"The Real Pension Story"

"Mega-millionaire residents of Manhattan's finest luxury towers pay less of their income in federal taxes than the janitors in their towers do.Once upon a time, we had a law that discouraged that distinction.  But, now, “We don’t pay taxes,” as billionaire real estate baroness Leona Helmsley loved boasting. “The little people do.”

"Crappy jobs caused by plutocracy and austerity."

The entire Davis (who is not a diplomat) episode in Pakistan reflects the US's continuing contempt for the basic fabric of international law that continues under the Obama administration.   Meanwhile, a man who had Davis' job 30 years ago in Laos, writes: "Same Cover, Same Lies". And the alternative to NYT subservience: actual journalism on this story.

SC justice Clarence Thomas shows a blatant contempt for judicial ethics.

More and more like Bushites: Obama administration inserts provision in UN Security Council measure to protect mercenaries from war crimes prosecutions making sure  that the US, once the leader in war crimes prosecutions, [is] now viewed as an enabler of such conduct.

Boeing pays no taxes...not a dime in federal taxes.... but snags $35 billion more in taxpayers' money.