Author: btchakir

I’ve been reading two large articles at Alternet.org that are becoming staples in my discussions with folks I’m trying to get off the fence: The 10 Dirtiest Election Tricks The Republicans Have Tried So Far –...

It’s hard to believe that the American Economy I grew up in was fairly stabile. The bank regulations put in after the fall of the stock market in 1929 and through a dozen years of depression, combined with the progressive...

I will tell you from my own experience of five years in Chicagoland while I was an undergraduate and a grad student at Northwestern, The Chicago Tribune has NEVER endorsed a Democrat (not even Illinois’ own former...

Early voting began in West Virginia on Wednesday, so today is the third day it has been going on. I drove over to Charles Town Courthouse, our County’s early voting site. This is a historic location… it was the site...

So we had a night of “Joe The Plumber,” challenges on who was friends with who, and an avoidance of issues by McCain every time Obama tried to cover them. Browsing the web for results this morning, while listening to...