New Deal raised the top tax rates on income over $200,000 — about $2.5 million in today’s collars — to over 90 percent. current tax rate on oversized incomes sits at 35 percent, and the debate this summer in Congress will only consider whether or not we should let that 35 percent revert back to the 39.6 percent level in effect pre-George W. Bush.  The ultimate winners will be the wealthy.

"Coalition launches drive to fight Social Security cuts."  The irony is having to even launch this coalition or post the top five Social Security myths with a Democratic president and Democratic majority on Capitol Hill.  However, these mostly DINO Dems are an integral part of the problem.

Killing our oceans....."Microscopic marine algae which form the basis of the ocean food chain are dying at a terrifying rate, scientists said today."

You can fool some of the people some of the time....."Wetlands front groups funded by big oil uses celebrities (willing or duped?) "to spread the message that U.S. taxpayers should pay for the damage caused by BP to Gulf Coast wetlands, and that the reckless offshore oil industry should continue drilling for the "wholesale sustainability" of the region."

"Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood."

Secret spy agency known as the Pond, created by U.S. military intelligence as a counterweight to the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, it functioned as a semiautonomous agency for the State Department after World War II and ended its days as a contractor for the CIA with links to J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.....it became discredited because its pugnacious leader was too cozy with Sen. Joseph McCarthy and other radical anti-communists.