Author: btchakir

The poverty of West Virginia

I stumbled onto an article by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic which discussed one of the places in the West Virginia Panhandle, where I live, that I have shopped at: the local Wal-Mart. Or, as he put it, the “crappiest...

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Habeas Corpus Is Not Dead (Yet).

This from the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts....

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McCain Scores on World Knowledge Again…

Well… he doesn’t know Shi’ites from Sunnis, and he thinks Iran shelters Al Qaida… now the old man mixes up his European leaders. And he wants us to know about his experience as a world leader? I bet the...

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