Author: btchakir

Religion and the Presidency

Mitt Romney is going to make his “Kennedy Speech” today to offset the question his Mormon Religion has brought up. Unlike Kennedy, however, who made a clear distinction between church and state, Romney apparently is...

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Debate thoughts

Listening to yesterday’s NPR radio debate of all the candidates except Richardson (at a pre-scheduled funeral for a Korean War victim whose remains he successfully brought out of the North), it occurred to me that they...

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NIE Information Changes… Bush Doesn’t!

Just a day after the NIE Report on Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program was released stating that the said program was discontinued in 2003 and that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, Bush made a live press conference where...

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What Are Republicans Running On?

Some thoughts from last night’s CNN/YouTube Debate: Republicans are running on their adherence to and belief in The Bible. I don’t recall if Democrats have been asked to reiterate their firm connections to “the...

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The things we don’t hear in "the debates"

We have seen a seemingly endless series of “debates” among presidential contenders on both sides. These are not, of course, debates by any stretch of the imagination: they are directed press conferences run by the...

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