-sized-star-trek-tech-may-closer-think-210316301.html
http://news.yahoo.com/not-dark-matter-then-114808202.html;_ylt=Ao5FUCgqBwYMToDNdfW7heYPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTNuNTJsYzczBG1pdAMEcGtnAzI0MmVkODVjLTY0MTktMzQ5OS05OWQzLWY3MmRiOGI0OGFhNgRwb3MDMTUEc2VjA2xuX1NwYWNlQXN0cm9ub215X2dhbAR2ZXIDYjYzZTE0MDAtOGFkZS0xMWUxLWI1N2QtMGYwNTdiYjZhNTQ3;_ylv=3
http://news.yahoo.com/nearby-dark-matter-mysteriously-missing-140401402.html;_ylt=AshzGu9RB51DwuoUTx5XqjcPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTNuNTYyc3E3BG1pdAMEcGtnAzMwZDkzNTIwLTRiYWUtMzNkOS1hOWRmLTY0YjM4NmNhMGYzNwRwb3MDMTgEc2VjA2xuX1NwYWNlQXN0cm9ub215X2dhbAR2ZXIDODQyMjk3OTAtOGEyOC0xMWUxLWIyNWQtY2NmODcxY2RiMjVh;_ylv=3
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/synthetic-dna-substitute-gets-its-own-enzymes-undergoes-evolution.ars?clicked=related_right
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46880631/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/billions-alien-habitable-planets-right-here-our-galaxy/#.T5e4idWpOSo
http://www.livescience.com/19854-purple-crab-discovered.html
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_tricorder
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/future-is-now/palm-sized-star-trek-tech-may-closer-think-210316301.html
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Horta
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/04/23/closing-in-on-dark-matter-another-tentative-step/