Left Side of the Aisle #215

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of August 6-12, 2015

This week:

Medicare hits 50
http://www.medicareresources.org/basic-medicare-information/brief-history-of-medicare/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/opinion/zombies-against-medicare.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/opinion/medicare-and-medicaid-at-50.html
http://www.medicareadvocacy.org/50-insights-for-medicares-50th-anniversary/

Medicaid hits 50
https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Look-Up-Topics/50th-Anniversary/Medicare-and-Medicaid-50th-Anniversary.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/07/2112-our-worst-unacknowledged-evil-part.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/opinion/medicare-and-medicaid-at-50.html

Clown Award: Jeb Bush
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-medicare_55b11e41e4b0a9b94853e9eb
http://www.fool.com/retirement/general/2015/08/01/medicare-reform-jeb-bush-phaseout.aspx

The Voting Rights Act hits 50
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2015/08/01/congress-marks-th-anniversary-voting-rights-act/30979399/
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/intro/intro_c.php
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2013/06/left-side-of-aisle-114-part-3.html

A few personal privileges
http://thismodernworld.com/
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2015-Editorial-Cartooning
http://www.avclub.com/article/berkeley-breathed-apparently-bringing-back-bloom-c-222163
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/03/1971-good-news-x-files-returns.html
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/22/the-lone-gunmen-returning-to-t.html

The 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2005/08/60.html
http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/200708230009.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2012/08/left-side-of-aisle-68-part-2.html
http://doug-long.com/quotes.htm
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/the-pacific-war-1941-to-1945/the-bombing-of-nagasaki/

Footnote: Nuclear weapons are not things of the past
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/04/Close%20Calls%20with%20Nuclear%20Weapons.pdf
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/hair-trigger-alert/close-calls#.VcGUjPmRaVE
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/01/Hair-Trigger%20FAQ.pdf
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/06/2089-outrage-of-week-us-sabotages.html