Author: btchakir

I was going to write an essay yesterday, but figured that, since it was April Fool’s Day, it probably would not be taken seriously. However, the greatest April Fool’s joke of all was perpetrated in Congress yesterday...

I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but during this week, for the first time that I can recall, the news stations focusing on the story of our suffering economy started mentioning, at albeit a minimal amount, the...

Returning from the gym at Shepherd University this morning, after the workout I do 3-4 times a week, I was bubbling over that my weight has now dropped a total of 34 pounds. 34 Pounds in 3 months… heading decisively to my...

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the snake in Hillary’s grass in this campaign is her chief spokesman Howard Wolfson. Mr. Wolfson is bound and determined to spread as much noxious babble about Obama that it...

The CPAC meetings in DC have been showing up on television: on Fox News (which I watch as an equivalent to Comedy Central – as Craig Ferguson has said, it’s a channel where they make things up), on MSNBC, on CNN, and...