Author: btchakir

Ranger Question of the Day: Why does America care if the Iraqis kill each other after we leave? Presently the U.S. taxpayers are paying billions upon billions to kill Iraqis. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to let them kill each...

John McCain cited in an AP article: In an interview with Beliefnet, a multi-denominational Web site that covers religion and spirituality, the Republican presidential hopeful was asked if a Muslim candidate could be a good...

Recent history has profound lessons for us in the U.S. today about how fascist, totalitarian, and other repressive leaders seize and maintain power, especially in what were once democracies. The secret is that these leaders all...

The European press was buzzing this week with revelations in taped conversations between the Spanish Prime Minister and George W. Bush in 2003. Apparently, Bush knew that Saddam wanted to go into exile and would have left for...

I see by the NY Times that it is the 50th Anniversary of the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, the first successful space satellite that launched us into the space age. Because of Sputnik, which beat our first successful...