Nasim’s story:Â making and unmaking terrorists by Connor O’Steen It turns out the road between [location excised] and [location excised] is currently held by the Taliban, so until NATO clears things up […]
Letters from Afghanistan: installment #1
Editor’s note: Our guest, Connor O’Steen, is a special correspondent to Scholars & Rogues. He’s currently in Afghanistan working for PARSA, a non-governmental organization (NGO) specializing in microeconomic development with an emphasis on […]
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Our economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience. — President Bush at a press conference; July 16. We’re spending like a drunken sailor. — Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., predicting the federal budget deficit would […]
Conservatives call for re-regulation of "free" market
On Friday, EJ Dionne of the Washington Post noted something that I’d noticed earlier in the week, namely that conservatives who should be calling for less regulation and freer markets were in […]
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I’ll approach Obama with fearless honesty. He’s a liberal. I oppose liberals. That’s all that’s involved here. — Rush Limbaugh on presidential candidate Barack Obama; Mr. Limbaugh has renewed his contract with […]
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I know that I speak for all Americans. We’ll do everything necessary to try and rebuild their lives. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain while inspecting flooding in Columbus Junction, Iowa, a […]
George Will can't stop lying!
I now know why Elvis shot that TV set. If you missed it, Stephen Colbert’s special guest last night was conservative pundit George Will. I almost typed “addle-headed pathological liar George Will,” […]
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Exxon Mobil is acting like a dinosaur now, not adopting to a changing environment. — Stephen Viederman, a New York shareholder, after “Exxon Mobil’s chairman and chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson, defeated […]
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Hhaing The Yu, 29, in rain falling on the ruins of his home, in a township outside Yangon, Myanmar. This is not about politics; it is about saving people’s lives. There is […]
Fortune 535: How wealthy is Congress?
Jane Harman, who represents California’s 36th District, may be the wealthiest member of Congress. She may also be running second as the member of Congress who has seen the greatest accretion of […]
