Left Side of the Aisle #120

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of August 8-14, 2013

This week:

Civil asset forfeiture
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/25/2352931/judge-orders-police-to-return-1-million-seized-based-on-drug-dog-sniff/
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/judge-orders-1-million-returned-exotic-dancer-151044009.html
http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/2008/06/can-i-search-your-car.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087392/What-cop-goes-ballistic-driver-says-search-car-warrant.html
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp
http://www.forbes.com/2011/06/08/property-civil-forfeiture.html
http://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/civil-asset-forfeiture
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/other_pubs/assetforfeituretoemail.pdf
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1522324581/Drug-money-pads-DA-police-budgets
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/07/judge-orders-1-million-returned-to-exotic-dancer/

Update 1: Moral Monday carries it on
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/05/1229150/-TEN-THOUSAND-turn-out-to-protest-GOP-in-Asheville-NC?detail=email#
http://www.carolinamercury.com/2013/08/thousands-attend-mountain-moral-monday-protests-spread-to-chicago-and-oakland/
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-local/45075-breaking-news-clergy-unions-community-organizations-taking-over-palmer-house-hilton-lobby-demanding-hotel-rescind-invitation-to-alec.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/531402090247335/

Update 2: Lauren Green is still a clown
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/29/206580444/book-news-outrage-after-fox-news-interview-with-zealot-author
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23foxnewslitcrit&src=typd
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/lauren-green-fox-news-reza-aslan-interview_n_3675809.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/fox-news-defends-reza-aslan-interview_n_3683736.html

Clown Award: the ignorance of the right
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/next-generation-science-standards_n_3672418.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130723/NEWS01/307220132/School-science-hotly-debated-Kentucky?nclick_check=1
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/12/2141431/will-a-denier-scrub-curriculum-that-teaches-climate-science-to-kentucky-schoolchildren/

Outrage of the Week: Gov. Walkalloveryou doesn’t like singing
http://www.care2.com/causes/singing-can-get-you-arrested-in-wisconsin.html
http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_23762151/wisconsin-police-arrest-30-more-sing-along-protesters
http://www.startribune.com/local/218570671.html

August 6 and 9
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2012/08/left-side-of-aisle-68-part-2.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n7_v41/ai_8257981/pg_2