... legal group's annual Washington meeting Friday. And the man who spent 27 years at the helm of the insurance giant that nearly brought down the entire American financial system was as unrepentant as ever about any role he might have played in the crisis. On hand (er, phone, actually) as part of a panel discussion on the Wall Street bailout, Greenberg devoted the bulk of his time painting AIG ...

Folks, this according to the Chicago Tribune: For decades, Sister Donna Quinn has championed the rights of women to use contraception, seek ordination and end unwanted pregnancies. The Dominican nun has picketed for abortion rights in Washington, petitioned the pope for a female archbishop and escorted women into abortion clinics. But as the Vatican turns up scrutiny of the nation&# ...

Felix Salmon submits: Andrew Ross Sorkin confirms what most of us have long suspected: One of the frustrating parts of researching my book came when I finally got to ask the question of Wall Street chief executives and board members that you just raised: Do you have any remorse? Are you sorry? The answer, almost unequivocally, was no. (Or they just didn’t answer.) They see themselves ...

Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, writes: Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign for the Democrat nomination deliberately appealed to white supremacy, fear and anxiety, charged longtime Barack Obama colleague and Weatherman terrorist William Ayers and wife, Bernardine Dohrn. In a co-authored article in the socialist Monthly Review magazine, the two radicals argued last year ...

Since somebody didn't agree with my last coffee stout review, I thought I would put another one to test. Brasserie Dieu Du Ciel's Péché Mortel from Quebec, Canada, has recently been made available to Missouri. That's a pretty big deal since Péché Mortel ranks in the Top 20 of BeerAdvocate's Top Beers on Planet Earth. If you like to keep track of that kind of thing. You ...

‘I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.’ - Peter Ustinov Posted in famous quotes, happiness, life, love, qotd, qotmfd, quotations, quote of the day, quotes, sayings, time Tagged: Peter Ustinov