Author: btchakir

Congress looks like it might have to stay in session well into December, something the Do-Nothing Republican Congress that preceded it never would have done. The ongoing rift between the President and the Congress over the...

My wife and I celebrated our 29th anniversary today, and, as we have for the past five years, we traveled to Baltimore for a Brunch at the Rusty Scupper (expensive, but as lovely view of the inner harbor and a live jazz quartet)...

With Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize we are seeing inevitable comparisons of the achievements of two men who, only a few short years ago, competed for the presidency: Gore and George W. Bush. One was given the...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to be our government watchdog protecting us from poisons and bad practices, yet we continue to have problems with e coli, botulism and other deadly manifestations in food that...

When Eisenhower advised us to beware the military-industrial complex upon leaving office 47 years ago, not even the members of his own party seemed to take note. And so we end up where we are today, with military contractors as...