Left Side of the Aisle #203

APOLOGIES FOR THE LATENESS OF THIS POST; THERE WERE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of May 7-13, 2015

This week:

Good News: US approves ferry service to Cuba
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/05/06/obama-administration-approves-first-ferry-service-to-cuba/21180121/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/politics/u-s-cuba-ferries/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_%281997_US_film%29

Congratulations to Dan Perkins
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/21/1379223/-Cartoonist-Dan-Perkins-aka-Tom-Tomorrow-announced-as-Pulitzer-finalist-for-This-Modern-World
http://www.pulitzer.org/2015_editorial_cartooning_finalist_2#

The death penalty must go
http://news.yahoo.com/boston-bombers-lawyers-aim-paint-tsarnaev-teen-gone-110816061.html
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf
http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=801
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-boston-bomber-sentence-20150409-story.html

Clown Award: Ben Carson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/05/ben-carson-gay-rights_n_6808230.html
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-federal-government-doesnt-need-recognize-gay-marriage-scotus-ruling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison

Clown Award: unknown peer reviewer
http://www.boston.com/news/2015/04/30/peer-reviewer-rejects-journal-article-because-wasn-written-man/tHNo8WaBK5vtJeDuTlXL6M/story.html

TRAITOR Act provisions up for renewal
http://apps.americanbar.org/natsecurity/patriotdebates/lone-wolf
https://w2.eff.org/patriot/sunset/206.php
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/06/the-fight-to-control-the-patriot-act/
http://www.gsm-security.net/faq/imei-international-mobile-equipment-identity-gsm.shtml
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/5067/international-mobile-subscriber-identity-imsi
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/obama-administration-nsa-verizon-records
http://webpolicy.org/2014/03/12/metaphone-the-sensitivity-of-telephone-metadata/
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2005/11/footnote-to-footnote.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/diverse-groups-stand-united-against-plan-reauthorize-section-215-patriot-act
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/liberal-conservatives-nsa-spying-patriot-act-117586.html?google_editors_picks=true
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/06/the-fight-to-control-the-patriot-act/
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-usa-freedom-act-telephone-records-privacy-20150506-story.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/way-nsa-uses-section-702-deeply-troubling-heres-why
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once