Author: btchakir

I learned three things listening to Secretary Paulson on the Bailout program yesterday:    1. Paulson is a worse public speaker than Alan Greenspan (something I didn’t think possible), leaving a more confused...

I was born and raised in Connecticut. After living in Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York, I spent 25 years after marrying Elly in Connecticut before we moved to Maryland and then West Virginia for work reasons. Until my...

Yesterday we watched as Obama and Bush met at the White House and it seemed pleasant to the press… as to what they really said to each other, we have only second-hand information and even that is uncertain. They talked...

George W. Bush has done so much to damage this country, it is a relief to have Obama elected. But 70 days is a long time… and Bush could still make the mess he created worse. What could he do with the military, say, by...

Here it is… after all the campaigning, the speeches, the attacks and comebacks, the primaries, the local committee meetings, the blogs, the newspaper articles, the hours an hours of Morning Joe and C-Span, the worries and...