Left Side of the Aisle #193

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of February 26 -  March 4, 2015

This week:

Good News: Keystone XL bill vetoed
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/24/defying-gop-obama-vetoes-keystone-xl-pipeline-bill/21146258/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/keystone-xls-climate-impacts-need-revisited-epa-says/
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/03/epa_keystone_xl_would_absolutely_contribute_to_climate_change/

Clown Award: John Boehner
http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/national-embarrassment-speaker-boehner-president-obama-s-veto-keystone-jobs-bill
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2014/02/1464-keystone-xl-and-jobs-lie.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-usa-keystone-idUSKBN0LS2FH20150224
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/keystone-pipeline-veto-obama-boehner-mcconnell-115445.html

Update: last week's Clown Award
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2015/02/details_emerge_in_flower_mound_white_power_sign_incident.php
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/lewisville-flower-mound/headlines/20150220-flower-mound-plano-east-teams-show-unity-week-after-white-and-power-signs.ece

Update: Trayvon Martin killing
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/24/justice-dept-no-federal-charges-in-trayvon-martin-death/21146221/

Everything You Need to Know: about police violence in the US
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-its-a-crime-that-we-dont-know-how-many-people-police-shoot-to-death/2014/12/01/adedcb00-7998-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0uqFTBclo
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/12/1363996/-Pasco-Washington-police-have-killed-more-people-than-police-in-Germany-the-UK-combined?detail=email
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/08/armed-police

Hero Award: Ron Smith, president of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/02/18/21739167/seattle-police-union-president-to-cops-get-with-the-times-or-get-out-of-this-city

RIP: Leslie Gore
http://www.tmz.com/2015/02/16/lesley-gore-dead-its-my-party-dies-cancer/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/arts/music/lesley-gore-teenage-voice-of-heartbreak-dies-at-68.html

BP and Deepwater Horizon: still weaseling
http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/161185/
http://marcellus.com/news/id/119211/bp-appeals-u-s-judges-ruling-on-size-of-gulf-oil-spill/
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2015/02/bp_oil_spill_size_ruling_appea.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=BP&annual
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/11/health-impacts-unclear-bp-oil-spill_n_5130545.html

Outrage of the Week: drug testing the poor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/welfare-drug-testing_n_6655712.html
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/02/10/3621267/tennessee-drug-tests-after-six-months/
http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/235888681.html
http://www.wbir.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/08/drug-testing-of-welfare-applicants-yields-few-positives/23086333/
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/12/16/few-welfare-applicants-caught-in-drug-screening-net-so-far/

Obama's war
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/u-s-official-american-forces-may-help-iraq-retake-mosul-n309241
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/daesh-adopted-as-new-name-for-isis-by-u-s-france-1.2861108
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/obama-ground-forces-iraq_n_5829744.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/09/26/241245/us-combat-role-in-iraq-not-off.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Newsletter