Author: btchakir

The Republicans who have made sure that no vote in the Senate reaches 60 if the issue is the real concerns of the American people for their children fighting in Iraq are spending this weekend smiling at themselves in mirrors or...

For the first time in my memory (and I’m 61 as I write this) the American Dollar and the Canadian Dollar are at equivalent value. I heard this on NPR as I drove to Betty’s lunchcounter in Shepherdstown this morning...

…and being passed off as intelligence?  This from The View: Galileo, Columbus, Darwin, Freud, Curie… what was the point of centuries of thinking, experimenting, searching and discovering people if we were going...

Responding to a question at a meeting of conservative MilBloggers, President Bush expressed a desire to fight on the ground in Iraq, except “One, I’m too old to be out there, and two, they would notice me.” I...

So Greenspan let the hammer drop…   This war is based on oil… It’s not about the terrorists   Who threaten our fair soil… It’s not about democracy   Like our Red, White and Blue....