Left Side of the Aisle #108

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of May 16-22, 2013

This week:
Good news: same-sex marriage in three more states
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/02/rhode-island-gay-marriage-approved_n_3203618.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/delaware-gay-marriage-law-_n_3232771.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/minnesota-senate-gay-marriage_n_3266722.html
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2013/05/11/noms-brian-brown-gets-500000-paycheck-complains-about-wealthy-gays/

Good news: "death with dignity" in VT
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/14/2006491/vermont-lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-doctors-to-help-terminally-ill-patients-die/

RIP: Ray Harryhausen, Joyce Brothers
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/movies/ray-harryhausen-cinematic-special-effects-innovator-dies-at-92.html
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130513/psychologist-dr-joyce-brothers-dies-at-85

Clown Award: US Customs Dept.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/05/saudi_who_tried_to_bring_press.html
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/national/2013/05/10/michigan-cops-warned-saudi-student-not-to-carry-pressure-cooker-around-claim/
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-with-pressure-cooker-questioned-by-us-police-1.1181604
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid_%28shoe_bomber%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Outrage of the Week: elevating corporations in new trade deal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/obama-cameron-trade-corporations_n_3269002.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/eu-trade-deal_n_2994410.html

The real Obama scandal: government secrecy and surveillance
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/bradley-manning-trial-lawsuit_n_3109822.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/09/hawking-israel-manning-transparency-fcc
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584051/irs-targeted-tea-party-groups-earlier-than-2012/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/14/holder-has-ordered-irs-investigation/?wpisrc=al_national
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/tea-party-complaints-irs-audits-just-
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/ap-phone-records-government-intrusion-unprecedented_n_3268569.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/14/justice-department-ap-phone-records-whistleblowers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/journalists-ap-government-phone-records_n_3269001.html?ref=topbar
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/14/attorney-general-eric-holders-contemptible-defense-of-the-dojs-seizure-of-ap-phone-records/
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/25-7
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/08/aclu-obtains-documents-showing-fbi-doesnt-always-get-warrants-before-reading-emails/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/01/ebo.01.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/new-nsa-whistleblowers
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/16nsa.html?pagewanted=all
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/print/
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/whistleblower_the_nsa_is_lying_us
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/politics/democratic-senators-warn-about-use-of-patriot-act.html