Author: btchakir

Lieberman’s superdelegate status stripped. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for president, will be disqualified as a superdelegate at the Democratic convention “under what is informally...

I am reading Erik Larson’s wonderful book “Thunderstruck”, which is about Marconi and the invention of wireless telegraphy crossed with the Crippen murder case from the same period in the late Victorian, early...

My doctor recently told me that a great exercise is just sitting in a chair, then standing up, then sitting again… repeat over and over. Last night during Bush’s unsurprising and often misleading State of the Union...

I now fully believe that candidates from both sides, all of them, are willing to say anything to get elected. Watching them go after each other in “debates” (where no issues are debated and only press-oriented...

“The Society has no interest in Art.” – Donald Judd As we look at the folks running for President, one thing you might notice is that there are virtually no statements made by candidates relating to the support...