Greed will be the ultimate downfall of mankind, as clearly exampled by this story.

One thing I learned is that the outside affects the inside, your behavior shapes your thoughts. I also really liked what one of my spiritual advisers said, which was that you can view life as a series of rights and entitlements, or a series of .........

Just when you think you've heard it all ..At 107 years old, the Canadian born McCarthy would seem like an unlikely person to be trapped by Washington's strategy to topple Fidel Castro. But with millions frozen in a Boston account, she is.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee, Bernanke also said the market for those mortgages has "adjusted sharply," and that markets "do tend to self-correct."

The private organization representing the majority of the country's freight haulers today demanded the government suspend a pilot cross-border trucking program because they said Mexican truckers are at a competitive disadvantage with their U.S. ...

"CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days."

Bill Moyers talks with FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps about the state of media consolidation and net neutrality... This should be of interest to all of us who use the internet.

A l Gore is a funny guy. And, for his $175,000 speaking fee, he tells this story: after leaving the White House and heading back to Tennessee sans motorcade--"in a rented Ford Taurus," he sniffs--he and Tipper stop to get a bite to eat at a Shoney's,

Analysts had predicted payrolls would grow 100,000 in August. Instead they fell, even before the market turmoil.

The hotel in the infamous Watergate complex, made famous by former president Nixon scandal, is getting a major renovation. They weren't joking, everything must go. Even a column of a hotel must get sold.