Family farms are not in any danger from the estate tax. That is to say, the few family farms that Reagan didn't wipe out.

Small farms do face economic problems, but not about the estate tax.

The Local FARMS act would help more of them sell food directly to the public.

Bias in the Department of Justice: it is more interested in punishing despised individuals for small crimes than in punishing multinational corporations for giant ones.

To be fair, this didn't start in January: Obama also shielded the rich and powerful.

Graduate students protested at many US universities against ruinous tax increases for them in the Republican tax attacks.

Gela, in Sicily, has an extremely high rate of birth defects. The executives of the oil refinery there have been charged with dumping toxic wastes into the nearby sea.

A new 100-mwh battery is now operating in Australia to store excess power from a windfarm and distribute it at other times.