SATURDAY AFTERNOON NEWS: * Joel Achenbach on income inequality . * "In the war of American decline, should we fight battles at home or abroad ?" * The need for an honest and open debate about social security and Medicare . * Obama to approve new oil drilling in Alaska and elsewhere. * More bad news from the Fukishima cleanup. * The right-wing overreach is showing its mark at the state level . * Kevin Drum on the latest Republican effort to defund the left . * 'The debate over wine alcohol levels is getting out of control.' * Whatever happened to Dave Foley ?