Thursday, February 07, 2013
Left Side of the Aisle #94
Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of February 7-13, 2013
Good news 1: Same-sex marriage advances in France the the UK
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/02/french-parliament-backs-m_n_2605545.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/02/us-francemarriage-law-idUSBRE9110AU20130202
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/05/britain-gay-marriage-bill-vote-_n_2624745.html?ref=topbar
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/05/uk-lawmakers-approve-marriage-equality/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21346220
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/15/us-usa-gaymarriage-south-idUSBRE90E04M20130115
Good news 2: Proposed amendments to overturn Citizens United
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/mcgovern-repeal-citizens-united-reddit-amendment_n_2585978.html
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/06/25/supreme-court-re-affirms-citizens-united
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/182729-house-dems-push-bill-to-overturn-citizens-united-ruling
http://www.care2.com/causes/have-democrats-given-up-on-reforming-citizens-united.html
http://www.propublica.org/article/obamas-flip-flops-on-money-in-politics-a-brief-history
Citizens United and DOMA
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/citizens-united-files-brief-support-doma-claims-landmark-desegregation-case-wrong_n_2617599.html
http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/blog-31359-equal-rights-pssshhh.html
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs-v2/12-307_resp_amcu_merits_cuncffp.authcheckdam.pdf
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0347_0497_ZS.html
Clown Award: Man wants his dog killed because it's "gay"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/gay-dog-euthanized-tennessee_n_2590537.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201107/why-does-my-neutered-dog-mount-other-dogs
http://www.examiner.com/article/dog-euthanized-for-being-gay
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/elton-the-gay-dog-spared-the-gas-chamber/
Outrage of the Week: the Applebee's flap
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/applebees-waitress-fired-god-tip-receipt_n_2591794.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/29/i-give-god-10-percent-tip-receipt-photo_n_2576595.html
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Applebees-Restaurants/183502831669323
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/applebee-s-rehire-chelsea-we-ll-eat-at-your-restaura.html
http://gawker.com/5980558/pastor-who-left-sanctimonious-tip-gets-waitress-fired-from-applebees-claims-her-reputation-was-ruined
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/applebees-defends-firing-waitress-pastor-receipt-192100973.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/tipping-pastor-apologizes-687234
Guns: They do not make you safer
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/dc-v-heller/
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/quickdraw-mcgraw-syndrome.html
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/6/4/263.full
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090930121512.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110427101532.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121025095018.htm
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-gun-policy-and-research/publications/WhitePaper102512_CGPR.pdf
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/29/david_mamet_should_stick_to_writing_plays/?source=newsletter
http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/hemenway1.htm
http://www.bmsg.org/pdfs/myths.pdf
http://home.uchicago.edu/~ludwigj/papers/JQC-CookLudwig-DefensiveGunUses-1998.pdf
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/the_answer_is_not_more_guns/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/public_information/RAND_FirearmEvaluation.pdf
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/22/columbine-had-a-police-officer-virginia-tech-has-a-police-department-fort-hood-is-a-military-base
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/taft-high-school-armed-guard_n_2450710.html?ref=topbar
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/29/david_mamet_should_stick_to_writing_plays/
The ABC News video
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/defend-gun-7312540
ABC News story about the experiment
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=7298996
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment