Author: btchakir

Everyone knows “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Given the fact that this knowledge is universal, what chances do we have for an uncorrupted government? My guess is that the chances are few at...

We are at the height of the tourist season in the Washington DC Metro… it’s a time when Americans (and people from all over the world) visit the Capital to see what our history is all about. It’s a time of the...

Congressman: Once again I am contacting you from Greenbelt, MD, where you are my Representative and I am but a small digit in the voter calculations. This is in reference to the “Executive Order: Blocking Property of...

As we crawl into the afternoon on Wednesday, the question of whether pushing the Republicans into an actual filibuster has brought any results to the floor. I have always felt that part of a debate/discussion was to be...

Harry Reid has said that today, if the Republicans want to Filibuster the Reed-Levin troop redeployment bill when he calls for cloture, then he is prepared to make them go through with an actual filibuster (not the...