What's Left #18

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of April 13-19, 2017

This week:

Good News: NY advances free college tuition
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/new-york-becomes-first-state-offer-free-four-year-college-n744561
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/10/pf/college/suny-cuny-tuition-free-college/index.html
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/college-for-all-act-introduced

Clown Award: Minister Kenneth Adkins
http://www.inquisitr.com/4123093/amy-schumers-white-swimsuit-draws-harsh-criticism-does-dana-duggan-wish-she-had-a-bigger-size/
http://toofab.com/2017/04/09/amy-schumer-fires-back-at-designer-who-shes-too-fat-for-a-swimsuit/
http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/20170409/scituate-bathing-suit-designer-swimming-in-online-controversy
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/13/cnn-commentator-called-trump-the-martin-luther-king-of-healthca/22039137/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/jeffrey-lord-donald-trump-martin-luther-king-cnntv/index.html
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/04/03/mormon-leader-tells-followers-to-always-pay-their-tithes-even-if-it-means-their-families-starve/
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/13/13262285-mormon-church-earns-7-billion-a-year-from-tithing-analysis-indicates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/12/this-pastor-called-gays-sinners-after-pulse-shooting-now-hes-convicted-of-child-molestation/
http://www.watermarkonline.com/2014/08/12/gender-identity-and-expression-added-to-orlandos-anti-discrimination-ordinance/
http://mobile.eurweb.com/2017/04/anti-gay-pastor-who-said-orlando-victims-got-what-they-deserved-found-guilty-of-molesting-teens/

The little Thing: US leads in cyberwar
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39553250

For the Record: various items
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/05/influential-conservative-groups-attack-republicans-amid-a-fight/22027641/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/04/isis-spokesman-says-the-us-is-being-run-by-an-idiot-in-first-s/22025790/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-islamic-state-idUSKBN17625H
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/04/05/nivea-is-under-fire-for-an-ad-promoting-the-phrase-white-is-pur/22027158/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/29/pair-behind-fake-anti-abortion-videos-charged-with-15-felonies/22017199/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/last-charges-dropped-against-abortion-opponents-in-planned-parenthood-case.html?_r=0

Outrage of the Week: militarism unleashed as national policy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/04/13/u-s-military-drops-22000-pound-bomb-on-islamic-state-forces-in-afghanistan/?utm_term=.02e82c45add0
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/mother-of-all-bombs/522960/
http://fusion.net/theres-only-like-a-35-chance-trump-knew-about-the-giga-1794306777
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1652928
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/02/09/top-u-s-commander-in-afghanistan-opens-door-to-a-few-thousand-more-troops-deploying-there/
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/04/trump-is-ordering-airstrikes-at-5-times-the-pace-obama-did/22025999/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/panic-spreads-in-iraq-syria-as-record-numbers-of-civilians-are-reported-killed-in-us-strikes/2017/03/28/3cbce7f8-13bb-11e7-bb16-269934184168_story.html?utm_term=.0548a0adbfbc
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2016/01/07/how-many-bombs-did-the-united-states-drop-in-2015/
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/01/05/bombs-dropped-in-2016/