Author: btchakir

C-SPAN is entertaining us today with a live broadcast of the Family Research Leadership Council convention under the guise of “Campaign 2008”, so, of course, I started watching it, being concerned with the next...

It looks like our Congressman in the Hagerstown area (Washington County, MD) is going to vote to uphold Bush’s Veto on S-CHIP. This is disappointing, as I believe most of the people I live around would like to see this...

Last night on PBS’ FRONTLINE I watched a program called “Cheney’s Law” which reviewed Dick Cheney’s 30-plus-year campaign to create what is essentially absolute power in the hands of the President....

Nothing increases my confidence in the communication systems set up by private enterprise than the knowledge that the company I buy services from would give information on me to federal investigators without a court order....

I count us lucky. Yesterday, Elly and I accepted an offer for the Co-Op townhouse in Greenbelt, MD, after putting it up for sale 3 weeks ago. Part of the sale (much of it actually) is due to a very aggressive real estate agent,...