Left Side of the Aisle #246

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of May 5-11, 2016

This week:
Good News: Connecticut controls guns
http://abcnews.go.com/US/connecticut-state-legislature-passes-gun-control-bill-aimed/story?id=38846693
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Senate-approves-gun-seizures-7388578.php

Good News: "Bathroom bill" fails in conservative Texas city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwall,_Texas
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/rockwall-rowlett/headlines/20130817-editor-s-note-yes-there-are-democrats-in-rockwall.ece
https://www.texasobserver.org/rockwall-rejects-anti-trans-bathroom-ordinance/
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/03/20/15-experts-debunk-right-wing-transgender-bathro/198533

Not Good News: Racism persists
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/02/this-old-navy-ad-featuring-an-interracial-family-is-being-attack/21368996/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/04/do-blacks-feel-less-pain-than-whites-their-doctors-may-think-so/

A new definition of chutzpah
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/chutzpah?s=t
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/04/23/darnell-earley-attorney-flint-water/83382484/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/26/1491846/-E-mails-show-Michigan-Gov-Snyder-s-aides-warned-about-degraded-water-quality-in-Flint-early-on

Clown Award: psychologist James Mitchell
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cia-prisoners-torture_us_5718140ce4b0479c59d6f894
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cia-torture-lawsuit_us_571a8fdbe4b0d0042da94ac0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cia-torture-program-psychologist-book_us_57226af8e4b0f309baf04616

Virginia extends voting rights
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2016/02/2371-good-news-some-voting-rights.html
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2016/04/2433-supreme-court-unanimously-smacks.html
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/virginias-awesomely-sneaky-governor-screws-republicans-restores-voting-rights-to-200000-americans/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/22/about-200000-convicted-felons-in-virginia-will-now-have-the-right-to-vote-in-november/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/governor-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-voting-rights-convicted-felons.html

Outrage of the Week: Wisconsin restricts voting rights
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/5/1510915/-Scott-Walker-s-Wisconsin-may-disenfranchise-300-000-Americans-in-blatant-voter-fraud-scheme
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/todd-allbaugh-voter-id-wisconsin-gop
http://www.wpr.org/walker-signs-bill-blocking-communities-issuing-ids-voting

Lovely little war: Navy SEALs involved in direct combat with Daesh
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/03/us-service-member-killed-in-northern-iraq.html

RIP: Dan Berrigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Berrigan
http://ncronline.org/news/people/daniel-berrigan-priest-prisoner-anti-war-crusader-dies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/daniel-j-berrigan-pacifist-priest-who-led-antiwar-protests-dies-at-94/2016/04/30/44606680-0f1e-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/30/daniel-berrigan-dead-94
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/2/rip_father_daniel_berrigan_remembering_the
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/5/27/revolutionary_non_violence_remembering_dave_dellinger
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Dellinger
http://warprayer.org/