History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks, by Sean McMeekin (Yale University Press, 336 pp., $38)

Since 2006, visitors to the NeueGalerie, the boutique museum of German and Austrian art in New York City, have had the chance to view one of Gustav Klimt's most celebrated paintings-his seductive, gold-spangled portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.

Everything, from people within the Weatherman Underground, to Bill Ayers's own words, proves his mendacity. Doug Welsh on his Twitter site posted a link to Larry Grathwohl's reply to Ayers.

Mr. Grathwohl, from his personal knowledge as an FBI infiltrator in the Weatherman underground in the late 1960s and early 70s, confutes the self-serving, hypocritical rationalizations that Mr. Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn are now peddling.

In the same vein, read Bill Ayers: Unrepentant Terrorist and Hypocrite and Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism In Schools.

December 23, 2008
The Ponzi fraud made fools of his investors, Wall Street, and federal regulators.
by Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMag.com
"The fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
- Akhenaten (d. 1336 BCE)

No doubt, 16th century British writer Thomas Tusser ("A fool and his money are soon parted") and 19th century showman P.T. Barnum ("There's a sucker born every minute") would have recognized them among an ever-rising number of glamorous clients victimized by the decades-long alleged Ponzi scam of former hedge fund manager and NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff.

So now that the Federal Reserve Bank cut its interest rate to virtually zero what does it mean to the rest of us? Nada! Zip! Nothing!

Oh it does mean something; fat cats bankers already awash in "bailout money" will get even richer because with free money from the Fed they can profit from even low interest loans they make, and they will make very few of those to you and me types; it's the big borrowers that will benefit along with the fat cat bankers. With all the money at banks disposal just try to get a zero-plus loan like the banks get from the Fed - you wont even get a loan unless you don't need one.