David Selig, Conservative Commentator / Pro-Business Advocate joins Thom Hartmann. It's no longer worth speculating whether or not America is in the midst of a lost decade. The numbers are in - and America IS definitely in the midst of a lost decade. At least the middle class is. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center - for the first time since World War 2 - the median household income of the middle class dropped in the last decade - from nearly $73000 to well below $70000. That might not sound like a lot - but as this chart shows - it means a significant decline in the middle class's share of national income - as in - how much of the total income in our nation belongs to the broad middle class compared to the very rich few at the top. This lost decade caps off a 30-year steep decline in the middle class share of national income - so that now - upper income Americans hold a greater share of national income than the middle class. And notice the line at the bottom - that's the lower class's share of income - it hasn't budged. So the rich get richer - the poor stay poor - and the middle class gets poorer. Still think those Bush tax cuts were a good idea? During this lost decade - as middle class incomes fell - the incomes of the 400 richest Americans - all billionaires - quadrupled. Oh, and their tax rates were halved during that same time too. Now given all this information - you would think doubling-down on more tax cuts for the rich would be a really, really ...

If you were eating something completely unnatural - something that could make you sick - give you cancer - make your testicles shrink - heck, even kill you - wouldn't you want to know? If you answered yes - then you're on the same side as over 90% of your fellow Americans. Poll after poll over the last few years - has shown that more than 90% of Americans support specific labeling of genetically modified foods that they buy in grocery stores. And European and other developed countries require labeling of GMOs -- genetically modified foods. But even though for years Americans have been demanding the right to know what's in their food - and whether or not it's franken-food - not a single piece of state or federal legislation has ever been passed to make it happen. Which brings us to California. Efforts to force the state legisature to pass laws to require labeling of genetically modified foods have failed - so now citizens of the state have taken matters into their own hands. After collecting more than a million signatures - the citizens of California put proposition 37 on the ballot for November - which will force all genetically modified foods to have special labels. Good news, right? Well...now the fight is just starting. That's because the biggest purveyors of genetically modified foods - giant corporations like Monsanto, DuPont, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle - all of them are spending enormous amounts of money to defeat Prop 37. They don't want you to know what's in your ...

The Good! *RT* RT has been nominated for an International Emmy Award in the news category for the network's coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement which began last year in New York. From the start of the movement - RT was one of the first channels to provide coverage and in-depth analysis of the events. The Bad! *Judge Tom Head* Head - a county judge in Lubbock, Texas - told a local television station that he would join the resistance against a United Nations takeover of American sovereignty - should that happen. In other words - Judge Head is drinking the far-right Conservative conspiracy kool-aid. and the Very Very Ugly! *Kevin Williamson* Williamson is a deputy editor for the Conservative-leaning National Review magazine. And - in the latest edition - Williamson wrote that "Mitt Romney should get 100 percent of the female vote," because his wealth makes him superior to President Obama. He went on to say that "men select mates for fertility, while women select for status." Williamson also felt the need to say that "age is cruel to women." So - it seems Conservatives aren't content to just go after women's bodies and their healthcare.

Neil Barofsky, former special inspector-general of the TARP & author "Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street," joins Thom Hartmann. In 2008, we were all told TARP was needed to prevent a Great Depression. Instead - TARP funds have made the big banks richer - and given them an even greater feeling of invincibility. So how was this allowed to happen?