Left Side of the Aisle #98

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of March 7-13, 2013

This week:

Good news #1: VAWA renewed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act
http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/01/op-ed-vawa-refresh-one-step-right-direction-native-american-women
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/us/politics/congress-passes-reauthorization-of-violence-against-women-act.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/28/house_passes_violence_against_women_act/

Good news #2: Infant cured of HIV
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/health/hiv-cure-global-hope/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/03/baby-cured-of-hiv_n_2803041.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/04/hiv-cure-is-breakthrough-seems

Clown #1: Missouri state representative Rick Brattin
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/intelligent-design-missouri-evolution

Clown #2: Brian Camenker of MassResistance
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/bill-oreilly-on-transgender-equality-guidelines-madness_n_2783809.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/brian-camenker-lgbt-advocates-schools-nazi-camp-guards_n_2776172.html

Guns
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/02/good_lord_is_this_awesome.php?ref=fpblg

RIP: Hugo Chavez
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/9911642/Hugo-Chavez-Venezuelans-mourn-death-of-charismatic-leader.html
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/editorials/2013/03/a_despot_has_departed
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2004/06/interesting-conundrum.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2004/04/election-preamble.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2010/04/another-way-good-liberals-prove-theyre.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2007/08/hugo-go-go.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/chavez-death-could-lead-to-lower-oil-production-in-the-short-term-but-increases-in-the-future/2013/03/06/cd62b014-8623-11e2-a80b-3edc779b676f_story.html

Outrage of the Week: SCOTUS expected to strike down Voting Rights Act
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/supreme-court-may-put-voting-rights-act-on-trial/
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14059113/#.UTZL2FdWCsZ
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/rachel-maddow-scalia-jon-stewart_n_2789126.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/voting-rights-act-supreme-court_n_2768942.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/02/john-roberts-voting-rights-act_n_2797127.html
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/supreme_court_racism_deniers/
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/28/scalia%e2%80%99s_ugly_racial_cynicism/