Left Side of the Aisle #163

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of June 19-25, 2014

This week:

Good News: Voter photo ID drive stalls in Nevada
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/18/3450206/nevada-voter-suppression-initiative-crashes-and-burns/

Good News: Obama to bar LGBT discrimination in federal contracts
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/obama-sign-order-banning-federal-discrimination-against-gays-n132276
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/obama-will-ban-gay-job-discrimination-by-himself.html

Good News: SCOTUS takes stuffing out of straw gun purchases
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/16/supreme-court-guns-straw-purchasers/6180633/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/16/us-usa-court-guns-idUSKBN0ER2FG20140616
http://www.care2.com/causes/background-checks-for-gun-purchases-save-lives-study-proves.html

Clown Award: CNN
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/13/1306613/-CNN-Decides-80-of-Reported-School-Shootings-Don-t-Count
http://us.cnn.com/2014/06/11/us/school-shootings-cnn-number/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/12/3448604/how-cnn-slashed-the-number-of-school-shootings-from-74-to-15/
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/12/cnn-adopts-flawed-right-wing-logic-on-school-sh/199699

The illness of guns
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/west-virginia-hospital-handgun-raffle
https://www.prestonmemorial.org/foundation/fundraising_events/community_bbq.aspx
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/03/09/church-offering-free-ar-15-as-part-of-gun-giveaway-raffle/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578873/A-rifle-raffle-Really-Church-giving-away-guns-entice-people-hear-word-God-just-towns-away-Sandy-Hook.html
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-guns-for-jesus-as-churches-fill-the-pews-with-weapons-giveaways-20140311-story.html#axzz2vfAF2CEU
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/business/tsa-charts-a-rise-in-guns-at-checkpoints.html?_r=2

Update: Even the IMF says "raise the minimum wage"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/16/imf-minimum-wage_n_5499420.html
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/06/12/3448134/the-completely-bonkers-lawsuit-seeking-to-kill-seattles-minimum-wage-repeal-the-twentieth-century/

Footnote: Workers rights in US are substandard
http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/survey_ra_2014_eng_v2.pdf
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/29/3442519/us-labor-rights-rankings/
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/31/2864651/workers-rights-states/

Outrage of the Week: US worst in health care
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/fund-report/2014/jun/1755_davis_mirror_mirror_2014.pdf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/06/16/once-again-u-s-has-most-expensive-least-effective-health-care-system-in-survey/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-health-care-system-ranks-lowest-in-international-survey/
http://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-fi-us-health-system-ranks-last-20140613-story.html

Iraq: No! and Why?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/16/obama-troops-iraq_n_5501305.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-where-is-the-accountability-on-iraq/2014/06/16/eba0ff24-f597-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/16/iraq-war-media_n_5500372.html