Left Side of the Aisle #36

The topics:
Bradley Manning pre-trial
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/witness-describes-mannings-erratic-violent-behavior/

Iraq
http://www.salon.com/2011/09/12/obama_iraq_promise/singleton/

Outrage of the Week
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/19/392023/payday-lenders-pool-200k-against-missouri-ballot-initiative-compare-themselves-to-mlk-and-civil-rights-marchers/
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/second-group-raises-big-money-to-oppose-missouri-payday-lending/article_1403d056-20fa-11e1-852c-0019bb30f31a.html

Lowe’s
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2011/12/19/1144037?sac=Home
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/transparency-kayaks-all-american-muslim-apology/46207/
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/12/09/ads-all-american-muslim/
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/11/14/2775066/lowes-profits-fall-by-nearly-half.html
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/12/12/lowes-apologizes-muslim-reality-ads/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_States_by_circulation
http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/12/boycott_lowes_over_stores_anti.html

"War on Christmas"
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/erin-r-brown/2011/12/13/war-war-christmas
http://religions.pewforum.org/reports
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201112040005
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofplimoth00braduoft/historyofplimoth00braduoft_djvu.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20110430004539/http://www.bsu.edu/web/01bkswartz/xmaspub.html

And Another Thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalis_Invicti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Thessalonica
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/saturnalia.html