Left Side of the Aisle #166

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of July 10-16, 2014

This week:

Good News: state and local moves to raise minimum wage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/07/01/chart-eleven-states-will-have-breached-a-9-minimum-wage-by-2018/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-minimum-wage-massachusetts-20140626,0,3654096.story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/26/companies-minimum-wage_n_5530835.html
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/06/26/minimum-wage-increase-doesn-add-living-wage/ZXSpmdWx2PBFVMj1OuDXdI/story.html

Not Good News: attacks on minimum wage continue
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2014/06/1636-update-even-imf-says-raise-minimum.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/07/seattle-business-group-clears-major-hurdle-toward-repealing-15-minimum-wage/
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-downside-of-minimum-wage-hikes-200357186.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/07/andy-puzder-minimum-wage_n_5563975.html
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html
http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm
http://www.epi.org/
http://www.epi.org/publication/top-restaurant-industry-ceos-721-times-minimum/

Clown Award: American liberals
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/06/rolling-coal-photos-video_n_5561477.html
http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/dicks-pick-trucks-meme-rollin-coal/
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/rolling_coal_conservatives_who_show_their_annoyance_with_liberals_obama.html
http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/dicks-pick-trucks-meme-rollin-coal/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/26/more-than-three-quarters-of-conservatives-say-the-poor-have-it-easy/
http://www.care2.com/causes/do-the-poor-have-it-easy-most-republicans-say-yes-they-do.html
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
http://www.classism.org/about-class/what-is-classism

Outrage of the Week: presidents get buffer zones; women don't
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/wood-v-moss/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-says-secret-service-agents-are-immune-in-bush-protest-lawsuit/2014/05/27/ce88db08-e5b3-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-supreme-court-free-speech-protesters-20140527-story.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/27/supreme-court-bush-protest-speech/9172707/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/26/supreme-court-abortion-clinic-buffer-zones/6698787/
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/06/high_court_voids_abortion_clinic_protest_free_zone
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/06/26/supreme-irony-court-has-own-buffer-zone/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-question-of-where-protesters-take-a-stand/2014/02/16/1bc57ee0-9720-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_story.html?wprss=rss_politics

Footnote: that is, some presidents get buffer zones
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/59288822.html
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/gun-toter-from-obama-event-i-like-my-pastor-want-the-president-to-die
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread490906/pg1

Supreme Court ignores own ruling to benefit anti-contraceptive crowd
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/07/wheaton_college_injunction_the_supreme_court_just_sneakily_reversed_itself.html