Left Side of the Aisle #101

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of March 28-April 3, 2013

This week:

More good news on same-sex marriage
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/colorado-civil-unions-to-be-signed-law_n_2926949.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/aap-same-sex-marriage_n_2917491.html
http://www.whattoexpect.com/wom/family-life/0321/aap-supports-same-sex-marriage.aspx
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/03/06/1671581/21-senators-who-voted-for-doma-in-1996-but-later-opposed-it/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/law-professors-congress-didnt-have-the-right-to-pass-doma
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-becker/supreme-court-american-sociological-association-gay-parents_b_2783523.html
http://www.back2stonewall.com/2011/06/american-medical-association-endorses.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/john-eastman-national-organization-marriage-adoption-second-best_n_2877225.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/saxby-chambliss-gay-marriage_n_2923091.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Congressional Progressive Caucus budget
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-back-to-work-budget-didnt-pass.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/14/house-progressives-have-the-best-answer-to-paul-ryan/?tid=pm_business_pop
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/us-budget_b_2897688.html
http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130315/back-to-work-budget-vs-ryanrepublican-budget-which-reflects-polls-and-election-results
http://www.epi.org/files/2013/EPI-Back-To-Work-Budget-FY2014.pdf
http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-federal-individual-income-tax-rates-history-1913-2013-nominal-and-inflation-adjusted-brackets
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/the-congressional-progressive-caucus-budget-a-serious-budget-that-the-serious-people-wont-take-seriously
http://www.epi.org/publication/back-to-work-budget-analysis-congressional-progressive/
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/uploads/Back%20to%20Work%20Budget%20-%20Executive%20Summary.pdf
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/03/14/back_to_work_budget_congressional_progressive_caucus_unveils_left_wing_budget.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/289325-house-rejects-dem-budget-plans-gop-slams-obamas-missing-budget

Clown Award: Plymouth County Sheriff Joe McDonald
http://bluemassgroup.com/2013/03/gop-breakfast-disaster/
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/03/19/local-sheriff-recycles-a-terrible-presidential-assassination-joke/
http://www.wickedlocal.com/carver/news/x1433799469/Plymouth-Countys-Sheriff-Joe-McDonald-fielding-calls-for-resignation?zc_p=1#axzz2OcRVqt4a

Iraq at 10
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/03/25/bill-keller-new-york-times-published-bad-unsourced-unskeptical-stories-in-run-up-to-iraq-war/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/18/david-frum-iraq-war-oil
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/17/dick-cheney-ahmed-chalabi_n_2897357.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/03/18/the-speechwriter-inside-the-bush-administration-during-the-iraq-war.html
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
http://costofwar.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/16/iraq-war-anniversary-10-years-legacy_n_2890583.html?ref=topbar
http://my.firedoglake.com/efbeall/2013/03/17/the-iraq-anniversary-and-the-washington-post/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/belief/baghdad-bombings-iraq-war-sunni-shia?google_editors_picks=true
http://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/violent-decade-shatters-dreams-iraqi-youth
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/iraq-attacks-baghdad-bombings_n_2905264.html
http://www.juancole.com/2013/03/teens-drowning-hopelessness.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/obama-iran-over-year-away-from-nuclear-bomb_n_2877890.html
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/08/times-ticking-clock-on-war-with-iran/